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The diaries of Anne Loftus George / edited by Linda Hunter. George, Anne Loftus [1988?] • BOOK • 1 copy available.

and the King of the Two Sicilies; commanded the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, promoted the steam navy Morison, Samuel Eliot 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"18"(73)

, through the means of the present parliament, who have generously resolv'd to pay the debts of the Navy Technicon, John 1711 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-191

British warships & auxiliaries : 2018 /Steve Bush "The fully revised and updated, well respected guide to the ships, aircraft and weapons of the fleet. Over 80 colour photos. Complete with pennant numbers and silhouettes. Now expanded to include Royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels. This year it will include an entry for the newly commissioned aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH. The book starts with a 'no-holds barred' review of the state of the Royal Navy followed by sections detailing the fleets of the Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the support vessels operated under contract by Serco. Also included are the vessels of the Royal Marines, Army and the Border Force. Each class entry includes a full colour photograph together with a class listing, pennant numbers, technical specifications and brief notes. Similar sections cover the aircraft and weapons operated by the Royal Navy. The book concludes with a listing of those ships preserved within the UK and operating in a secondary role after decommissioning and a summary of those vessels which have been scrapped since the previous edition."--Provided by the publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)

Naval families, war and duty in Britain, 1740-1820 / Ellen Gill A study of the competing commitments of family and service in the lives of eighteenth-century seamen. The author has drawn on correspondence from naval and military officers, ordinary sailors and their families, as welll as petitions to the Admiralty Board for support submitted by Royal Dockyard workers and the naval mutineers at Spithead and the Nore. The correspondence reveals the practicalities of parenthood and family life during wartime and also the importance of patronage and networks for progression. Correspondents featured include Philip Bowes Vere Broke and his wife Sarah Louisa (Loo), Matthew Flinders and his wife Ann, Thomas Woods Knollis and his wife Mary, George Perceval, Henry Jenkinson, William Waldegrave, Everard Home, William Edward Fiott, William Webley-Parry, Susanna Middleton, George and Elizabeth Bass, Sarah Sturgeon, Anna Walker and James and Elizabeth Whitworth. The text is supported by a detailed bibliography. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2

Faces of the Civil War Navies : An album of Union and Confederate sailors /Ronald S. Coddington "During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America's great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first hostile shots roared from rebel artillery at Charleston Harbor. Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South, Union gunboats were often the first to arrive in deadly enemy territory. In the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic seaboard, blockaders in blue floated within earshot of gray garrisons that guarded vital ports. And on the open seas, rebel raiders wreaked havoc on civilian shipping. In Faces of the Civil War Navies, renowned researcher and Civil War photograph collector Ronald S. Coddington focuses his considerable skills on the Union and Confederate navies. Using identifiable cartes de visite of common sailors on both sides of the war, many of them never before published, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each individual who looked into the eye of the primitive camera. These unique narratives are drawn from military and pension records, letters, diaries, period newspapers, and other primary sources. In addition to presenting the personal stories of seventy-seven intrepid volunteers, Coddington also focuses on the momentous naval events that ushered in an era of ironclad ships and other technical innovations. The fourth volume in Coddington's series on Civil War soldiers, this microhistory will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Civil War, social history, or photography. The narratives and photographs in Faces of the Civil War Navies shed new light on a lesser-known part of our American story. Taken collectively, these "snapshots" remind us that the history of war is not merely a chronicle of campaigns won and lost, it is the collective personal odysseys of thousands of individual life stories."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1861/1865"(73)

Torpedo : inventing the military-industrial complex in the United States and Great Britain /Katherine C. Epstein. "When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world's naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law. Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era."--Provided by the publisher. [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.946(42:73)

A maritime history of the American Revolutionary War : an Atlantic-wide conflict over independence and empire /Theodore Corbett. "While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar ship of the line confrontations. It is also history from the bottom up, emphasizing the role of the crew as much the not always heroic officers. From naval perspective the rebellious colonies did not gain a military victory, though Benjamin Franklin was able to secure their independence at the peace table in Europe." -- 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.35

How to build an aircraft carrier : the incredible story of the men and women who brought Britain's biggest warship to life /Chris Terrill. "65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of 60 tennis courts. A giant piece of sovereign British territory that's home to up to 50 aircraft. HMS Queen Elizabeth is the biggest ship in Royal Navy's history and one of the most ambitious and exacting engineering projects ever undertaken in the UK. But it's her ship's company of 700, alongside an aviation wing of 900 air and ground crew, that is Big Lizzie's beating heart. And How To Build An Aircraft Carrier tells their story. From before the first steel of her hull was cut, Christ Terrill has enjozed unprecedented access to the Queen Elizabeth and the men and women who have brought her to life. From Jerry Kyd, the ship's inspirational captain, to Cdr Nathan Gray, the first pilot to land Britain's new stealth jet fighter on her deck, Terrill has won the trust and confidence of the ship's people. How To Build An Aicraft Carrier tells the story of Britain at her best: innovative, confident, outward-looking and world-beating."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.32

Parameters of British naval power, 1650-1850 / edited by Michael Duffy. 1992. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1650/1850"(42)

Murray II year book : Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth :a record of the 165 cadets of the Royal Navy The CD contains: Murray II Photographic Miscellany (with sub-folders for Formal Groups, Informal Groups, Passing Out Parades, People, and Sport); Murray II Year Book. 2011 • CD-ROM • 1 copy available.

Types of naval officers drawn from the history of the British navy : with some account of the conditions Mahan, A. T.-(Alfred Thayer), 1902 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 92:355.333.3

Naval seamen's women in nineteenth-century Britain / Melanie Holihead. "This book explores the lived experiences of the women - the mothers, sisters, foster-mothers of motherless children, but above all the wives - of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. It makes extensive use of the 'allotment' scheme, a system which enabled men to convey portions of their pay to dependants at home. The scheme had been devised by a Royal Navy worried by the adverse effect on naval manpower caused by experienced and mature sailors quitting the service in order to support loved ones suffering poverty on shore. Drawing also on civil, parish and local data, the book reveals hitherto unknown differences between naval and civilian patterns of nuptiality, family life, occupation and household structure. It illustrates the impact of naval breadwinners' long-term absence in analyses of local migration, mutual support networks, and clusterings of 'same ship' families, and to bring the picture to life it includes microhistories and stories of individual women. The book concludes that while the sailor's woman's 'allotted place' in the popular imagination shifted with changing perceptions of sailors' reputation and standing, a constant 'otherness' attached to women who chose marriage to long-absent men, and a life of necessary self-reliance." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.120941

RN aircraft carriers in focus / David Hobbs. Hobbs, David, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.7(42)

Dreadnought : Britain's first nuclear powered submarine /by Patrick Boniface. Boniface, Patrick, 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827DREADNOUGHT

Royal naval handbook of parade and rifle drill / [Gunnery and Anti-aircraft Warfare Division Admiralty]. Great Britain.-Admiralty. 1949. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.456

British warships & auxiliaries, 1952 / [Steve Bush]. Bush, Steve. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1952"

The collective naval defence of the Empire 1900-1940 Navy Records Society (Great Britain) 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1900-1940"(41-44)

British warships and auxiliaries, 1988/89 / [Mike Critchley]. Critchley, Mike 1987. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1988/1989"

British warships and auxiliaries / [Mike Critchley]. Critchley, Mike 1992. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1993/1994"

British warships & auxiliaries / [Steve Bush] Bush, Steve 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"2012/2013"

British warships and auxiliaries, 1986/87 / [Mike Critchley]. Critchley, Mike 1986. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"1986/1987"

RN frigates in focus / Ben Warlow. Warlow, Ben. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.6(42)"19"

British warships & auxiliaries : 1994/95 /Mike Critchley. Critchley, Mike 1993. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

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