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A Land Power Goes to Sea : Austria's Naval History 1382-1918 /Wilhelm M. Donko Donko, Wilhelm M., 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49

Taranto : and naval warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1945 /David Hobbs. "This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war in June 1940. The Royal Navy found itself facing a larger and better-equipped Italian surface fleet, large Italian and German air forces equipped with modern aircraft and both Italian and German submarines. Its own aircraft were a critical element of an unprecedented fight on, over and under the sea surface. David Hobbs's years of archival research together with his experience as a carrier pilot allow him to describe and analyze the operations of naval aircraft in the Mediterranean with unprecedented authority. This provides the book with novel insights into many familiar faces of the Mediterranean war while for the first time doing full justice to the Fleet Air Arm's lesser known achievements."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/49410945755

Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada : the adventurer & map maker's formative years /Jerry Lockett. A biography of Captain James Cook (1728-79), concentrating on Cook's experiences in Canada after joining the Royal Navy in 1755. In 1758, during the Seven Years War, Cook sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia as master of the Pembroke and following the fall of Louisburg, Cook developed his surveying and cartography skills with his surveys of Gaspe Bay and harbour. This resulted in his first published chart. Transferring to the Northumberland after the fall of Quebec and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cook went on to survey and chart the Saint Lawrence River and the coast of Nova Scotia. Cook then spent five seasons in the 1760s surveying the Newfoundland coastline in the Grenville, producing the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts using precise triangulation to establish land outlines. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92COOK:910.4(71)

Salt horse : memoir of a maverick admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege /edited by Robin Knight. "Written originally in 1936?38 by Admiral Cumberlege as a record of his life, Salt Horse was never published. The original manuscript has been expertly edited and made readable in terms of language to a modern audience. It now comprises chapters on Cumberlege?s naval career in the RN and Royal Australian Navy and also on the 1922?38 period when he lived year-round on two large sailing craft, cruising the coasts of France and Spain. Cumberlege writes with some verve. He has strong views, made numerous friends wherever he and his second wife Nora went, and lived a spirited, irreverent and fortunate existence in peace and war. Some of his stories (for instance, about WW1 in New Guinea, or about his 1905 lunch in Gibraltar as a young officer with Kaiser Wilhelm II) are historic and eye-catching. In many ways, the book describes a world, and a way of life, that has disappeared for ever. Salt Horse is complemented with a timeline, family tree and Introduction which trace Cumberlege?s background. An Afterword takes his life story from 1938?63 when he died. The numerous black-and-white images and short footnotes bring many of the people mentioned in the text to life."-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0092

Fairlie's secret war : how one village helped defeat German U-boats /John Riddell. "During the Second World War the Royal Navy?s Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie. For the next six years, highly confidential world-leading research on the acoustic detection of submarines by asdic - now known as sonar - was carried out by hundreds of scientists, officers and local men and women based at Fairlie. Winston Churchill described the work done there as critical to winning the Battle of the Atlantic and ultimately the war. The research remained relevant to anti-submarine warfare long after the war, and is still relevant today. Fairlie?s role in the war was not disclosed until relatively recently. Making use of previously unpublished material, this book tells the full story of the establishment at Fairlie for the first time. It describes the impact it had on local people, and their relationship with the naval officers and scientists who came to work there." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.5341461

board the ships Nadeshda and Neva ; under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern of the Imperial Navy Hoppner, Richard Belgrave (tr) 1813. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1803/1806"

Tribal Class frigates / by Patrick Boniface. "The Tribal or Type 81 frigates of the Royal Navy emerged in the early 1960's as a result of design work started towards the end of World War Two into future surface escort vessels. The opportunity was also taken to introduce new technologies, namely gas turbine propulsion and anti submarine helicopters to the ships in order to make them more valuable frigates. The resulting seven members of the Type 81 frigate class were not universally liked but they served the Royal Navy for over three decades in theatres as diverse as East of Suez, the Caribbean and on the Cod War in the Arctic with Iceland in the 1970's. This book tells the design and history of all seven ships of the class from their ordering to their eventual de-commissioning and draws on extensive research and interviews with former members of ships companies."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.6

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut : the Civil War years /Chester G. Hearn. "No admiral in America's Civil War fought with more distinction than David Glasgow Farragut, the first admiral of the U.S. Navy [...] This book fully describes his lifelong involvement with Capt. David Porter, his foster father, and David Dixon Porter, his foster brother. Focusing primarily on the Civil War [...] the author uses [...] family correspondence to detail Farragut's relationships with the elder Porter, who signed up Farragut as a seagoing midshipman in the U.S. Navy at the age of nine, and with Porter's son, the only other full admiral to emerge from the Civil War. Under the senior Porter's tutelage, Farragut by the age of thirteen had participated in more action during the War of 1812 than many of the Navy's senior officers. [...] Farragut's legendary leadership is showcased in Hearn's thrilling description of the Battle of Mobile Bay. The author's detailed chronicle of Farragut's command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, crowned by the capture of New Orleans and Port Hudson, reestablishes Farragut's nearly forgotten legacy."--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FARRAGUT

Indonesia pilot : vol 1 : west coast of Jawa, the south and east coasts of Sumatera, Selat Sunda, Selat Bangka, Selat Gelasa, Selat Karimata, the south and west coasts of Kalimantan from Tanjung Puting to Pulau Pontianak, Pulau-pulau Badas and Tambelan, Pulau-pulau Lingaa and Riau, with the various routes leading to Singapore and South China Sea Great Britain. Hydrographer of the Navy 1996 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Indonesia pilot : vol 1 : west coast of Jawa, the south and east coasts of Sumatera, Selat Sunda, Selat Bangka, Selat Gelasa, Selat Karimata, the south and west coasts of Kalimantan from Tanjung Puting to Pulau Pontianak, Pulau-pulau Badas and Tambelan, Pulau-pulau Lingaa and Riau, with the various routes leading to Singapore and South China Sea / 3rd edition.1999 Great Britain. Hydrographer of the Navy 1999 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The Navies of today and tomorrow : a study of the naval crisis from within /by Bernard Acworth. Acworth, Bernard 1930. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.02(42)

Rosyth dockyard & naval base through time / Walter Burt. "With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when the pre-Dreadnought HMS Zealandia entered dry dock there. The yard closed in 1925, reopening in 1938 when relations with Germany began to deteriorate again and serving throughout the Second World War. During the Cold War, Rosyth was used to refit conventional and Polaris nuclear-armed submarines as well as other warships. In 1997 Rosyth was acquired by Babcock International, becoming the first privatised naval dockyard in Britain, and is now the site where the Royal Navy?s two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are being assembled. In this book, published in the dockyard?s centennial year, Walter Burt takes us through the history of Rosyth dockyard and naval base."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(413.3)

Young Nelsons : boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 /D.A.B. Ronald ; foreword by Alexander Kent. Ronald, D.A.B. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124"1793/1815"-055.15

The final dive : the life and death of 'Buster' Crabb /Don Hale. Hale, Don, 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CRABB:355.40

A Civil War gunboat in Pacific waters : life on board USS Saginaw /Hans Konrad Van Tilburg ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith. Van Tilburg, Hans. c2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82SAGINAW

Captain Owen of the African survey : the hydrographic surveys of Admiral W.F.W. Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada, his fight against the African slave trade, his life in Campobello Island, New Brunswick, 1774-1857 /E.H. Burrows. Burrows, Edmund H. 1979. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92OWEN

Iron men and tin fish : the race to build a better Torpedo during World War II /Anthony Newpower. Newpower, Anthony, 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.946(73)"194"

The diary of Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph Albert McGill / Joseph Albert McGill McGill, Joseph Albert [20??] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Sweet water and bitter : the ships that stopped the slave trade /Siãan Rees. Rees, Siãan, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8"18"

RNSTS / R. N. Supply & Transport Service. Great Britain.-Royal Navy.---Supply and Transport Service. c[1985] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

A memoir of James Trevenen Penrose, Charles Vinicombe 1959 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Trevenen

Royal dockyards MacDougall, Philip 1989 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.81

With Commodore Perry to Japan : the journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 /edited by John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough. "With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists."--Provided by the publisher. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SPEIDEN

Exeter : a cruiser of the medium size /Reginald Cogswell "The title of this book are words Reginald Cogswell opens the book with to describe HMS EXETER. In June 1926, a grammar school boy from Westbury Wiltshire, he joined the Royal Navy as an Electrical Artificer 4th Class. More than 40 years later, having retired as a Lieutenant Commander MBE, he wrote of his experiences. The book covers just a small portion of Lt Cdr Cogswell's naval career, from August '36 to February '40 when he served as the Warrant Officer (E) aboard HMS EXETER. Those 43 months encompassed peace and war, aid to civil power during riots in Trinidad, helping earthquake victims at Talcahuano Chile, family separation and re-unions, calm seas and storms. In setting down his memories of peace time ship focussing on 'showing the flag' visits to the ports of South America, the transition to war and the bloody truth of battle at sea in company with HMS AJAX and HMNZS ACHILLES against the Graf Spee off the River Plate, Reginald Cogswell opens a window into the Royal Navy of the period and the impact of WWII. The chapters devoted the Battle of the RIver Plate are telling - trapped below deck, tasked with maintaining power to the ship, gun directors and turrets, Warrant Officer (E) Cogswell was 'in the thick of it', giving a blow by blow account of the battle, hearing Graf Spee's shells land and tackling the resultant shell damage. The story continues with EXETER's return, via the Falklands for temporary repairs, to Devonport and meeting Churchill, marching with the ship's company through London to an investiture by King George VI and the Lord Mayor's reception at the Guildhall. It ends with the author, and his wife, walking slowly through bomb damaged London to their hotel. This is not a history of naval strategy and tactics or the manoeuvres of battle at sea, but a most beautifully expressed story of one man?s personal experience of peace and war. A book to savour and enjoy for the period flavour and quality of the writing."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82EXETER

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