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The Naval Institute guide to the ships and aircraft of the U.S. fleet / Norman Polmar. Polmar, Norman. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(73)"20/21"

Coronel and Falklands 1914 : duel in the South Atlantic /Michael McNally. McNally, Michael, 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1914"(42:43)

The Walker expedition to Quebec 1711 Walker, Hovenden, Sir 1953 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Walker

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander RN, 1775-1814 Gardner, James Anthony 1906 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Gardner

Letters and papers relating to the war with France 1512-1513 1897 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1512/1513"

Rosyth : the building of a Royal Naval dockyard : 1903-1922 : including the people involved and related Naval activities /by Robert B. Hunter. Hunter, Robert B. 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(413.3)

The two hundredth anniversary of the Halifax dockyard / by P. H. Watson. Watson, P H 1959. • • 2 copies available. 355.49"1759/1760"(714)

William Scamp (1801-1872) : an architect of the British Admiralty in Malta /Conrad Thake. Thake, Conrad, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 72SCAMP

The historic dockyard, Chatham : where legends were created ; guide book. Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust. 2000. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.3)

A guide to the history of the Brass Foundry / M J Lewis. Lewis, M J 1998. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Japanese naval and merchant shipping losses during World War II by all causes United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee 1947 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.086.2(52):940.545

The letters of Robert Blake, together with supplementary documents Blake, Robert 1937 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Blake

History of the Russian fleet during the reign of Peter the Great by a contemporary Englishman (1724) 1899 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(47)"17"

The Hawke papers : a selection 1743-1771 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Hawke

Portsmouth dockyard 1900-1920 : a photographic history 1999 • CD-ROM • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.7)(084.12)"1900/1920"

Britannia's palette : the arts of naval victory /Nicholas Tracy. Tracy, Nicholas, c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044(41)

Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake / Colin Pengelly ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith. Pengelly, Colin. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.3/37

The Grand Fleet : a war-time sketch book /by John Coleridge "Book of drawings made in H.M.S. Glorious, or her boats, as the scenes actually presented themselves. Those of ships in motion were rapidly sketched in pencil on odd bits of paper and copied out in ink immediately afterwards. The circular one were drawn through cabin scuttles."--Provided by the author. ca1918. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(42)"1914/1918"

Nelson's Yankee captain : the life of Boston loyalist Sir Benjamin Hallowell /Bryan Elson. Elson, Bryan. 2008. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 359.0092

Navies and soft power : historical case studies of naval power and the nonuse of military force /Bruce A Elleman and S C M Paine. "For well over two centuries, the U.S. Navy has engaged in an ever broader array of nonmilitary missions. Although a fundamental raison d'etre of navies concerns hard power, in the twentieth century an awareness of the uses of soft power developed. For example, since ancient times protecting against piracy has been a common naval problem, while since the mid-nineteenth century equally important patrol missions, such as attempts to stop the illegal slave trade, have been conducted by the U.S. Navy. After the Cold War, many other nonmilitary missions became important, in particular maritime humanitarian-aid missions like the post-tsunami Operation Unified Assistance in Southeast Asia during 2004-2005 ... this volume presents nine historical case studies examining the use of navies in nonmilitary missions"--Preface. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 363.34/8

Favourite of fortune : Captain John Quilliam, Trafalgar hero /Andrew Bond, Frank Cowin and Andrew Lambert. "The Royal Navy of Nelson's time was not short of heroes, nor of outstanding achievements, but even in this crowded field the career of Captain John Quilliam stands out - so often the right man in the right place at the right time, he was justly described by a contemporary as 'the favourite of fortune'. Born on the Isle of Man 250 years ago, Quilliam has until now evaded detailed study of his extraordinary life. Indeed, while celebrated as a Manx hero, in the wider world beyond the Island one of the most important men on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar remains largely unrecognised. Trafalgar, however, was not even the high point of Quilliam's professional journey. From the lowest rung of the ladder in the dockyard at Portsmouth he climbed to become Victory's First Lieutenant, having already survived two of the bloodiest sea-battles of the era at Camperdown and Copenhagen. In the process he won a share in undreamed of wealth through the seizure of one of the largest hauls of Spanish gold ever taken by the Georgian navy. Promoted Post-Captain, Quilliam reached the apogee of his profession, commanding frigates in the Balitc and on the Newfoundland station in the War of 1812. There, in a bizarre twist worthy of an O'Brian or Forester novel, he defeated an accusation of shirking an engagement with the American super-frigate President in a COurt Martial brought by his own First Lieutenant. This first fully biography of a far-from-ordinary naval officer is itself an unusual collaboration between three writers, each interested in different aspects of Quilliam's career, but united by a belief that it deserves a wider audience."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.073092

Turret versus broadside : an anatomy of British naval prestige, revolution and disaster, 1860-1870 /Howard J. Fuller. "On the 150th anniversary of the capsizing of Britain's low-freeboard yet fully-masted ironclad, HMS Captain, this widely-researched, intensive analysis of the great 'Turret vs. Broadside' debate sheds new light on how the most well-funded and professional navy in the world at the height of its power could nevertheless build an 'inherently unstable' capital ship. Utilising an impressive array of government reports, contemporary periodicals, and unpublished personal papers this definitive study crucially provides for the first time both a long-term and international context. The 1860s was a pivotal decade in the evolution of British national identity as well as warship design. Nor were these two elements mutually exclusive. 1860 began gloriously with the launch of Britain's first ocean-going ironclad, HMS Warrior, but 1870 ended badly with the Captain. Along the way, British public and political faith in the supremacy of the Royal Navy was not reaffirmed as some histories suggest, but wavered. The growing emphasis upon new technologies including ever heavier guns and thicker armour plating for men-of-war was not 'decisive' but divisive, as pressure mounted to somehow combine the range of Warrior with the unique protection and hitting power of American monitor-ironclads of the Civil War. As the geopolitical debate over rival ironclad proposals intensified, aggressively-minded Prime Minister Lord Palmerston gradually adopted a non-interventionist foreign policy which surprised his contemporaries. Turret versus Broadside traces the previously unexplored connection between an increasingly schizophrenic Admiralty for and against the Captain, for example, and sabre-rattling mid-Victorians sinking into an era of 'Splendid Isolation'."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

Ship Recognition Corps Yealland, P 1986 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.337.2

The Royal Navy's submarine command Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations 1968 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)

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