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The British on the Belgian coast in the Great War : the North Sea as front line /Luc Vanacker. "Brave Little Belgium motivated many in Britain and her Empire to enlist. Marines and Naval troops were the first to come to assist the Belgians at Antwerp; and their Navy's artillery helped to stop the German advance at Nieuport, on the river Yser. The North Sea became a new front line where the Dover Patrol came to the aid of the Belgian, French and British troops with warships, heavy artillery in the dunes and new fighter planes, showing the importance placed on fighting the German U-boat bases at Zeebrugge and Ostend from the sea as well as from land."--Provided by the publisher 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.414.4

Naval costume : the sailors' dress as shown in a series of pictures from old prints in the collection of Commander Charles N Robinson, RN, with some notes on naval uniform Robinson, Charles N (coll) 1923 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.14

Bligh : William Bligh in the South Seas /Anne Salmond. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817). The author, an anthropologist, focuses on Bligh's three voyages in the South Seas and the impact of his encounters with the Pacific Islanders. Beginning with Bligh's voyage on the Resolution with Captain Cook (1776-80) during which Cook met his death, the author also examines Bligh's first breadfruit voyage on the Bounty (1787-89) during which the famous mutiny occured and resulted in Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in an open boat to Timor, and then, finally, his second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence (1791-93). Detailed notes and a bibliography are provided. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

The Hydrographic Department Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 1988 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.47(42)

HMS Leeds Castle : offshore patrol vessel Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations 1981 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82Leeds Castle

Thousand years of naval history Great Britain. Royal Navy. Careers Service ca1970 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)(024.7)

HMS Amazon type 21 class frigate Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations 1976? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82Amazon

Official programme of the great naval review, Spithead, July 1912 Royal Navy 1912 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.16(422.7)"1912"

General instructions for hydrographic surveyors Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1980 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.47(083.13)

Admiralty manual of hydrographic surveying : vol 1 Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1965 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.47

Annual price list : March 1914 Army and Navy Co-operative Society Ltd 1914 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 659.132.214

Annual price list : 1921-22 Army and Navy Co-operative Society Ltd 1921 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 659.132.214

General price list : 1933-34 Army and Navy Co-operative Society Ltd 1933 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 659.132.214

Chart correction log Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1999 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.63

The Channel pilot ... Master in the Royal Navy 1787 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.83(261.2)

H M Dockyard, Chatham, 7th to 16th May 1965 : bi-centenary exhibition of the launch of HMS Victory Office of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

The Cunningham papers : selections from the private correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, OM, KT, GCB, DSO and two bars. Volume 2: the triumph of Allied sea power 1942-1946 2006 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cunningham

The drawings in the possession of the Earl of Dartmouth illustrating the Battle of Sole Bay, May 28, 1672, and the Battle of the Texel, August 11, 1673 Legge, William Heneage 1908 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 74.044:355.49"1672/1673"(42:492)

Les officiers gâenâeraux de la marine royale : 1715-1774 : origines, condition, services /Michel Vergâe. Vergâe, Michel 1987. • MICROFICHE • 1 copy available. 355.353(44)(043.2)

British battleships of World War One / R A Burt. "This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books on the secondhand market. It presents, in one superb volume, the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. One hundred years ago at Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight and the first battle for the Falklands, might squadrons of these great armoured ships fought their German counterparts for command of the seas. Beginning with Dreadnought, the book continues to the end of the First World War, and all of the fifty dreadnoughts, 'super-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers that served the Royal Navy during this era are described and superbly illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Each class of ship is described in detail so that design origins, and technical and operational factors, are discussed alongside characteristics, with special emphasis on armament, armour and machinery. Fully detailed data tables are included for every class, and more than 500 photographs and line drawings illustrate the text. A delight for the historian, enthusiast and ship modeller, it is a volume that is already regarded as an essential reference work for this most significant era in naval history and ship design."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(42)"1905/1918"

The Fleet Air Arm : and the war in Europe 1939-1945 /David Hobbs. "An integral part of the Royal Navy, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organisation, with only 406 pilots and 232 front-line aircraft available for operations in September 1939. Nevertheless, its impact far outweighed its numbers - it was an RN fighter that shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war, and an RN pilot was the first British fighter 'ace' with 5 or more kills. The Fleet Air Arm's rollcall of achievements in northern waters went on to include the Norway Campaign, the crippling of Bismarck, the gallant sortie against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as they passed through the Channel, air attacks on enemy E-boats in the narrow seas, air cover for the Russian convoys, air attacks that disabled Tirpitz, and strikes and minelaying operations against German shipping in the Norwegian littoral that ocnitnued until May 1945. By the end of the war in Europe the FAA had grown to 3243 pilots and 1336 aircraft. This book sets all these varied actions within their proper naval context and both technical and tactical aspects are explained with 'thumb-nail' descriptions of aircraft, their weapons and avionics. Cross reference with the Fleet Air Arm Roll of Honour has been made for the first time to put names to those aircrew killed in action wherever possible as a mark of respect for their determination against enemy forces on, above and below the sea surface which more often than not outnumbered them."---Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The Black Joke : the true story of one British ship's battle against the slave trade /A. E. Rooks. "Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, the Black Joke was first used as a slaving vessel, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed itto be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the Black Joke liberated more enslaved people than any other in Britain's West Africa Squadron. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell ships such as the Black Joke as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and a lesson about the power of political will - or the lack thereof."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8094109034

From Ushant to Gibraltar : the Channel Fleet, 1778 -1783 /Quintin Barry. "In 1778, when the expected war finally broke with France, Lord Sandwich, the long serving First Lord of the Admiralty, had to find the resources to match the French fleet not only in the Channel but in other theaters of war such as the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. In addition, the Royal Navy had to protect Britain's extensive maritime commerce, covering the large inbound and outbound convoys on which the country's economy depended. This book is a study of the men who led and the men who managed, both afloat and ashore, the Channel Fleet."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.009

South and east coasts of Korea, east coast of Siberia, and Sea of Okhotsk pilot : supplement no 8 Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

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