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On the treadmill to Pearl Harbor : the memoirs of Admiral James O Richardson, USN (Retired) Richardson, James O 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(73)

Ocean passages for the world / Ministry of Defence, Hydrographic Department. Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1973. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.6(100)

Twentieth report : Barrack Office Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Finance 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537(42)"1797"

Twenty-second report : auditing... the Exchequer Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Finance 1797 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:342.537(42)"1797"

Australia's naval inheritance : Imperial maritime strategy and Australia station 1880-1909 Lambert, Nicholas A., 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(94)"1880/1909"

General instructions for hydrographic surveyors (short title GIHS) Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1970. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.47(083.13)

Tables of computed altitude and azimuth : latitudes 30 deg to 39 deg, inclusive : vol 4 United States. Navy Department. Hydrographic Office 1940 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527(083.5)

Australia pilot : vol 1 south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Green Point Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1973 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The British battleship, 1906-1946 / Norman Friedman. "The British battleship is one of the most intensely studied of all naval topics, but it is also among the most popular. Norman Friedman is one of the most highly regarded of all naval writers, with an avid following for his work. Therefore, a new book on British battleships by Friedman is a major event, and has been eagerly awaited ever since knowledge of the project began to circulate among enthusiasts. Friedman has the ability to bring new ideas to even the most over-worked subjects, based on extensive original research and a talent for explaining technology in the wider context of politics, economics and strategy. His latest book covers the development of Royal Navy capital ships, including battlecruisers, from the pre-history of the revolutionary Dreadnought of 1906 to the last of the line, HMS Vanguard in 1946. Replete with original insights, the story that emerges will enlighten and surprise even the most knowledgeable. The attraction of the book is enhanced by sets of specially commissioned plans of the important classes by John Roberts and A D Baker III, both renowned experts in their own right, plus a colour section featuring the original Admiralty draughts, including a spectacular double gatefold. For many with an interest in warships, this will be the book of the year."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(42)"1906/1946"

U-47 in Scapa Flow : the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, 1939 /Angus Konstam. "At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy - nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion. So how, in the dead of night, was Gunther Prien's U-47 able to slip through the line of protective warships to sink the mighty Royal Oak? This book provides the answer with an account of one of the most daring naval raids in history. Drawing on the latest underwater archaeological research, this study explains how Prien and his crew navigated the North Sea and Kirk Sound to land a devastating blow to the British. It reveals the level of disrepair that Scapa Flow had fallen into, and delves into the conspiracy theories surrounding the event, including an alleged cover-up by the then First Sea Lord, Winston Churchill."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ROYAL OAK

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

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)

The Royal Naval Reserve Directorate of Publications, Royal Navy 1967 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 359.16(42)

HMS Norfolk : guided missile destroyer Royal Navy. Directorate of Public Relations 1976? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82Norfolk

Royal Aero Club Schneider seaplane race Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1929 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.16(422.7)"1929"

The Royal Navy's historic flight Directorate of Public Relations (Royal Navy) • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 359.38

The Nore station orders Great Britain. Royal Navy. Nore Station 1900 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.353.1(42:261.2)"1900":355.51

Documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Armada [195?] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.05

Australian maritime doctrine Australia. Royal Australian Navy • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(94)

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