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Tides and tidal streams at dockyard ports Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1969 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(422)
Admiralty distance tables : Atlantic Ocean Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1976 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 616.61.022
Royal Naval Reserve Great Britain. Central Office of Information 1964 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 359.16(42)
Souvenir programme of the Portsmouth naval review July 26th, 1924 Royal Navy 1924 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.16(422.7)"1924"
Sketches from the Spanish-American War Jacobsen, Commander 1899 • • 1 copy available. 355.49"1898"(46:73)
Admiralty manual of seamanship : vol 3 Great Britain. Ministry of Defence (Navy) 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.052
The naval monitor : containing many useful hints ... Officer in the Navy 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"18"
Tidal streams : British Islands and adjacent waters Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1912 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 551.466
Diving manual Great Britain. Ministry of Defence (Navy) 1972 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 626.02
Henry Harwood : hero of the River Plate /Peter Hore. Foreword by Admiral Sir Jock Slater Hore, Peter 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HARWOOD
U-Boat assault on America : Why the US was unprepared for War in the Atlantic /Ken Brown "The Second Happy Time was the informal name given to that phase of the battle of the Atlantic when German U-boats attacked both merchant and US naval vessels along the American East Coat with impunity and inflicted massive losses. With tankers burning and petrol rationing in New York City, the US Navy seemed powerless to stop the deprivations of Hitler's marauding U-boats. Some referred to this episode as America's second Pearl Harbor. This new book seeks to explain how America responded to these deadly assaults and looks at the steps that the Navy Department took to train the men, harness the scientists and make the organisational changes that were required to defeat the German threat. A major focus will be on how the naval bureaucracy evolved in the face of the stresses of war. As well as looking at the ships and men who fought the battles at sea, the author explains the significance of the port of New York and its vulnerability to sabotage by pro-Nazi elements; he also explores the relationship between the US Navy and the New York Mafia. The influence of the major players is analysed, including Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, the sexagenarian commander of the Eastern Sea Frontier; Fleet Admiral Ernest J King, Chief of Naval Operations, trying to balance global demands with a devastated navy; and Fiorallo La Guardia, the bombastic Mayor of New York."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827.3(43:73)
Okinawa : the last naval battle of WW2 : the official Admiralty account of Operation Iceberg /compiled by John Grehan. "Having all but swept the Japanese Imperial Navy from the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the Allied forces stood on the brink of invading the Japanese Home Islands. The launching pad for the invasion was to be the island of Okinawa. Amid the terrible slaughter and the shocking casualty statistics of the US Tenth Army and the US Marines, as well as the unrelenting defiance of the Japanese defenders so often detailed in the many books on the battle, the vital part played by the Allied navies in transporting, landing and supporting the ground offensive is all too often overlooked. The naval forces involved included the US Task Force 58 and the British Pacific Fleet composed of ships from the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy which together with those of the Royal Navy constituted the most powerful fleet Britain had ever put together. The total firepower of the Allied force was staggering, consisting of 18 battleships, 27 cruisers, 177 destroyers/destroyer escorts, 11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers and 22 escort carriers and various support and troop transport ships. Pitted against this formidable array was the Japanese Combined Fleet, with just one super battleship, one light cruiser and eight destroyers. But the Japanese had one other fearful weapon - the kamikaze. The resultant battle saw the Japanese fleet wiped out, but the Allies lost twenty-four support vessels and a further 386 ships were damaged - many at the hands of the kamikaze pilots. After the fighting the Admiralty called for a summary of the battle to be written for internal Royal Navy consumption. It is that secret report, which it was never intended would be seen by the general public, that is published here for the first time."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Cold war command : the dramatic story of a nuclear submariner /Richard Woodman & Dan Conley. "The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities. Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valient in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period. This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827
The extraordinary life of Mike Cumberlege SOE / Robin Knight "This first-ever biography of Lt. Cdr Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in February-March 1945, recalls a man who was 'truly Elizabethan in character -- a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness -- and great courage.' Cumberlege came from a maverick sea-going family. He was highly resourceful and lived by his wits, skippering ocean-going yachts for wealthy Americans before the war. In 1936, he married Nancy; their relationship was close and, with the sea, forms a thread in The Extraordinary Life of Mike Cumberlege SOE. From 1940, Cumberlege served in undercover roles in the Royal Navy in Marseilles and Cape Verde and was on the staff of General de Gaulle in London. Posted to Egypt in 1941 in the SOE, he formed a para-naval force of fishing vessels, took part in fighting in Greece, attacked the Corinth Canal, escaped from Crete, was wounded and returned three times to Crete clandestinely. On a second operation to destroy the Corinth Canal in 1943, he was captured. Tortured in Mauthausen concentration camp, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen and spent twenty-one months in solitary confinement. The book contains unique material gathered from the family and from well-wishers in places as far apart as Ukraine, Australia and the US." 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CUMBERLEGE
Smoke and mirrors : Q-ships against the U-boats in the First World War /Deborah Lake. "The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during the First World War, when the Royal Navy to trap and destroy German U-boats. Deborah Lake uses a wide range of primary and secondary source material drawn from archives in the UK, Germany and the USA to tell the compelling story of the Q-ships and their U-boat adversaries. The Q-ship operations themselves will be covered by following the careers of the eight men who won the Victoria Cross on Special Service Operations; and by accounts of German U-boat crews being on the receiving end. No book on Q-ships can avoid the Baralong incident in which a Q-ship's crew allegedly executed the survivors of the German submarine U-27, on 19 August 1915. In a subsequent encounter with U-41, more British atrocities were alleged by the only two German survivors. Revealing extracts from the diary of a Royal Marine who served on board the Baralong are reproduced in the book together with other first-hand accounts. With charge and counter-charge, this incident provides a fascinating story."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.829.5
Canada's war at sea / by Leslie Roberts "The story of Canada?s War at Sea is a record of building ships; of manning the naval vessels of the Royal Canadian Navy and the cargo ships of the Canadian Merchant Navy; and of the valour and endurance of Canadian sailors and merchant seamen on all the oceans." 1944 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 971(26)
An interesting life : the memoirs of RT REVD Ambrose W. M. Weekes CB, QHC, AKC, FKC, RN /edited by Mary Snape BA. "Ambrose set himself a mammoth task, that of recording his 'most interesting life'! The first section gives a real insight into his childhood growing up between the Wars, his school days, his theological training and the development of his vocation for the priesthood. In 1944 he joined the Navy as a chaplain and as a link between the first section and the second is a diary of his journey to his first posting to the Persian Gulf in 1944 which makes fascinating reading. This section then contains an account of his subsequent career in the Navy culminating as Chaplain of the Fleet from 1969 to 1972. The third section deals with his distinguished service in the Anglican Diocese in Europe as Bishop and his two retirement posts in Rochester and Territet, Switzerland. I apologise for any mistakes in transcription or spelling of proper names and plead difficulty sometimes in reading Ambrose's script! Ambrose himself may have made the occasional error and, of course, I have been unable to chekc any of this with him! As one of his nieces I remember him best as an entertaining Uncle with a 'wicked' sense of humour, an understanding brother to my mother, the best of Father Christmases, his reference to us when children as 'the animals' and later, his generous hospitality on the occasions that we met. Mary Snape 2012"--Provided by the publisher. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
20th century naval dockyards : Devonport and Portsmouth characterisation report /Naval Dockyards Society "This extensive report is the product of three years of sustained archival and field research into the C20 built environment of these dockyards by members of the Naval Dockyards Society, completed to Historic England standards. It contains 650 maps, plans, models and photographs, many in colour, and is enriched by discussions with many institutions, societies and individuals. It places C20 dockyards within historical, military, industrial, material, personnel, engineering and architectural contexts. Developing the local, national and international profiles of Devonport and Portsmouth dockyards, it adds to our knowledge and understanding of why and how they changed during the C20 and initiates future research by asking questions."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
Sea transport of the A.I.F. / prepared in Naval Transport Board by Greville Tregarthen. Tregarthen, Greville. [19--] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(94)
A history of Pitcher's dockyard Northfleet : 1788 - 1866 /Christopher Sotheby Pitcher, Kenneth McGoverin Pitcher, Christopher Sotheby 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.3)
Empire cruise : the special service squadron, 1923-24 /Daniel Knowles "In November 1923, the Royal Navy dispatched what was named the Special Service Squadron on a ten-month tour around the British Empire. Led by the battlecruiser HMS Hood - the pride of the Royal Navy and the largest ship in the world at the time - and comprising of the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the First Light Cruiser Squadron, the role of the Special Service Squadron was to 'show the flag' during a public relations exercise and strengthen ties across the Empire. Much publicised, the cruise served as a subtle reminder that in the aftermath of the First World War, Britannia still ruled the waves. Empire Cruise: The Special Service Squadron 1923-24 follows the situation faced by Great Britain and the Royal Navy in the years immediately after the Great War and details the origins of the cruise before charting the course of the expedition."--Provided by the publsiher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Naval accounts and inventories of the reign of Henry VII 1485-8 and 1495-7 / Oppenheim, M. 1896. 1896 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 354.71(42)"1485/1497"
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