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Instruments and publications of the United States Naval Observatory 1845-1876 Nourse, J E 1876 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.2

Thames estuary tidal stream atlas and co-tidal chart Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1970 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 551.465(261.2)

New technology and medium navies Friedman, Norman, 1999 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 62:359

Wind and current charts for the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1879 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 551.55

Pacific Islands pilot : volume III Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1982 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The mariner's handbook Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1973 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.6/.7

Channel squadron standing orders Great Britain. Royal Navy. Channel Squadron 1884 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353.1(42:261.2)"1884":355.51

How to survive on land and sea : individual survival United States. Navy 1943 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 614.8

Britain, Canada and the North Pacific : maritime enterprise and dominion, 1778-1914 /Barry M. Gough. "From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'. The studies collected here trace how the British came to dominate the area, with expeditions sent from London, Bombay and Macau, and the Canadian quest from overland, and how commercial enterprise, the Royal Navy and British statecraft fended off American opposition and Russian and Spanish resistance to British aspirations. Elsewhere in the Americas, the British promoted trans-Pacific trade with China, conveyed specie from western Mexico, and established the South America naval station. The flag followed trade and vice versa; empire was both formal (at Vancouver Island) and informal (as in California or Mexico). This book features individuals such as James Cook, William Bolts, Peter Pond, and Sir Alexander Mackenzie. It is also an account of the pressure that corporations placed on the British state in shaping the emerging world of trade and colonization in that distant ocean and its shores, and of the importance of sea-power in the creation of modern Canada."--Provided by the publisher. c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(218)"1778/1914"

May we be spared to meet on earth : letters of the lost Franklin Arctic expedition /edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson ; with the assistance of Alison Alexander, William Battersby, Matthew Betts, Rick Burrows, A.J. Campbell, Jonathan Dore, Alison Freebairn, Andrew Hill, D.J. Holzhueter, Olga Kimmins, Jonathan Moore, Alexa Price, Frank Michael Schuster, Michael Smith, and Michael Tracy ; foreword by Sir Michael Palin. "May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic. The letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the journey's inception and early planning, going on to recount the ships' departure from the river Thames, their progress up the eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the crew's exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western coast of Greenland, from where the ships forever departed the society that sent them forth. As the realization dawned that something was amiss, heartfelt letters to the missing were sent with search expeditions; those letters, returned unread, tell poignant stories of hope. Assembled completely and conclusively from extensive archival research, including in far-flung family and private collections, the correspondence allows the reader to peer over the shoulders of these men, to experience their excitement and anticipation, their foolhardiness, and their fears. The Franklin expedition continues to excite enthusiasts and scholars worldwide. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth provides new insights into the personalities of those on board, the significance of the voyage as they saw it, and the dawning awareness of the possibility that they would never return to British shores or their families."--Provided by publisher. 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.9163/27

Letters of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of St Vincent whilst First Lord of the Admiralty : 1801-1804 Jervis, John 1922 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Jervis

The Rodney papers : selections from the correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney.edited by David Syrett. Rodney, George Brydges. 2007. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22

The letters of Robert Blake : together with supplementary documents Blake, Robert 1937 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Blake

A note on 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. Legge, William Heneage 1908 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 74.044:355.49"1672/1673"(42:492)

Fighting instructions 1530-1816 1905 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.51:355.461

Burning the dockyard : John the painter and the American revolution York, Neil L 2001 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.81(422.7)"1776"

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

West Indies pilot : vol 1 : comprising Bermuda, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Florida Strait and Cays, Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica and Cayman Islands Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Pacific Islands pilot : volume 1 : Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea: north east coast and adjacent islands, Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1989 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Mediterranean pilot : volume III : the Ionian Sea bordering the western coast of Greece, including Patraikos Kolpos and Korinthiakos Kolpos, and the Adriatic Sea United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Dover Strait pilot : south-east coast of England, Bognor Regis to Southwold and north-west coast of Europe, Cap d'Antifer to Scheveningen / Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. 1985. Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1985 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

South America pilot : volume IV, north coast of South America Cabo Orange to Punta Tirbi including Trinidad and Tobago, Rio Orinoco and Nederlandse Antillen Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1983 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

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