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British and allied submarine operations in World War 2 Hezlet, Arthur 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.545.1
Ashore and Afloat • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Nelson's letters to his wife and other documents 1785-1831 Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1958 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Nelson(093.32)
State papers relating to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, anno 1588 1894-1895 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1588"
Life of Captain Stephen Martin 1666-1740 Martin, Stephen 1895 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Martin
Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins : documents relating to the suppression of the Jacobin revolution at Naples June 1799 1903 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Nelson
The journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 Rooke, George, Sir 1897 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Rooke
The Somerville papers : selections from the private and official correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville, GCB, GBE, DSO 1995 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.333.3:92
The Martingale chronicles : an historical novel /by John L. Winstone. A historical novel in two volumes, telling the story of Royal Navy officer James Alexander Young during the Second World War and the Korean War. The book provides a fictionalised account of life in the Royal Navy from the 1930s through to the early 1950s, describing training in the Royal Navy cadets, day-to-day life on board ship as an officer, and wartime service. Includes illustrations throughout by the author. [2009?] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92MARTINGALE
The emergence of Britain's global naval supremacy : the war of 1739-1748 /Richard Harding. "The British involvement in the war of 1739-1748 has been generally neglected. Standing between the great victories of Marlborough in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713) and the even greater victories of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), it has been dismissed as inconclusive and incompetently managed. For the first time this book brings together the political and operational conduct of the war to explore its contribution to a critical development in British history during the eighteenth century - the emergence of Britain as the paramount global naval power. The war posed a unique set of problems for British politicians, statesmen and servicemen. They had to overcome domestic and diplomatic crises, culminating in the rebellion of 1745 and the threat of French invasion. Yet, far from being incompetent, these people handled the crises and learned a great deal about the conduct of global warfare. The changes they made and decisions they took prepared Britain for the decisive Anglo-French clash of arms in the Seven Years War. In this misunderstood war lie some of the key factors that made Britain the greatest naval power for the next one hundred and fifty years."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1756/1763"
Battle of Dogger Bank : the first dreadnought engagement, January 1915 /Tobias R. Philbin. "On January 24, 1915, a German naval force commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper conducted a raid on British fishing fleets in the area of the Dogger Banks. The force was engaged by a British force, which had been alerted by a decoded radio intercept. The ensuing battle would prove to be the largest and longest surface engagement until the Battle of Jutland the following summer. While the Germans lost an armored cruiser with heavy loss of life and Hipper's flagship was almost sunk, confusion in executing orders allowed the Germans to escape. The British considered the battle a victory; but the Germans had learned important lessons and they would be better prepared for the next encounter with the British fleet at Jutand. Tobias Philbin's Battle of Dogger Bank provides a keen analytical description of the battle and its place in the naval history of World War I."--Provided by the publisher. [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42:43)"1915"
Le port de la libertâe : Brest, au temps de l'Indâependance amâericaine /Jean-Yves Besseliáevre, Alain Boulaire, Olivier Corre, Lenaèig L'Aot-Lombart, Marjolaine Mourot ; prâeface d'Olivier Poivre d'Arvor. "In March 1778, the Scottish privateer John Paul Jones landed at Brest. He is the first officer of the young American navy to whom Louis XVI entrusts a ship. France has just joined the United States in fighting against the British Crown. The freedom of the young American nation gets ready on the docks of Penfeld ..."--Provided by the publisher. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1778/1781"(42:44)
George Jellicoe : SAS and SBS commander /Nicholas Jellicoe. "George Jellicoe, son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet at Jutland, was never compromised by his privileged upbringing. In this insightful biography, his son describes a life of action, drama, public service and controversy. George's exploits with the newly formed SAS, as David Stirling's second-in-command, and later commanding the SBS, make for fascinating reading. Over four years it embraced the North African and Mediterranean campaigns and culminated in the saving of a newly-liberated Athens from the communist guerrillas of ELAS. The brutality of Stalinist communism led him to join the post-war Foreign Office. In Washington he worked with Kim Philby and Donald Maclean in the cloak and dagger world of espionage. Resigning in 1958 so he could marry the woman he loved, he turned to politics. Although his ministerial career ended in 1973 after unwittingly become entangled with the Lambton scandal, he continued to sit in the House of Lords becoming 'Father of the House'. He held numerous public appointments including President of the Royal Geographical Society, Chairman of the Medical Research Council, President of the SAS Regimental Association and the UK Crete Veterans Association. Thanks to the author's research and access, this is more than a biography of a significant public figure. It provides fascinating detail of Special Forces operations and the characters of the countless figures with whom he mixed."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.085092
Under pressure : living life and avoiding death on a nuclear submarine /Richard Humphreys. "Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast. Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure. As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash. But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song? Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat - and stay sane - in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.93092
Defying empire : trading with the enemy in colonial New York /Thomas M. Truxes. Truxes, Thomas M. c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.355(73)
Three splendid little wars : the diaries of Joseph Knefler Taussig, 1898-1901 /edited by Evelyn M. Cherpak. Taussig, Joseph K.-(Joseph Knefler), 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.8/9
The rescue ships and the convoys : saving lives during the Second World War /Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield ; edited and expanded by Victoria Schofield. "The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. In the early months of the war, altholugh encountering heavy losses of ships and lives at sea, there was no organised system to rescue survivors. The provision of hospital ships to accompany the convoys was precluded by the fact that they had to be lit and would therefore betray a convoy?s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 registered tons, whose prior occupation was limited to coastal trade. These 'Rescue Ships', commanded and manned by Merchant Navy personnel, carried Royal Navy medical doctors, as well as life-saving equipment, operating theatres, hospital beds, hoists, and lifeboats. Undeterred either by enemy action or atrocious weather conditions, these vessels accompanied close to 800 convoys in the North Atlantic and Arctic, saving over 4,000 lives. During their service, seven Rescue Ships were lost. This is a story packed with suspense, danger, achievement and tragedy. As Vice Admiral Schofield writes, it is a record 'of great humanitarian endeavour, of superb acts of courage, of a display of seamanship of the highest order, of a devotion to duty by medical officers under the most arduous conditions imaginable, of great deeds by men of the Merchant Navy in little ships on voyages they were never designed to undertake.'" 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.5/45941
Mutiny and its bounty : leadership lessons from the age of discovery /Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye. "Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery--so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent, yet the coordinated defiance of authority springs from dissatisfactions very similar to those of long-ago shipboard crews. This highly original book mines seafaring logs and other archives of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ship captains and discovers instructive lessons for today's leaders facing challenges to their authority as well as for other members of organizations in which mutinous events occur. The book begins by examining mutinies against great explorer captains of the Age of Discovery: Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, and Henry Hudson. The authors then identify lessons that entrepreneurs, leaders, and other members may apply to organizational insurrections today. They find, surprisingly, that mutiny may be a force for good in an organization, paving the way to more collaborative leadership and stronger commitment to shared goals and values."-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133
The Victorian empire and Britain's maritime world, 1837-1901 : the sea and global history /edited by Miles Taylor, Director, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44"18/19"
Love and war in the WRNS / Vicky Unwin. "Sheila Mills's story is a unique perspective of the Second World War. She is a clever, middle-class Norfolk girl with a yen for adventure and joins the WRNS in 1940 to escape the shackles of secretarial work in London, her unhappy childhood and her social-climbing mother. From a first posting in Scotland in 1940, she progresses through the ranks, first to Egypt and later to a vanquished Germany. Extraordinary and fascinating encounters and personalities are seen through the eyes of a young Wren officer: Admiral Ramsay, the Invasion of Sicily, The Flap, the sinking of the Medway, the surrender of the Italian fleet and the Belsen Trials. These observations are peppered with humorous insights into the humdrum preoccupations of a typical Wren ? boys, appearance and having fun, while worrying about home and family. This treasure trove of hundreds of letters, along with scrapbooks and memorabilia, some of which are reproduced here, was discovered in bin liners shortly after Sheila died. Her daughter, Vicky, has pieced together a fascinating and unusual record of the Second World War from a woman's perspective."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359-055.2
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
Hunting the Essex : a journal of the voyage of HMS Phoebe 1813-1814 by Midshipman Allen Gardiner /ed. by John S. Rieske ; introduction by Andrew Lambert. "In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally opened hostilities against the British in the previous June. From the American perspective the War of 1812 began with disasters in its invasion of Canada, but against all expectations the infant US Navy had scored significant victories at sea. The most strategically significant of these was the campaign by the frigate USS Essex, which had almost annihilated the lucrative British whaling trade in the south Pacific. Therefore, Phoebe was diverted to hunt down and destroy this highly successful commerce-raider. After an epic search, Phoebe tracked her prey to neutral Valparaiso where the American frigate was blockaded and,in a very bloody battle, eventually captured. The American captain, David Porter, published a self-serving account of his actions which ever since has mired the battle in controversy, so this British naval eyewitness account is an important counter-balance. It is one of the lesser-known campaigns of a war which is currently celebrating its bicentenary, but its inherent drama inspired the plot of Patrick O'Brian's novel The Far Side of the World, although in its movie adaptation Master & Commander the American frigate is transformed into a French privateer."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92GARDINER