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Australia pilot : vol 3 east coast of Australia from North Head to Cape York, including the Great Barrier Reefs, islands and reefs of the Coral Sea, Great North East Channel, Torres Strait, and the south coasts of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya between South Cape and the meridian of 140ø40'E Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1996 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

The Aleutians Campaign June 1942-August 1943 The Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska during the Midway campaign of 1942, indicating that they sought to use the Aleutian Islands as a line of advance for operations against the North American mainland. However, the severe climate and the increasing attention given to other areas of the Pacific meant that their strategic value was diminished and the Americans reoccupied Attu and Kiska in May 1943. After that the Aleutians campaign became relatively inactive. Attu and Kiska were the only U.S. territories in the Western Hemisphere to fall to the enemy therefore their reoccupation was a matter of national pride and of great symbolic value to the Americans. This is one of a series of combat narratives republished by the Naval Historical Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War Two. Charts and illustrations of the campaign are included. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542

Bering Sea and Strait pilot : comprising the north-western and northern coasts of Alaska from Cape Douglas to Demarcation Point, the northern coasts of Canada from Demarcation Point to Cape Bathurst, the Aleutian Islands, and the north-eastern coast of Siberia from Mys Shipunskiy to Mys Otto Shmidta, ... Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1966 • BOOK • 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 1981 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 527.83

British Columbia pilot : vol 1 comprising the coast of the United States of America from Cape Flattery to Point Roberts, including Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound; the coast of British Columbia from Point Roberts to Cape Caution; and Vancouver Island and the passages between it and the mainland Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1964 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

Africa pilot : vol 3 comprising the south and east coasts of Africa from Cape Hangklip to Ras Hafun Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1967 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83

Pacific coasts of Central America and United States pilot : Pacific coasts of panama (west of Punta Mariato), Costa Rica including Isla del Coco, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and United States of America; off-lying islands between latitudes 4 deg N and 48 deg 25' N Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1975 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

China Sea pilot : vol 1: the west side of the China Sea from Tanjong Lompat on the eastern side of Peninsular Malaysia to Chelang Chiao in China; Kepulauan Anambas, Hai-nan Tao, and the islands and banks bordering the main route from Singapore Strait to Hong Kong Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1978 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Red Sea and Gulf of Aden pilot : Suez Canal; Gulf of Suez and Gulf of 'Aqaba; Red Sea; Gulf of Aden; south-east coast of Arabia from Ra's Ba Ghashwah to Ra's Junayz; coast of Africa from Raas Caseyr to Raas Binna; Suqutra and adjacent islands Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1987 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

China Sea pilot : volume 1 : the west side of the China Sea from Tanjong Lompat on the eastern side of Peninsular Malaysia to Zhelang Yan in China; Kepulauan Anambas, Hainan Dao, and the islands and banks bordering the main route from Singapore Strait to Hong Kong Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1987 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

China Sea pilot : vol 1 comprising the western shore of the China Sea from Tanjong Penawar on the eastern side of Johore, to Fu-chi chiao, Ta- ya wan; Anambas Eilanden and Hai-nan tao, also the islands and banks bordering the main route from Singapore Strait to Hong Kong Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1964 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

The minutes of a court-martial held on board His Majesty's ship the Lenox in Portsmouth harbour on the 31st of January last; enquiring into the conduct of the commanders of the Hampton-Court and Dreadnought for not engaging the Fleuron and Neptune, two French men of war ... Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Mostyn, Fowke : 1744 1745 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Fowke

Warship 1993 / edited by Robert Gardiner. Gardiner, Robert, 1993. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82"1993"

Tributes to Terence Thornton Lewin : Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Lewin of Greenwich Philip,-Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 2000 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 92Lewin

Life and death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942 / by Thaddeus D. Novak, edited by P.J. Capelotti. "One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a personal diary of his service on patrol in the North Atlantic. Supplemented by photos from his last surviving shipmates, Novak's diary fills a void in the story of American sailors at war in the North Atlantic. It is the only known diary of an enlisted Coast Guard sailor to emerge from WWII. Though the Greenland coast was of vital importance to Allied forces, U.S. Coast Guard crews serving there were relegated to converted fishing vessels known as 'wooden shoes'. Hastily commissioned in Boston to serve as escorts for supply routes to new air bases in Greenland, ten Arctic trawlers were transformed into the basis of the Greenland Patrol, transporting young men who had never been away from home into a realm of mountainous icebergs, lurking U-boats, and the alien culture of native Greenland Eskimos. This story of the Nanok's 1942 patrol is a remarkable account of a sailor thrown into a global war in a remote area full of environmental hardships that few endured in World War II. Between the sudden excitements and mind-numbing boredom of military life, Novak records the routine details of day-to-day patrol, contacts with the native Greenlanders and their impenetrable way of life, and actions such as the loss of the cutter Natsek and its entire crew on the night of December 17,1942. Not an account of grand strategy or hand-to-hand combat, this story of a twenty-year-old petty officer on duty in the Arctic is rather the life of an ordinary individual at war, coping with rigorous hardships during a time of great crisis. Novak's account will be of significant value to students of the U.S. Coast Guard and of naval service in wartime. His illumination of the small details of a sailor's life and perceptive observation of the arctic region and its little-known people will appeal to anyone interested in maritime history."--Provided by the publsiher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353.5(73)"1942"

Southern thunder / Steve Dunn. "During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one another to protect their import and export trades. Germany relied on Sweden, Norway and Denmark for food and raw materials, while Britain needed to restrict the flow of these goods and claim them for herself. And so the battle for the North Sea began. The campaign was ferociously fought, with the Royal Navy forced to develop new tactical thinking, including convoy, to combat the U-boat threat. Many parts of Scandinavia considered that the War had 'missed' the region, and that it was just a distant 'southern thunder'; Much of that thunder was over the North Sea. This new book tells this little-known, and often ignored, story from both a naval and a political standpoint, revealing how each country, including the USA, tried to balance the needs of diplomacy with the necessities of naval warfare. Starting from the declaration of a British blockade and its impact and reception in Scandinavia, the narrative progresses to cover the struggle to prevent supplies reaching Germany, the negotiations to gain preferential British access to Scandinavian trade and the work of the sailors, both of the merchant marine and Royal Navy who had to make the system function. By the end of 1916, the British-Scandinavian trade was so important that a new system of convoyed vessels was developed, not without much Admiralty infighting, leading to the growth of naval operations all along the East Coast of Britain in places such as Immingham, Lerwick and Mehil. Two years later, the Germans, desperate to break the tightening stranglehold, even brought out their big-gun ships to hunt and disrupt the Scandinavian convoys, and at one point US Navy battleships were perilously close to engaging with the High Sea Fleet as a result. Detailed analysis and first-hand accounts of the fighting from those who took part create a vivid narrative that demonstrates how the Royal Navy helped to bring about Germany's downfall and protect Britain's vital Scandinavian supply lines."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42:48)

A dangerous enterprise : secret war at sea /Tim Spicer. "Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was called the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla: crewed by 125 officers and men, it became the most highly decorated Royal Naval unit of the Second World War. The 15th MGBF was an extraordinary group of men thrown together in the most secret of adventures. Very few were regular Royal Naval officers: instead the unit was made up of mostly Royal Naval Volunteer Officers and 'duration only' sailors. Their home was a converted paddle steamer and luxury yacht, but their work could not have been more serious. Their mission was to ferry agents of SIS and SOE to pinpoint landing sites on the Brittany coast in Occupied France. Once they had landed their agents, together with stores for the Resistance, they picked up evaders, escaped POWs who had had the good fortune to be collected by escape lines run by M19, as well as returning SIS and SOE agents. It is a story that is inextricably entwined with that of the many agents they were responsible for - Pierre Hentic, Yves Le Tac, Virginia Hall, Albert Huâe, Jeannie Rousseau, Suzanne Warengham, Franðcois Mitterrand and Mathilde Carrâe, as well as many others. Without the Flotilla, such intelligence gathering networks as Jade Fitzroy and Alliance would never have developed, and SOE's VAR Line and MI9's Shelburne Escape Line would never have been realised. Drawing on a huge amount of research on both sides of the Channel, including private archives of many of the families involved, A Dangerous Enterprise brings the story of this most clandestine of operations brilliantly to life."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545941

The naval miscellany 1902-1952 • BOOK • 9 copies available. 355.49

Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : the Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 /edited by Richard Harding and Agustâin Guimerâa. "The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has been a constant theme in historical studies, it has not been scrutinised as a phenomenon in its own right. This book examines the critical period in Europe between 1700 -1850, when political, economic and cultural shifts were bringing about a new understanding of the individual and of society. Bringing together context with a focus on naval leadership as a phenomenon is at the heart of this book, a unique collaborative venture between British, French and Spanish scholars. As globalisation develops in the twenty-first century the significance of navies looks set to increase. This volume of essays aims to place naval leadership in its historical context."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133.4(4)"1700/1850"

Atlantic linchpin : the Azores in two world wars /Guy Warner. "On a map the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars. The Atlantic became a crucial battleground twice within the space of 25 years, as the US 'arsenal of democracy' sent firstly stores, arms and equipment, followed by many thousands of troops to fight in Europe. In both desperate and closely fought struggles at sea, Germany sought to stem the flow and thereby win the war, by cutting this vital lifeline, using a new weapon - the ocean-going submarine. In the First World War the Azores became a mid-Atlantic refuelling location, a base for US and Portuguese naval vessels and - in a hugely innovative contribution to the anti-submarine war - for the patrol seaplanes and flying boats of the US Marine Corps. Portugal was neutral during the Second World War but when Winston Churchill invoked a treaty dating from 1373, permission was given in 1943 for an RAF Coastal Command base to be very rapidly established at Lagens. From there convoys could be protected and U-boats could be harried and sunk, so closing the notorious mid-Atlantic gap. Later, it also became an important staging post for US aircraft, as it had been in the previous conflict. The significance of the Azores has been overlooked in most military histories, but this extensively researched and copiously illustrated book from historian Guy Warner provides a detailed but balanced appraisal. The author has had access to archives and photographic collections in the UK, USA, Portugal and the Azores, consulting with local historians to produce a book that sheds much new light on a hitherto under-appreciated facet of twentieth-century history."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 946.9/9004

British Fiji class cruisers and their derivatives : design, development and performance /Conrad Waters "A follow-up to the author's highly regarded history of British 'Town' class cruisers, this book takes the same approach, combining coverage of the development, design details and career highlights of the original class as well as the Uganda, Minotaur and Tiger designs that were derived from them. Often called the 'Colony' class, they were an attempt to incorporate the characteristics of the preceding 'Town' class within the reduced 8,000-ton limit agreed under the 1936 London Treaty. In general layout, they resembled the earlier class but adopted upright rather than raked funnels and masts. The use of a flat, transom stern conferred both hydrodynamic and internal space advantages. Not surprisingly, they turned out to be very cramped ships which struggled to accommodate all the wartime additions of extra electronics and light AA guns, as well as the increased crew needed to man them. Many of the later modifications to existing ships and alterations to the succeeding designs were attempts to alleviate these issues, most visibly the reduction of the main armament from four to three turrets. Nevertheless, they were available in significant numbers and gave sterling service across all theatres of the naval war. In this major study, Conrad Waters makes extensive use of archive material to provide a technical evaluation of the Fiji class design and its subsequent performance. He outlines the class's origins in the context of inter-war cruiser policy, explains the design and construction process, and describes the characteristics of the resulting ships and how these were adapted in the light of wartime developments. An overview of service focuses on major engagements, assessing the extent to which the class met its designers' expectations and detailing the consequences of action damage. Later chapters continue the story into the Cold War era, examining the various post-war modernisation programmes and concluding with the radical redesign of the Tiger class that produced the Royal Navy's last conventional cruisers. Heavily illustrated with contemporary photographs, original plans and drawings by Dave Baker, John Jordan and George Richardson, British Fiji Class Cruisers provides a definitive reference to one of the Royal Navy's most important Second World War warship designs."--Provided by the publisher. 2024 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.

Crushing the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of the Surigao Strait : the last crossing of the T /Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr. "In late 1944, the Second World War in the Pacific was going badly for Japan. The U.S. Pacific fleet had moved to the Mariana Islands in support of General MacArthur's army, which had landed on the east coast of Leyte in October. The U.S. 7th Fleet was near the Surigao Strait off Leyte. The Japanese strategy was to entrap the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet by its naval forces from the north in the Sibuyan Sea, and with assault from the south from Surigao Strait. On the afternoon of 24 October, 7th Fleet torpedo-boats moved through Leyte Gulf and Surigao Strait into the Mindanao Sea south of Leyte, and by dusk were in position on their patrol-lines. Covering the northern part of the strait, were posted the destroyer squadrons, cruisers, and battleships to form the horizontal bar to a T of vast fire power which the enemy would be forced to approach vertically as he moved forward. With overwhelming force, the impenetrable gauntlet defeated the Japanese at Surigao Strait and played a significant in winning the Battle of Leyte Gulf and in so helping to secure the beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army on Leyte against Japanese attack from the sea." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/25

The Barrington papers : selected from the letters and papers of Admiral the Hon Samuel Barrington Barrington, Samuel 1937-1941 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 92Barrington

Conway" merchant navy sea cadet training school. 1957-1974 incomplete run • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

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