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Letters and papers of admiral of the fleet Sir Thos Byam Martin GCB Martin, Thomas Byam, Sir 1898-1903 • BOOK • 6 copies available. 92Martin

The Keith papers : selected from the letters and papers of Admiral Viscount Keith Elphinstone, George Keith 1927-1955 • BOOK • 6 copies available. 92Elphinstone

The Wager disaster : mayhem, mutiny and murder in the south seas /C.H. Layman. "In 1741, Britain and Spain were at war. Commodore Anson and his small squadron battled round Cape Horn into the Pacific to take the war to the Spanish possessions in the South Seas. It was a notable moment in British naval history, when far-sighted men were beginning to realise the great benefits to British trade from a strong Navy with a worldwide reach. There were no accurate charts of the west coast of South America. The marine chronometer had not been invented, so longitude was largely a matter of guesswork. And before the value of lime juice had been recognised, the dreaded scurvy took a grim toll on the health of ships' companies. One of the squadron, HMS Wager, a 6th rate of 28 guns, was driven onto a lee shore in vicious hurricane-force winds and wrecked on an uninhabited island off the coast of what is now Chilean Patagonia. About 140 Wager men reached the land, most of them then to be lost through starvation, exhaustion, hypothermia, drowning, and sometimes violence. Gunner Bulkeley led a party who mutinied against an unpopular captain, and set off in an open boat with no chart. No one approves of mutiny, but his 2500 nautical-mile journey from Chilean Patagonia to Brazil, through the world's worst seas, was an epic feat of navigation, and one of the greatest castaway survival voyages in the annals of the sea. Only 36 men (including Midshipman Byron, grandfather of the poet) eventually made it back to Britain, where their tales of fearful ordeals in a far country caught the imagination of the public. This book uses their accounts to piece together the story of a dramatic fight for survival under extreme conditions. The wrecking of the Wager had surprisingly lasting effects on both the history of Chile and the administration of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, as this book tells. Anson, justly called the Father of the Navy, saw to it that the lessons of the Wager disaster were learned and some important reforms implemented. In 2006 the wreck was discovered by a British expedition, and it is now being studied by Chilean marine archaeologists. Here in the Wager's extraordinary story, is a record of human endurance and perseverance in the face of almost superhuman adversity."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3WAGER

Military courts 1879-1944 : Indexes of courts of the Royal Navy, 1911-1965; the Royal Air Force, 1941-1994; the Army, 1879-1986 and soldiers executed, 1914-1920. 2001-2004. • CD-ROM • 1 copy available. 344.3/.4(42)"1879/1994"

Rangliste des activen dienststandes der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine : 1913. 1913. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.33(43)"1913"

The blockade and the cruisers / Soley, James Russell. 1887. Soley, James Russell 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1861/1865"(73)

Assault from the sea : the amphibious landing at Inchon Utz, Curtis A 1994 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.828.2(73)

Destroyerman / by John T. Pigott. An autobiographical account of life as a young ensign on board a U.S Navy destroyer on active service in the Pacific and Atlantic during World War Two. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Pigott, John

Rangliste der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine : fur das jahr 1912. 1912. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.33(43)"1912"

Travels in North America in the years 1827 and 1828 Hall, Basil, 1829 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(7)"1827/1828"

The Devonport Dockyard story Burns, K V 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81(423.7)

An admiral for America : Sir Peter Warren, Vice Admiral of the Red, 1703-1752 /Julian Gwyn. "Sir Peter Warren, one of the most imaginative officers in the history of the British Navy, played a key role in the defense and expansion of British naval power in colonial America. In this biography, Julian Gwyn, the preeminent authority on Warren, describes Warren's military vision and sympathetic view of colonial life as well as his frustrated political aspirations and entrepreneurial real-estate ventures in both New York and England. A skillful analysis of the character and ambitions of a man of wide vision who seized the opportunities that luck frequently put in his way. [...] Gwyns's biography aptly describes a quintessential mid-eighteenth century British naval hero who used his fame, position, and connections to emerge as one of the wealthiest and most powerful members of the British Navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WARREN, PETER, SIR

China Sea pilot : vol 2: the western and north-western coasts of Borneo, the Philippine Islands from Balabac Island to Cape Bojeador in Luzon, and the outlying islands and dangers in the southern and eastern parts of the China Sea Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1975 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 527.83

Mediterranean pilot : vol 2 comprising the southern coast of France from Cap Cerbere to the Franco-Italian frontier, the island of Corsica, and the western and southern coasts of Italy from the Franco-Italian frontier to Capo Santa Maria di Leuca, including Arcipelago Toscano / Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. 1965. Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1965 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83

South and east coasts of Korea, east coast of Siberia, and sea of Okhotsk pilot : comprising the coast from the south-western extreme of Korea to MYS Shipunsky on the east coast of Kamchatka; and Cheju Do, Tsushima and Sakhalin Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1966 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83

The defence of Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart, at the court-martial lately held upon him, with the court's sentence Palliser, Hugh, Sir 1779 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Palliser

Songs and ditties of the fleet : a miscellany of maritime melodies and memorabilia /written and collected by Richard Barr & Bernie Bruen. "Richard Barr and Bernie Bruen met while serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970s aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. With other crew members they formed a ship's band, which went on to perform under the unlikely name The Malawi International Airways String Quartet - MIASQ for short, entertaining audiences in various far-flung parts of the world with their lighthearted ditties about nautical life. Many of the songs they performed were penned by Bruen and/or Barr themselves, and it is these original offerings that are preserved here for posterity. From boozy ballads celebrating the joys of alcoholic excess and the delights of female company to laments for the bygone age of sail, they all evoke subjects close to the matelot's heart. In addition there are recollections from both authors of some of the more notable incidents from their naval careers. Other sections record sundry items of nostalgic interest and humorous comments - intentional and otherwise - made or overheard by the authors whilst aboard the various Royal Navy ships on which they served. The end result is an entertaining mixture which contains ingredients that will appeal to any former sailor."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 784.4

The sinking of HMS Royal Oak : in the words of the survivors /Dilip Sarkar. Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. To the British, the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of bringing the naval war to their home waters, and the shock resulted in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface, Royal Oak is a designated war grave. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82ROYAL OAK

32 in '44 : building the Portsmouth submarine fleet in World War II /Rodney K. Watterson. "In the 1930s, the U.S. government's Portsmouth Navy Yard built less than two submarines a year, yet in 1944 it completed an astonishing 32 submarines, and over the course of the war produced 37 per cent of all U.S. submarines. This book analyzes the factors behind the small yard's record-setting production, including streamlined operations, innovative management practices, the Navy's commitment to develop the yard's resources as an alternative to private industry, and the yard's ability to adapt quickly to a decentralized wartime shipbuilding environment. The author highlights similarities between Portsmouth's efforts to accelerate production and those of private shipyards. He concludes that private shipyards deviated little from construction plans, while at Portsmouth a continuing dialogue with the Navy resulted in design changes dictated by feedback from the frontlines."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.128.1(73)

Fire & ice: Arctic convoys, 1941-1945 / Britannia Naval Histories of World War II "The Arctic convoys run to the ports of Northern Russia from 1941 to 1945 combined the man-made and maritime horrors of the Battle of the Atlantic with the unforgiving ferocity of one of the most inhospitable of the world's climates. Maintaining that lifeline through the waters of the Arctic circle was essential to the development and maintenance of the Anglo-American alliance with the Soviet Union. With the massive campaign on Germany's Eastern front hanging in the balance in 1941 to 1942, the German Armed Forces deployed significant numbers of submarines, bomber and torpedo aircraft, together with heavy ships such as the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, against the slow-moving Allied convoys of merchant ships and their escorting forces. The challenge to maintain this lifeline placed a heavy burden on the resources of the Royal Navy. Here, in a contemporary battle summary, prepared by the Naval Staff of the Royal Navy, and supported by academic analysis and an extensive photographic section, those challenges and difficulties, the tragedies and the triumphs of the Arctic convoys, are laid bare." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Bay of Bengal pilot : comprising the southern and eastern coasts of Ceylon, the eastern coast of India, the coast of east Pakistan, the coast of Burma, and the western coast of Thailand from Pakchan River to Ko Phuket; also the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1966 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83

A vocabulary of sea phrases and terms of art used in seamanship and naval architecture Captain of the British Navy, A 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 656.61French:094:800.866

Records of warship construction 1939-1945 : the history of DNC Department Great Britain. Ministry of Defence (Navy) 1984 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:623.82(42)"1939/1945"

Murder on the high seas / Martin Baggoley. "Great Britain has for many centuries been one of the world's great sea-faring nations. The Royal Navy has defended her territory and the merchant fleet has been instrumental in creating the nation's wealth. The courage, industry and exploits of many of her sailors and the names of the ships in which they served have become legends. However, the sea has also provided the backdrop to great crimes and for Murder on the High Seas, the author has selected murders that have been committed in many parts of the globe over a period of more than one hundred years. The motives behind these crimes have included revenge, lust, greed and survival. Nevertheless, they share one common feature as all of those accused of responsibility were brought back to Great Britain to stand trial. Among these fascinating accounts is a description of the trial of the survivors of a shipwreck who killed and fed on a shipmate. Also included is the murder by slavers of several Royal Navy seamen who were part of the West Africa Squadron, formed to put an end to the slave trade of the South Atlantic."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12.07

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