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Recollections of a chaplain in the Royal Navy Tucker, William Guise 1886 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.81

Navy estimates for the year 1872-73 / Admiralty. Great Britain.-Admiralty 1872. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 336.121

Navy (Health) : return ... for a copy of the statistical abstract of the health of the Navy, for the Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1870 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 613.68

Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 / William S. Dudley. "When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812? When the British blockade of 1813?14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.5/25

The Royal Indian navy 1939-45 India. Combined Inter-Services Historical Section 1964 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(54)

The Anthony roll of Henry VIII's navy Knighton, C S 2000 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(42)(083.81)

Admiral William Veazie Pratt, US Navy : a sailor's life Wheeler, Gerald E 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"18/19"(73)

The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603-1707 / Colin Helling. "This book examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. For most of the century the Scottish crown had no separate naval force which made the Stuart monarchs' navy, seen by them as a personal not a state force, unusual in being an institution which had a relationship with both kingdoms. This did not necessarily make the navy a shared organisation, as it continued to be financed from and based in England and was predominantly English. Nevertheless, the navy is an unusually good prism through which the nature of the regal union can be interrogated as English commanded ships interacted with Scottish authorities, and as Scots looked to the navy for protection from foreign invaders, such as the Dutch in the Forth in 1667, and for Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.06

18th century royal navy : medical terms, expressions, and trivia /Rex Hickox. This book is a compendium of information about the Royal Navy in the 18th century. It looks at the history, conditions and beliefs of the period, as well as detailing rank and duties of the officers and men. It has sections on 18th-century medicine and medical terms, burial at sea, nautical expressions and maritime superstitions. Also included is a flag glossary and list of important dates. 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)

Royal Navy torpedo vessels, 1870-1914 / Les Brown. "The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential. Although the 19th-century Royal Navy had a reputation for technological conservatism, it was an 'early adopter' of the torpedo and was instrumental in the development of the small fast craft that became the delivery system of choice, the steam torpedo boat. Britain's most important contribution to torpedo warfare, however, was the invention of its antidote, the torpedo boat destroyer, or 'destroyer' as it came to be called. This often-told story has overshadowed the earlier but no less significant history of the torpedo boat itself in the Royal Navy, an injustice set to right by this new book. Torpedoes were derived from earlier underwater explosive devices - mines, spar and towed torpedoes, and the like - so the first chapter briefly reviews their history before moving on to Robert Whitehead's revolutionary invention that made the self-propelled torpedo a practical weapon. The Admiralty was so impressed it purchased the rights to Whitehead's device, and thereafter the Royal Navy made much of the early running in torpedo boat design. In this they were greatly assisted by existing boatbuilders like Thornycroft and Yarrow who already specialised in small fast craft. The core of this book is a detailed developmental history of British torpedo craft, from the early experiments like Vesuvius and Polyphemus, through the 1st Class TBs to the so-called Coastal Destroyers of the early 20th century. There are also separate chapters on 2nd Class boats, on Torpedo Gunboats and on the 'Torpedo Depot Ships' Hecla and Vulcan. The book concludes with a number of appendices devoted to background issues like quick-firing guns and reports on performance of the boats in various circumstances."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82580941

Modern teaching methods and the Merchant Navy Carver, Alfred 1967 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61:331.861

The Surveying Service of the Royal Navy Edgell, J A 1939 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.47

The Royal Australian Navy : a pictorial review Mortimer, John 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(94)

Flugzeugtrager der US Navy : vol 1 Flottenflugzeugtrager Terzibaschitsch, Stefan 1978 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.822.7(73)

Flugzeugtrager der US Navy : Band 2: Geleitflugzeugtrager Terzibaschitsch, Stefan 1979 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.822.7(73)

Atlantic front : the Merchant Navy at war Woon, Basil 1941 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61:940.545

Administration of the Navy Department in World War II Furer, Julius Augustus 1959 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.53(73)

Annual reports of the Navy Department for the year 1898 United States.-Navy Department 1898 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1898"(46:73) <EXTI Spanish American War

Navy League guide to the coronation review June 28 1902 1902 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.16(422.7)"1902"

The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol Stewart, Ninian 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.81PALESTINE

Submarines of the Royal Navy : part 5 Goodman, Sydney V C 1984 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)

Polaris and the Royal Navy 1963-1973 Great Britain. Ministry of Defence • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.827.2(42)

The German navy in the Nazi era Thomas, Charles S 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(43)

Introduction to the merchant navy : 4th ed Hope, Ronald 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61

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