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Battleships Yamato and Musashi : Anatomy of the ship "Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armour and with the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the US Pacific Fleet in the Second World War. The book contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship Musashi, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 1,020 perspective line artworks, 350 colour 3D views, and 30 photographs. The wreck of Musashi has been recently discovered to great excitement in Japan, renewing interest in these iconic warships. Janusz Skulski's anatomies of three renowned ships of the 20th century Japanese navy are among the most comprehensive of the Anatomy series with hundreds of meticulously researched drawings of the ships. Since their first publication he has continued to research the ships and has now produce a more definitive anatomy than was possible then. He has teamed up with 3D artist Stefan Draminksi who produces superb realistic renditions of the ships that bring a whole new level of detail to the portraits of the ships. This new editions is a genuine 'Super Anatomy' containing the most detailed renditions of these ships ever seen."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82YAMATO

Re-inventing the ship : science, technology and the maritime world, 1800-1918 /edited by Don Leggett and Richard Dunn. "Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities."--from Amazon. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12"18/19"

New interpretations in naval history : selected papers from the sixteenth Naval History Symposium held at the United States Naval Academy, 10-11 September 2009 /edited by Craig C. Felker and Marcus O. Jones. "New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Naval History Symposium is a new look into a dozen different maritime subjects including Colonial American Resistance to British Naval Impressment; The Early Years of Navy and Marine Corps Aviation, Publicity and the Marine Corps between 1911-1917; and the story of Support Activity Saigon, 1964-1966."--from the website of NWC?s Maritime History Department. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"18/19"

The Naval chronicle. Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men. 1799-1818. • JOURNAL • 40 copies available. 354.427

Mortality of British Merchant Seamen Home, W. E. 1934 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22:616

A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels: containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America ... Knox, John 1767 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/17"

Civil war navies 1855-1885 Silverstone, Paul H 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(73)"1855/1883"

Lords of the sea / by John R. Hale. The rise of the Athenian navy led indirectly to the invention of democracy. This 'history as thriller' account features a cast of colourful characters combined with a stirring chronicle in the mould of Rubicon and Persia. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(38)"-0483/-0322"

Warship 1991 / edited by Robert Gardiner. Gardiner, Robert. 1991. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82"1991"

Battle of Jutland 1916 An account of the Battle of Jutland between the German and British fleets off the Danish coast in 1916. The author examines the events before, during and after the battle in which the Royal Navy lost three capital ships (Indefatigable, Queen Mary and Invincible), three heavy armoured cruisers (Black Prince, Warrior and Defence), eight destroyers (Tipperary, Shark, Sparrowhawk, Turbulent, Ardent, Fortune, Nomad and Nestor) and over 6,000 men. The author considers the relative technical strength of the fleets, leadership and decision-making. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs and battle maps. An appendix details the opposing fleets and principal commanders. 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1916"(42:43)

Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka. Pivka, Otto von, 1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1792/1815"

The search for the Japanese fleet : USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway /David W. Jourdan ; foreword by Philip G. Renaud. "In the extensive literature about the Battle of Midway, the role of American submarines has not received adequate attention. In The Search for the Japanese Fleet: USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway, David W. Jourdan, one of the world's experts in undersea exploration, has reconstructed the critical part subs played in the action that many chroniclers of World War II consider to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire was one of the oldest submarines in the navy, USS Nautilus. On their first war patrol, Lieutenant Commander William Brockman and his ninety-three-man crew wondered what would war be like, and as events unfolded, their actions during an eight-hour period early in that voyage would rank among the most important contributions of a submarine to the most decisive engagement in U.S. Navy history. Fifty-seven years later, Jourdan's team of deep sea explorers set out to discover the history of the famous Battle of Midway and find the ships the allied fleet sank. Key to the mystery was the Nautilus and her underwater exploits. Relying on logs, diaries, chronologies, manuals, sound recordings, and interviews with veterans of the battle, including men who spent most of the day of June 4th in the submarine conning tower, the story breathes new life into the history of the epic engagement. Woven into the tale of World War II is the modern drama of deep sea discovery as explorers deploy technological marvels to the seafloor, over three miles down, to reveal the relics of history and commemorate fallen heroes."--Publisher description. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.6"1942"

Hitler's forgotten flotillas : Kriegsmarine security forces /Lawrence Paterson. "This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkrèafte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War Two. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it snaked towards the Black Sea. These vessels may not have provided the glamour associated with capital ships and U-boats, but they were crucial to the survival of the Kriegsmarine at every stage of hostilities. As naval construction was unable to keep pace with the likely demand for security vessels, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder turned to the conversion of merchant vessels. For example, trawlers were requisitioned as patrol boats (Vorpostenboote) and minesweepers (Minensucher), while freighters, designated Sperrbrecher, were filled with buoyant materials and sent to clear minefields. Submarine hunters (U-Boot Jèager) were requisitioned fishing vessels. More than 120 flotillas operated in wildly different conditions, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and 81 men were to be awarded the Knights Cross; some were still operating after the cessation of hostilities clearing German minefields. The author deals with whole subject at every level, documenting organisational changes, describing the vessels, and recounting individual actions of ships at sea, while extensive appendices round off this major new work."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(43)

The British Civil Wars at sea, 1638-1653 / Richard J. Blakemore and Elaine Murphy. "The civil wars in England, Scotland and Ireland in the period 1638-1653 are usually viewed from the perspective of land warfare. This book, on the other hand, presents a comprehensive overview of the wars from a maritime perspective. It considers the structure, organisation and manning of the parliamentarian, royalist, and Irish confederate navies, discussing how these changed over the course of the wars. It also traces the development of the wars at sea, showing that the initial opting for parliament by seamen and officers in 1642 was a crucial development, as was the mutiny and defection of part of the parliamentarian navy in 1648. Moving beyond this it examines the nature of maritime warfare, including coastal sieges, the securing of major ports for parliament, the attempts by royalists to ship arms and other supplies from continental Europe, commerce raiding, and the transportation of armies and their supporters in the invasions of Scotland and Ireland. Overall the book demonstrates that the war at sea was an integral and important part of these dramatic conflicts."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1638/1653"(42)

Operation Pedestal : the fleet that battled to Malta 1942 /Max Hastings. "In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the 'island fortress' must be saved. This was not merely a matter of strategy, but of national prestige, when Britain's fortunes and morale had fallen to their lowest ebb. The largest fleet the Royal Navy committed to any operation of the western war was assembled to escort fourteen fast merchantmen across a thousand of miles of sea defended by six hundred German and Italian aircraft, together with packs of U-boats and torpedo craft. The Mediterranean battles that ensued between 11 and 15 August were the most brutal of Britain's war at sea, embracing four aircraft-carriers, two battleships, seven cruisers, scores of destroyers and smaller craft. The losses were appalling: defeat seemed to beckon. This is the saga Max Hastings unfolds in his first full length narrative of the Royal Navy, which he believes was the most successful of Britain's wartime services. As always, he blends the 'big picture' of statesmen and admirals with human stories of German U-boat men, Italian torpedo-plane crews, Hurricane pilots, destroyer and merchant-ship captains, ordinary but extraordinary seamen. Operation Pedestal describes catastrophic ship sinkings, including that of the aircraft-carrier Eagle, together with struggles to rescue survivors and salvage stricken ships. Most moving of all is the story of the tanker Ohio, indispensable to Malta's survival, victim of countless Axis attacks. In the last days of the battle, the ravaged hulk was kept under way only by two destroyers, lashed to her sides. Max Hastings describes this as one of the most extraordinary tales he has ever recounted. Until the very last hours, no participant on either side could tell what would be the outcome of an epic of wartime suspense and courage"--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/5941

The horrible peace : British veterans and the end of the Napoleonic Wars /Evan Wilson. "Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's ascendance as an imperial power, the war was far from over for many soldiers and sailors, who were forced to contend with the lasting effects of battlefield trauma, the realities of an impossibly tight labor market, and growing social unrest. The Horrible Peace details a story of distress and discontent, of victory complicated by volcanism, and of the challenges facing Britain at the beginning of its victorious century. Examining the process of demobilization and its consequences for British society, Evan Wilson draws on archival research and veterans' memoirs to tell the story of this period through the experiences of veterans who struggled to reintegrate and soldiers and sailors who remained in service as Britain attempted to defend and expand the empire. Veterans were indeed central to Britain's experience of peace, as they took to the streets to protest the government's indifference to widespread unemployment and misery. The fighting did not stop at Waterloo"-- [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.00941

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, GCB : a biography Egerton, Mary Augusta 1896 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 354.71(42)"18"

1784 : the Battle of Mudeford This book recounts the Battle of Mudeford, a 1784 skirmish fought near Christchurch Harbour between smugglers and Customs and Excise Officers. The encounter resulted in the death of customs officer William Allen on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Orestes, with Bone Tucker, Guernsey Jemmy, and George Coombes being arrested for murder. George Coombes was later executed for the crime. It details how smuggling in the eighteenth century was considered a 'victimless crime' by many, with smuggler John Streeter avoiding arrest and returning to reputable business after the event. Four appendices feature a commander's log for the Orestes and reports and letters surrounding the battle and its aftermath. Illustrations include a line drawing of Orestes and photographs of St Mary's Churchyard, where William Allen was buried. 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 337

After darkness light : the memoirs of a boy seaman "After Darkness Light - the motto of the Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Aurora - is a book about the author's years of service, starting as a Boy Seaman at the age of 16 and eventually retiring as a Lieutenant R.N. in 1977 after an eventful career. The book details the tours of operations in which the author served - from the Arctic Circle to Operation Torch - from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and China. After a brief spell at home, Harry was sent to Korea, and on his return to the UK he became involved with the recruitment of young men (no longer called 'Boys' but 'Juniors') for training at HMS Ganges, many of whom went on to become successful in their careers."--Provided by the publisher. 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Jones, H

Unsere Marine im Welkrieg 1914-1918 Mantey, Eberhard 1928 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.45(43)

Catalogue of the exhibition With lead and line Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" 1974 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.09

Ship steward's handbook / by J.J. Trayner and E.C. Plumb. "This charming little handbook was first published in the 1950s as an aid for stewards in the Merchant Navy. With an emphasis on pride in one's work, and a thoroughness and dedication to the highest level of service, it sets out precise instructions on a steward's duties from table etiquette to cabin service."--Back cover. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 641

UK Silver Jubilee Cruise : 13 June - 21 July 1977. a. 1977]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82(73)"1977"

Fiddler's Green : the great squandering, 1921-2010 /Richard Woodman. The last volume of the series, covering the period from the post-World War 1 depression to the struggle to maintain supplies during World War 2, and the subsequent decline of British merchant shipping. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(42)

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