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The Royal Navy at Rosyth 1900-2000 / by Martin Rogers. Rogers, Martin. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

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

The Navigators and the merchant navy Villiers, Alan 1957 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 368.23

Royal Navy and nuclear weapons Moore, RIchard 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.454.8:359

History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863) / by Charles Rathbone Low. Low, Charles Rathbone, [2011] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49(54)

A naval ramble : travels with the Royal Navy 1919-1920 /Norman Beevers Beevers, Norman [19--] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Royal Navy frigate commanders 1793-1815 : data files /Tom Wareham CD-ROM containing three files: 1. All Captains. 2. Frigate dispositions in date order. 3. The frigate command and disposition data files. All Captains is an alphabetical listing by surname of "all officers recorded as having command of a frigate between 1793-1814" and includes the frigates commanded with approximate dates, the dates of the officers' promotions and to which rank, and the dates of death of the officers. Frigate dispositions is a table containing "a list of frigates available to the Royal Navy" in 1793-1814, their captains and where stationed. The frigate command and disposition data files sets out the contents, sources and limitations of the data, the purpose for which it was compiled, and abbreviations used.--Quotations are provided by the author. [2020] • CD-ROM • 1 copy available.

Aircraft salvage operation Mediterranean lessons and implications for the navy : executive summary of United States. Department of the Navy. CNO Technical Advisory Group 1967 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 627.76:355.353(73)

Handbook of air navigation for the Royal Navy Great Britain. Director of air warfare, Admiralty 1953 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.62

Zanzibar : slavery and the Royal Navy /Kevin Patience. Patience, Kevin 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(678.1):355.353(42)

The Royal Navy in the 1980s : volume 1 Beaver, Paul 1985 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"198"

Notes on the Royal Navy / 1950. Great Britain. Admiralty. Tactical and Staff Duties Division 1950 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 359(42)

Rope yarns from the old navy Goodrich, Caspar F 1931 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1861/1893"(73)

Soviet navy at war 1941-1945 Budzbon, Przemyslaw 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(47)"1941/1945"

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

The voyage to victory 1939-1945 : in tribute to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the Second World The British Sailors Society [1945?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61:940.545(42)

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

New crusade : the Royal Navy and British navalism, 1884-1914 /Bradley Cesario. "The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed navalism. As opposed to the broader cultural conception of British naval power, directed navalism consisted of a cooperative, symbiotic working relationship between three elite and self-selecting groups: serving naval officers (professionals), naval correspondents and editors working for national newspapers and periodicals (press), and members of Parliament who dealt with naval issues (politicians). Directed navalism meant agitation for a specific, achievable goal. It was the bedrock upon which the more popular and ultimately more successful cultural navalism of fleet reviews and music halls was built. Though directed navalism collapsed before the First World War, it was extraordinarily successful in its time, and it was a necessary precursor for the creation of a national discourse in which cultural navalism could thrive. Its rise and fall is the story of this book."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

The German Navy at war 1935-1945 Breyer, Siegfried 1989 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.821(43)"1939/1945"

Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy Campbell, A B 1956 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 359:398

Nelson's navy : English fighting ships 1793-1815 Davies, David 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Nelson

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)

Broadsides : caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815 /James Davey & Richard Johns. "Broadsides explores the history of the Royal Navy during the second half of the eighteenth centuries through the lens of contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812. Naval caricatures were utilised by the press to comment on events, simultaneously reminding the British public of the immediacy of war, whilst satirising the same Navy it was meant to be supporting. The thematic narrative explores topics from politics to invasion, whilst encompassing detailed analysis of the context and content of individual prints. It explores pivotal figures within the Navy and the feelings and apprehensions of the people back home and their perception of the former. The text, like the cariactures themselves, balances humour with the more serious nature of the content. The emergence of this popular new form of graphic satire culminated in the works of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, both here well represented, but a mass of other contemporary illustration makes this work a hugely important source book for those with any interest in the wars and history of this era."--From publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 7.049.2:355.49(42)

Pendant numbers of the Royal Navy : a record of the allocation of pendant numbers to the Royal Navy warships "Pendant (or pennant) numbers have been used by individual ships of the Royal Navy for purposes of identification for more than 100 years. They were also used in all the navies of the British Empire so that ships could be easily transferred from one navy to another without changing her number. They offer the simplest and clearest way to identify a ship, but until now there has been little in the way of consistent and accurate information, and certainly no single location where you can look up or research complete pendant numbers. The book is designed as an easy-to-use reference work and as such is, in the main, composed of alpha-numeric listings to enable the user to find and identify warships by reference to ship name and to identify specific pendant numbers assigned to that name; or by pendant number to identify specific vessels assigned that number at various times. It begins with an introduction and a brief history of visual signalling used by the Royal Navy before industrialisation, and explains how the large numbers of identical ships being built brought about the need to identify specific ships within fleets to aid signalling and tactical deployment. There follow chapters covering the pendant numbers of the surface fleet and submarines (which stopped using them once boats began to spend so little time on the surface), and then pedant numbers by ship name. A significant chapter lists the pendant numbers assigned to the British Pacific Fleet during the Pacific campaign of WWII together with an explanation of why numbers were assigned, and an examination of missing A27 series pendants known to have been carried by some vessels during the conflict. The BPF numbers have only recently come to light and there is still much that is not known but this section provides the most comprehensive study of available data at this time. There is also an appendix covering deck letters assigned to aviation capable ships. This is a genuinely new and significant reference book and is destined to become a major new aid for Royal Navy warship and auxiliary identification."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 359.3250941

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