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Safeguarding the nation : the story of the modern Royal Navy /John Roberts. Roberts, John Arthur, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1957/2009"

The Royal Navy and anti-submarine warfare, 1917-49 / Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones. Llewellyn-Jones, Malcolm 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.983(42)"1917/1949"

Ministry of Defence (Navy). 1995. Great Britain. Ministry of Defence (Navy) 1995 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61.052

Aircraft carriers of the United States Navy : rare photographs from wartime archives. "In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger and capable carriers in 1927 with five more being built prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor including three large Yorktown class. To take the offensive against the Japanese Navy, the American Congress funded by far the largest carrier building programme in history based on the Essex class, a larger version of the pre-war Yorktown vessels. Of the twenty-six ordered, fourteen were commissioned in time to see Second World War service. These were joined by many smaller classes of carriers, including light carriers and escort carriers. Post-war ever larger and more capable carriers were commissioned. Since 1975, when the first of a fleet of ten nuclear-powered Nimitz class carriers was commissioned, they have epitomized United States superpower status and worldwide power projection. These are due to be replaced in the decades to come with the even more sophisticated nuclear-powered Gerald R. Ford class. Compiled and written by Michael Green, Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy contains superb images of all the different types of classes of carriers employed by the US Navy since 1922. These and its highly informative text and captions give the reader a broad overview of this fascinating subject."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.7(73)"19"

The Brazilian navy : defending our resources and caring for our people Centro de Communicacao Social da Marinha 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.353(81)

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

Figureheads of the Royal Navy / David Pulvertaft. Pulvertaft, David 2011. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 745.51(26):355.353(42)

The British Navy and the American Revolution Tilley, John A 1987 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"1775/1781"(73)

Men of war : courage under fire in the nineteenth-century navy /David Crane. Crane, David, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0092241

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)

Sailors on the rocks : famous Royal Navy shipwrecks /Peter C. Smith. "For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did "Rule the Waves", in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ships more often than not emerged victorious from combat. One French Admiral was to generously acknowledge that the Royal Navy possessed, "a tradition of victory". And yet, in every other way, the waves were never ruled by any maritime power. Great fleets might wax and wane, ships grow ever more complex and powerful, but the sea, the eternally cruel sea, was always to have the final say. This book highlights a sample array of disasters, occurring when men-of-war faced the ultimate test of the elements and lost. Among such tragedies are the wrecking of the Coronation in 1691, the destruction of the Winchester in 1695 and the great storm of 1703, along with a host of shipwrecks on far-flung shores from New Zealand to Nova Scotia, and from Florida to South Africa. Some of the featured stories are already famous, like that of the Birkenhead. Others are lesser-known, like the sister cruisers Raleigh and Effingham, separated by many years. More recently, steam power replaced the uncertainties of sail, but even so losses continued, from little destroyers in both world wars (Narborough, Opal and Sturdy among them) through great battleships like Montagu. Even modern warships equipped with every modern navigational device come to grief; witness the strange affair of the frigate Nottingham, or the humiliating grounding of the nuclear 'wonder' submarine Astute on Skye in 2010. This unique book presents a fascinating insight into the malevolent power of the sea and storms over man's creation and dominion, chronicling some of the most dramatic shipwrecks ever to have occurred in our seas."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3:355.49(42)

Maritime war in the 21st century : the medium and small navy perspective Wilson, David 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359"20"

The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic age : senior service, 1800-1815 /Mark Jessop. "In 1801 the newly forged United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland commenced life at war with France and her allies and remained so until 1815. After 1812 she had to shoulder the extra burden of a war against the United States of America. With conflict on multiple fronts, hardships continued to be inflicted at home. Trade was made precarious. People became bone-weary of hostilities and the threat of invasion ran high. Napoleon Bonaparte was no ordinary opponent, and the United States navy showed the world the worth of her ships, but what stood in their way was the Royal Navy. Despite notable losses, after the victory of Trafalgar in 1805 she dominated the seas. Although not the only means, her warships were the nation's first line of defence that helped keep British shores safe. As the era ended it was obvious the navy had to change. Steam began to alter perspectives with new opportunities. From the vantage point of later decades it could be seen what the Royal Navy had once been and still was. A naval superpower. Britain's oldest continual military force. The senior service."--Provided by the publisher. 24 cm • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2745

Lame captains and left-handed admirals : amputee officers in Nelson's Navy /Teresa Michals. "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy focuses on the lives and careers of three amputee officers: Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon. Bringing together military disability and the social history of the Royal Navy, this book examines how active-duty amputee officers attended to the difference between ideals of masculinity and military heroism, and the realities of military service"--Provided by publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2/745092241

: a history of signalling in the Royal Navy Kent, Barrie 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.72(42)"19"

The Royal New Zealand Navy / Burgess, Michael (comp). 1981. Burgess, Michael (comp) 1981 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(931)(084.12)

The United States navy in the Pacific 1897-1909 Braisted, William Reynolds 1958 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1897/1909"(265/266)

Destroyers of the Royal Navy from 1926 : part 1 Kinghorn, Douglas 1968? • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.1(42)"192/194"

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