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Up top : the Royal Australian Navy and southeast Asian conflicts 1955-1972 Grey, Jeffrey 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1955/1972"(94:58)

To rule the waves: how the British Navy shaped the modern world Herman, Arthur 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44

How the navy won the war : the real instrument of victory 1914-1918 /Jim Ring ; foreword by Rear Admiral "Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele. These epics of destruction and futility are such bywords for the First World War that - Jutland apart - we forget the role played by sea power in the war to end war. The great global conflict is too often narrowed to the fields of Flanders and the plains of Picardy. Now, award-winning biographer and naval historian Jim Ring has revisited the story to redress the balance. He emphasises how Great Britain, 'the great Amphibian' in Churchill's words, was able to move its army anywhere in the world. The Navy's very existence deterred any attempt at invasion, and its great ships kept the German High Sea fleet at bay; lastly, the Navy gradually starved the Kaiser's nation of war materiel and food. Choosing fourteen turning-points of the war, he explores the relative contributions made by land and sea power to the eventual outcome of the conflict in 1918. For example, the abandonment of the Imperial German Navy's ambition for a decisive naval surface battle was at least as important as Jutland itself, while Lloyd George's imposition of the convoy system on, it must be said, a reluctant Admiralty turned the battle against the U-boats; the mine and the submarine altered the course of war as much or more so than the tank. The book is also a study of character as well as of action, of decision-making as much as the sweep of battle, and his critique of the warlords of both the Entente and the Central Powers - of Ludendorff and Churchill, of Haig, Kitchener and Foch, of Fisher, Jellicoe, Beatty and Scheer - is refreshing, his conclusions surprising. 'The Great War was fought on land but won at sea.' Not so, says Ring, but much closer to the truth than we tend to believe. A century after the catastrophic events of the Great War, in the midst of a time at which the country is once again pondering its identity, it is worth reciting the words of John Keegan: 'No Briton of my generation, raised on food fought through the U-boat packs in the battle of the Atlantic can ever ignore the narrowness of the margin by which sea power separates survival from starvation in the islands he inhabits.' The Royal Navy was key to the survival of Great Britain and to eventual victory in 1918. Written with passion and verve, this book offers a very different way of looking at the conflict - if you think you understand the Great War, think again."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42)

A list of surgeons belonging to the Royal Navy, with the date of their first warrants, by which they Great Britain. Royal Navy 1778 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:359.61"1778"(083.812)

Day by day summary of the history of the Royal Navy 1977 • BOOK • 7 copies available. 930.24:355.49(42)

Navy. Water-tube boilers : report on further trials of HMS Hyacinth and HMS Minerva (with diagrams) Great Britain. Parliament 1903 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 621.18

Tracing your merchant navy ancestors / by Simon Wills. Simon Wills's concise and informative historical guide takes the reader and researcher through the fascinating story of Britain's merchant service, and he shows you how to trace individual men and women and gain an insight into their lives. In a series of short, information-packed chapters he explains the expansion of Britain's global maritime trade and the fleets of merchant ships that sustained it in peace and war. This practical handbook will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is keen to discover for themselves the secrets of our maritime past and of the crewmembers and ships that were part of it. 2012. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 929.3

A code of signals for the use of the mercantile navy Walker, B J 1841 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:627.724(100)"1841"

The King's navy : its story in word and picture /Clarence Winchester. Winchester, Clarence [ca1939]. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 355.353(42)"1939"

ABC of the Royal Navy : a little handbook of naval knowledge ... Russell, Herbert (comp) 1909 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.353(42)

With the Royal Navy in war and peace : o'er the dark blue sea /by B.B. "The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves. Safe anchorages spanned the globe and faster, better armoured ships with revolutionary weaponry were coming into service. After serving as a midshipman in The Great War, Schofield qualified as a navigator and interpreter in French and Italian. At the outbreak of The Second World War he was Naval Attachâe in The Hague and Brussels before becoming Director of Trade Division (Convoys) during the critical years 1941-1943. While commanding the battleship King George V he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in August 1945. O'er The Dark Blue Sea is a superbly written memoir offering a fascinating insight into a bygone era. Anyone with more than a passing interest in British naval history will enjoy the Author?s graphic yet modest account of an exceptional career."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SCHOFIELD

Ships of oak, guns of iron : the War of 1812 and the forging of the American navy /Ronald D. Utt. "During the War of 1812, America's tiny fleet took on the mightiest naval power on earth, besting the British in a string of victories that stunned both nations. Ronald Utt not only sheds new light on the naval battles of the War of 1812, but tells the story of the War of 1812 through the portraits of famous American war heroes."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)

HMVS Cerberus : battleship to breakwater : historic iron Monitor warship of the Victorian Navy Herd, R J 1986 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.821.2

The gumboot navy : memories of the men who served in the Fisherman's Reserve Popp, Carol 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.16(71)

British bravery or tars triumphant : images of the British navy in nautical melodrama Davis, Jim 1988 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49(42):820-23

A history of the French Navy from its beginnings to the present day Jenkins, E H 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(44)

Admirals of the British navy : portraits in colours ... with introduction and biographical notes Dodd, Francis 1917 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 7.041.5

The pen and ink sailor : Charles Middleton and the King's Navy 1778-1813 Talbott, John E 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1778/1813"

Merchant ship construction : especially written for the merchant navy /by H. J. Pursey. Pursey, H J 1942, 1944 reprint. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12

The British Navy in adversity : a study of the War of American Independence James, W M 1926 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.03

Paul Jones : founder of the American Navy : a history / Buell, Augustus C. 1901. Buell, Augustus C 1901 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"17"(73)

The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740-1820 : traders and those who served Green, Geoffrey L 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359(42)(=924)

Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War / Mark Stille; illustrated by Paul Wright. In 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy had been built up from nothing in just two decades. When it destroyed Russia's battle fleet in the battle of Tsushima, it marked Japan's emergence as a major naval power - and sparked a revolution in naval technology. The catastrophic results of the Russo-Japanese War, the only clash of pre-dreadnoughts in history, caused the world to rethink naval technology, and set the stage for the dreadnought race of the next decade. With extensive tables and carefully researched new artwork, this book explains in concise detail the IJN's fleet of 1904-1905, from its battleships and armored cruisers to the torpedo boats that launched "the first great torpedo attack in history," and how these warships performed in the devastating battles agains the Russian fleet. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1904/1905"(5-012)

A brief history of the Royal Navy : its people, places and pets! /Michael W. Williams. Williams, Michael W. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49(42)

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