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Proceedings on board His Majesty's ship Defiance, at Spithead : from 15th to the 23rd of April 1797 HMS Defiance ship's company • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.133(422.3)"1797"

Catastrophe at Spithead : the sinking of the Royal George. "In one of the most sensational and perplexing incidents in naval history, Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, a much-voyaged veteran and outstanding officer, drowned along with more than 800 crew and many civilian visitors, male and female, on a calm summer's morning and in a familiar anchorage. This new work examines that tragedy - the sudden capsizing at Spithead on 29 August 1782 of the mighty flagship HMS Royal George. This is the first comprehensive account of the calamity and is based on a wide variety of contemporary sources, including reports by survivors and eyewitnesses. It discusses such issues as how and why she sank; on whom, if anyone, the blame should fall; the number and nature of the casualties; and the disaster's impact on the nation's psyche, including its treatment in literature. In its pages are encountered, by name and fate, some of the hitherto anonymous seamen who were on the ship and who lived to become the last remaining survivors; these included the only woman to be picked up alive, out of perhaps 300 who were on board. As well as describing the sinking, the book provides information never before uncovered on the life and career of Kempenfelt, whose flagship Royal George was, ranging from his hitherto unknown maternal ancestry (through which it is shown that he was related to his great contemporary, Admiral Rodney) to accounts of his whereabouts when the ship sank. These call into question the now-set-in-stone scenario in William Cowper's famous poem, which depicts Kempenfelt writing in his cabin when she foundered. Although the Royal George has receded from national memory in recent years, the tragedy was for a long time front and centre in representations of British naval culture, and this absorbing account - part detective story, part historical narrative - will bring to a new audience an extraordinary tale from the heyday of Britain's naval power."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ROYAL GEORGE:094

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to 1843 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to 1842 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

The means used to eradicate a malignant fever which raged on board His Majesty's ship Brunswick, at Spithead Curtis, Roger, Sir 1791? • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:616.91

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to 1840 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to 1841 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : including Tracey's attempt to Durham, C P H, Sir 1845 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:656.61.085.3Royal George

Domestic medicine : or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines /by William Buchan. Buchan, William 1779. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 613:094

Lost at sea : true stories of disaster The author provides accounts of shipping disasters arising from a wide range of circumstances and involving many different types of ship. Those featured include the sinking of HMS Royal George in 1782 and the Empress of Ireland in 1914 and losses arising from fire on board, such as the Lakonia in 1963 and the Morro Castle in 1934. Other accounts cover Shackleton's Endurance and the loss of ships reportedly carrying treasure such as the Grosvenor in 1782, the Lutine in 1799, the Tobermory Galleon wrecked as part of the Spanish Armada fleet in 1588 and HMS Hampshire in 1916. The author also explores losses arising from significant mutinies at sea including those at Spithead and The Nore in 1797, the Kiel and Black Sea mutinies in 1918 and 1919 respectively and the Invergordon mutiny in 1931. Finally, the author considers losses arising from faulty design focusing on the stories of HMS Captain, HMS Victoria and the Navy K class of submarine. 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3

1914 : the First World War at sea in photographs /Phil Carradice. "The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy. He wanted to equal or better the fleet of Britain, and set about a huge building programme of warships. By 1914, tensions in Europe were at a breaking point and, in August, erupted into what would become the first truly global conflict. From almost the first day of the war, as merchant ships scuttled to safe havens, the war at sea saw ship against ship and submarine against ship. Hastily converted merchantmen became auxiliary cruisers, fitted with guns and ready for action. August saw the loss of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, one of Germany's crack ocean liners, off the coast of Africa; October, the loss of Britain's dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious to a mine; and December saw the Battle of the Falklands and a German attack on the coastal towns of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool. Submarines quickly became a menace in the Mediterranean, English Channel and North Sea, slowly beginning to starve Britain into submission. In August, it was thought the war would be over by Christmas; by December everyone knew they were in for a long, hard slog. The naval war would be one of attrition and one that would ultimately lead to the surrender of Germany's navy in 1918."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42)"1914"

Papers and correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth / edited by John D. Grainger. "Sir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in 1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807. He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet, displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor of Newfoundland completed his career."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.3/32092

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