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Official programme of the Silver Jubilee review of the fleet by His Majesty the King, Spithead, July Gale & Polden. 1935. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 355.16(422.7)"1935"
States navies in the Second World War /Brian Lavery, foreword by Admiral the Rt Hon the Lord West of Spithead "This title, derived from George Bernard Shaw's comment that 'England and America are two countries divided by a common language,' is intended to suggest that, as with language, these two great navies had many common roots, but nontheless varied significantly in their outlook and practices. Brian Lavery's comparative and comprehensive study is the first to analyse the two forces, the largest navies the world has ever seen, and in doing so offers many original insights into how the naval war was fought and won."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/5
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
all the material transactions of the grand fleet and land forces from their first setting out from Spithead 1703 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.49"1702"(42:46)
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
Naval mutinies of 1797 : unity and perseverance /ed. by Ann Veronica Coats and Philip MacDougall. Coats, Ann Veronica. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133(42)"1797"
Admiral Lord Howe / by David Syrett ; foreword by James Bradford. "Howe's career spans Britain's 18th century naval wars, from the War of Austrian Succession to the Great Mutiny at Spithead in the French Revolutionary War. [...] In the Seven Years War Howe conducted Pitt's raids on the coast of France and led the British attack at Quiberon Bay. He initially sought a political solution to the American Revolution through negotiations with Benjamin Franklin. When war did erupt, Howe commanded the British squadron in America and subsequently conducted the Third Relief of Gibraltar. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of the Younger Pitt and in the French Revolutionary War, Howe commanded the Channel Fleet, defeated the French on the Glorious First of June, and negotiated the end of the Great Mutiny at Spithead." --Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HOWE
List of passengers / SS Rampuna /P&O. Passenger list for a channel cruise taken by the SS Ranpura, departing from London on 13th July 1935 and returning 18th July 1935, including the Royal Naval Review at Spithead, 15th July 1935. 1935. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O(083.89)"1935"
The King, Spithead, July 1935 1935. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.16(422.7)"1935"
East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India
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
Inspection of the Fleet : June 12, 1909. Includes general and timetabling information for invited guests to the Fleet Review and a plan of Spithead showing the vessels taking part. Also has a very brief history of Portsmouth Dockyard and a plan of the dockyard and Whale Island, with the route the visitors will take marked in red, and an indication of those ships in dock available to be viewed. 1909. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 355.16(422.7)"1909"
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
Naval families, war and duty in Britain, 1740-1820 / Ellen Gill A study of the competing commitments of family and service in the lives of eighteenth-century seamen. The author has drawn on correspondence from naval and military officers, ordinary sailors and their families, as welll as petitions to the Admiralty Board for support submitted by Royal Dockyard workers and the naval mutineers at Spithead and the Nore. The correspondence reveals the practicalities of parenthood and family life during wartime and also the importance of patronage and networks for progression. Correspondents featured include Philip Bowes Vere Broke and his wife Sarah Louisa (Loo), Matthew Flinders and his wife Ann, Thomas Woods Knollis and his wife Mary, George Perceval, Henry Jenkinson, William Waldegrave, Everard Home, William Edward Fiott, William Webley-Parry, Susanna Middleton, George and Elizabeth Bass, Sarah Sturgeon, Anna Walker and James and Elizabeth Whitworth. The text is supported by a detailed bibliography. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2
Master and madman : the surprising rise and disastrous fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN /by Peter Thomas & Nicholas Tracy. "Anthony Lockwood s story is at the heart of the Georgian Navy though the man himself has never taken centre stage in its history. His naval career described by himself as twenty five years incessant peregrination followed a somewhat erratic course but almost exactly spanned the period of the French wars and the War of 1812. Lockwood was commended for bravery in action against the French; was present at the Spithead Mutiny; shipwrecked and imprisoned in France; appointed master attendant of the naval yard at Bridgetown, Barbados, during the year the slave trade was abolished; and served as an hydrographer before beginning his three-year marine survey of Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. Against the odds he managed to finesse a treasury appointment as Surveyor General of New Brunswick and became the right hand man of the Governor, General Smyth. Deeply ingrained in his character, however, was a democratic determination that was out of step with the authoritarian character of the Navy and the aristocratic one of New Brunswick. His expectation of social justice verged on madness, and when he finally succumbed to lunacy it was in the defence of democracy. The turbulence of the times inspired Lockwood to stage a one-man coup d etat which ended with him being jailed and shipped back to London to live out his days as a pensioner and mental patient. Truly a dramatic rise and a tragic fall." 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LOCKWOOD
The first panoramas : visions of British imperialism /Denise Blake Oleksijczuk. "The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering two-story architectural construction inside which spectators gazed on a 10,000-square-foot painting, Barker's new technology was designed to create an impression of total verisimilitude for the observer. In the beautifully illustrated The First Panoramas, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panoramas' history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits: View of Edinburgh and the Adjacent Country from the Calton Hill (1788), View of London from the Roof of the Albion Mill (1791), View of the Grand Fleet Moored at Spithead (1793), and the two different versions of View of Constantinople (1801). In addition to the art itself, she examines the panoramas' intriguing descriptive keys--single-sheet diagrams that directed spectators to important sites in the representation, which evolved over time to give the observer greater perceptual control over the view. Using the surviving evidence, much of it never published before, on the early exhibitions of these massive installations, Oleksijczuk reconstructs the relationships between specific paintings, their accompanying printed guides, and the collective experiences of different audiences. She argues that by transporting its spectators to increasingly distant locations, first in the city and country and then in the world beyond Britain's borders, the panorama created a spatial and temporal disjunction between "here" and "there" that helped to forge new national and social identities"--Provided by publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(42)"17"
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