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The silent service's first hero : the first submariner to receive the medal of honor, /Ryan C Walker Walker, Ryan C. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Lost at sea in mysterious circumstances : vanishings and undiscovered shipwrecks /Richard M Jones. "When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have never been found, both famous and forgotten cases that have left an outward ripple of tragedy and mystique. Most people have heard of the Mary Celeste crew vanishing, but how many knew that this was not the last case of an entire crew going missing? What about the three Scottish lighthouse keepers who were never seen again? Or the world famous aviation pioneers who took flight to never return? This book will tell you that MH370 was not the first airliner to disappear over the sea, nor was the Bermuda Triangle actually the cause of so many disappearing ships. How could six airplanes disappear in one day? Why did a ship with over 300 people on board not send a single distress call? Which ships vanished and then later messages in a bottle suddenly turn up, not just once but two separate shipwrecks? Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances will cover all these and more as we reveal the stories of some of the most fascinating incidents above and below the waves."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.452

RHNS Averof : thunder in the Aegean /John C. Carr. "Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof had the distinction of being the flagship, and by far the biggest warship, of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armoured cruisers still in existence in the world. Originally intended for the Italian navy, the ship was bought by Greece and soon saw her first action in the Balkan Wars. In the Battle of Cape Helles (3 Dec 1912) Averof inflicted heavy casualties on the Turkish fleet, following it up with a victory in the Battle of Lemnos (5 Jan 1913). In the 1920s the ship underwent a major refit in France, which included modernizing her armament by replacing her obsolete torpedo tubes with more anti-aircraft guns. When the Germans overran Greece in World War Two, Averof made a dramatic escape to Alexandria, dodging attacks by the Luftwaffe, despite Admiralty orders that she be scuttled. In 1941 she escorted a convoy to India, being the first Greek vessel to enter Indian waters since the time of Alexander the Great, and continued to serve on escort duties throughout the war. In 1945 Averof was laid up on the island of Poros and neglected until 1984 when the Greek Admiralty decided to resurrect the ship. After years of slow refitting and preservation, the ship is now moored at Phaleron on the coast of Athens as a floating naval museum. As well as giving full technical specifications and operational history, including details of her restoration, John Carr draws on first-hand accounts of the officers and men to relate the long and remarkable career of this fine ship."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.3AVEROF

Carriers at war, 1939-1945 / Adrian Stewart. Stewart, Adrian. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.7"1939/1945"

The millennium maritime trade revolution, 700-1700 : how Asia lost maritime supremacy /Nick Collins. "Following the series' first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story begins where the first book ends, when following Roman Empire collapse, 7th-century European maritime trade almost ceased, creating population collapse and poverty; the Dark Ages. In 700 stuttering, hesitant recovery was evident with new ports but Viking and Muslim maritime raiding neutered recovery until the 11th century. In Asia by contrast, short and long-haul trade thrived and accelerated from east Africa and the Persian Gulf all the way to China, encouraging Southeast Asian state formation. The book tells the story of slowly rising, gradually accelerating European maritime trade, which until the 15th century was overshadowed by far more voluminous Asian trade in much larger, more complex ships traded by more sophisticated commercial entities, contributing to innovative tolerant wealth-creating maritime societies. In Europe, Mediterranean maritime trade made most progress from about 1000 to 1450,. But by 1700 north Europeans dominated Atlantic, American and Mediterranean trade and were penetrating sophisticated Asian maritime networks, a complete reversal. This book explains how and why and how destructive continental influences destroyed Asia's maritime supremacy. As in the first book, Nick Collins finds similar patterns; maritime inquisitiveness, invention, problem-solving and toleration and continental political suppression of those maritime traits, most dramatically in China, but destructively everywhere, allowing the millennium maritime trade revolution."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.094

Tracing your canal ancestors : a guide for family historians /Sue Wilkes. Practical handbook for sources of information on ancestors connected with canals in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.3:656.62

Battle on the seven seas : German cruiser battles, 1914-1918 /Gary Staff. Staff, Gary. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(43):623.822.3

Who sank the Titanic? : the final verdict /Robert J. Strange. Strange, Robert J. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

Pirate killers : the Royal Navy and the African pirates /Graham A. Thomas. History of the Royal Navy's suppression of African piracy from the seventeenth century to the date of publication. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(6):355.32(42)"16/20"

The battle of Copenhagen 1801 An account of the Battle of Copenhagen, and the events leading up to this engagement between the British fleet and Danish defenders. Originally published in Denmark in 1985, the author draws on sources from Denmark, Britain, Sweden, Russia, France and Prussia. Illustrations include diagrams showing the relative position of each fleet. The book is referenced and contains a bibliography. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1801"(42:489)

Cromwell's Wars at Sea / John Barratt Barratt, John 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1649/1660"(42)

H.M.S. Rodney / Iain Ballantyne. Ballantyne, Iain, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82RODNEY

War at sea : original German film footage = Krieg zur See : Filme, Bilder, Dokemente. Two original German films from the Second World War. [20--?]. • DVD • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(43)

Sea of death : original German film footage = Konvoi Krieg : Filme, Bilder, Dokemente. Two original German films from the Second World War. [20--?]. • DVD • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(43)

Fishing and fishermen : a guide for family historians /Martin Wilcox. Wilcox, Martin Howard 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.5:639.2

The battle of North Cape : the death ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943 /Angus Konstam. Konstam, Angus. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545"1943"

British submarines in the great war Gray, Edwyn 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)"1914/1918"

Fighting admirals of the Second World War / by David Wragg. Wragg, David W. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:355.33"1939/1945"

Bonaparte in Egypt Herold, J Christopher 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1798/1801"(62)

Nelson's hero: the story of his 'sea-daddy', Captain Willian Locker Sharman, Victor T 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NELSON

The story of HMS Revenge : a ship in time /Alexander Stilwell. Stilwell, Alexander. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82REVENGE

Taranto 1940 : a glorious episode Smithers, A J 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.1"1940"

Sea battles in the age of sail / James Grant ; ed. and intr. by Bob Carruthers. Grant, James. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"15/18"(42)

Killing the Bismarck : destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet /Iain Ballantyne. "In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans, to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat and mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battlecruiser Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed; an event that filled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally, the author takes us into the final showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler's fleet. This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called 'ordinary sailors' caught up in extraordinary events. Killing the Bismarck is an outstanding read, conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82BISMARCK

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