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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)

Catalogue of old English silver and silver-gilt presentation plate, enamelled gold boxes, gold sword Christie, Manson & Woods. 1895. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Hood

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

Cockleshell commando : the memoirs of Bill Sparks D.S.M Sparks, Bill 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.548.1(447.1)"1942"

Martello towers worldwide / Bill Clements. Clements, W. H.-(William Holliwell), 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.109

Axis warships : as seen on photos from allied intelligence files /Roy M. Stanley. Stanley, Roy M. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(43+52+45)"1939/1945"

The fight for the skies : original German film footage = Jèager am Himmel : Filme, Bilder, Dokemente. Two original German films from the Second World War. [20--?]. • DVD • 1 copy available. 940.544(43)

Cox's navy : salvaging the German high seas fleet at scapa flow 1924 - 1931 / Tony Booth Booth, Tony • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1919"(411.2)

In the shadow of Nelson / Denis Orde. Orde, Denis. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92COLLINGWOOD

The history of the British 'U' class submarine / Derek Waters. Walters, Derek. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(42)

Pirate hunter : the life of Captain Woodes Rogers /Graham A. Thomas. Thomas, Graham A. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1:92ROGERS

Battle of the Baltic : the wars 1918-1945 /Robert Jackson. Jackson, Robert, 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1918/1945"(474)

Ian Fleming's secret war / by Craig Cabell. Cabell, Craig. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.402

Fighting flotilla : RN Laforey class destroyers in WW2 /Peter C. Smith. Smith, Peter Charles, 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(42)

Seven seas, nine lives : a Royal Navy officer's story of valour : Captain A. W. F. Sutton CBE DSC* Pike, Richard, 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SUTTON

Nelson's Trafalgar captains and their battles : a biographical and historical dictionary /T. A. Heathcote Heathcote, T. A. 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)-051

Gunboat command : the life of 'Hitch', Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens, DSO*, DSC** RNVR, 1909-1943 /Antony Hichens. Hichens, Antony. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HICHENS

Key figures aboard RMS Titanic : superstars and scapegoats /Anthony Nicholas. "Titanic. The Marilyn Monroe of ocean liners. A sleek, sultry beauty, taken out way before her time. A kind of 21st century Flying Dutchman, with interiors by Cesar Ritz, still striving to achieve the waters of a port she can never reach. Fuelled by a subtle mixture of horror, fascination and sheer, fatal glamour, she surges heedlessly across the still, starlit calm of our collective subconscious, hell bent on achieving her chilling, near midnight rendezvous with her killer. Titanic is a brilliantly lit stage, carrying her cast of exotic, terminally endangered extras toward an abyss at once both unfathomable and inconceivable. Here's where any similarity with any other tome about the Titanic ends. For the first time ever, a succession of key characters and groups of individuals come to the fore. Centre stage, over seventeen chapters, we meet the men whose decisions, actions and omissions combined like some slow burning powder trail to trigger a final, cataclysmic conclusion; the foundering, in mid Atlantic, of the biggest moving object ever seen on the face of the planet. One by one, a series of individuals take a bow. Seemingly omnipotent owners and hugely experienced ship's officers. Engineers and designers. Would be rescuers and embattled wireless operators. We meet them as individuals, not supermen. Their histories, backgrounds and life experiences are assessed for the first time ever, putting their actions on the night that Titanic sank into a context, a light as stark as that of the distress rockets, arcing into the sky?"--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.9163/

Why the Titanic was doomed : a disaster of circumstance /Bryan Jackson. "Titanic - the most magnificent ocean liner of her time - was doomed and destined for disaster before she ever left the docks at Southampton. Doomed by her owner, doomed by her designers, doomed by the men who sailed her - doomed even by her sister ship. Author Bryan Jackson presents a new and unique look at the many circumstances that came together the night of April 14, 1912 to claim over 1,500 lives and leave Titanic lying in 12,000 feet of water on the bottom of the North Atlantic. Each chapter details how seemingly disconnected pieces served to create a tragedy that remains as significant today as it was over a century ago. They include flawed design decisions, outdated regulations, substandard materials, weather conditions, lookouts left blinded and warnings never acted upon. Perhaps the most fascinating piece is a look at how events involving sister ship Olympic would result in Titanic being placed directly on course to meet the iceberg which would sink her. In addition, Jackson offers a look at the circumstances that saved some from perishing in the tragedy. They range from the rich and famous - to family members traveling in third-class who managed to escape the sinking while the majority of the passengers sailing in those accommodations would not survive. Also provided is a comprehensive Titanic timeline which details the events which lead to her construction - and eventual destruction."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.9163/4

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