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Queen Victoria : a photographic journey /Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross. "Built by Fincantieri and introduced into service in late 2007, Queen Victoria's reign is still quite young. She has been welcomed with open arms by the cruising public and is a floating celebrity with royal engagements, tandem Atlantic crossings and Gala World Cruises. The first in a new breed of Cunard ships, her design - based on the Vista Class hull of Carnival Corporation - is strengthened and enhanced to give her the ability to cross the North Atlantic Ocean. This hybrid represents a new era for the 170-year-old Cunard Line, introducing one of the most luxurious ships to carry the Golden Lion. Queen Victoria: A Photographic Journey takes the reader on the journey of a lifetime through the public rooms of this stately ship. From her exquisite Grand Lobby to her Royal Court Theatre, each room is described in light narrative with complementing photographs, allowing the reader to enjoy an on-board experience from the comfort of their living room! Written by two passionate ocean liner and cruise fans, this book is beautifully illustrated with over 200 colour photographs, creating a lovely lasting memento of Cunard's Queen Victoria."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123QUEEN VICTORIA

Architectural photoreproductions : a manual for identification and care /Elâeonore Kissel & Erin Vigneau. "A manual for identifying and preserving architectural photoreproductions. Provides a flowchart for identification through visual examination. Includes sections on terminology, history and use of the printing process, manufacture, degradation, exhibition, and storage. Five appendices, a bibliography, and an index"--Provided by publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 720.28/4

Oceans odyssey 4 : pottery from the Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida : a merchant vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet /edited by Greg Stemm, Sean Kingsley & Ellen Gerth. "The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pipes. Identified as the Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated 117-ton Buen Jesâus y Nuestra Seänora del Rosario, the ship's Seville dominated tablewares are a revealing index of unchanged cultural tastes and continued production at the end of Spain's Golden Age. For cooking the crew relied on Afro-Caribbean colonoware, possibly the first recorded archaeological evidence of maritime slavery in the Americas fleets. Two tin-glazed plates painted with papal coat of arms--the Keys of Heaven and triple crown--may have been used by Spain-bound clergymen from the newly formed Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith"--Provided by publisher. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 946/.04

Norway pilot. West coast of Norway from Lindesnes to Stadlandet. Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Beyond the battlefield : women artists of the two World Wars /Catherine Speck. "Beyond the Battlefield provides a fascinating account of female creativity in America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the turbulent era of twentieth-century conflict. This book looks at women artists' unique artistic portrayal of war at the front lines, as well as their documentation of everyday life on the home front. Exploring high-profile artists such as the American photographer Lee Miller and her work with British Vogue, this book also recounts the experiences of the First World War nurses, voluntary aides and ambulance drivers who found time to create astonishing art while working in the middle of war zones. While some women could bravely work on the front line, other female artists felt disempowered by their distance from actual warfare. Spurred by the constant fear of attack, the sorrow of innocent lives destroyed, the mass murders of people in concentration camps and the unimaginable aftermath of the A-bomb attacks on Japan, female artists created highly charged, emotional responses to the threats, sufferings and horrors of war. The two world wars of the twentieth century changed the world utterly, on a scale never seen before or since. In this book, Catherine Speck provides an insightful and meditative examination of visual responses to this historical period from the perspective of women in the Allied countries. Generously illustrated, Beyond the Battlefield delivers a distinctly female perspective on the art produced during the period that will appeal to readers interested in the history of art, war history and cultural studies."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044-055.2

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II /the diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M., from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepysian library ; with a life and notes by Richard lord Braybrooke. Pepys, Samuel, 1854. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Preservation and conservation : a guide to policy and practices in the preservation of archives /Chris Pickford, Jonathan Rhys-Lewis, Jerry Weber. Pickford, Chris. 1997. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.25:65

Warships from the golden age of steam : an illustrated guide to great warships from 1860 to 1945 /David Ross "The great era of the steam warship was from the mid-1860s to the mid-1940s - an 80-year period in which a huge variety of large ships was built, ever-greater in size, fire-power, and technical sophistication. Capital ships were the most expensive and destructive weaponry prior to the atomic bomb, and their development can be traced decade by decade. Arranged in chronological order, Warships from the Golden Age of Steam provides concise coverage of the most famous warships of the period, including HMS Devastation, the first seagoing turreted ship; the Chinese Ting Yuen, sunk at the Battle of Wei-Hai-Wei in 1894; Mikasa and Retvizan, which fought each other at the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904; HMS Indomitable, Nassau, and HMS Lion, which all fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916; HMS Prince of Wales, which took part in the hunt for the Bismarck, and was eventually sunk by Japanese air attack off the coast of Malaya in December 1941; and the Tirpitz, which remained a constant threat to Allied shipping in the North Atlantic until it was sunk by aerial bombers in a Norwegian fjord in late 1944. Filled with colourful artworks, expertly-written background text, and useful specifications of 100 warships, Warships from the Golden Age of Steam is a visually lavish guide to major fighting ships from 1860 to 1945."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(100)"1860/1945"

Printed maps of the British Isles 1650-1750 Shirley, Rodney W 1988 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.43(42):016

In the heart of the sea Philbrick, Nathaniel 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12Essex

Port of Tilbury in the 60s and 70s / Campbell McCutcheon. "The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River Thames down river to Tilbury and Harwich. There was a managed closure of the dock system west of Tilbury and between the early 1970s and 1980s, the Surrey Commercial, India & Millwall Docks and the Royal Docks all closed down. Down river, Tilbury was booming still, with expansion to cater for container ships and a still-burgeoning passenger traffic from the Tilbury Landing Stage. Tilbury embraced containerisation, which had been the death knell of the upper docks, and has continued to expand. The Landing Stage was a busy place to spot passenger ships, from Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, the USSR and Britain itself. Nowadays, the Port of London, comprising primarily Tilbury and Harwich docks, is still Britain's second busiest cargo port. Campbell McCutcheon takes us on a tour of the docks in Tilbury, and the Landing Stage, and shows us the ships that called in the days immediately prior to the great containerisation boom of the 1970s and 1980s. The previously unpublished images show Tilbury at its zenith, and the transition from passenger travel to cruising, and from general cargo shipping to container ships, as well as the loss of the ferries that once called regularly at the port from Sweden, the Netherlands and France."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(426.7)

Knights of the sea : the true story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812 /David Hanna. On a September day in 1813, as the Age of Fighting Sail was coming to an end, two maritime warriors faced each other in the waters off Pemaquid Point, Maine. Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty's brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor over life and death, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. The battle lasted less than an hour, and its outcome was uncertain, but when the cannon smoke cleared, the U.S. Navy's position in the war had changed. Historian David Hanna brings to life a lost era--a time when sailing vessels exchanged broadsides and naval officers considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes.--From publisher description. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1812"(42:73)

The Solent and the southern waters : a casual exploration of the seaways about the Isle of Wight and of the creeks and inlets from Chichester to Poole /by Herbert Alker Tripp "The third of three books from the 1920s by Herbert (later Sir Herbert) Alker Tripp give us a wonderful feel for the waters he explores (in an age still with much working sail), and their place in the last thousand years or so of English history. Wonderfully engaging writing, with dozens of masterful pen drawings and many miniature paintings in monochrome. With beautiful typography, and a boldly spacious layout which gives both words and drawings room to breathe on their cream bookwove paper."--Provided by the publisher. 1973. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144(422.7)

Cosmigraphics : picturing space through time /Michael Benson. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, Benson chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity's ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself. He shows how the invention of the telescope inspired visions of unimaginably distant places and explains why today we turn to supercomputer simulations to reveal deeper truths about space-time. 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.10222

The English face : with 145 illustrations in photogravure /by David Piper Piper, David. [1957] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 704.942

Loch class frigates / by Patrick Boniface "The Loch class was to prove to be amongst the best A/S frigates produced by Great Britain during the war, although most of the class only entered service from 1944 onwards. 110 ships were projected, but with the end of the war only 28 were completed as such. This volume records the design and service record of these vessels."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.6

The origins of the telescope / edited by Albert Van Helden ... [et. al.]. "The origins of the telescope have been debated since the instrument's appearance in the Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride has led local dignitaries, popular writers, and scholars to present sharply divergent histories over the years, crediting a variety of people and places with the invention. Drawing on newly discovered documents, re-examined records, and tests of early lenses and telescopes, this fascinating study proposes a new and convincing account of the origins of the instrument that changed mankind's vision of the universe."--Publisher's description. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.2

Peeps into Pepys. Pepys, Samuel, 1913. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

A tale of two ports : London and Southampton /John Hovey ; with a foreword by Sir Ronald Swayne. Hovey, John. 1990. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(421:422.7)

Turkey and the Crimean War : a narrative of historical events /by Aldolphus Slade Slade, Adolphus [20--?] • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The Japanese South Polar Expedition, 1910-12 : a record of Antarctica /compiled and edited by the Shirase Antarctic Expedition Supporters' Association ; translated into English by Lara Dagnell and Hilary Shibata. This publication is a translation from the original Japanese, a compilation of eyewitness accounts of the first exploration of the Antarctic by the Japanese from 1910 to 1912, led by army lieutenant Nobu Shirase. The expedition's small ship, Kainan-maru, sailed from Tokyo on Nov. 29, 1910, but met with bad weather most of the way, to the point that the ship could not land when it reached the coast of Victoria Land, forcing the crew to head for Australia to regroup. The expedition took off again the next season and, this time, was able to reach Antarctica. Indeed, at the Great Ice Barrier, they met up with Roald Amundsen's ship, Fram, which was waiting for the return of its South Pole party (p. [3] of the plates has an ill. showing both vessels moored together there). While in Antarctica, the Shirase party was able to explore the lower slopes of the Alexandra Range in King Edward VII Land and, though they never reached the Pole, they accomplished many of their other goals. The expedition returned to Japan on June 12, 1912 to great acclaim. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1910/1912"

U-boat crews, 1914-45 / text by Gordon Williamson ; colour plates by Darko Pavlovic. Williamson, Gordon, 1995 (1998 printing). • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.14(43)"1914/1945"

The sinking of the Lusitania : unravelling the mysteries /Patrick O'Sullivan. "In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania, then the world's fastest liner, departed from New York. Seven days later she was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives. Suspected by the Germans of carrying clandestine munitions to Britain, the great ship steamed into a fatal encounter with the German submarine U-20. One of the largest naval disasters in history, it was a factor in bringing America into the First World War. Patrick O'Sullivan presents the complete story of the Lusitania affair, exploring the cover-ups and the theories on what caused the baffling second explosion. His meticulous research reveals the most compelling explanation to date. This is a fascinating account of one of the First World War's most reported-on atrocities."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3LUSITANIA

The memoirs of Admiral H Kent Hewitt Hewitt, H Kent 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(73)

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