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Courierspeak : a phrase book for couriers of museum objects Rose, Cordelia 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.5(038)

Murder on the middle passage : the trial of Captain Kimber /Nicholas Rogers. "On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon after, Kimber was indicted for murder - but in a trial lasting just under five hours, he was found not guilty. This book is a micro-history of this important trial, reconstructing it from accounts of what was said in court and setting it in the context of pro- and anti-slavery movements. Rogers considers contemporary questions of culpability, the use and abuse of evidence, and why Kimber was criminally indicted for murder at a time when kidnapped Africans were generally regarded as 'cargo'. Importantly, the book also looks at the role of sailors in the abolition debate: both in bringing the horrors of the slave trade to public notice and as straw-men for slavery advocates, who excused the treatment of enslaved people by comparing it to punishments meted out to sailors and soldiers. The final chapter discusses the ways this incident has been used by African-American writers interested in recreating the trauma of the Middle Passage and addresses the question of whether the slave-trade archive can adequately recover the experience of being enslaved."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. KD372.K56

Sino-French trade at Canton, 1698-1842 / Susan E. Schopp. "Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698-1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France's role in that trade. France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European East India companies. Yet the nation is woefully underrepresented in Canton trade scholarship. Susan E. Schopp rescues the French from the sidelines, showing that they exerted a presence that, though closely watched by their rivals, is today largely unrecognized. Their contributions were diverse, ranging from finding new sea routes to inspiring the renovation of hong faðcades. Consequently, to ignore the French, or to dismiss them as simply "also-rans," results in a skewed perception of the Canton system. Schopp also demonstrates that while the most distinctive aspect of the French model of company trade was the dominant role of the state -- indeed, the French East India Company has been memorably described as a "Versailles of trade" -- this did not rule out a place for legitimate, and sometimes surprising, participation by the private sector. On the contrary: France's commercial relations with China were inaugurated by private traders, and the popularity of the Canton trade spurred the eventual demise of the company model. Backed up by extensive archival work, Schopp's work demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the Sino-European trade, and her book reveals an unparalleled passion for the role of seamanship in history."--Provided by the publisher. [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.094405109033

The age of Charles I: painting in England, 1620-1649: [catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, 15 November 1972 - 14 January 1973]. Millar, Oliver, 1972. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.034(42)6

Beyond Endurance : an epic of Whitehall and the South Atlantic conflict /by Nicholas Barker ; with a foreword by Sir Rex Hunt. Barker, Nicholas 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.030941

A brief history and study of the Irish merchant ship, "Robert and Alice" / researched, compiled and written between 1976 and 2017 by Gordon Ralph Schell. Schell, Gordon Ralph, [2017] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 929.2

Ataques britâanicos contra las Islas Canarias en el siglo XVIII : la visiâon britâanicaCarlos Fernando Hernâandez Bento. Hernâandez Bento, Carlos Fernando [201-?] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(460.41)"17"

Navigating by the Southern Cross : a history of the European discovery and exploration of Australia /Kenneth Morgan. "In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European interests in the Australian continent, from initial speculations about the 'Great Southern Land' to the major hydrographic expeditions of the 19th century. In particular, he analyses the early crossings of the Dutch in the 17th century, the exploits of English 'buccaneer adventurer' William Dampier, the famous voyages of James Cook and Matthew Flinders, and the little-known French annexation of Australia in 1772. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial, and maritime history."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 944.01

Scott of the Antarctic : a life of courage and tragedy in the extreme South /David Crane. A biography of Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). Following Huntford's critical account of Scott's life, this author has revisited primary sources to reassess Scott's life, naval career and achievements. Extracts from Scott's letters and diaries are used throughout the narrative. The author seeks to deal fairly with Scott's achievements as well as the difficult aspects of his character and describes the context of his early life, naval background and his polar expeditions on the Discovery and Terra Nova. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SCOTT, ROBERT FALCON

An African's life : the life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797 /James Walvin. A biography of Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), known as Gustavus Vassa for much of his life. Enslaved at the age of about eleven, Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity, eventually buying his freedom in 1766. Thereafter, much of his life was spent in London and at sea on British ships. He was an early campaigner against the slave trade, was employed by the British Government as an agent in their efforts to ship the black poor from London to Sierra Leone and was a leading member of the Sons of Africa, a campaigning group of educated black Londoners. Frequently called on as a spokesman for the black community, Equiano became a public figure in his own lifetime, publishing his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, in 1789 which became one of the first examples of published writing by an African writer to be widely read. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92EQUIANO

British traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820 : 'at home in the Eastern Seas' /W. G. Miller. "This book provides an in-depth analysis of the British private traders who engaged in the intra-Asian trade, known to contemporaries as the "country trade", between 1770 and 1820, providing much detail on who the traders were, how they conducted their operations, and how they interacted with indigenous societies in a complex and very volatile region. It examines their relations with East India Company, and their moves beyond the Company's orbit to open up independently new spheres of British commercial, political, and imperial influence. It discusses their social and political interaction with Malays, their good understanding of local societies, their use of the Malay language, their adoption of local practices and procedures, and their gathering of many forms of useful knowledge, all of which underpinned the growth in commercial activity and made the traders indispensable to East India Company officials. It explores their often fractious rivalry with the Dutch, and analyses the decline of the country trade following the establishment of Singapore in 1819. Throughout, the book provides many case studies of individual traders."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.0941

'Rosy' Wemyss Admiral of the Fleet : the man who created Armistice day /John Johnson-Allen. "Rosslyn Wemyss' life and career was both fascinating and brilliant - a most distinguished admiral who is very little known. He left an indelible mark on the life of this country when he was responsible, with Marshal Foch, for the creation of Armistice Day. One of the most illustrious of Scottish admirals, he was a member of the Clan Wemyss, whose ancestral seat is Wemyss Castle in Fife, overlooking the Firth of Forth. Rosslyn joined the Navy at the age of 13 in 1877, at the same time as Prince George, the younger son of the Prince of Wales, and they became lifelong friends. In 1915, by then a Rear Admiral, he commanded the Gallipoli landings and then the evacuation of all the troops. The latter was so successful that only one man was lost from approximately 140,000. Then in the Red Sea he supported the Arab Revolt and helped T.E. Lawrence and the Arabs to oust the Turks from all the ports on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. Without his support, the Arab Revolt would have collapsed and the legend of Lawrence of Arabia would not have been created. Through Rosslyn's rich archive of letters and reports, this book gives a wonderful insight into the life of a man who became one of the most popular and senior officers in the Royal Navy at the time, and who was known throughout the Navy as 'Rosy'."--Provided by the Publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0092

The Plimsoll Sensation : the Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea /Nicolette Jones A biography of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), politician and reformer and the story of his campaign to improve the safety of merchant shipping. Plimsoll's focus was on 'coffin ships', vessels which were overloaded, unseaworthy and often overinsured by unscrupulous owners who risked the lives of their crew and passengers. Plimsoll devised a load line on a ship's hull which would indicate the maximum safe draught and as a result the minimum freeboard for the vessel in various operating conditions. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1867 but his efforts to introduce legislation for the adoption of the line were thwarted by the number of MPs with shipowning interests until 1876 when the Merchant Shipping Act gave stringent powers of inspection to the Board of Trade and made the line a requirement for ships leaving British ports. Known thereafter as the Plimsoll Line, the line was adopted internationally in 1930 with the first International Convention on Load Lines. Appendices include a collection of songs and poems about Plimsoll, a chronology, detailed notes and a bibliography. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

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/

How to Identify Prints : A complete guide to manual and mechanical processes from woodcut to inkjet / Bamber Gascoigne "Is it a woodcut, an etching, or a lithograph? Is it an original stipple engraving or a photogravure reproduction? Is the colour printed or added by hand? Arranged in self-contained sections that can be consulted individually or as part of a larger research operation, the book simplifies accurate identification of any printed image. Included are manual methods, and also the mechanical processes that constitute the vast majority of printed images around us. In all some ninety different techniques are described, both monochrome and colour. Essential aspects of printing history and the printmaking craft receive full coverage, and examples are given of the identifying features that help to reveal the type of print, such as varieties of line and tone. Of particular interest are the many illustrations of enlarged details showing the different appearance of various techniques under strong magnification. The one great change during the last twenty years has been the high-quality inkjet and laser prints that are now part of everyday life. How can one tell whether an attractive image is valuable in its own right or merely a reproduction? As cheap printing processes become more sophisticated, it inevitably becomes harder to identify correctly an image of this kind. Bamber Gascoigne?s new observations in this area, added for this revised edition, will prove invaluable."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Is : pêa olika vis /Nils Erik Villstrand & Kasper Westerlund (red.). [2022] • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Shanties from the seven seas Hugill, Stan 1962 • SOUND-REC • 1 copy available. 784.4(086.72)

The war of the gunboats / Bryan Cooper "The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger warships - they acquired the buccaneering spirit of an earlier age. And never more so than in the close hand-to-hand battles which raged between opposing craft when they met in open waters. Large numbers of these small fighting boats were built by the major naval powers. The Germans called them Schnellboote (Fast Boats), referred to by the British as E-boats (E for Enemy). In the Royal Navy they were MTBs and MGBs. The American equivalent were PT boats (for Patrol Torpedo). They fought in the narrow waters of the English Channel and the stormy North Sea, in the Mediterranean off the coasts of North Africa and Italy and among the islands of the Aegean, across the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to Leyte Gulf, in Hong Kong and Singapore, and off Burma's Arakan coast. Bryan Cooper's book traces the history and development of these craft from their first limited use in the First World War and the fast motor boats designed in the 1930s for wealthy private clients and water speed record attempts. With account of the battles which took place during the Second World War, when the vital importance of coastal waters came to be recognised, he captures the drama of this highly individual form of combat. And not least the sea itself which was the common enemy of all who crewed these frail craft."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.824"19"

Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 / William S. Dudley. "When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812? When the British blockade of 1813?14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.5/25

Castaways in question : a story of British naval interrogators from WW1 to denazification /Derek Nudd. "They thought their war was over when they were hauled from the sea. Instead, captive German sailors were fed, clothed, and brought to London where they experienced British naval intelligence officers' deft skill at extracting vital information from their heads. Here we follow the naval interrogators' growing confidence and expertise from their pioneering first steps in World War I to their role in dismantling one of the most vicious regimes the planet has ever seen."--Provided by the publisher. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Moral maxims, from the wisdom of Jesus, the son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus / selected by A Lady. Lady, A 1807. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.

Art and the sea / edited by Emma Roberts. "This edited collection re-examines the relationship between art and the sea, reflecting growing interest in the intersections between art and maritime history. Artists have always been fascinated by and drawn to the sea and this book considers some of the themes and approaches in art that have evolved as a result of this captivation. The chapters consider how an examination of art can provide new insights into existing knowledge of port and maritime history, and are representative of a 'cultural turn' in port and maritime studies, which is becoming increasingly visible. In Art and the Sea, multiple perspectives are offered as a result of the contributors' individual positions and methodologies: some museological, others art historical or maritime historical. Each chapter proposes a new way of building upon available interpretations of port and maritime history: whether this be to reject, support or reconsider existing knowledge. The book as a whole is a timely addition, therefore, to the developing body of revisionist texts in port and maritime history. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume relates to a current trend for interdisciplinarity in art history and will appeal to those with an interest in art history, geography, sociology, history and transport/maritime studies."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 704.9/437

The Harwich Striking Force : the Royal Navy's Front Line in the North Sea 1914-1918 /Steve R Dunn. "'The Harwich Force has made its name and will not be forgotten during the future annals of history'; so said Rear Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt on Armistice Day 1918. But that fame has not endured. Yet for the whole duration of the First World War, the Harwich Striking Force was the front line of the Royal Navy, a force of cruisers and destroyers defending the seas for the Allies. Under a charismatic and aggressive leader, Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, U-boats, German cruisers, destroyers and light craft all met their ends at the hands of the Force, as did enemy seaplanes and Zeppelin airships. The Harwich ships were at sea almost daily throughout the war, haunting the German coast and the Frisian Islands, pioneering aerial attack from the sea, developing naval carrier aviation and combined air/sea operations, and hunting for enemy submarines and minelayers in the North Sea. The Harwich Force also took part in major naval battles alongside the Grand Fleet?s battlecruisers, and protected merchant ships operating in the dangerous waters around Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Britain. The author also assesses the role played by the other Royal Navy formations at Harwich: submarines, auxiliary minesweeping and patrol vessels, the Felixstowe seaplane base and the town itself. And when the war was finally won, the Force gained further fame when the entirety of the German U-boat fleet surrendered there."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45941

Impingement of man on the oceans 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.46

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