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Serving on the big ships : life on the liners. /William H. Miller "Drawing on the recollections of the men and women who served on the vessels, Serving on the Big Ships: Life on the Liners presents a unique window into a bygone age. The 1950s to early 1980s was the last period in which passengers sailed simply to get somewhere, before the liners turned to cruising and airlines became the only feasible means of traveling long distances. It was a golden age of ocean travel, even though the signs of inevitable decline were in evidence all around. For those who worked on the ships, whether stewards or captains or anyone in between, looking back conjures a range of emotions and stories as diverse as the ports to which they sailed. Recorded here are memories of sailing on the North Atlantic with Cunard & Holland-America, with the Italian Line in the Mediterranean, with Royal Mail Lines to South America, with Union-Castle to Africa, and with P&O-Orient to Australia and the Far East. They are the memories of the people who manned the ships, served on them, and through their service, grew to love them." 2024. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

John Scott : Nelson's secretary and friend, 1764-1805 / a personal account by John Maynard "Scott may be known for his death on the Victory at Trafalgar, but his remarkable life also deserves to be known. Born in 1764 where the Spey runs into the Moray Firth, the son of a tenant farmer on the Gordon Estate, he moved to London and gained business experience before entering the Navy as a purser in 1789. Progressing from modest sloops to major ships, he also served as secretary to three different Admirals, winning their trust and affection, before joining the Victory as Nelson?s secretary in 1803. His letters to his wife Charlotte show his deep affection for his family, as well as revealing insights into the way Nelson won the hearts and loyalty of those who served under him. This story is both heartwarming and heartbreaking." 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 /Jane Webster. "An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807 - a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime and terrestrial archaeology, paintings, maritime and ethnographic museum collections, and many other sources to 'rebuild' British slaving vessels and to identify changes to them over time. The book then goes on to consider the reception of the slave ship and its trade goods in coastal West Africa, and details the range, and uses, of the many African resources (including ivory, gold, and live animals) entering Britain on returning slave ships. The third section of the book focuses on the Middle Passage experiences of both captives and crews and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the coping mechanisms through which Africans survived, yet also challenged, their captive passage. Finally, Jane Webster asks why the African Middle Passage experience remains so elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. She considers when, how, and why the crossing was remembered by 'saltwater' captives in the Caribbean and North America. The marriage of words and things attempted in this richly illustrated book is underpinned throughout by a theoretical perspective combining creolization and postcolonial theory, and by a central focus on the materiality of the slave ship and its regimes."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

British light cruisers : town, colony and later classes /Les Brown ; colour illustrations by George Richardson. Brown, Les, 2024. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82/01530941

Soviet motor gunboats of World War II : the Red Army's 'river tanks' from Stalingrad to Berlin /Przemyslaw Budzbon ; illustrated by Waldemar Gâoralski, Piotr Forkasiewicz. "Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured riverboats that brought tank-like mobility, firepower and survivability to Russian battlefields. This book, the first history of these vessels in English, explains how this concept led to one of the most remarkable naval weapons of World War II, the Soviet 'river tank', or Armoured Motor Gun Boat (AMGB). Highly mobile, capable of carrying up to 20 infantrymen directly into action and providing immediate firepower from their tank turrets, machine guns or Katyusha rockets, their military value was widely recognized. They were versatile enough to be used in naval landing operations off the Gulf of Finland, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea, and their capabilities were prized by local commanders. Using meticulously researched new colour profiles, rare photos and spectacular artwork, this book uncovers the history of river warfare on the Eastern Front, and the boats that played such a key part in the fighting." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.8258

Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires, 1730-1850 / edited by Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.8909033

Correct form. This revised edition of 'Correct Form' provides a clear, concise guide to all aspects of addressing people. It deals with writing letters, invitations, official and social occasions, royalty and the peerage. Ã2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 395.4

Matthew Flinders : the man behind the map /Gillian Dooley. "Born at the end of the Age of Enlightenment and growing up as Romanticism took hold of European culture, Matthew Flinders was the embodiment of these seemingly irreconcilable movements. His achievements as a navigator and leader are impressive, but he was much more than an action hero, idolised by generations of admirers. In Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map Gillian Dooley looks to the primary sources to discover Flinders as a friend; a son, a brother, a father and a husband; as a writer, a researcher, a reader, and a musician - and above all as a romantic scientist." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.404/2092

Sexual and gender difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 / edited by Seth Stein LeJacq. "This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called "the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery"- sex between males - in the Royal Navy."--Provided by publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.1094209033

Subaltern lives : biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 /Clare Anderson. "This book explores fragments from the lives of socially marginal men and women who were associated with Indian Ocean penal settlements and colonies in the nineteenth century. It interrogates colonialism from a subaltern history perspective, and places penal transportation in a broad global context. It takes a life-writing approach, weaving together biographical snapshots of convicts - ordinary Indians and Eurasians; African slaves, apprentices and ex-slaves; indentured labourers; soldiers and rebels - with the lives of sailors, indigenous peoples and the 'poor whites' of Empire."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(267)"17/19"

Spartacus international gay guide. 1970-2017 • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. 392.6

The Polish navy 1918 - 1945 : from the Polish-Soviet War to World War II /Przemys±aw Budzbon ; illustrated by Paul Wright. "In this fully illustrated book, Polish naval expert Przemyslaw Budzbon explains how the Polish Navy was developed and surveys its contribution in exile to the war effort using Poland's surviving warships as welll as British-built destroyers, submarines MTBs and a cruiser. He recounts how most famously, the Polish destroyer Piorun took on the fleeing Bismarck in a lone gun duel, and how Poles contributed to the Allied effort in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, and at the Normandy landings." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860 -1997 / Kwong Chi Man. "This book is the first systematic study of the experience of the Hong Kong servicemen in the British armed forces during the colonial period. It puts the Hong Kong servicemen in the contexts of Hong Kong history, the history of overseas Chinese, the history of the British Empire, and the military history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It details the agency of Hongkongers, who were more often than not portrayed as victims or beneficiaries during the two world wars and the Cold War, and highlights the relevance of Hong Kong in the modern history of East Asia. It also looks at how the intertwined issues of class and race played out among these servicemen, who came from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. It reveals the complexity of the colonial Hong Kong society by illustrating the interplay between the colonisers and the colonised of different classes and ethnicities, and informs the ongoing discussion about colonial Hong Kong by providing concrete examples of the collaboration between ethnic groups."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.2/23095125

"Just Nuisance" : life story of an able seaman who leads a dog's life /by Leslie M. Steyn. Steyn, Leslie M [194-?] • BOOK • 1 copy available.

An account of the dismasting of the Owen Glendower, cutter yacht, 123 tons / by Mrs Moore. Moore, Mrs 1884. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

A history of denistry in the Royal Navy, 1905-1964 / N G Daws and J V Holland A history of the Royal Naval Dental Service. It chronicles the efforts to establish the service, tracing its early development up to the First World War before moving onto the creation of the permanent service and its consolidation. It then details the expansion of the service for the Second World War and the beginnings of postwar reconstruction and development. 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Manxmen at sea in the age of Nelson, 1760-1815 / Matthew Richardson. "The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that they were in great demand for the latter in time of war. As smugglers, or as privateers they made their living on the waves, in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Pacific. Whether taken by a Press Gang, or enlisted voluntarily, the Manx saw action in some of the greatest naval events between 1760 and 1815. The Isle of Man had a high degree of literacy and education even among the poor at this time, and consequently a significant body of first-hand evidence has survived from those who served below decks, aboard merchant ships, privateers and warships. Some, such as Peter Heywood, were eyewitness to the most famous event in naval history, the Mutiny on the Bounty. Others, such as John Quilliam climbed the naval career ladder, served with Nelson and gained distinction at the greatest sea battle in history, Trafalgar. One, Captain Hugh Crow, fought against the French, made his fortune in the slave trade, and commanded the last legal voyage. In this book we meet them all, and their words echo to us across the waves and down the centuries."--Provided by publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.79

Discovery, innovation, and the Victorian admiralty : paper navigators /Erika Behrisch. "This book examines the British Admiralty's engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiralty's engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiralty's private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century." 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00941

The Battle of the Atlantic : the war against Allied shipping, 1939-1945 /Peter Gretton "Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton - a distingushed Royal Navy escort commander - has written an authorative history of the war he fought. The subjects range from merchant shipping to intelligence, the role of Operational Research, the battle for maritime air in Whitehall, the contribution of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the strategies employed by the convoys to defeat the 'wolf pack' system of attack by the U-boats - interspersed with narrative chapters which illustrate the points he has been making. Above all, he describes the courage of the Allied merchant seamen who carried out their dangerous work with devotion."--Provided by the publisher. 2024 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Journal of the Greenwich Historical Society : volume 3, number 4 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Journal of the Greenwich Historical Society : volume 4, number 5 Watson, Julian, 2016 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 914.216

Sailors, ships, and sea fights : proceedings of the 2022 'From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815' Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail Conference /edited by Nicholas James Kaizer. "Containing the proceedings of Helion & Company's inaugural 2022 Naval History Conference, this volume includes chapters from scholars experienced and young, and from across the world, on various aspects of the naval history of the Age of Reason and Revolution." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.009

Jellicoe's war : the U-boat threat in World War One and the question of convoy. "This is the story of how the world's largest and most powerful navy struggled to deal with a menace that threatened to starve Britain into submission. It provides an absorbing in-depth look at how an initially under-estimated, indeed in some quarters despised, weapon - the submarine - came close to beating the British during the First World War." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Sugar, spices and human cargo : an early Black history of Greenwich /by Joan Anim-Addo. "Sugar, spices and human cargo traces the lives of black settlers in early Greenwich of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. From Cornelius the blackamore of Lee in 1593 to dying lascars in the summer of 1796, the book pieces together shards of a multicultural, multiracial history that can no longer be denied. Why was Olaudah Equiano keen to return to Maze Hill after his second spell of West Indian slavery? Who were some of the eighteenth century black pensioners of Greenwich and what connection is there between Charlton and the East Indies? These are only a few of the questions addressed in this new work which uncovers and reinterprets an important dimension of Greenwich's local history."--Provided by the publisher. 1996. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 914.216

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