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British warships & auxiliaries / [Steve Bush]. "The fully revised and updated well respected guide to the ships, aircraft and weapons of the fleet. Over 80 colour photos. Complete with pennant numbers and silhouettes. Now expanded to include royal Marine Craft and Border Agency vessels."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"2014/2015"
A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 /Bruce L. Mouser. "Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and to transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well the beginnings and spread of a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Bruce L. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations of commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."--Jacket. Ã2002. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 380.1/44/094
Warship 2012 / edited by John Jordan ; assistant editor, Stephen Dent. "Warship is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. The contributors are respected authorities, so detailed and accurate information is the keynote of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, tables and photographs"--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.825
Seaforth world naval review 2011 / edited by Conrad Waters. 2010. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.353"2011"
Corsairs and captives : narratives from the age of the barbary pirates /Adam Nichols "From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their home ports and auctioning them off to the highest bidder. The conflict between these Barbary corsairs and Europe was military, but not just that; religious, but not just that; social and economic, but not just that either. Above all, it was a human conflict, with all the confusion, blurred lines, and inherent messiness of such things, and the narratives it generated were more complicated than simple swashbuckling pirate tales. Corsairs & Captives presents a collection of these narratives, all based directly on primary-source documents, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. They include biographies of four renegade corsair captains (Europeans who converted to Islam and became corsairs), descriptions of sea battles by those who were there, accounts of ransomed captives, the report of a French Trinitarian friar who led a ransoming expedition to Algiers, even the transcript of a trial held by the Canary Islands chapter of the (in)famous Spanish Inquisition. These narratives bring to life a world much rougher than our own but no less complicated, in which people with the ordinary human fears and aspirations we are familiar with today struggled to endure. It is not the world most people expect when they think of Barbary corsairs. It is more interesting than that." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Luncheon : Empress of Scotland : Wednesday August 8th, 1956 Canadian Pacific Limited [1955] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CANADIAN PACIFIC(0:642.09)
[Dinner menu from the M. S. "Tjiluwah", 10 March 1956 : Royal Interocean Lines. 1956] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ROYAL INTEROCEAN(083.815)"1956"
Sitmar : passenger accommodation plan : piano sistemazioni passeggeri : M/V M/N "Fairsea" : Europa - Australia : Sitmar Line (Firm) 1995. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792SITMAR(084.3)"1955"
I'm weather beaten but Lifebuoy soap is never beaten : Lever Brothers (Firm) c[1905] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 334.72LEVER BROTHERS(085.8)"1905"
[Breakfast menu from the T.M.V. "City of York", 13 June 1954 : Ellerman & Bucknall. 1954] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ELLERMAN(083.815)"1954"
[Dinner menu from the R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth", 17 June 1957 : Dinner menu from the R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth". The cover contains a colour illustration of the Chaudiere Bridge and river, near Quebec. 1957. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(083.815)"1957"
"Tuscania", "California", "Britannia" : third cabin accommodation in the Anchor Line Indian service : Anchor Line (Firm) c[1931] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ANCHOR(041)"1931"
Allan line daily news : Magazine produced aboard the R.M.S. "Victorian". 1909-1911. • EPHEMERA • 6 copies available. 347.792ALLAN(055)"1909/1911"
[Collection of 3 dinner menus from the S.S. "Minnewaska", 1927 Atlantic Transport Line (Firm) 1927. • EPHEMERA • 3 copies available. 347.792ATLANTIC TRANSPORT(083.815)"1927"
[Luncheon menu from the T.M.V. "City of York", 17 June 1954 : Ellerman & Bucknall. 1954] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ELLERMAN(083.815)"1954"
[Breakfast menu from the T.M.V. "City of York", 17 June 1954 : Ellerman & Bucknall. 1954] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ELLERMAN(083.815)"1954"
Atlantic summer holidays from ¹38 return : Cunard Steamship Company (Firm) [c1930] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(041)"1930"
[Luncheon menu from the T.M.V. "City of York", 13 June 1954 : Ellerman & Bucknall. 1954] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ELLERMAN(083.815)"1954"
Landing arrangements : Southampton landing information for passengers from the R.M.S. "Elizabeth", sailing from New York on June 12, 1957. 1957. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(083.133)"1957"
[Luncheon menu from the T.M.V. "City of York", 14 June 1954 : Ellerman & Bucknall. 1954] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ELLERMAN(083.815)"1954"
Today's programme : Cunard : Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd. 1957. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(083.97)"1957"
R.M.S. "Queen Mary" : Cunard White Star (Firm) 1936. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(041)"1936"
[Dinner menu from the R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth", 14 June 1957 : Dinner menu from the R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth". The cover contains a colour illustration of the Cunard building, Liverpool. 1957. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(083.815)"1957"
[Dinner menu, 9 November 1966 : One of a series of menu cards illustrating different types of sailing craft. The cover contains a colour illustration of a Sydney harbour 18 ft. yacht. 1966] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O(083.815)"1966"