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Clad in iron : the American Civil War and the challenge of British naval power /Howard J. Fuller ; foreword by Robert J. Schneller, Jr. Fuller, Howard J., 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(73)"1861/1865"

How to manage records in the e-Environment / Julie McLeod and Catherine Hare. McLeod, Julie, [2006?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 005.92:004.63

Warships of the Great War era : a history in ship models /David Hobbs. "The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is one of a series that takes a selection of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the various classes of warship that fought in the First World War, from dreadnoughts to coastal motor boats. It reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colour, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 086.5:623.82

Fifteen months in the Antarctic / by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery ; translated by Maurice Raraty ; with foreword by Baron Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery. "The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-9 was the most cosmopolitan of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration - and one of the most lucky. Led by Lt. Adrien de gerlache of the Royal Belgian Navy it was underfunded from the start and ill prepared to overwinter in the pack ice. Despite being stuck in the ice for almost a year the ship survived without serious damage. The mixture of nationalities - Belgian, Polish, Norwegian, American, Rumanian, Russian - ensured that communication was always a problem and this was exacerbated when they were all trapped inside the cold, damp ship in the winter. That all ended well was largely due to just four men: the American doctor Frederick Cook, the Norwegian second mate, Roald Amundsen, the Belgian first mate, George Lecointre and de Gerlache himself. The earliest known photographs of Antarctica were taken during this expedition."--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1897/1899"

British campaign furniture : elegance under canvas 1740-1914 Brawer, Nicholas A 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.4(42):749.1

The rules in practice Willis, Bryan 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.11

Government accounting : a guide on accounting and financial procedures for the use of government departments Great Britain.-Treasury 1974 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 336.12

A manual for shipmasters : in a series of letters addressed to them on their qualifications, duties, powers, responsibilities, &c., arising from the different situations in which they may be placed during the course of a voyage /by James Lees. Lees, James, 1847. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.79:094

The medieval and modern worlds / Nicholas Campion. Campion, Nicholas. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 133.52(4+7)

Inigo Jones's "Roman sketchbook" / [introduction and notes by] Edward Chaney. "The modest, vellum-bound notebook now known as the Roman Sketchbook and catalogued at Chatsworth House as 'Album 6' was probably acquired early in the New Year of 1614, within days Inigo Jones's of arrival in Rome with the Earl of Arundel. Begun as a self-improving notebook in Rome on 21 January 1614, Jones soon seems to have put the Sketchbook aside while he explored Rome with his patron. A month later Jones began paraphrasing Palladio's Antichitáa di Roma but then seems to have abandoned his notebook and was not to return to it for at least two decades. Then, in his sixties, he decided to fill in many of the pages he had left blank with more pen and ink notes and drawings. Both were derived from books or prints with varying degrees of literalness; the Italian prose being translated and paraphrased or abridged; the visual material being inevitably filtered through his own artistic experience but usually repeated in more or less directly derivative form. Both notes and drawings were inserted in the manner of one compiling a visual commonplace-book in which the drawings are related to many similar but scattered drawings done in the same period. Now, more than his own education, he seems to have had that of his own pupil, John Webb in mind and through and beyond him, his own immortality. Published previously only in a very rare lithographic facsimile in 1831 this is the first scholarly publication of the Roman Sketchbook. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic facsimile and accurately transcribed by Professor Chaney for the first time. The sources of Jones's designs, mostly Italian prints of the sixteenth century have been identified, with supporting illustrations, and in a lengthy introduction Professor Chaney explores the place the Sketchbook fills in both Jones's life and his legacy."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 7JONES

Flying boats of the Solent and Poole / Mike Phipp. "Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain's major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine, were based in Cowes and Woolston respectively. The area has been home to flying boats of Imperial Airways and, latterly, BOAC and Aquila Airways. With a terminal at Hythe and then Southampton Docks, one could view not just majestic ocean liners but huge flying boats too. During wartime, BOAC operated their vital flying boat services from Poole Harbour. Post-war route expansion was also undertaken while still at Poole. Military aviation in the area saw flying boats operated from RAF Calshot and RAF Hamworthy, with types ranging from elderly biplanes to Sunderlands. Mike Phipp takes us on a tour of the Solent area and Poole Harbour's flying boat heritage using many previously unpublished images of the aircraft plus the men and women that flew and maintained them."--Back cover. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.735.35

Naturalists at sea : scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin /Glyn Williams. On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist's lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship's commander were the norm. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4:5"16/18"

Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys from his MS. cypher in the Pepsyian Library : with a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke /deciphered, with additional notes by Rev. Mynors Bright. Pepys, Samuel, 1885. • BOOK • 10 copies available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

Voices in flight : the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War /by Malcolm Smith. "Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes first-hand testimonies from pilots manning early seaplane stations, an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland (the 'Rutland of Jutland'), who became the first pilot to take off in a Sopwith Pup from a platform on the roof of one of HMS Yarmouth's gun turrets, the true tale behind Rudyard Kipling's short story 'A Flight of Fact' (concerning Guy Duncan-Smith's experience of becoming marooned in the Maldives following a dramatic shoot-down), amongst many other personalized and illuminating stories. All these anecdotes are drawn from the extensive archive maintained by the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Somerset. The archive contains an enormous quantity of material, in the form of handwritten diaries, transcripts, log books and documentation of many kinds. Alongside the written material, the Museum maintains an unrivaled photographic archive and a representative sample of these images is included in the book. Excerpts from diaries, transcripts of spoken first-hand accounts and other recorded narratives make up the bulk of the book, with whole chapters dedicated to some of the most vocal members to see service during the course of the RNAS's Great War history. Guy Leather, a pilot destined to track an impressive trajectory with the RNAS features in one such chapter; his day to day accounts relay the full gamut of pilot experience at this time. This humane and thoughtful consolidation of pilot reflections is sure to appeal broadly, particularly as we approach the one hundredth year anniversary of the First World War."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 358.38"1914/1918"

Scotia (1845) and Caledonia (1856) : two little-known paddle steamers /Fraser G. MacHaffie "This new book tells the extraordinary tale of two 19th century Clyde paddlers, Scotia (1845) and Caledonia (1856), that crossed the Atlantic to serve as blockade-runners in the American Civil War and later enjoyed peacetime careers on the eastern seaboard of North America. The author, Fraser G MacHaffie, is a distinguished steamer historian and a member of the CRSC for many years. Fraser played a major part in the development of the CRSC before moving to work and live in the USA. The Club have been honoured to have Fraser as a speaker over the past three winter seasons, during his visits home to friends and family. His immaculately researched narrative illuminates a long-neglected period of Clyde steamer history."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.21(414.1)

Slaves, sailors, citizens : African Americans in the Union navy /Steven J. Ramold. "Perhaps one in six Union navy sailors was African American, many of them former slaves. This history shows that the free blacks and "contraband" slaves who joined the navy during the Civil War were essential to Northern victories at sea. Through their role in preserving the Union, they helped to win recognition for African Americans as full citizens." "African Americans joined the U.S. Navy from the first days of the war and soon demonstrated to a skeptical Northern population that they would fight for their freedom. Their service in the navy paved the way for their wider employment in the U.S. Army. Faced with the hazards of battle, African American sailors performed with great heroism, and several earned the nation's highest military tribute, the Medal of Honor." "Despite the lack of official records on the subject, Ramold has combed through mountains of memoirs, court documents, pension reports, and other sources to discover the true magnitude of African Americans' contribution to the naval effort. The book present a description of the lives of these sailors from enlistment of discharge, telling the story as much as possible in the words of the sailors themselves. A dozen rate photographs illustrate the range of African American service."--BOOK JACKET. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(73)"18"

War through artists' eyes : paintings and drawings by British war artists /selected and introduced by Eric Newton. Newton, Eric, 1945. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.044"1939/1945"

The Medway Queen / Richard Halton. "This is the story of a ship which started life as a pleasure cruiser before before becoming one of the famous 'Dunkirk little ships', followed by a retrun to peacetime and then what so nearly almost resulted in scrap. Fortunately restoration of this fine vessel is now well under way."--Provided by the publisher 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.21MEDWAY

Arab navigation in the Indian ocean before the coming of the Portuguese / Ahmad ibn Majid al-Najdi. Ahmad ibn Majid al-Najdi. 1971. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527(267)"04/14"(091)

The Strange and dangerous voyage of Captain Thomas James / edited and annotated by W.A. Kenyon. James, Thomas 1975. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(712.2)"1631/1632"

British warships & auxiliaries / [Steve Bush] Bush, Steve. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(42)"2013/2014"

Britain and colonial maritime war in the early eighteenth century : silver, seapower and the Atlantic /Shinsuke Satsuma. "In early modern Britain, there was an argument that war at sea, especially war in Spanish America, was an ideal means of warfare, offering the prospect of rich gains at relatively little cost whilst inflicting considerable damage on enemy financial resources. This book examines that argument, tracing its origin to the glorious memory of Elizabethan maritime war, discussing its supposed economic advantages, and investigating its influence on British politics and naval policy during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13) and after. The book reveals that the alleged economic advantages of war at sea were crucial in attracting the support of politicians of different political stances. It shows how supporters of war at sea, both in the government as well as in the opposition, tried to implement pro-maritime war policy by naval operations, colonial expeditions and by legislation, and how their attempts were often frustrated by diplomatic considerations, the incapacity of naval administration, and by conflicting interests between different groups connected to the West Indian colonies and Spanish American trade. It demonstrates how, after the War of the Spanish Succession, arguments for active colonial maritime war continued to be central to political conflict, notably in the opposition propaganda campaigns against the Walpole ministry, culminating in the War of Jenkins's Ear against Spain in 1739. The book also includes material on the South Sea Company, showing how the foundation of this company, later the subject of the notorious 'Bubble', was a logical part of British strategy."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"17"(42)

The rules book : the 1977-80 Yacht Racing Rules explained Twiname, Eric 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.11

From Marsh farm to the moon : the Maskelyne family of Purton /Brian Freegard. Freegard, Brian, 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.2094231

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