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British shipping: the seaway to success The General Council of British Shipping consists of UK companies which own and manage ships; its origins date back over 100 years. This promotional pamphlet gives a brief overview of British shipping, covering ferries, the merchant fleet and cruise ships, with colour photographs. Reference is made to: ship broking and chartering; financial services; marine insurance; surveying and engineering services and legal services. 1990. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 347.792(42)
Cardiff shipowners Jenkins, J Geraint 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792(429.7)
Sjèofarten i krig / Nils Erik Villstrand & Kasper Westerlund (red.) "I êar har det gêatt hundra êar sedan fèorsta vèarldskriget slutade, Tyskland kapitulerade och maktfèorhêallandena i èOstersjèon radikalt fèorèandrades.Ett i mêanga avseenden nytt Europa med bl.a. fem nya sjèalvstèandiga stater kring èOstersjèon hade uppstêatt. Segrarmakterna dikterade fredsvillkor som kom att kasta lêanga skuggor in i framtiden. Andra vèarldskriget uppfattas numera med stort berèattigande som en fortsèattning pêa det fèorsta och tiden frêan 1914 till 1945 som en sammanhêallen period. Avsikten med boken Sjèofarten i krig har varit att anlèagga maritima och som en logisk fèoljd èaven marina perspektiv pêa denna fèor sjèofarten intressanta och i mêanga avseenden omvèalvande tidsperiod. Fokus ligger pêa den civila sjèofarten. Rumsligt rèor sig fèorfattarna huvudsakligen pêa èOstersjèon och i de danska sunden. I boken medverkar Lars Ericson Wolke, Annette Forsâen, Kenneth Gustavsson, Robert Louhimies, Mikko Meronen, Gunnar Mèoller, Erik Norberg, Nils Erik Villstrand, Kasper Westerlund och Lars Westerlund."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45:656.61
Dictionary of nautical words and terms : 8000 definitions in navigation, seamanship, rigging, meteorology, astronomy, naval architecture, average, ship economics, hydrography, cargo stowage, marine engineering, ice terminology, buoyage, yachting, etc . /by C. W. T. Layton ; revised by Peter Clissold. Layton, C W T 1982. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12(038)English
The book of the Solent : including the Isle of Wight coastal voyage "The Solent and its mainland and Isle of Wight shorelines have a unique and varied character. The landscape and coastal waters have evolved over the last 10,000 years fulfilling a vital role as a route for shipping, trading and other activities such as fishing and recreation. The extensive development along parts of the Solent shoreline together with recreational and other demands, can cause conflict with the natural environment which is of international importance. There is a need to reconcile the often conflicting demands that exist in the Solent in order to ensure that activities such as commerce and tourism can continue to exist in harmony with the natural environment." Chapters in the book include the Solent's pre-history; the natural environment; military history; the enchanted shore of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; yachts and yachtsmen.--Provided by the publisher. 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 556.54(261.268)
Exploring the oceans Hall, Stephen 1998 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.3(26)
The 100-gun ship Victory / John McKay. The Victory, a three-decker First Rate, was 40 years old by the time of Trafalgar and continued in active sevice until 1812. She is now preserved at the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth. This book gives a history of the ship including, design, construction, repairs, refits, rebuilds and decoration. There are extensive 3-d drawings with in-depth keys of details of the ship as presently restored. A series of photos show close-up details and scenes on-board. The book jacket shows the Victory's Trafalgar colour scheme. This is a revised edition of the 1987 book and incorporates research and findings of the HMS Victory Advisory Technical Committee. The book jacket provides a 1/192 scale fold-out plan with keys to rigging drawings. This is a revised edition of the 1987 book. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Victory
The spectral Arctic : a history of ghosts and dreams in polar exploration /Shane McCorrisine. "Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly-lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin's lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin's ships."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Oceans ventured : winning the Cold War at sea /John Lehman. "When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict. Reagan led a bipartisan Congress to restore American command of the seas by building the navy back to six hundred major ships and fifteen aircraft carriers. He adopted a bold new strategy to deploy the growing fleet to northern waters around the periphery of the Soviet Union and demonstrate that the NATO fleet could sink Soviet submarines, defeat Soviet bomber and missile forces, and strike aggressively deep into the Soviet homeland if the USSR attacked NATO in Central Europe. New technology in radars, sensors, and electronic warfare made ghosts of American submarines and surface fleets. The United States proved that it could effectively operate carriers and aircraft in the ice and storms of Arctic waters, which no other navy had attempted. The Soviets, suffocated by this naval strategy, were forced to bankrupt their economy trying to keep pace. Shortly thereafter the Berlin Wall fell, and the USSR disbanded. In Oceans Ventured, John Lehman reveals for the first time the untold story of the naval operations that played a major role in winning the Cold War"-- 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1947/1991"
The archaeology of the Essex coast : Vol 1 : the Hullbridge survey Part 1: The Essex coast and its archaeological investigation; Part 2: Flandrian stratigraphy and palaeoecology; Part 3: The Mesolithic; Part 4: The Neolithic; Part 5: Wetlands of the Bronze and Iron Ages; Part 6: The Late Iron Age and Roman Periods; Part 7: The Post-Roman Period; Part 8: Paleogeography and the changing archaeological record. 1995 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.26(426.7)
Boats "Discover the beauty and diversity of vessels from around the world. In Boats, elegant excerpts of poetry and prose complement more than 75 full-color photographs of barges, skiffs, sailboats, and schooners of international waterways. From the harbors of Chile to the canals of Venice, from the rivers of Kenya to the lakes of Peru, Boats takes you on a breathtaking journey and the voices of the poets and novelists who have traveled in each of the profiled countries are your guides, from America's Mark Twain to Chile's Pablo Neruda."--Provided by the publisher. 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.125
Maritime information : a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom /editors Rita V. Bryon, Terence N. Bryon. 1993. • FOLIO • 8 copies available. 026(26:42)
The 'big four' of the White Star fleet : Celtic, Cedric, Baltic & Adriatic /Mark Chirnside. A history of four vessels of the White Star fleet: Celtic (1901), Cedric (1903), Baltic (1904) and Adriatic (1907), covering their service as civilian passenger ships sailing from Liverpool and Southampton to New York, and as armed merchant cruisers and troop ships in the First World War. The history of each vessel includes interior and exterior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, as well as postcards and advertisements depicting the ships. Images of first, second and third class accommodation are included. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792WHITE STAR
Active directory for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 : technical reference /Stan Reimer, Mike Mulcare. "Get the focused, in-depth technical expertise you need to implement and optimize your Microsoft directory services infrastructure. As two Active Directoryª experts guide you through advanced design and deployment issues for the Windowsª Server 2003 environment, you'll develop a thorough understanding of the underlying concepts, architectural components, and real-world functionality of Active Directory directory service. Whether you're upgrading from Microsoft Windows NTª 4.0 or later, or performing a clean installation, you'll learn the best ways to exploit Active Directory capabilities for your organization - and deliver new levels of network performance and productivity."--Provided by the publisher. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 004.75:004.455
Aneroid barometers and their restoration / Philip R Collins. "Charts the beginning and development of the aneroid barometer, with many photographs of both common and rare examples. Examines the mechanisms and gives a detailed account of how to repair them, as well as describing some of the characteristic case repairs often found necessary. Examples are used to set out how to date barometers. Appendix contains a summary of patents and there is also a bibliography".--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.508.43
A cold welcome : the Little Ice Age and Europe's encounter with North America /Sam White. "When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia, and its effects were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, and winters when even the Rio Grande froze. This period of climate change has come to be known as the Little Ice Age, and it played a decisive role in Europe's encounter with the lands and peoples of North America. In A Cold Welcome, Sam White tells the story of this crucial period in world history, from Europe's earliest expeditions in an unfamiliar landscape to the perilous first winters at Santa Fe, Quebec, and Jamestown. Weaving together evidence from climatology, archaeology, and the written historical record, White describes how the severity and volatility of the Little Ice Age climate threatened to freeze and starve out the Europeans' precarious new settlements. Lacking basic provisions and wholly unprepared to fend for themselves under such harsh conditions, Europeans suffered life-threatening privation, and their desperation precipitated violent conflict with Native Americans. In the twenty-first century, as we confront an uncertain future from global warming, A Cold Welcome reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(7)
Before the ironclad : development of ship design, propulsion and armament in the Royal Navy, 1815-60 Brown, D. K.-(David K.) 1990 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(42)"18"
25 woodworking projects for small and large boats "More than a dozen craftsman show, in steps, how to make all kinds of necessities and luxuries for your boat, your shop or even for your kitchen. With plenty of photos, drawings, tips and tricks, you are assured of successfully completing the projects, while enjoying the process as well. Follow the advice of the experts, and you will be able to make drawers, louvered doors, raised panels, a rudder, oars, a double-paddle, a North Woodspaddle, spars, a skylight, a traditional ship's wheel, teak grates, a buckboard trailer, woodworking planes, a shelter for your boat, and more. Peter Spectre has compiled and edited into this one book the best woodworking projects shown in over twenty years of WoodenBoat magazine."--Provided by the publisher. 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.125
Keyguide to information sources in cartography Hodgkiss, A G 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.9(02)
Powell, Bacon and Hough : Formation of Coast Lines Limited /Nick Robins Renamed Coast Lines in 1917, Powell, Bacon & Hough Lines was incorporated in 1913 from three distinct threads that can be traced back to the early 19th century: F.H. Powell & Company, John Bacon Limited and Samuel Hough Limited. The book covers the history of each predecessor company and the creation and subsequent history of Coast Lines following their merger. Fleet lists are also included for each constituent company and the book is illustrated throughout with photographs. 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792COAST LINES
Atlantic gateway : the port and city of Londonderry since 1700 /Robert Gavin, William Kelly & Dolores O'Reilly. "This study takes a fresh look at the economic role of the North West and the port and city of Derry. It sees the region as central to exchanges of labour and goods across the mercantilist North Atlantic, prospering in open 19th-century markets, but peripheralized by state intervention in the 20th century until American investment and the European Union offered new opportunities."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(410.714.18)"1700/..."
Hidden warships : finding World War II's abandoned, sunk, and preserved warships /Nicholas A. Veronico. "Hidden Warships profiles the search for and discovery of sunken World War II-era ships as well as the history behind the vessels, including over 150 historic and modern photos. This book follows the author's Hidden Warbirds series"-- 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82(100):656.61.085.3
Island of the blue foxes : disaster and triumph on the world's greatest scientific expedition /Stephen R. Brown. "The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering, the ten-year voyage, which included scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and, thanks to the brilliant naturalist Georg Steller, discovered dozens of New World plants and animals. The story of the expedition is a tale not only of adventure and historic achievement, but also of shipwreck, endurance, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.""--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(573)"17"
The guide to UK company giving Smyth, John 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 06.047.84