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The grand Crimean central railway : the story of the railway built by the British in the Crimea during the war of 1854-1856 Cooke, Brian 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.2(477.7)

London : world city 1800-1840 Fox, Celina 1992-1994 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 75

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut : the Civil War years /Chester G. Hearn. "No admiral in America's Civil War fought with more distinction than David Glasgow Farragut, the first admiral of the U.S. Navy [...] This book fully describes his lifelong involvement with Capt. David Porter, his foster father, and David Dixon Porter, his foster brother. Focusing primarily on the Civil War [...] the author uses [...] family correspondence to detail Farragut's relationships with the elder Porter, who signed up Farragut as a seagoing midshipman in the U.S. Navy at the age of nine, and with Porter's son, the only other full admiral to emerge from the Civil War. Under the senior Porter's tutelage, Farragut by the age of thirteen had participated in more action during the War of 1812 than many of the Navy's senior officers. [...] Farragut's legendary leadership is showcased in Hearn's thrilling description of the Battle of Mobile Bay. The author's detailed chronicle of Farragut's command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, crowned by the capture of New Orleans and Port Hudson, reestablishes Farragut's nearly forgotten legacy."--Provided by the publisher. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FARRAGUT

The Local museum : notes for amateur curators Area Museums Service for South Eastern England 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(422)

Arcadia and Iberia : P & O's sisters for the 1950s "In 1954 P&O introduced two new passenger liners to their Australian passenger/cargo service. They were to be the last traditionally designed vessels which the company would build and at almost 30,000 gross tons would be the largest passenger liners operating a regular service 'East of Suez'. The two ships were almost identical in appearance, the main identifying feature would be their funnel tops, but, despite their similarity, their careers were to be very different. The Arcadia, which was the first of the new sister ships, enjoyed a career which spanned 25 years, during which time she was a happy and reliable vessel. In contrast to this, the Iberia's 18-year-life was marred by stability and mechanical problems despite the fact that she was the product of one of the country's most reputable builders. After just over ten years of service both ships were severely affected by the political troubles in the Middle East, with subsequent large increases in oil prices, and by the unassailable competition from air travel. In the late 1960s, as trade on the Australian service fell away, they took increasingly to cruising, a role for which they were ideally suited, unlike the liners built for the North Atlantic."--Taken from the Introduction. 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O

Chasing a dream : the exploration of the imaginary Pacific /John Dunmore. "Early Europeans may have believed the world was flat, but by the Middle Ages there was widespread acceptance that it was, in fact, a globe. What remained a mystery, however, was what lay on the "other side". Some believed it was a source of riches, an ocean harbouring countries where gold and unimaginable riches could be found, including islands from which King Solomon had obtained his wealth. In addition, the belief in a vast southern continent went back centuries, and many expeditions set out to find it, sometimes in search of wealth, sometimes to convert its inhabitants to Christianity. This is the story of the voyages into this great unknown, by the Chinese and early Americans, the Dutch, Spanish, French and English; it recounts the exploits of pirates and scientists, and even the impact of popular fiction on popular imagination, leading to the debunking of many myths, from the sunken Great Southern Continent, to the idea that in the "antipodes", people walked upside down"--Provided by the publisher 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(265/266)

Handling cargo : freighters of the 1950s and '60s /William H. Miller "Freighters of the 1950s and '60s - with masts, booms and hatches - were the last of their generation. It was the end of an era, just before the massive transition to faster, more efficient containerised shipping on larger and larger vessels. These were 'working ships', but many would be retired prematurely and finish up under flags of convenience, for virtually unknown owners, before going off to the scrappers in the 1970s and ?80s. For some ships, their life's work was cut short and their decommissioning was quick. In Handling Cargo, William H. Miller remembers the likes of Cunard, Holland America and United States Lines on the North Atlantic, Moore McCormack Lines to South America, Farrell Lines to Africa and P&O out East."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.4

The heyday of sail : the merchant sailing ship 1650-1830 Gardiner, Robert 1995 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.13"1650/1830"

Naval weapons of World War One: guns, torpedoes, mines and ASW weapons of all nations : an illustrated directory /by Norman Friedman. "Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons - the mine and torpedo - as well as the first signs of the future potency of air power. Between 1914 and 1918 weapons development was both rapid and complex, so this book has two functions: on the one hand it details all the guns, torpedoes, mines, aerial bombs and anti-submarine systems employed during that period; but it also seeks to explain the background to their evolution - how the weapons were perceived at the time and how they were actually used. This involves a discussion of tactics and emphasises the key 'enabling' technology of fire control and gun mountings. In this respect the book treats the war as a transition from naval weapons which were essentially experimental at its outbreak to a state where they pointed directly to what would be used in World War Two. Based largely on original research, this sophisticated book is more than a catalogue of the weapons, offering insight into some of the most important technical and operational factors influencing the war at sea. In this respect it is more broadly significant than its title might suggest."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.94:623.42"1914/1918"

The Channel Tunnel : periodical articles and monographs on the Channel Tunnel 1986-90 Pugh, Hilary (comp) 1991 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 011/016

Social history and industrial classification (SHIC) : a subject classification for museum collections / Social History and Industrial Classification Working Party. 1993. Social History and Industrial Classification Working Party 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069:025.4

A survey of the networks bringing a knowledge of optical glass-working to the London trade, 1500-1800 / Anita McConnell ; edited by Jenny Bulstrode. "An outstanding work of scholarship on the history of optical glass-making, also including illustrations of objects in the [Whipple] Museum's collection as well as from the numerous publications referred to in Anita's text and held in the Whipple Library's rare book collection."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. txt

Atlantic crossing guide Hammick, A 2003 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83(261)

Stowaway! : an amazing journey of discovery through an 18th-century warship [CD-ROM] Biesty, Stephen (ill) 1994 • CD-ROM • 1 copy available. 623.82"17"

Ships for a nation : John Brown and Company Clydebank Johnston, Ian 2000 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.12(414.1)"1847/2000"

Atlantic Britain "Early in 2003, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfortable life at home and go for an adventure at sea. He set off along the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles from Cornwall to the Hebrides, before heading on to Orkney and a two-hundred-mile leap out into the winds of the North Atlantic. His journey was philosophical as well as physical. Running throughout the book is a dialogue between the attractions of home and away, the certainties of what you know and the seductions of what you don't."--Provided by the publisher. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(261)

"Fast sailing and copper-bottomed" : Aberdeen sailing ships and the emigrant Scots they carried to Canada, 1774-1855 /Lucille H. Campey. Campey, Lucille H. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.2(410.5:71)

Allied submarine attacks of World War Two : European theatre of operations 1939-1945 "Based on original archival material and prepared with the assistance of experts in Europe, the USA, the former Soviet Union and Japan. [...] Details of the attacks are arranged chronologically and by sea area and cover Soviet submarine attacks in the Arctic, Baltic and Black Sea, and British and Allied submarine attacks from north Norway to Morocco and the Mediterranean. [...] also adds information about Soviet attacks in the last weeks of the war against Japan in August-September 1945. [...] compares official attack reports with information about submarine attacks on Axis and neutral ships as stated in German and Italian war diaries and by experts in the other countries which lost ships in areas of Axis control."--Provided by the publisher. There are indices of submarines, commanding officers and ships attacked. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.1

Naval intelligence from Germany : the reports of the British naval attaches in Berlin, 1906-1914 /edited by Matthew S. Seligmann. 2007. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22NRS

China and the Asian seas : trade, travel, and visions of the other (1400-1750) /Roderick Ptak. Ptak, Roderich. c1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(51:5)"1400/1750"

MDA archaeological objects thesaurus Museum Documentation Association. Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Working Party 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.26:025.48

The elder Pitt, Earl of Chatham Ayling, Stanley 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.072/.073

Four Antarctic years in the South Orkney Islands : an annotated translation of cuatro aänos en las orcadas del sur /Josâe Manuel Moneta, assistant in the 1923 expedition, assistant leader in 1925, leader of the 1927 and 1929 expeditions (9 July 1900-30 March 1973) ; translators Kathleen Skilton and Kenn Back ; editor Robert Keith Headland. "One man's fascinating record of four winters in the Antarctic during the 1920s, the period of transition from the isolation of the Heroic Age to the beginnings of radio communication with the world outside. The Argentine Josâe Manuel Moneta (1900-1973) chronicles in words and photographs the many and varied aspects of life on a Southern Ocean island which few visit even today. Seals and penguins provide much of the food; coal and paraffin are used for heating and lighting, and electricity is a new introduction. A relief ship comes just once a year. Josâe Manuel Moneta's account of the South Orkney Islands was originally written in Spanish and published in twelve editions from 1939 to 1963. This is the first English translation, by Kathleen Skilton and Kenn Back, of what is still the only autobiographic account of the South Orkney Islands. For this edition, R.K. Headland has added copious supplementary material ranging from maps and notes to a bibliography and an index."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"192"

Whale Papastavrou, Vassili 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 599.5

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