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Scottish fishery protection : the story of the vessels that have served the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland since 1882 Somner, Graeme 1983 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 623.826

River Medway and the Swale Simper, Robert 1998 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.16(422.3)

Stars beneath the sea : the extraordinary lives of the pioneers of diving Norton, Trevor 1999 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92:626.02

Last of the blue water liners : passenger ships sailing the seven seas /William H. Miller "This is the story of the last class-divided passenger ships that carried travellers from point to point. In the final years of activity, spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, they carried Hollywood stars and even royalty on the Atlantic, businessmen to South America and Africa, migrants to Australia and New Zealand, and visitors returning to European homelands. Last of the Blue Water Liners nods to the Atlantic liners but also revels in the many other passenger ships that plied trades around the world: vessels like the Antilles, Oslofjord, Kampala and Changsha. Complete with rare images and the insight of the prolific maritime historian William H. Miller, this book is a nostalgic parade of a bygone age, a generation of ships all but swept away in the 1960s and 1970s as jet travel changed the world."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.3(26)

The devil's chariots : the birth and secret battles of the first tanks /John Glanfield. Glanfield, John. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45:623.438.3

Mr Midshipman VC : the short accident-prone life of George Drewry, Gallipoli hero /Quentin Falk. "Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry. At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nation's premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In so doing he was badly wounded. Accident-prone, he survived falling into a bog as a child; he was knocked over by a car; as a novice merchantman he fell from the mast of his ship and on another occasion was shipwrecked after rounding Cape Horn and stranded on a deserted island. Tragically he died at Scapa Flow shortly before the end of The Great War, while in command of his first ship. Using contemporary sources, the author brings Drewry's life into sharp focus and describes the role of 'Snotty' as midshipmen were then known. The result will appeal to addicts of real-life adventure and military historians."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DREWRY

Mare Balticum : the Baltic - two thousand years Ehrensvèard, Ulla 1995 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 94(261.24)

Britannia : the Royal Yacht revealed This book relates the story of the royal yacht from her launch in 1953 to her decomissioning and permanent mooring at Leith in 1998. In addition to her use by the royal family, her role in British diplomacy and promotion of overseas trade and business is covered. There are brief descriptions of the part Britannia played in the evacuaton of Aden in 1986 and the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. There are black and white or colour photographs on every page, many showing the interior of Britannia and illustrating life on board. There are also deck plans of the yacht. 1998 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.125:929.7.071

Captives of war : British prisoners of war in Europe in the Second World War /Clare Makepeace. "This is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British prisoners of war in Europe during the Second World War, focussing on how they coped and came to terms with wartime imprisonment. Clare Makepeace reveals the ways in which POWs psychologically responded to surrender, the camaraderie and individualism that dominated life in the camps, and how, in their imagination, they constantly breached the barbed wire perimeter to be with their loved ones at home. Through the diaries, letters and log books written by seventy-five POWs, along with psychiatric research and reports, she explores the mental strains that tore through POWs' minds and the challenges that they faced upon homecoming. The book tells the story of wartime imprisonment through the love, fears, fantasies, loneliness, frustration and guilt that these men felt, shedding new light on what the experience of captivity meant for these men both during the war and after their liberation."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.257.3

The British aircraft carrier Beaver, Paul 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.7(42)

England's sea empire, 1550-1642 Ryan, A N 1983 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 325.46(42)"15/16"

Italian naval camouflage of World War II / Marco Ghiglino. "This is a major new study of Italian naval camouflage schemes developed and used during World War Two. When Italy entered the War in June 1940, the Regia Marina (Italian navy) was a force still under development and both Italian warships and merchant ships faced the War in their peace colours; and nor had any pre-war plans been made for camouflaging ships. At that time all the principal warships were painted in a light matt grey ('grigio cenerino chiaro'), which had been adopted in the 1920s and early '30s. With the advent of War, and the start of convoy traffic to Libya, the need to camouflage ships for purposes of deception, rather than outright concealment, became apparent and the first initiatives were undertaken. In the first part of the book, employing contemporary schematic drawings, photographs and his own CAD profiles, the author describes the development of the varied schemes that were adopted for the capital ships, such as Caio Duilio and Littorio, cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, landing craft and merchant ships; even the royal yacht and small tugs were given camouflage schemes. In the second, and longest, part he depicts all the ships and their schemes, at different dates, with both sides of a ship shown where possible, in his own beautifully rendered schematic profiles, all in full colour, and it is this section with more than 700 drawings that gives the reader a complete and detailed picture of the whole development of Italian naval camouflage. He also looks in detail at the Greek theatre where there were many exceptions, influenced by the German presence and by the camouflage schemes of captured vessels. This major new reference book will prove invaluable to historians, collectors, modelmakers and wargamers and follows in the wake of the hugely successful Seaforth editions covering German and British camouflage schemes of the Second World War."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.773

The meaning of everything : the story of the OED Winchester, Simon 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 030.8:80

Biographical Index of British sundial makers from the seventh century to 1920 The aim of this index is to provide a reference list of known sundial makers for those who come across a signed sundial and for those interested in the history of gnomonics. The introduction gives a brief summary of the development of sundials from the early 'fixed', 'scratch' or 'mass' dials to the development of the dipleidoscope and then heliochronometers, the radio and time pips in 1924. A list of abbreviations used for frequently cited published sources, a general bibliography and a list of works on dialling are followed by a biographical index by century and a general index of names. 2003 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.2M

SOE : an outline history of the Special Operations Executive 1940-46 Foot, M R D 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.548.6

Running to the shrouds : nineteenth century sea stories Stanyukovich, Konstantin 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 882-3

Scrap and build Burrell, D C E 1983 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 336.574:656.61(42)"193"

The long trail: Kipling round the world Macdonald, Meryl 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Kipling

Whitby : a pictorial history Waters, Colin 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.74

How the navy won the war : the real instrument of victory 1914-1918 /Jim Ring ; foreword by Rear Admiral Chris Parry. "Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele. These epics of destruction and futility are such bywords for the First World War that - Jutland apart - we forget the role played by sea power in the war to end war. The great global conflict is too often narrowed to the fields of Flanders and the plains of Picardy. Now, award-winning biographer and naval historian Jim Ring has revisited the story to redress the balance. He emphasises how Great Britain, 'the great Amphibian' in Churchill's words, was able to move its army anywhere in the world. The Navy's very existence deterred any attempt at invasion, and its great ships kept the German High Sea fleet at bay; lastly, the Navy gradually starved the Kaiser's nation of war materiel and food. Choosing fourteen turning-points of the war, he explores the relative contributions made by land and sea power to the eventual outcome of the conflict in 1918. For example, the abandonment of the Imperial German Navy's ambition for a decisive naval surface battle was at least as important as Jutland itself, while Lloyd George's imposition of the convoy system on, it must be said, a reluctant Admiralty turned the battle against the U-boats; the mine and the submarine altered the course of war as much or more so than the tank. The book is also a study of character as well as of action, of decision-making as much as the sweep of battle, and his critique of the warlords of both the Entente and the Central Powers - of Ludendorff and Churchill, of Haig, Kitchener and Foch, of Fisher, Jellicoe, Beatty and Scheer - is refreshing, his conclusions surprising. 'The Great War was fought on land but won at sea.' Not so, says Ring, but much closer to the truth than we tend to believe. A century after the catastrophic events of the Great War, in the midst of a time at which the country is once again pondering its identity, it is worth reciting the words of John Keegan: 'No Briton of my generation, raised on food fought through the U-boat packs in the battle of the Atlantic can ever ignore the narrowness of the margin by which sea power separates survival from starvation in the islands he inhabits.' The Royal Navy was key to the survival of Great Britain and to eventual victory in 1918. Written with passion and verve, this book offers a very different way of looking at the conflict - if you think you understand the Great War, think again."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42)

Palm line Dunn, Laurence 1994 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 347.792Palm

Horrible geography : perishing poles Ganeri, Anita 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(98/99)

An Introduction to English silver from 1660 Turner, Eric 1985 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 739.1

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English / Partridge, Eric. 1984. Partridge, Eric 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 800.86(038)

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