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BBC who do you think you are? magazine. Issue 5 (February 2008) - Issue 227 (February 2025) • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

The biographical memoirs of Captain William Edmeades, 1766-1852, the honorable East India Company / [edited by Michael Baker and Patricia Baker]. Captain William Edmeades wrote his biographical memoir at the age of 70, having retired from the Honourable East India Company at the age of 40. Edmeades had gone to sea aged fourteen in 1780 as midshipman on the ship Hillsborough, and had risen through the ranks to captain, retiring in 1806. His memoirs describe his life at sea, his career and voyages, during a time when Britain was almost coninuously at war. He saw action at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, leading a brigade of company officers and sailors. After his company service he settled at Nurstead Court, Kent, purchased by his father in 1767, and undertook various tasks such as remodeling the house as a fine Regency villa and improving the local church. The memoirs are supplemented by letters written by his brother, at sea at the same time as William. The editors of this text have added footnotes, a summary of Edmeades' voyages, and an index. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92EDMEADES

Gloriana : the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I /Roy Strong Strong, Roy C. 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.034(42)5

Mapmatics : how we navigate the world through numbers /Paulina Rowiânska. "How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths. In Mapmatics, Dr Paulina Rowinska embarks on a fascinating journey to discover the mathematical foundations of cartography and cartographical influences on mathematics. From a sixteenth-century map that remains an indispensable navigation tool despite emphasizing the North-South divide to public transport maps that both guide and mislead passengers, she reveals how maps and maths shape not only our sense of space and time but also our worldview. Through entertaining stories, surprising real-world examples and a cast of unforgettable characters, Mapmatics helps us to appreciate the mathematical methods and ideas behind maps. And, by illuminating how our world works, leaves us better equipped to understand and look after it." 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526

Unruly desires : American sailors and homosexualities in the age of sail /William Benemann. "In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts and misfits into a community of the marginalized, one that held very different values and expectations than the towns and villages from which the young men fled, a community that offered a tentative refuge to men who were sexually attracted to other men. Drawing from biographies and autobiographies, diaries, newspapers, government reports, Congressional hearings, religious tracts, pornography, ships' logs, medical treatises, maritime fiction, court-martial reports, personal letters and business correspondence, Benemann provides an in-depth examination of nineteenth century homosexual culture as it developed at sea and in America's port cities." [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Hearts of steel : peace and war in the Royal Navy, 1918 to 1941 / Jim Carter "May 1941. The Royal Navy's Eastern Mediterranean fleet has its back to the wall. Hearts of Steel traces a history of the Royal Navy from a fresh perspective beginning in 1918 to World War 2 and its darkest hour. During peacetime we sail with the crews of HMS Effingham and Hawkins, Flagships to the East Indies Station, cruising the Indian Ocean to protect and support the British Empire. As WW2 looms we join the hand picked crew of Tribal Destroyer HMS Nubian. Nubian and her crew are soon in action in the battle for Norway before assignment to the crack 14th Destroyer Flotilla destined for the Eastern Mediterranean fleet. She and her crew participate in fleet actions & combined operations including the Battle of Matapan the biggest sea battle since Trafalgar. With the fleets crews at breaking point they face the overwhelming might of the Luftwaffe, fighting off relentless dive bombings in the Battle for Crete."-- 2022 • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The pirate who stole Scotland : William Dampier and the creation of the United Kingdom /Leon Hopkins. "Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within a United Kingdom governed from London. Instrumental in this attack upon the Scots was William Dampier, the principal subject of this book. He was an extraordinary man. A farmer's son, he became the most travelled man of his generation. He was a pirate, a brute and a devious sociopath. But he was also a scientist and a talented writer who gave his readers accurate descriptions of previously unknown places, peoples, plants and animals. He was a daring explorer and an expert navigator who mapped coastlines and logged wind patterns and ocean currents. He led the first Royal Navy expedition to Australia, over 70 years before Captain Cook's arrival. Dampier's writing made him famous, but not rich. It allowed him to rub shoulders with the leading men of his day; scientists such as Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley and Hans Sloane, businessmen such as Sir John Houblon (first governor of the Bank of England) and William Paterson, politicians such as James Vernon and Charles Montagu (first Earl of Halifax), and Admiralty men such as Admiral Sir George Rooke and Samuel Pepys. And Dampier was in the pay of the English Government; an agent known to Queen Anne, in which capacity he engineered a financial disaster and political drubbing for Scotland." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92

Triple screw steamers "Olympic" and "Titanic" / the largest and finest vessels in the world /White Star Line. Set of 16 cards advertising the "Olympic" and "Titanic", with 2 sheets of text and 14 illustrations, being one exterior view of the "Olympic", one card comparing the vessels' size to a series of international monuments, and 12 illustrations of the vessels' interiors. 1911. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 347.792WHITE STAR(041)"1911"

The Royal Observatory Greenwich : a glance at its history and work /by E. Walter Maunder. Maunder, E Walter 1900. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 520.1(421)

The promise of freedom for slaves escaping in British ships : the Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807 /Theodore Corbett. Corbett, Theodore, 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Royal Marines in the First World War : by sea, by land, by air /Matthew Richardson. Richardson, Matthew 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.41241

The golden age : Dutch painters of the seventeenth century /Bob Haak ; translated from the Dutch and edited by Elizabeth Willems-Treeman Haak, Bob 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 75.034(492)

Horological international correspondence

We went to sea in Brocklebanks of Liverpool Thomas, Gomer 1988 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Annand, David

Admiralty tide tables for yachtsmen : Isles of Scilly to Portland Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1991 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 551.465(423.7)

Entwurf zu einer planetarischen Uhr fur Kardinal Albrecht IV von Brandenburg Maurice, Klaus 1975 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.113.91

The shipmodeller Volume 2 (1930) - Volume 5 (1933) (incomplete)

The restless wave Tyne and Wear Museums Service 1978 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)

The design of educational exhibits Miles, R S (comp) 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.53

The Bureau International de l'Heure / Smith, Humphry M. 1977?. Smith, Humphry M 1977? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 061.239:529.77

Yugoslav prints Tate Gallery 1981 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)

Catalogue of English and continental furniture, glass and mirror pictures, clocks and rugs and carpets Sotheby and Co 1966 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681(085)

Richard Deacon Tate Gallery 1983 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 73.036(42)

C J Westland and comet 1914IV : a forgotten episode in New Zealand cometary astronomy Orchiston, Wayne 1983 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 523.64"1914"

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