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English overseas trade 1500-1700 Davis, Ralph, 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42)"15/17"

Annual accounts of shipbuilding and dockyard transactions, &c.. : including manufactures for the year 1913-1914; with the report of teh comptroller and auditor general thereon Great Britain.-Royal Navy 1915 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 342.537

Jonas Barber : clockmaker of Winster /by B.W. Cave-Browne-Cave. Cave-Browne-Cave, Bryan William, 1979. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92BARBER

Glasgow's river / Brian D. Osborne, Iain Quinn and Donald Robertson. Osborne, Brian D. [1996] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.443

From Howard to Nelson : twelve sailors / Laughton, John Knox. 1899. 1899 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.33(42):92

American steam vessels / Stanton, Samuel Ward. 1895. Stanton, Samuel Ward 1895 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.2(73)

A Sack of shakings Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1901 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-4

Nelson Laughton, John Knox. 1900. Laughton, John Knox, 1900 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Nelson

Encyclopedia of nautical knowledge, by W.A. McEwen and A.H. Lewis. MacEwen, William A.-(William Alvin), [1953]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 03(26)

The Norwegian with Scott : Tryggve Gran's Antarctic diary, 1910-1913 /Gran Tryggve. "Tryggve Gran was a 21 year old ski expert when he joined Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition. It was during the years 1920 to 1913 that Gran kept this diary recounting the adventures, accomplishments and ultimately Scott's tragic end. First published in 1915 in Norwegian, this marks the first English language publication of this remarkable account of one of the great expeditions in the 20th Century." 1984. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Gran

The Rise of the English shipping industry : in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Davis, Ralph, 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(42)"16/17"

Blockade : cruiser warfare and the starvation of Germany in World War One /Steve R. Dunn. "Blockade is the story of a long-running battle at sea, a battle for trade which both Britain and Germany had to win in order to survive; in particular, it tells the story of the Northern Barrage and the 10th Cruiser Squadron. The Royal Navy's role during WWI in denying Germany access to the sea, trade and vital resources was crucial in helping win the war on the Western Front; the 'Northern Blockade', located across the inhospitable waters between Iceland and Scotland, was to bring the German economy to its knees and destroy her home front morale. Likewise, the Royal Navy's success in negating Germany's attacks on British commerce prevented much suffering in Britain, and the author vividly describes the final destruction of German surface vessel commerce warfare, culminating in the hard-fought battle between the raider SMS Leopard and two British warships. The American reaction to the British naval blockade and to Germany's war on trade and her treatment of American sailors taken prisoner is looked at, while the changes in strategy on both sides through the war and the use of converted liners and armed merchant vessels as warships (AMCs) are examined in detail."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.452

Seamanship : including names of principal parts of a ship ... /by George S. Nares. Nares, George S.-(George Strong), 1882. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.052

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander RN, 1775-1814 Gardner, James Anthony 1906 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Gardner

Great shipwrecks and castaways : firsthand accounts of disasters at sea /edited, with an introduction, by Charles Neider. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3

Captain Matthew Flinders, RN : his life and place in the exploration of Australia /Sir John Dudding. Dudding, John,-Sir, 1973]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Flinders

Arctic expedition 1875-6 : journals and proceedings of the Arctic expedition, 1875-6, under the command of Captain Sir George S Nares Nares, George S.-(George Strong), 1877 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 616.392

Merchant Shipping (sub-division of ships) : first report of the Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Trade to consider and report on the sub-division of merchant ships. Foreign-going passenger steamers : vol 2: diagrams Great Britain. Parliament 1915 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 614.8

The rise of the English shipping industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Davis, Ralph, 1978 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61(42)"16/17"

The log of a sea-waif : being recollections of the first four years of my sea life Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1899 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61.071.22

From a girl to a man : how Laura became Michael /Liz Hodgkinson. "Born in 1915 into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, Laura Dillon had a difficult start in life. Her mother died when she was 10 days old and she was brought up along with her elder brother Robert by two maiden aunts, Toto and Daisy. The aunts tried to raise her as a genteel young lady who would eventually marry a suitable man with plenty of money, but Laura had other ideas. She desperately longed to be a boy, and she was also determined to get an education. Against all odds, in 1934 she won a place to St Anne's College, Oxford - then women-only. At Oxford, she realised something was seriously wrong and she could never take her place in the world as a woman. She eventually found a doctor in Sir Harold Gillies, known as the father of plastic surgery. Always sympathetic to 'nature's mistakes' he performed 13 horrendous operations on Laura over a number of years to turn her into a man. With the change of gender, and now legally a man, he became heir to the baronetey of Lismullen. Meanwhile, he trained as a doctor at Dublin University. During this time, he met and fell passionately in love with Robert (later Roberta) Cowell, whose own sex-change story became a worldwide media senstaion in 1954. The love was not returned and, rejected by Roberta, Michael became a ship's doctor for five years. This career was abruptly curtailed when the press discovered that the masculine-looking, bearded Dr Michael Dillon had begun life as a woman. A 15-year-old secret was now out in the open, and Michael was devastated beyond belief. He felt he had to 'disappear' and went to India where he eventually became the first Western man to be ordained a Tibetan monk. This meant another name change, to Lobyang Jivaka. He had always wanted to be a writer and now began to achieve a fair fegree of success. He died suddenly in India in May 1962, just a few days after completing a candid autobiography."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Unravelling starlight : William and Margaret Huggins and the rise of the new astronomy /Barbara J. Becker. "Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins (1824-1910). A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientific prominence in London and transformed professional astronomy to become a principal founder of the new science of astrophysics. The author re-examines his life and career, exploring unpublished notebooks, correspondence and research projects to expose the boldness of this scientific entrepreneur. While Sir William Huggins is the main focus of the book, the involvement of Lady Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848-1915) in her husband's research is examined, where it may have been previously overlooked or obscured. Written in an engaging style, this book has broad appeal and will be valuable to scientists, students and anyone interested in the history of astronomy"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:52(42)

Hull as a fishing port 1915? • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.22(427.4)

To students of Arctic exploration : the geographic position of Camp Jesus, and the reduction of the observations of R. E. Peary, in the vicinity of the North Pole /Thomas H. Hubbard, Hugh C. Mitchell and Charles R. Duvall. Hubbard, Thomas H., [post 1913]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(98)"1906/1909"

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