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showing 62 library results for 'collingwood'

The Newcastle daily journal. 1905. • PAMPH-OVER • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"(42:44)
The method of finding the longitude at sea, by time-keepers: to which are added tables of equations to equal altitudes, more extensive and accurate than any hitherto published Wales, William 1822 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.093T:094
Observations for determining the refractive indices for the standard rays of the solar spectrum in various media / by The Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S. Savilian professor of geometry in the University of Oxford Powell, Baden, 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535:094
Report from the Committee, to whom the petitions concerning the harbours of Rye and Dover were referred. To which is subjoined, a report, with an appendix thereto; which, together with several drawings relating to the harbour of Rye, were referred to the said Committee Watson, Justly 1757 • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 094:627.2(422.5)
Discovering statues in Central and Northern England / J.D. Bennett. Bennett, J. D.-(John D.), 1968. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 731.8/2/0942
Some account of Halley's Astronomiae cometicae synopsis : which contains his investigation of the orbits of comets Rigaud, Stephen Peter, 1835. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094
The Antarctic dictionary : a complete guide to Antarctic English /Bernadette Hince. "The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual worlds in the English language. In the space of a mere century, a remarkable vocabulary has evolved to deal with the extraordinary environment and living organisms of the Antarctic and subantarctic. Here, for the first time, is a complete guide to the origin of Antarctic worlds, from the humorous to the obscure. Like other historical dictionaries, The Antarctic Dictionary gives the reader quotations for each word. More than 15,000 quotations from about 1,000 different sources give the reader a unique insight into the way the language of Antarctica has evolved. The Antarctic Dictionary has been meticulously researched, and will appeal to all those who have been to the frozen continent or have ever dreamed of going there."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 427.998903
The glorious battle off Trafalgar Watlen, John • MUSIC • 1 copy available. 355.49"1805"
Authentic narrative of the death of Lord Nelson : comprising several interesting circumstances preceding, attending, and subsequent to, that event; together with the professional record of His Lordship's fatal wound and several interesting anecdotes Beatty, William 1807 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:393:92Nelson
AB Lindop J B : his life and times Lindop, J B 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Lindop
Life of Horatio Lord Nelson beautifully embellished. The author of this book is not recorded but it covers the life of Horatio Lord Nelson from his birth, his early years and battles such as the Nile, Copenhagen and the Battle of Trafalgar. It includes details of letters written by Nelson and an account of the dispatch from Lord Collingwood following Nelson's death. Black and white illustrations accompany some of the text. In addition, tables showing the ships in the line of battle and lists of officers killed and wounded are included for the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92 Nelson
The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery /James Walvin. "On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today. Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the Zong's voyage and the subsequent trial - a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners' claim that their 'cargo' had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted wide debate and fueled Britain's awakening abolition movement. Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the process of ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and political trajectory. He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the case of the Zong, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)
Children at sea : lives shaped by the waves /Vyvyen Brendon. "Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon's previous books. Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to life-long exile in distant lands. Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nautical career fraught with danger and broken only by fleeting periods of home leave. Solitary among numbers, as Admiral Collingwood described himself, they could be not just physically at risk but psychologically adrift - at sea in more ways than one. Rather than abandoning seaborne children as they approached adulthood, therefore, Vyvyen follows whole lives shaped by the waves. She focusses on eight central characters: a slave captured in Africa, a convict girl transported to Australia, a Barnardo's lass sent as a migrant to Canada, a foundling brought up in Coram's Hospital who ran away to sea, and four youths from contrasting backgrounds despatched to serve as midshipmen. Their social origins as well as their maritime ventures are revealed through a rich variety of original source material discovered in scattered archives. These brine-encrusted lives are resurrected both for their intrinsic interest and because they speak for thousands of children, cast off alone to face storms and calms, excitement and monotony, fellowship and loneliness, kindness and abuse, sea-sickness and ozone breezes, loss and hope. This book recounts stories never before told, stories that might otherwise have sunk without trace like so much juvenile flotsam. They are sometimes inspiring, sometimes heart-rending and always compelling."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45
Papers and correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth / edited by John D. Grainger. "Sir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in 1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807. He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet, displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor of Newfoundland completed his career."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.3/32092