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The many faces of slavery : new perspectives on slave ownership and experiences in the Americas /edited by Lawrence Aje and Catherine Armstrong. "While the plantation accounts for 90 per cent of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, from the 17th to the 19th century. Through a wide range of innovative and multi-disciplined approaches, the book's chapters explore the existence of urban slavery, slave self-hiring, quasi-free or nominal slaves, domestic slave concubines, slave vendors, slave soldiers and sailors, slave preachers, slave overseers, and many other types of societies with slaves. Moreover, it documents unconventional forms of slave ownership like slave-holding by poor whites, women, free blacks, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, corporations and the state. The Many Faces of Slavery broadens our traditional conception of slavery by complicating our understanding of slave experience and ownership in slavery-practising societies throughout Atlantic history."--Provided by publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620973
Ferry & cruise ship : annual 2010 /[John Hendy et al.]. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61"2010"
Calamity corner / Anthony Lane. An illustrated account of some of the ships lost in the treacherous waters of the eastern approaches to the English Channel, covering the Thames Estuary as far north as Harwich, Zeebrugge, the Belgian and French coasts as far as Boulogne, Beachy Head, East Sussex and Kent. (It is a companion volume to Shipwrecks of Kent by the same author.) The contents are arranged in chapters covering warship losses, merchant vessels lost during war, losses arising from collision, stranding and fire. The final chapter explores lifeboats and rescuers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the vessels and those involved. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(261.268)
Stena Line / Ian Collard "The major company in the short-sea passenger and freight business in 2020 is the Swedish Stena Line, which operates services to Europe, Scandinavia and Ireland from United Kingdom ports. The company was founded in 1962 by Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was one of the first ferry operators in Europe to introduce a computer-based reservation system. In the 1980s, Stena took over three other ferry companies and their ships. Various other acquisitions followed, including the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. The company doubled in size in 1990 following its takeover of Sealink British Ferries and Sea Containers. The company became Sealink Stena Line, then Stena Sealink Line, and finally Stena Line."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5
-1696) : commander of the Harwich packet boat Stone, J. W. M. 2002. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92LANGLEY
East Anglia against the Tricolor 1789-1815 : An English region against revolutionary and Napoleonic France /Julian Foynes "The years 1789 to 1815 were traumatic for British history in many ways A 'mad' king had lost the American colonies and now revolution in France, welcomed by many East Anglians, had invoked fear in many others. Thomas Paine and Horatio Nelson were two Norfolk men who would come to prominence for very different reasons. Suffolk would be a temporary refuge for emigre French families. And Essex would be a marching ground for thousands of British troops who stood ready to throw back Napoleon's forces. Local voices preached revolution and loyalty. Offshore, the North Sea fleet sailed from Yarmouth, Harwich and numerous small coastal towns to combat the French privateers."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.49"1789/1815"
The battle of the east coast 1939-1945 : the sea, air and land war from the Humber to the Thames A comprehensive study of World War Two on the English East Coast and in the North Sea between Flamborough Head in Yorkshire and North Foreland, Kent, covering the limits of the Royal Navy's Nore Command. It details coastal defences, air raids, invasion preparations, naval bases and lesser ports, mines and minelaying, convoys and minesweeping, naval actions, air-sea rescue and e-boats. Seventeen appendices cover such details as ships sunk in Nore Command, types of mines, Naval bases, senior naval officers, naval vessels, and German aircraft claimed by Harwich defences or lost in the area. Including 200 photographs, and 75 maps and diagrams. 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545(261.2)
Stena Line : celebrating 50 years of service /Bruce Peter. A history of Stena AB, the Swedish passenger ship operator founded by Sten Allan Olsson and covering the period 1962-2012. Initially running passenger ferries on Scandanavian routes, the company soon extended its operations to car and cross-Channel ferries. Merging with rivals Sessanlinjen in 1981 and taking over Lion Ferry's routes from 1982, the company developed an increasingly global reach with attempts to expand into North American and Eastern European routes. In 1989, Stena secured ownership of the Zeeland Steamship Company (SMZ) joint operators with Sealink British Ferries of the Hook of Holland - Harwich route and in 1990 took control of Sealink British Ferries owned by Sea Containers. Stena extended its operations to the Dover Strait and Irish Sea routes, rebranding firstly as the Stena Sealink Line, then Stena Line. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Stena Line's vessels. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792STENA
Royal naval dockyards officers : index of names /compiled by W May. May, W ca. 1960 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
The RNAS and the birth of the aircraft carrier 1914-1918 / Ian M. Burns. "The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) origins were as the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps in April 1912, but did not become a separate service until 1 July 1914. However, from the very beginning, the Naval Wing conducted itself as a distinct organisation. Its members commenced creating a dedicated arm of the Royal Navy with the intention of operating aircraft in support of and in association with the Fleet. On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the service quickly expanded to include service on land, initially in support of the Royal Naval Division in Belgium, later providing support to the Royal Flying Corps and as one of the early practitioners of strategic bombing. However, The RNAS and the Birth of the Aircraft Carrier 1914-1918 principally traces the development and operational use of aircraft serving with the fleet. It follows the selection and training of personnel and the struggle to produce suitable aircraft and weapons, including the evolution of the aircraft carrier. Nonetheless, the constant thread throughout will be the operational history of the RNAS over the North Sea with both the Grand Fleet and Harwich Force. Commencing over the Zeppelin base at Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914 the ending with two pivotal operations which determined the future of naval aviation, including the raid on Tondern which saw the first instance of carrier-launched airtcraft. The Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps merged in 1918 to become the RAF - yet those early years in World War One shaped the way that sea-based aircraft operated throughout the 20th Century - and beyond."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.38:623.822.74"1914/1918"
No room for mistakes : British and Allied submarines in European waters 1939-1940 /Geirr H Haarr. "A new book from this bestselling author covering the events at sea in the early years of World War II, in which he has compiled comprehensive research and insight into a highly readable and detailed account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of the war. The early chapters describe prewar submarine development, including technical advances and limitations, weapons, tactical use and life onboard, and examine the men who crewed them and explore their understanding of the warfare that they would become involved in. The core of the book is an account of the events as they unfolded in 'home waters' from the outset of war to the end of 1940, by which time the majority of the Allied submarines were operating in the Mediterranean. It is a story of success, triumph, failure and tragedy, and it tells of the tremendous courage and endurance shown by a small group of men learning how to fight a new kind of war in claustrophobic, sub-sea vessels with limited information about the enemy, or what they would meet off the alien coasts to which they were heading. Extensive primary sources are used to document the many aspects of this war, some of which remain controversial to this day. Max Horton, Vice Admiral Submarines 1940, said: 'There is no room for mistakes in submarines. You are either alive or dead.' This book makes plain how right he was."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.1