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Fighters over the Fleet : naval air defence from biplanes to the Cold War /Norman Friedman. Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This volume concentrates on the three main advocates of carrier warfare: the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Because radar was not invented until the mid-1930s, fleet air defense was a primitive effort for flyers during the 1920s. Once the innovative system was developed and utilized, organized air defense became viable. Thus major naval-air battles of the Second World War, like Midway, the 'Pedestal' convoy, the Philippine Sea and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. However, even radar was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, which led to postwar moves toward computer control and new kinds of fighters. After 1945, the novel threats of nuclear weapons and stand-off missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers the U.S. and Royal Navies? attempts to resolve these problems by examining the U.S. experience in Vietnam and British operations during the Falklands War. The book then turns to the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s before concluding with the current state of technology supported carrier fighters.--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.7
Addenda to manual of hydraulics 1893 : HM ships Albion and Glory The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 1900 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 621.22
Possessing Meares Island / Barry Gough. Gough, Barry M. 1998. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 971.1
A policy and financial management review Wilding, Richard 1991 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069.64
Submarines : 1914-present / David Ross. "The emergence of the submarine in 1914 as a major strategic weapon was swift and unexpected. On 5 September 1914, a British light cruiser, HMS Pathfinder, was sunk by the German submarine U-21, becoming the first victim of a free-fired torpedo. The basis of naval warfare had been changed forever. The Essential Naval Identification Guide: Submarines 1914Present offers a highly illustrated guide to all the main classes of submarines to be used in naval warfare from the beginning of World War I to the present day. Divided by era, campaign and country, the book includes sections on submarine forces in 1914, technical developments during the 1930s, the Atlantic convoy war during World War II, Soviet submarine development during the Cold War, the introduction of nuclear-powered submarines, submarines of the Falklands War, and the latest ICBM carriers. All the main types are included, from the World War I-era German U-1 and British F-class, through the Type VII U-boats and US Gato class of World War II, and coming up-to-date with the latest missile submarines, such as HMS Astute, USS Virginia, the Russian Borei class, the Chinese Shang class and the INS Arihant."--Dust jacket. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827"1914/..."
The world encyclopedia of battleships / Peter Hore. "This meticulously researched and illustrated book begins with a history of the battleship, from the first ironclad wooden-hulled ships of the 19th century to the revolutionary Dreadnoughts of World War I and the mightly battleships and battle cruisers of World War II. In fascinating detail, here are the accounts of the main battles and operations in which these warships took part. There are also anecdotes about the personalities involved in the design and command of what has been described as one of the most technologically advanced and complex engineering achievements of human civilization. There follows three chronological sections, each of which is a comprehensive country-by-country directory of the major battleships of that era, with an informative text describing their history, construction, appearance and function. Accompanied by archive and museum photographs, illustrations and paintings, the famous ships of the last 150 years, including Dreadnought, Hood, New Jersey, Bismarck and Nagato, are brought to life. Special information panels detail each ship's main specificiations, including its country of origin, launch date, size, weight, firepower and performance. Featuring more than 150 ships and illustrated with over 550 photographs, this is a must-have reference book for everyone interested in the battleships that have helped to make history."--Provided by the publisher. [2005]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(100)"18/20"
Newsletter : AYRS. 1977-1999. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Theatrum orbis terrarum / Ortelius, Abraham. 1624. Ortelius, Abraham 1624 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"15"
Windjammer • JOURNAL • 1 copy available. Mariners International
The H.I.A. journal of modern watchmaking. Horological Institute of America. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Pax Britannica : peace, force and world power /Barry M. Gough. Gough, Barry M. 1990. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 325.46(41-44)
The North West Company's "adventure to China" / Barry M. Gough. Gough, Barry M. 1976. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(510)"1783/1840"
Sur les pendules a secondes La Hire, M. de 1715 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.11
Brief history of polar exploration since the introduction of flying : to accompany a physical map of the Arctic and a bathymetric map of the Antarctic Joerg, W L G 1930 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 910.4(98/99)"1925/1930"
Construction : d'une horloge qui marque le temps vrai avec le moyen La Hire, M. de 1717 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.11
Recueil des machines approuvees par l'Academie Royale des Sciences L'Academie Royale des Sciences 1699-1734 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11
The records of the Royal Navy's Pacific Station / [Barry M. Gough] Gough, Barry M. 1969. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.49(42:265)"1867/1905":930.25
Alte Uhren : ZeitmeÇgerèate, wiss. Instrumente u. Automaten. • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Recherche : des dates de l'invention du micrometre, des horloges a pendule, et des lunettes d'approche La Hire, M. de 1717 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:681.11
The Corporation of Trinity House : serving the mariner. Pamphlet briefly describing the history of Trinity House, and its three main roles as a general lighthouse authority, a charitable organisation for the welfare of mariners, and a deep sea pilotage authority. 199?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 627.71(421.6)
The seaman 1931 - 1991 (Dec.) with gaps • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.
Italian Battleships : Conte di Cavour and Duilio Classes 1911-1956 /Erminio Bagnasco and Augusto de Toro. "Originally comprising five vessels in two related classes, these battleships entered service at the beginning of the Great War. As designed, they were powerful examples of the second generation of dreadnoughts, with a combination of twin and triple turrets producing a unique main armament of thirteen 12-inch guns. One ship, Leonardo da Vinci, was sunk by an explosion at Taranto in 1916, and although the hull was raised post-war, te plan to rebuild the ship was abandoned as it was not deemed cost-effective. However, the remaining four ships were to undergo one of the most radical reconstructions of any battleship class during the 1930s, emerging with an entirely new profile, an up-gunned main armament, more powerful machinery and all the characteristics of a modern fast battleship. In this form they became an important element in the Italian fleet that opposed the British from 1940. This book covers all the technical details of the shis, both as built and as rebuilt, but also provides an extended history of their active service, including battle plans and track charts, as well as their post-war fates. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, ship and armament plans, detail drawings and colour camouflage schemes, the book is a fitting companion to the author's previous work, The Littorio Class."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82520945
Catalogue of the Cobb manuscripts, addendum : in the collection of Albert V Parker, Bolton, Lancs Kent County Council 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 930.25:017.1(422.3)
Fictions of consent : slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England /Urvashi Chakravarty. "In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that we must hold early modern England--and its narratives of exceptional and essential freedom--to account for the frameworks of slavery that it paradoxically but strategically engendered. Slavery was not a foreign or faraway phenomenon, she demonstrates; rather, the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of English life and in the everyday contexts of England's service society, from the family to the household, in the theater and, especially, the grammar school classroom, where the legacies of classical slavery and race were inherited and negotiated. The English conscripted the Roman freedman's figurative "stain of slavery" to register an immutable sign of bondage and to secure slavery to epidermal difference, even as early modern frameworks of "volitional service" provided the strategies for later fictions of "happy slavery" in the Atlantic world. Early modern texts presage the heritability of slavery in early America, reveal the embeddedness of slavery within the family, and illuminate the ways in which bloodlines of descent underwrite the racialized futures of enslavement. Fictions of Consent intervenes in a number of areas including early modern literary and cultural studies, premodern critical race studies, the reception of classical antiquity, and the histories of law, education, and labor to uncover the conceptual genealogies of slavery and servitude and to reveal the everyday sites where the foundations of racialized slavery were laid. Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," Chakravarty reveals slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon." -- Publisher's description [2022] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820.9/352625