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Correspondance astronomique, gâeographique, hydrographique et statistique / du Baron de Zach. Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1824":094

Correspondance astronomique, gâeographique, hydrographique et statistique / du Baron de Zach. Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1822 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1823":094

The Captain's table: Life and dining on the great ocean liners This book provides an insight into life at sea during the heyday of the Great Ocean Liners by exploring the dishes, menus and dining experiences offered on board. The author looks at the differences in experience between First-Class, Second-Class and steerage passengers, examining aspects of life on board the liners including dress, decor, entertainment and food. Over seventy recipes are included in the book, from soups and main courses to canapâes and puddings, including those featured on iconic ships such as Titanic, Lusitania and the Queen Mary. Drawings, photographs and reproductions of original menu cards from the National Maritime Museum illustrate the glamour and excitement of ocean voyages from the late 19th to late 20th centuries. 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.614.2:641.5

Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons : the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage /Rodney Shirley. Rodney Shirley, a collector and historian of early maps, explores the development, design and history of decorative cartographic title pages from the late 15th century onwards. Using a selection of 100 main and 70 supplementary specimens from around the world, the publication examines a range of different subject matters, iconographies, styles, formats, themes and national characteristics over a 400-year time period. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 655.535.2:091

Addenda to manual of hydraulics : 12" BL Mounting BXI St Vincent, Collingwood, Vanguard, Colossus, Hercules, Neptune The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 1911 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 621.22

Buccaneers, 1620-1700 / text by Angus Konstam ; colour plates by Angus McBride. This book deals with the time when an ambitious and bloodthirsty collection of pirates mounted frequent attacks on Spanish ships in the waters of the Caribbean or 'Spanish Main'. This was known as the 'Buccaneering Era' and preceded the so-called 'Golden Age of Piracy' of the early 18th century. The book gives a history of buccaneering, its organization and methods and focuses on some of its more notorious commanders, such as Christopher Myngs and Henry Morgan. There are numerous black and white and full colour illustrations. There is also a short bibliography. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(729)"1620/1700"

The ECDIS manual / by ECDIS Ltd., author, Peter Thornton. "This manual, in conjunction with the leading ECDIS experts, manufacturers, international organisations and leading societies, has ultimately been the hard work of the author Mr Peter Thornton MBE. Consisting of 3 parts, the main section of 448 pages details the transition to digital navigation, and in many cases shows how differing ECDIS Systems present similar data and with over 500 colour images and screen-shots to guide you each step of the way. Accompanying the main section is an 80 page symbol guide of Electronic navigational Charts (ENCs) and a 286 page book of Reference guidance from IMO and flag States concerning ECDIS and its implementation and use onboard ship. The ECDIS Manual, published in 2012, represents the most complete guide available for the mariner making the transition from paper to digital and to support a vessel?s transition to digital navigation in accordance with IMO, IHO, Flag State, PSC, ISM, SMS and SIRE requirements."--Provided by publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 3 copies available.

Abandon ship! : the post-war memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum, RN /Tony McCrum. "Captain Tony McCrum's naval career started in 1932. He survived the sinking of HMS Skipjack at Dunkirk and went on to serve on minesweepers and at sea during the landings at Salerno. His wartime experiences were recently published as Sunk by Stukas. This book covers the second part of his naval career between 1945 and 1963. Having arrived back in Plymouth from Trincomlee as a lieutenant aboard the destroyer Tarter in November 1945, his first appointment was as senior instructor at the RN Signals School in Devonport. There then followed two appointments as Flag Lieutenant; first to Admiral Pridham-Wippell, CinC Plymouth Command and then Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor, CinC Home Fleet, where he was also Deputy Fleet Communications Officer. He was based on the admiral's flagship, the battleship HMS Duke of York which he joined in 1947. The fleet exercised in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and 'showed the flag' in various ports in the USA, Caribbean Islands and the Baltic. In May 1948 he was promoted Lt. Commander. In 1950 he instructed at the main Naval Signals School at Leyedene House near Petersfield. Promoted Commander, now 32 years of age, he was surprised to be appointed to accompany King George VI on a state visit to Australia and New Zealand. This was to be aboard the liner SS Gothic as there was no Royal Yacht at that time. However after months of preparation the voyage was cancelled because of the King's terminal illness and the coronation of Britain's new Queen. In November 1954 he took his first command, HMS Concord, a destroyer in the 8th Destroyer Squadron based in Hong Kong. During his eighteen month captaincy of this ship he saw action off the coast of Malaya and a lengthy visit to Australia to assist in the aftermath of a hurricane. After a spell ashore as Training Commander at HMS Ganges and after promotion to Captain in 1958, he was sent to Norway on the staff of the CinC Northern European Command. In November 1960 he was again given a seagoing command. He was to skipper HMS Meon and responsibility for the Amphibious Warfare Squadron in the Persian Gulf. The squadron composed of Meon, two tank-landing ships, four tank-landing craft and a Rhino (a pontoon-like vessel for the shallow-water landing of tanks). He was ordered to cover an area extending from the East African coast, the Red Sea and to the Persian Gulf. Having worked-up this mixed bunch of vessels and their crews, plus army personnel he was confronted with the defence of Kuwait when it was threatened by the Iraqi dictator General Kassem in 1961. He was charged with landing the twelve tanks in his squadron to defend Kuwait's main port of Shuwaikh. This was successfully carried out under difficult circumstances and the Iraqi invasion was defeated. After 42 years in the RN, Tony retired to be with his wife and young family."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92MCCRUM

The darkest hour. Micha± A. Piegzik. The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in MarchApril 1942, the main goal of which was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the western flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the Battle of Midway. The bold operation by two Japanese task forces (Kido Butai and Malay Force) in the Indian Ocean would only be possible with the fall of Singapore in February and the Dutch East Indies in early March 1942. From the strategic point of view, the Japanese offensive in the Indian Ocean was the only moment in the Second World War when the Axis forces could coordinate their efforts to severely threaten the position of the British Empire in the crucial Middle Eastern and Indian theaters.Volume 1 of The Darkest Hour describes the strategic planning and opening moves of both sides in FebruaryMarch 1942, including the Japanese navy projections on the final steps of the first stage of the Pacific War, and the Royal Navys hopes to halt the enemy advance without taking any significant risks. The Japanese offensive in the Indian Ocean began in March 1942 with the invasion of the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island. By securing both vital positions, the Japanese navy planned to establish its advanced bases in the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal.In the next step, the invincible Kido Butai consisting of five aircraft carriers and their escorts, was expected to crush the British bases on Ceylon and once and forever destroy the main core of the Eastern Fleet. The chaos provoked by the Kido Butai would then become a great opportunity for the Malay Force to cut off the British shipping routes in the western part of the Bay of Bengal.The Darkest Hour is the first systematic attempt to describe this less-well known part of the Pacific War by researching both British and Japanese archive documents and other sources published in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and India. The first volume examines events up to the capture of the Andaman Islands and Christmas Island in early March 1942, and is extensively illustrated with photographs and color artworks of the ships, aircraft and men involved. [2022] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545952

History of the Incas and the execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru : and a narrative of the vice-regal embassy to Vilcabamba, 1571 Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro 1907 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 985

The captain's wife / Aled Eames. "Aled Eames, the well known maritime historian, has written about women who went to sea in the age of sail. The main part of the book is the diary of Ellen Owen, Minafon, Tudweiliog, written on the voyage home from San Francisco round the Horn, on the 'Cambrian Monarch'. It is one of the few diaries written in Welsh by a woman in the age of sail. It has now been adapted into English. It is a tribute to a generation of women who faced great dangers at sea but also travelled the world with their master mariner husbands." -- Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92OWEN(093.32)

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 : the last great liner /Janette McCutcheon. "Since 1969, Queen Elizabeth 2 has sailed over 3 million miles, been a troopship in the Falklands War, and had her main engines changed from steam to diesel. She was the last great ocean liner and was the last real ship of state ever built. She was born in a time when the jet and air travel had stolen most of the passenger trade across the Atlantic, and was designed to cruise as much as brave the North Atlantic in all seasons."--From the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123QUEEN ELIZABETH 2

Managing archives : foundations, principles and practice /Caroline Williams. "Managing Archives provides a practical guide to archives management. It has three main target audiences: those who have been tasked by their organization to manage its archives but who have no prior training; those who are starting out as professionals or para-professionals in a record keeping environment and need basic guidance; and students who are currently studying for a professional qualification. Basic guidance is supplemented by comprehensive references to professional literature, standards, web sites etc. to enable the reader to further their studies at their own pace. The text includes a range of optional activities that enable the reader to translate principles into practice and feel greater 'ownership' with the guidance."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.25

Arabic mathematical sciences : instruments, texts, transmission "This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic, then from Arabic to Latin), and close attention is paid to terminology and comparative vocabulary. The other themes are those of the technology of the sphere and of astronomical instruments, which are treated both from the mechanical and mathematical point of view. Several of the articles combine these themes, for instance the study of the self-rotating sphere of al-Khazini (12th century) or that on the transmission of spherical trigonometry to the West. Four articles also contain substantial texts, with translation and commentary."--Provided by the publisher. 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 51(=927)

Atlas of America : our nation in maps, facts, and pictures. This atlas is divided into two main parts. The first contains an overview of America and its people including sections on climate, transportation, resources, demographic patterns and biographies of notable men and women. There is a series of maps, pictures and texts which summarize America's history. The second part contains maps of the fifty states and details of their history and characteristics. There are over 500 colour photographs, a general index and a geographical index. 1998. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912(73)

The concise Pepys : with an introduction by Stuart Sim This edition, the Braybrooke edition of Samuel Pepys's diary, constitutes roughly a quarter of the complete work. It covers the main events of Pepys's life, i.e. the Restoration, the Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Dutch wars. The first entry is from January 1659/60 and final one from May 1669. The preface to the Braybrooke edition is included. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92 PEPYS

A celebration of marine art : fifty years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists This book provides an account of the 150-plus members of the Society since its founding, with colour illustrations of their work in many cases. The main part of the book covers themes in marine painting and is divided into sections covering: Sail; War Artists and Matters Naval; River Coast and Estuary and the Steam Era. There is a section covering the history of the Society from 1939 to 1995 and a directory of members. The appendices list officers of the Society from 1946 to 1995, Honorary Vice Presidents, the Pears Prize Winners and the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights' Award Winners. 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(26:42)"18/19"

At sea and onshore : volume one - mariners, boat builders, ships' caprenters and captains ; volume two - ports around the British Isles /Mary Cove "Mary Cove's long family history of searfaring and boatbuilding has been invaluable in creating this epic collection of maritime narrative. From the history of the construction of watercreaft in Britain and overseas to a tour aroudn the main ports of the Beitish Isles, these volumes lay down on paper Mary's instinctive understanding of the way of the water."--Provided by the publisher. [2021?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Maritime museum of Russia / K. P. Guber & A. A. Tron Guber, K. P. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(26:470)

Memories of the Cairn Line of steamships and nautical tales beyond Leith / Gilbert T. Wallace. The main focus of this second book by the author is on the people, employees and others, who have previously worked for, or served with, the Cairn Line of steamships. It includes a number of first-person accounts of career histories from 1885 to 1959, accompanied by personal black and white photographs. It also includes black and white photographs of a number of the ships as well as colour photographs and histories of the ten 'mini bulk carriers' obtained by the company in 1969. 2008. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.792CAIRN LINE

Old Royal Naval College souvenir guide / John Bold and members of staff of ORNC. A fairly detailed souvernir guide covering all the main attractions in the Old Royal Naval College complete with colour photographs and illustrations. Additional information is available online the College's contemporary projects and plans including conservation and partners. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.231.42(421.6)

The man who made the Monitor : a biography of John Ericsson, naval engineer /Olav Thulesius. "The main focus of this work is Ericsson's design and construction of the ironclad USS Monitor. One of the first viable armored warships, the Monitor revolutionized naval warfare the world over"-- 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ERICSSON:623.82MONITOR

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