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Nelson's Navy : recruitment, promotion, discipline and death /Dr Nicholas Slope. "In this insightful work, Dr. Nicholas Slope, naval historian and archaeologist, presents a social history of the Royal Navy during the time of Vice Admiral Nelson. He analyses the muster, pay and log books of three Royal Navy Frigates, HMS Trent, Amazon and Glenmore, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, using computer databases to explore life on board from 1793-1815. This book covers themes such as recruitment, officer development, child labour, promotion, desertion and death."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Contract made between the Royal Swedish Naval Board ... and Messrs. Sweden. Royal Navy 1901 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.825(485)

Minutes of a court martial holden on board His Majesty's ship Gladiator, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday Gambier, James, Lord 1809 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Gambier

MNTB : making headway : second progress report Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry. Merchant Navy Training Board 1972 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 656.61:377.6

Goodere Esq, Matthew Mahony, and Charles White, for the murder of Sir John Dineley Goodere Bart ... on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Goodere, Mahony, White : 1741 1741 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Goodere:094:344.4"1740"

Rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash revisited : Winston Churchill and social reform in the Royal Navy, "'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. During this period, not only were there major improvements in pay and conditions for sailors, but detailed consideration was also given to the future of the spirit ration; to the punishing and eradicating of homosexual practices; to the spiritual concerns of the fleet; and to the regime of corporal punishment that underpinned naval discipline for boy sailors. In short, under Churchill, the Royal Navy introduced a social reform programme perfectly encapsulated in this elegant quip. And, yet, not only has no one studied it; many people do not even know that such a programme even existed. This book rectifies that. It shows that Churchill was not just a major architect of welfare reform as President of the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary, but that he continued to push a radical social agenda while running the Navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1900/1915"

proceedings of the court-martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny of board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial : 1792 1794 • • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"

Home Popham, since his return from the Red Sea', to which is added a copy of the report made by the Navy-Board Popham, Home Riggs, Sir ca1804 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Romney

. : ready for an expedition as soon as some more good hands are on board ... [1804]. • RAREPAM-OS • 1 copy available. 355.2"1804"

Final report of a board of investigation ... to inquire into the design and methods of construction of United States.-Navy Department 1947 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 629.12.011.22

Minutes of the proceedings at the trial of Rear-Admiral Knowles before a court-martial held on board Fearne, Charles 1750 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Knowles

Minutes of a court-martial, held on board his Majesty's ship Marlborough, in Port-Royal harbour, Jamaica Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Roddam : 1757 1757 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 92Roddam

Royal Navy officer's Jutland pocket-manual, 1916 / W.M. James ; introduction by Brian Lavery. "Published in the months leading up to the Battle of Jutland, W.M. James' New Battleship Organisations, was the ultimate guide to command and organization of every aspect of a modern First World War capital ship. The book provides a unique, and highly revealing, insight into life aboard ship, the mechanics of command, seamanship, the issuing of orders, and the broad expectations placed upon British naval officers. Specific sections are dedicated to the organization of watches, the division of work (from fellow officers right through the ship's company to the ratings), naval routine, parades, anchor and cable work, coaling and right down to the organization of chapel, on-board shops, cleaning and even the ship's barbers. A series of detailed tables, diagrams and humorous cartons accompany the lucid, period language of the First World War Senior Service and provide a further glimpse below-decks that will appeal to social and family historians, and anyone with a general or specialist interest in naval history. The book, re-published here by the Pool of London Press as The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916, marks the centenary of the First World War's most famous, and deadly naval encounter." 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

fourteen seamen for mutiny ... late of his Majesty's ship Temeraire ... before a court-martial held on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial : 1802 ca1802 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:344.4"1802"

The minutes of a court-martial held on board His Majesty's ship the Lenox in Portsmouth harbour on the Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Mostyn, Fowke : 1744 1745 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Fowke

When the navy took to the air : the experimental seaplane stations of the Royal Naval Air Service /Philip "During the years leading up to the First World War, the Royal Navy was at the forefront of change in the field of aviation. When conflict broke out, military aircraft were now needed to defend the fleet, participate in tactical air strikes in enemy territory, and secure Britain against Zeppelin raiders. Presented with a totally new and revolutionary weapon in the aeroplane, the work of several experiemntal airfields and seaplane stations became crucial to the success of these operations. Flexistowe and the Isle of Grain took the lead role in developing new aircraft and aerial weaponry, as well as making ground-breaking advances in navigational systems, air-to-ground radio communication, and deck-board ship landings. Having assembled an elite group of aviation experts and hotshot pilots, these air stations made a vital contribution to the outcome of the war as theyw itnessed the enormous cost, both economic and human, to complete this necessary advance in the fight against enemy forces. This book examines the importance of the Royal Naval Air Service, with first-hand quotes from the pilots and technical pioneers who made such bold leaps forward in thise xperimental era of naval aviation, and detailed coverage of the various successes and failures that these brave and ambitious servicemen faced. When the Navy Took to the Air is the untold story of how, under the pressure of war, the British Navy pushed aviation to the limit."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.4/4941

copy of the proceedings on the trial of the Honorable Vice Admiral Cornwallis, held at Portsmouth on board Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Cornwallis : 1796 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cornwallis

Training to be an officer : syllabuses of instruction with notes for the use of apprentices and cadets Merchant Navy Training Board 1952 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 331.861

Admiralty, setting forth the inconveniences and hardships, the Marine officers are subject to, who serve on board Officer, An (pseud) 1757 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.353(42)"17"

The Crimean War journals (1854-1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe : on board HMS Duke of Wellington /reasearched Crowe, Bernard Robert 2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92CROWE

The trial of the Honble Admiral Byng at a court-martial held on board His Majesty's ship the St George Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Byng : 1756 1757 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Byng

Held on board his Majesty's ship the Britannia ... Great Britain. Royal Navy. Court-martial, Keppel : 1779 1779 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 92Fraser:094:340.96"1746"

, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First on board Hoppner, Richard Belgrave (tr) 1813. • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(100)"1803/1806"

The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual 1939-1945 / edited by Chris McNab "The Allied Merchant Navies in World War II provided a vital but often forgotten service to their countries' war effort. At the outbreak of war, the British Merchant Navy was the largest in the world, and up to 185,000 men and women served during the course of the war, some as young as 14. The US Merchant Marine all told numbered over 200,000. The risks they faced to maintain the essential flow of armaments, equipment and food were considerable. Danger came from submarines, mines, armed raiders and destroyers, aircraft, kamikaze pilots and the weather itself. Life on board a merchant ship could be tense, with hour after hour spent battling high seas, never knowing if a torpedo was about to hit. In the Arctic convoys sailors had to cope with extreme cold and ice. But there was also comradeship and more open society than was the norm at the time, free of distinctions of class, race, religion, age or colour and a mixture of nationalities, especially in the British fleet. The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of these intrepid seamen, many of whom did not return. Collating documents, diagrams and illustrations from British and American archives, it combines information on training, gunnery, convoys, anti-submarine techniques with personal accounts. Covering the battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, and the Pacific, this pitches the reader into the heart of this vital but often forgotten arena of WWII."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61(035)

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