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securing to the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, all such forfeited and unclaimed shares of prize Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1781 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 355.231.41(421):094:342.537

Lloyd's reports of prize cases heard before and decided by the Right Honourable Sir Samuel Evans ... Great Britain. High Court of Justice 1915-1921 • BOOK • 7 copies available. 347.992

Mediterranean-built prizes taken into the Royal Navy / David J. Lyon Lyon, David, 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)

Eloquent witnesses : bookbindings and their history : a volume of essays dedicated to the memory of Dr Phiroze Randeria /edited by Mirjam M. Foot. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 686.1

Eliott's gold : the award of head money after the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783) claim, rejection and parliamentary petition /Roy Clinton. "The Latin family motto beneath the coat of arms of General George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, reads 'Boldly and Rightly' and so it was that the General Eliott pusued a claim for prize and bounty for the Garrison and Naval department during the Great Siege of Gibraltar 1770-1783. This claim was rejected by the Navy Board as unfounded given a strict interpretation of Naval Prize Statues, but undeterred General Eliott boldly petitioned Parliament and successfully changed the law to obtain 30,000 of Head Money to be rightly distributed amongst the victorious participants. This is the previouslly untold story of how General Eliott, through strategic political manovering and persistence, changed the Navy Board's rejection into gold."--Provided by the publisher. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The Continental Shelf Mouton, M W 1952 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.225:639.2

Great Britain's maritime power Noel, Gerard H U 1878 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.013(26:42)

Animals and birds / [Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd]. List of questions, with a prize to be awarded for the first wholly correct response, for passengers on board R.M.S. "Queen Mary". 1967]. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(079.1)"1967"

Music / [Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd]. List of questions, with a prize to be awarded for the first wholly correct response, for passengers on board R.M.S. "Queen Mary". 1967]. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(079.1)"1967"

Meditationes analyticae Waring, Edwardo 1785 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

Twenty questions / [Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd.] List of questions, with a prize to be awarded for the first wholly correct response, for passengers on board R.M.S. "Queen Mary". 1967]. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792CUNARD(079.1)"1967"

Metals : their properties and treatment Bloxam, Charles Loudon 1881 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 669

Proposals humbly presented to His Highness Oliver ... 1656 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.992"1652"

Mysteries and secrets of trade and mint-affairs ... 1653 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.992"1652"

A true discoverie to the Commons of England ... 1651 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:347.992"1652"

The elements of graphic statics Ott, Karl von 1876 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 531.2

Meditationes Algebraicae Waring, Edwardo 1782 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

Magneto- and dynamo-electric machines : with a description of electric accumulators Glaser-de Cew, Gustav 1884 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621.313

My fourth time, we drowned : seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route /Sally Hayden. "The treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In this book, award-winning journalist Sally Hayden unfolds a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa."--Privided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 304.8096

Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830 / Matthew McCarthy. "Private maritime predation was integral to the Spanish American Wars of Independence. When colonists rebelled against Spanish rule in 1810 they deployed privateers - los corsarios insurgentes - to prosecute their revolutionary struggle at sea. Spain responded by commissioning privateers of its own, while the disintegration of Spanish authority in the New World created conditions in which unauthorised prize-taking - piracy - also flourished. This upsurge in privateering and piracy has been neglected by historians yet it posed a significant threat to British interests. As numerous vessels were captured and plundered, the British government - endeavouring to remain neutral in the Spanish American conflict - faced a dilemma. An insufficient response might hinder Britain's commercial expansion but an overly aggressive approach risked plunging the nation into another war. Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America assesses the varied and flexible ways the British government responded to prize-taking activity in order to safeguard and enhance its wider commercial and political objectives. This analysis marks a significant and original contribution to the study of privateering and piracy, and informs key debates about the development of international law and the character of British imperialism in the nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.12(42:72)"18"

Gordon Bennett and the first yacht race across the Atlantic / Sam Jefferson. "The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen's pursuit into something altogether more rugged and adventurous. The race also symbolized the beginning of America's 'gilded age', with its associated obscene wealth and largesse (the $90,000 prize put up by the three contestants is about $15 million in today's money), as well as the thawing of relations between the US and UK. The narrative focuses on the victorious yacht Henrietta and her owner James Gordon Bennett. Bennett was the son of the multimillionaire proprietor of the New York Herald, and a notorious playboy. His infamous stunts included driving his carriage through the streets of New York naked, tipping a railway porter $30,000, and turning up at his own engagement party blind drunk and mistaking the fire for a urinal, which led to the coining of the phrase 'Gordon Bennett!'. However, Bennett was also a serious yachtsman and had served with distinction during the civil war aboard Henrietta, and he was the only owner to be aboard his own boat during the race. Other characters include Bennett's captain Samuel Samuels (legendary clipper skipper, ex-convict and occasional vaudeville actor), financier Leonard Jerome, aboard Henrietta as race invigilator (he also happened to be grandfather to Winston Churchill) and Stephen Fisk, a journalist so desperate to cover the race that he evaded a summons to appear as a witness in court and instead smuggled himself aboard Henrietta in a crate of champagne. Using the framework of the race to discuss the various historical themes, there's ample drama, and the diverse and eccentric range of characters ensure that this is a book laced with plenty of human interest, scandal and adventure."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.1(261)

Astronomical minds : the true longitude story /Ted Gerrard. Gerrard, Ted. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.282

Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail : peace, war, and peril in the Caribbean /Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton. "The story has been passed through generations for more than two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L'Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.9163/65

Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before /Tony Horwitz. "Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across hemispheres and centuries to recapture the Captain's adventures and explore his embattled legacy in today's Pacific. Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Confederates in the Attic, works as a sailor aboard a replica of Cook's ship, meets island kings and beauty queens, and carouses the South Seas with a hilarious and disgraceful travel companion, an Aussie named Roger. He also creates a brilliant portrait of Cook: an impoverished farmboy who became the greatest navigator in British history and forever changed the lands he touched. Poignant, probing, antic, and exhilarating, Blue Latitudes brings to life a man who helped create the global village we inhabit today."--Provided by the publisher. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92COOK

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