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The sea-mans dictionary : Henry Manwayring - London 1644 Manwayring, Henry,-Sir, 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 800.866:656.61ENGLISH

The lighthouses of Trinity House / Richard Woodman and Jane Wilson. Woodman, Richard, 2002. • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 627.715(42/429)

Darkmatter : poems of space /edited by Maurice Riordan and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1:523

Merseyside in monochrome : Priestley and Sons, Merseyside photographers - the story of a Victorian and Edwardian family business /Michael G. Priestley. Priestley, Michael G. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 77PRIESTLEY:627.2(427.2)

Australia circumnavigated : the voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 /edited by Kenneth Morgan. 'This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders's fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the 'Memoir' he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia. He was also largely responsible for giving Australia its name. His voyage was supported by the Admiralty, the Navy Board, the East India Company and the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks ensured that the Investigator expedition included scientific gentlemen to document Australia's flora, fauna, geology and landscape features. The botanist Robert Brown, botanical painter Ferdinand Bauer, landscape artist William Westall and the gardener Peter Good were all members of the voyage. After landfall at Cape Leeuwin, Flinders sailed anti-clockwise round the whole continent, returning to Port Jackson when the ship became unseaworthy. After a series of misfortunes, including a shipwreck and a long detention at the Ile de France (now Mauritius), Flinders returned to England in 1810. He devoted the last four years of his life to preparing A Voyage to Terra Australis, published in two volumes, and an atlas. Flinders died on 19 July 1814 at the age of forty. The fair journals edited here comprise a daily log with full nautical information and 'remarks' on the coastal landscape, the achievements of previous navigators in Australian waters, encounters with Aborigines and Macassan trepangers, naval routines, scientific findings and Flinders's surveying and charting. The journals also include instructions for the voyage and some additional correspondence. The 'Memoir' explains Flinders' methodology in compiling his journals and charts and the purpose and content of his surveys. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders's survey sheets, maps of the voyage and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.'--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

Maritime animals : telling stories of animals at sea Nagai, Kaori [2019] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 636.045(26)

Serco : Spring/Summer 2013 2013 • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available.

The changing face of empire : Charles V, Philip II and Hapsburg authority, 1551-1559 Rodriguez-Salgado, M J 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 943.031/.032

Small boats and daring men : maritime raiding, irregular warfare, and the early American Navy /Benjamin Armstrong. "Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones's own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era's conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work-with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors' memoirs and diaries, and officers' correspondence-is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century."--Provided by publisher. 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(73)

Joseph Conrad : master mariner /Peter Villiers. Joseph Conrad published his first novel (Almayer's Folly) in 1895 at the age of 36. Before that he spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually gaining his master's certificate. This book traces Conrad's career at sea. It is based on a previously unpublished study by the author's late father, Alan Villiers. It describes Conrad's life as a mariner and shows his development as a novelist. There is an appendix containing a detailed account of the merchant service in the late 19th century, especially the reality and danger of life at sea. The book is illustrated with paintings of the ships in which Conrad sailed; the artist is Mark Myers, who served at sea under Alan Villiers and regarded him as his mentor. There is a glossary of terms at the back, and a short index. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CONRAD

Coast Lines key ancestors : M Langlands & Sons /by Nick Robins and Colin Tucker. Langlands' ships were an integral part of the Liverpool - Glasgow trade of the 19th century and early 20th century. The company was taken over by Coast Lines in 1919, after operating in the coastal shipping trades for 80 years. Langlands also formed a connection with the Stornoway Shipping Company. This book follows the history of Langlands and its legacy. The Appendices contain fleet lists, and a list of J & G Burns and G & J Burns steamers built for the Clyde to Mersey service between 1828 and 1922. There is also an index of ship names. Includes extensive photographs and drawings. 2015. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 347.792LANGLANDS

Mariner's Launch Solly, Ray 2005 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

Seawolves : pirates & the Scots /Eric J. Graham. Graham, Eric J. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(411)"16/17"

The quest for Captain Morgan Ure, John 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Morgan

The shorter Pepys / selected and edited by Robert Latham from the diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. This is an abridgement of the diary of Samuel Pepys, selected and edited by Robert Latham. It contains about one-third of the original diary and is presented as an unbroken narrative, retaining the character of the original diary with Pepys's detail and style. Includes a chronological summary of Pepys's life, a list of maps showing London in the 1660s, genealogical tables of the Pepys family and illustrations of the most important people and places mentioned in the book. 1985. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS(093.32)

The Imperial War Museum book of the First World War : a great conflict recalled in previously unpublished letters, diaries, documents and memoirs Brown, Malcolm 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(421.6)

Drake & the Elizabethan explorers : [the story of England's most celebrated sea-going adventurer in the Age of Discovery] /by John Guy. Guy, John. 1998. • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 92DRAKE

Mauretania : triumph and resurrection /Peter Newall. Newall, Peter. 2006. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123MAURETANIA

An America's Cup treasury : the lost Levick photographs, 1893-1937 "In the early years of the twentieth century, America's Cup races were front-page stories that drew thousands of fans to the shores around New York Harbor. The sleek grace of the racing yachts, and the competitive passions of their owners, also inspired Edwin Levick, an enterprising British-born photographer determined to make a name for himself in America. For the next thirty years Levick, his sons and his students - including future photographic star Morris Rosenfeld - would document the hotly contested America's Cup races, capturing the elegant boats and often turbulent battles in black-and-white photographs that even today are both gorgeous and deeply evocative of a time and a sensibility that can never return. As readers of this volume will discover, Levick applied his gift for the artfully composed photograph not only to the public moments of the America's Cup but also to quieter times behind the scenes - young women on their knees cutting sails, and white-suited crews and visitors loitering on deck, exuding the heady perfume of skills, privilege, and anticipation of the challenge to come. There are also poignant scenes such as a demasted Resolute after her first trail race in 1920, the hollow wooden spar reduced to twisted splinters. Though not all these pictures made the papers, they have captured central truths in the lives of the first America's Cup sailors. Levick's photographs are interpreted and elaborated here by the author and television commentator Gary Jobson, member of a winning America's Cup crew."-- Provided by the publisher. 1999 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 77Levick

Wheel and pinion cutting in horology : a historical and practical guide Wild, J Malcolm 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.2L

British and Commonwealth merchant ship losses to axis submarines : 1939-1945 /Alan J. Tennent "During the Second World War, merchant shipping was Britain's lifeline. Essential goods needed from Asia, Australia, Africa and America had to be brought across the oceans in merchant convoys escorted by British and Commonwealth warships. German U-boats, surface raiders and aircraft did their best to attack and sink these vital convoys and it became increasingly difficult to maintain supplies of raw materials like timber and iron, and foods like meat, cheese, butter and oranges. As the Germans tightened the noose on Britain's Atlantic supply lines, the pressure grew ever greater on Britons to become self-sufficient. The sinking of Allied merchant vessels mounted and Germany came close to winning the Battle of the Atlantic and starving Britain into submission. More Allied merchant ships were lost to Axis U-boat attack than to any other cause combined - in fact more than 1400 ships. In this unique and comprehensive reference volume, the author has gone back to primary sources to provide full details for each and every one of these ships - including the sinking of the vessels, the U-boat and commander responsible, and survivors, if any."--Provided by the publisher. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545:656.61

Mediterranean submarines / Michael Wilson & Paul Kemp Wilson, Michael 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827

Copyright : interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services /Graham P. Cornish. "Cornish's Copyright, the standard work in its field, is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals looking for solutions to their copyright problems. The book explains the provisions of the UK Copyright Act and supporting legislation in quick and easy question-and-answer form. This latest edition is revised and expanded in the light of new legislation which came into force in 2014/5 and some decisions by the courts which have changed our understanding of what the law means. Areas such as moral rights, originality, databases, and the use of broadcast material in education all receive detailed attention, along with Wikipedia, Creative Commons and Open Archives. Copyright is also considered in the context of social media. All types of material that may attract copyright are considered, including: literary, dramatic and musical works; artistic works; sound recordings; films and videos; broadcasts; databases; computer programs and websites. The text is amplified by the use of practical examples to illustrate complex points and complemented by a detailed index that enables the enquirer to pinpoint topics and proposed action quickly and accurately. The appendices provide helpful lists of addresses and selected further sources of information."--Provided by the publisher. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.78

The british merchant navy : images and experiences Containing reproductions of paintings by Robert Lloyd of more than fifty vessels representing the British Merchant Navy in the 1950s and 1960s. Each painting is supported by text which provides an overview of the shipping line and vessel, and includes the memories of those who worked on each ship. 2002 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61

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