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Admiral Byng : his rise and execution /Chris Ware.
Admiral John Byng was born into an illustrious naval family in 1704. He qualified as a lieutenant at the age of 19 and was made post captain at 23. By the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756 he had become admiral of the blue. At the Battle of Minorca in 1756 it was alleged that he had failed to do his utmost to relieve the siege of the British garrison on Minorca. He was court-martialled and found guilty, although he was acquitted of personal cowardice. Despite pleas for clemency he was executed in 1757 on board the HMS Monarch in Portsmouth harbour. Voltaire referred to the incident in his novel Candide, creating the phrase "... pour encourager les autres". This book reappraises Byng's life and career in an attempt to discover whether he was a victim of injustice and the political situation at the time. There are black and white photographs of portraits of the various participants in Byng's story, extensive notes, a bibliography and a brief index.
2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Moongazing : beginner's guide to exploring the moon /Tom Kerss.
"An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the history of lunar observation and exploration, the properties of the Moon, its origin and orbit. This is the ideal book for Moon observers covering essential equipment, and the key events to look out for. Detailed advice is given on how to choose a telescope and how to capture the Moon in sketches. Discover all you need to know about eclipses, blue moons, supermoons, conjunctions and occultations. A comprehensive section covers astrophotography using lenses, telescopes, Smartphones, including video and how to process your images. Comes with a photographic atlas of lunar features with plates and annotated maps. A glossary of key terms, index of lunar features and software references are also provided."--Provided by the publisher.
2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
523.3
Ireland's lighthouses : a photo essay /by John Eagle.
This volume brings together John Eagle's photographs of lighthouses with brief informative text on their details, locations, and how to find them. Eagle made some daring boat and helicopter trips to capture these images, which will delight all lighthouse enthusiasts and the wider public.
2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
627.715(417)
Larrinaga line 1863-1974
Eccles, David
2005. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
347.792LARRINAGA
James Cox : 1849-1901
National Galleries of Scotland
1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
77"18"
Gunfounding and gunfounders : a directory of cannon founders from earliest times to 1850
Kennard, A N
1986 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
623.421.2
The siege of Tsingtau : the German-Japanese war 1914 /Charles Stephenson.
"The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germany's Micronesian islands. Japan's naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward. The campaign to relieve Germany of Tsingtau, the port and naval base in China, and its hinterland posed a grave threat to Chinese independence. The course of the Second World War in China and the Pacific cannot be explained without reference to these events. Charles Stephenson's account makes fascinating reading. The siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese, with token British participation, forms the core of his story. He draws on Japanese and German primary sources to describe the defences, the landings, the course of the siege, and eventual German surrender. His study will be absorbing reading for anyone interested in the campaigns of the First World War outside of Europe, in German colonial expansion and the rise to power of Japan."--Provided by the publisher
2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.48"1914"(43:52)
An Elizabethan pilot's charts (1594) : Spanish intelligence regarding the coasts of England and Wales at the end of the XVIth century /W A R Richardson
Richardson, W. A. R.
2000 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
527.83"1594"
River-class frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic : a technical and social history /Brian Lavery.
"An in-depth study of the River-class Frigate, its design, construction, weapons, crew and actions during the Battle of the Atlantic... the author draws on previously unpublished ship plans, photographs, naval documents and eyewitness accounts to present a complete ands exhaustive study of the River-class."--Back cover.
2006. • BOOK • 3 copies available.
623.823.6
Managing a sea : the ecological economics of the Baltic
Gren, Ing-Marie
2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
33(261.24)
The mammoth book of men o'war : stories from the glory days of sail
Ashley, Mike
1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
820-3
Rivers to the Fen : rivers Cam, Great Ouse, Nene and other waterways /Robert Simper.
Simper, Robert.
[2000?] • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
914.264:626.1(426)
Politics in the age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool
Derry, John
2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
942.07
Aldus Manutius : printer and publisher of renaissance Venice
Davies, Martin
1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
655(453.1)
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy : from American slave to Arctic hero /Dennis L. Noble and Truman R. Strobridge ; foreword by Gene Allen Smith and James C. Bradford.
A biography of Captain Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), born to an Irish father and a Georgia slave mother. Taken by his father to Massachusetts, Healy went to sea at the age of fifteen and ten years later joined the US Revenue Cutter Service as an officer serving on the North West coast of America, primarily in Alaskan and Arctic waters. He gained a reputation as a hard-drinking disciplinarian, eventually being convicted for drunkenness and placed on the awaiting-orders list for four years. The authors also aim to provide an insight into how race and religion influenced maritime institutions during the late 19th century.
c2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92HEALY
Precision pendulum clocks : the quest for accurate timekeeping
Roberts, Derek
2003 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
681.11.032.111
Stag Line and Joseph Robinson and Sons
Robinson, Nicholas J
1984 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available.
629.123.4(42)"18/19"
Blue Star : a fleet history /Tony Atkinson.
Atkinson, Tony,
2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
347.792BLUE STAR
Code for the construction and equipment of ships carrying liquefied gases in bulk : 1983 edition incorporating amendments 1 to 4
International Maritime Organisation
1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
614.8:629.123
Kristian Jebsens Rederi AS : Bergen : a group history /by W.J. Harvey.
Kristian Jebsens Rederi AS (KJR) has been in existence for 76 years, and has owned, leased and chartered ships. This history of the fleet contains details of all the vessels, and black and white photographs of many of them. There is a summary of the formative years of KJR and its subsequent development. There is a selection of general arrangement plans of ships and a ship index.
c2005. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.
347.792JEBSENS
Seafaring : a chosen profession
Dickson A F
1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
656.61(42)
Sea soldier : an officer of marines with Duncan, Nelson, Collingwood and Cockburn /by Anne Petrides and Jonathan Downs
Wybourn, T. Marmaduke, Major
2000 • BOOK • 3 copies available.
92Wybourn
Georg Forster : the South Seas at Wèorlitz
"While Captain Cook went off to measure the world, Georg Forster as his father's scientific assistant and the naturalist artist on board explored recently discovered coastlines and islands including New Zealand and New Caledonia, Tahiti and Tonga. Three years later he spent two weeks in Wèorlitz, where he reported on his voyage in the spirit of the Enlightenment. This volume, lavishly filled with plates, historic paintings and drawings as well as interesting quotations by Forster and his contemporaries conjures up the world of Polynesia with objects from the South Seas including the grass skirt of a Tahitian dancer, two maces from Tonga and an axe of jade-green nephrite from New Zealand."--Provided by the publisher.
2019 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
7FORSTER
Images of Warsash and the Hamble River, 1790-2009 / Bryan Woodford.
Woodford, Bryan.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
914.227
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