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Science, utility and maritime power : Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779-91 /Roger Morriss. "During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced both the technology and the administrative ideas employed in the management of the British navy. His influence stemmed from his passion for science, from his desire to achieve improvements based on a belief in the principle of Utility, and from experience gained over eleven years in Russia, a large part in the service of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin. Having travelled extensively throughout the north and south of Russia, Poland and Siberia, he managed Potemkina (TM)s industries at Krichev, built fast river galleys, armed the Russian flotilla of small craft at Kherson and served with the flotilla that defeated the Turks in the Black Sea. His main ambition was to open river communication in Siberia and develop trade into the Pacific. However he returned to England and in 1796 became Inspector General of Naval Works, a post in which he fought for innovations in the technology and management of the British royal dockyards. Regarded then by the Navy Board as a dangerous maverick, this book reveals the experiences, creativity and thinking that made him a major figure in British naval development."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BENTHAM

Captain Bligh : the man and his mutinies Kennedy, Gavin 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"

Norden i Napoleonskrigene : krig pêa sj² og land /Knut Arstad (red.) [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Trading China: paintings of the porcelain production process in the Qing Dynasty /[Hong Kong Maritime Museum]. "This catalogue features a series of 34 paintings recently acquired by the Museum. The paintings document the process of making and trading porcelain from the famous Jingdezhen kilns in the 18th century. Introductory articles and appendices on surveys of Qing paintings on the porcelain production process in other collections are also included."--Provided by the publisher. 2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.071.1(510)"16/19"

New Brighton lifeboats : an illustrated history of 150 years of gallantry /Nicholas Leach. Leach, Nicholas. 24 cm. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.772(427.2)

The road to Russia : Arctic convoys 1942 Edwards, Bernard, 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.1(47)

The sinking of the Scharnhorst : a factual account from the German viewpoint Busch, Fritz-Otto, 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Scharnhorst

Grave of a dozen schemes : British naval planning and the war against Japan, 1943-1945 Willmott, H. P. 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(42:52)

Miracles on the water : the heroic survivors of a World War II U-boat attack /Tom Nagorski. On Sept. 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. The Benares sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching into the frigid sea, more than three hundred miles from the nearest rescue vessel. Not one of the survivors had any reasonable hope of rescue. The initial "miracle" involves one British destroyer's race to the scene; the second is the story of Lifeboat 12, missed by the destroyer, 46 people jammed for eight days in a craft built for 30. Based on first hand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers.--From publisher description. Ã2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3CITY OF BENARES

Second World War carrier campaigns / David Wragg. "Without the aircraft carrier, the Japanese would not have brought the United States into the Second World War through their attack on Pearl Harbour; without the carrier, the United States could not have rolled back the Japanese forces spread across the wide reaches of the Pacific and carried the war to Japan itself. Thus is can be argued that aircraft carriers were the decisive naval weapons system of the Second World War. Yet they had an uncertain start, with HMS Courageous sunk two weeks after the outbreak of war, followed by her sister, Glorious the following spring. This book is an authoritative, concise and hugely readable account of carrier operations throughout WW2. The text is given immediacy by the use of eyewitness accounts."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.7"1939/1945"

Catalogue of the portolan charts and atlases in the British Library : based on a detailed physical inspection completed on site during the years 2000 and 2001 /Prepared by Richard L. Pflederer. Pflederer, Richard L. 2002. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 017.1(421.3)BL

Sjaek'len 2011 : êArbog for Fiskeri- og S²fartsmuseet, Saltvandsakvariet i Esbjerg /redigeret af Morten Hahn-Pedersen. This is yearbook 2011 for the Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Saltwater Aquarium in Esbjerg, Denmark. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(26:489)

T.E. Lawrence and the Red Sea patrol : the Royal Navy's role in creating the legend /John Johnson-Allen. "Although many books have been written about T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, none before has fully explored the pivotal role of the Royal Navy in the Red Sea at the time. This is the first book to be written about the Navy's role in the success of the Arab Revolt in the creation of the legendary figure of Lawrence of Arabia. Following extensive and detailed research into the activities of the ships of the Red Sea Patrol by the author, a maritime historian and former Merchant Navy officer, it has become evident that, without the work of those ships, the Arab revolt would have failed and T E Lawrence would have remained an obscure officer in the military bureaucracy of Cairo. Lawrence was very aware of the importance and relevance of the Royal Navy in their operations in the Red Sea and commented on it on many occasions, notably in 1918, saying 'The naval side of the operations, when the time comes to tell of it, will provide a most interesting case of the value of command of the sea..'. Until now, nobody has investigated this angle in any detail. By doing this so comprehensively, this book gives a fresh dimension to the Lawrence of Arabia legend."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(42:56)

The Industrial archaeology of Wales Rees, D Morgan 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 6(429)(091)

The biographical dictionary of scientists : astronomers 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 52:92

Transition to guardianship : the Indian Navy 1991-2000 /G.M. Hiranandani. "The period 1991-2000 was a challenging time due to the sweeping changes in the geopolitical and economic fronts. In the wake of Gulf War, the world witnessed the spectre of spiralling inflation due to a hike in oil prices. The unprecedented spike stunned the defence budgets which called for extraordinary abilities to cope with the grim circumstances in the face of limited funding for defence projects. It was a time of trail for the Navy as it was called upon to do 'much more with much less'. The situation was aggravated with the disintegration of the USSR, India's biggest defence supplier. It led to the discarding of the existing Rupee Rouble agreement and a demand for hard currency for defence procurement. It is testimony to the Navy's tenacity and resolve that it yet performed with aplomb. Using innovative means, the force level decline was effectively arrested by preserving equipment, innovating to produce in-house designs, encouraging indigenous production and by an improved Public-Private Industry partnership in defence production. The Navy's efforts were in tune with the imperative of a realigned geopolitical world order that necessitated the forging of new relations. The initiation of 'Look East Policy' helped fashion strong bonds with countries in the Indian Ocean. The assistance in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (1992-94) and the emphatic intervention in safely de-inducting forces was a prime example of its new proactivism. The interception and capture of pirated Japanese MV Alondra Rainbow in the high seas, 1999, only went on to underscore the eminent role that it was to play in safeguarding the Indian Ocean SLOCs. The decade marked the coming of age of the Navy - showcasing it as an able and powerful, but balanced and equanimous entity."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.353(540)

Captain Edward Coode Hore (1848 -1912) : missionary, explorer, navigator and cartographer :part 1 /G. Rex Meyer. Meyer, G. Rex 2013. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Hearts of Oak : the human tragedy of HMS Royal Oak /Dilip Sarkar. "The story of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak by German submarine which cost the lives of 833 Royal Navy sailors. HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. To the British, the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of bringing the naval war to their home waters, and the shock resulted in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface, Royal Oak is a designated war grave."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ROYAL OAK

Victorian shipping, business and imperial policy : Donald Currie, the Castle Line and Southern Africa Porter, Andrew 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Currie

Brunel's Bristol Buchanan, R. A.-(Robert Angus), 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Brunel

A submariner's story : the memoirs of a submarine engineer in peace and war /by Joel C.E. Blamey ; foreword by Sir Ian McIntosh. Blamey, Joel C.E. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLAMEY

Yanagi : the secret underwater trade between Germany & Japan, 1942-1945 /by Mark Felton. "This fascinating book examines the exchange of information and goods by underwater means between Germany and Japan during the second half of WW2. Known as 'Yanagi' this trade was a high priority to both Axis partners. As the Allies' grip on control of the oceans and air tightened, it became necessary to rely on submarines. This posed an increasingly heavy but necessary burden on tight resources.Thanks to the Author's research, here is the first full account of these operations with descriptions of individual missions be they by German or Japanese submarines and crews. Even by modern standards these were of impressive duration and demanded the highest standards of seamanship and discipline."--Provided by the publisher. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(43:52)

The hermitage and the offshore island / by Rosemary Cramp Cramp, Rosemary 1981 • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 271.791(428.2)

Modern warship : design and development Friedman, Norman, 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82

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