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Seaforth world naval review 2015 / editor, Conrad Waters. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353"2015"

The Honolulu advertiser : Hawaii's newspaper. 1978. • PAMPH-OVER • 1 copy available. 910.4(265/266)"1778"

Robinson ships' telegraphs / A Robinson & Co Ltd. A Robinson & Co [19--?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Historical Atlas of Maine / Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, editors ; Michael J. Hermann, cartographic designer. "The Historical Atlas of Maine presents in cartographic form the historical geography of Maine from the end of the last ice age to the year 2000. Organized in four chronological sections, the Atlas tells the principal stories of the many people who have lived in Maine over the past 13,000 years. The Atlas covers the history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, the American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial development, and the rise of tourism and environmental awareness. To tell these stories, the Atlas presents a rich array of newly created maps, historical maps, paintings, graphs, and text. The result is not only a unique interpretation of Maine, but also a splendid visual record of the state's history."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 912.44(741)

The shiphunters Gillman, Ronald E 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.544.1

Down amongst the black gang : the world and workplace of RMS Titanic's stokers /Richard P. de Kerbrech. "Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the 'black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here de Kerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers. Beginning with a journey around some of the major elements of machinery that one might encounter in the giant ships' engine and boiler rooms, the sheer skill and strength that a man in this employ must have had is brought to the fore. The human side of working for Titanic and her contemporaries is also explored through an investigation of stokers' duties, their environment and conditions: what it was like to be one of them. An oft-ignored part of Titanic's story, the importance of the black gang and the job they performed isbrought to life, making poignant their fate on the maiden crossing of Titanic. This certainly is a book that no Titanic-era shipping historian or researcher should be without."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

The man who broke Purple : the life of the world's greatest cryptologist, Colonel William F Friedman Clark, Ronald W 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.405.2

Husun dead-beat filament card compass : saves fuel, time and distance /Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd Henry Hughes & Son [19--?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Heritage / Alfie O'Mahony. O'Mahony, Alfie 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

The Battle of the River Plate : a grand delusion /Richard Woodman. "The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination in December 1939. Over the last 60 years the episode has come to be seen as one of the classics of naval warfare. Yet the accepted interpretation of events has perhaps been taken for granted and is ripe for reassessment, and that is one of the aims of Richard Woodman's enthralling new study."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.8"1939"

Midway : dauntless victory :fresh perspectives on America's seminal naval victory of World War II /by Peter C. Smith. "This is an in-depth study of the battle of Midway that reviews the many previous accounts and compares their accuracy and veracity with fresh documentation that has been released recently, including some new material on the post-war analysis made by a select committee. There are new viewpoints on the muddle among the US Admirals; the total failure of the USAAF, despite elaborate claims; views on a whitewash of Admiral Fletcher and others; fresh thinking on the part played by the US Navy Dauntless dive-bombers in the action; the mystery of the carrier Saratoga's presence; Hollywood's totally wrong take on the battle in all the films since made about it; some new eyewitness material the author has obtained and information from Japanese sources not previously used. The Appendices will include statistical details - the ships, the planes and the men."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.6"1942"

The age of sailing ships Amery, Heather 1976 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 656.61

The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery /James Walvin. "On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today. Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the Zong's voyage and the subsequent trial - a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners' claim that their 'cargo' had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted wide debate and fueled Britain's awakening abolition movement. Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the process of ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and political trajectory. He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the case of the Zong, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)

Luck on my side : the diaries and reflections of a young wartime sailor Palmer, John 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.548.1(447.1)

Marine insurance : the principles, cargo practice, hull practice Brown, Robert Henry, 1968-1975 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 368.23

One little ship's personal account of Dunkirk : 3rd June 1940 /Lt-Crd Archibald Gray Buchanan. Buchanan, Archibald Gray 1972, reprinted 2001]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 940.542.1"1940"

We were one : a life of W L Wyllie RA, RE RI /by M A Wyllie. Wyllie, M A 1935. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.036(42)

Visione del Drachio / Baldissera Quinto Drachio ; translated and annotated by L. Th. Lehmann. Drachio, Baldissera Quinto. 1992. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 55.41

Land of the Southern Cross / Margaret Bowering, Lynne Kerr, Lee Soper. Bowering, Margaret. 1987. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 994

HMS Bedouin and the long march home Hagger, Percy 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)

Building the wooden fighting ship Dodds, James, 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Thunderer

East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 /Stephen Davies. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a traveling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks -- a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Merchant ship construction Taylor, D A 1980 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12

Closing the circle : war in the Pacific: 1945 Hoyt, Edwin P 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.6

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