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Memorials to the naval ranks and ratings of the empire who fell in the Great War and have no other grave than the sea : the Register of the names inscribed on the memorial at the Port of Chatham :part one :1914 /compiled by the Imperial War Graves Commission, London. Great Britain.-Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1924. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Gallipoli 1915 : pens, pencils and cameras at war Liddle, Peter H 1985 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.455(496.1)

War in a stringbag Lamb, Charles 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.544.9(42)

Steamers and ferries of the Northern Isles / Alistair Deayton. "Services from mainland Scotland to Orkney and Shetland were, from the dawn of steam navigation right up until 2002, in the hands of the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Company, known as the North Company, whose predecessors dated back to 1790 and which became part of P&O Ferries in 1975. In this book, Alistair Deayton uses his wonderful collection of photographs to tell the story of the ferries and steamers of the northern isles, including not only the North Company but its successors and competitors on the routes between mainland Scotland and the islands, including chartered vessels and wartime Ministry of War Transport ships travelling to Scapa Flow. The book also includes the inter-island ferries in both Orkney and Shetland, not forgetting the services to remote Foula and Fair Isle. This book is a must for all those interested in the transport history of Orkney and Shetland and evokes the days when the only way to travel to the northern isles was by sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.66(411.1/.2)"18/20"

Passage to destiny : the sinking of the troopship Khedive Ismail in the sea war against Japan /Brian James Crabb. "This is the full story of the loss of the troopship SS Khedive Ismail in convoy KR8 in February 1944. 1,296 people lost their lives in the space of the 100 seconds it took to sink the ship, including seventy-seven women (the single worst loss of female personnel in the history of the British Commonwealth). Carrying 1,511 personnel from the Army and the Royal and Merchant Navies, the Khedive Ismail sank on Saturday 12 February 1944 when torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-27 in the Indian Ocean. Only 209 men and 6 women survived the ordeal. The submarine was then depth-charged to the surface by the destroyers Paladin and Petard and the book includes an account of their difficult but successful attempt to sink her, a campaign which forced the Navy to attack the submarine through some of the survivors (this incident inspired a similar detail in the novel The Cruel Sea). This compelling read draws on many eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished Admiralty papers, many of which were not released for forty years because of their sensitivity, for the sinking of the Khedive Ismail was the third worst Allied maritime shipping disaster of the Second World War. The book includes many appendices, including the names of the entire ship's complement and includes over 140 illustrations. The painting on the front cover is by maritime artist Robert Blackwell. This is the revised second edition of the book. The first appeared in 1997, but has long been out of print. This new edition includes a great many more photographs and many more eye-witness accounts, and more appendices, and there is a comprehensive index. The ship was built at Greenock in Scotland and launched in 1922 as the SS Aconcagua (owned by a South American company). She was sold in 1935 to an Egyptian line and renamed in honour of the famous nineteenth-century ruler of Egypt. In 1940 she was requisitioned to serve as a troop carrier and took part in many convoys in the Indian Ocean before being sunk in 1944." 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545:656.61.086.2

Sheerness Dockyard Church transcript with index :baptisms 1688 - 1798, marriages 1744 only, burials 1730 - 1806 Ã1999. • CD-ROM • 1 copy available. txt

The Northern barbarians 100BC-AD300 Todd, Malcolm 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 936.3

The Cunningham papers : selections from the private correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, OM, KT, GCB, DSO and two bars. Volume 1 : The Mediterranean fleet, 1939-1942 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Cunningham

The lifeboat service in England : the south coast and Channel Islands station by station /Nicholas Leach. "The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea. Today, the volunteer lifeboat crews on the south coast of England and the Channel Islands operate high-tech state-of-the-art lifeboats in their work of saving lives at sea in and around some of the busiest sea lanes in the world. The RNLI currently operates thirty lifeboat stations on the south coast of England and Channel Islands, and this comprehensive book has details of every one, with information about their history, rescues and current lifeboats. It also includes details of old stations that have been closed and the many dramatic, courageous and daring rescues undertaken by the lifeboat crews from Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Devon and the Channel Islands are brought to life. Author Nicholas Leach has amassed a wealth of information about the lifeboats and lifeboat stations of the south coast and Channel Island, past and present, visiting every one to provide a complete and up-to-date record of life-saving in the seas off this beautiful and picturesque, but often dangerous, coastline."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.772(422.7)

Scottish and Scandinavian shipbuilding seminar : development problems in historical perspective :21-23 September, 1980. University of Glasgow /editors Jan Kuuse, Anthony Slaven. 1980]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 061.3:629.12"19"

The principles of Arab navigation / edited by Anthony R. Constable and William Facey. "Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and cultural exchange over this vast expanse of ocean ranged from small craft rarely venturing out of sight of land, to cargo vessels carrying navigators skilled in the art of deep sea sailing. These Arab, Persian and Indian seamen used the seasonal monsoon winds, and applied navigational techniques that relied on their ability to read the stars in the night sky - skills that had developed down the generations from time immemorial. This stellar navigation, based on measuring the altitude of the Pole Star to establish latitude and on the risings and settings of certain stars to find direction, grew into a complex art, belying the simplicity of the instruments used. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs (Anthony R. Constable, William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji, Paul Lunde, Hassan Salih Shihab and Eric Staples), this book makes a new and vital contribution to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share of attention, and which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history. Drawing on source material such as the guides by the renowned southern Arabian navigators Ahmad ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, as well as surviving logbooks of how captains in the early 20th, the volume covers the principal ideas, techniques, instruments and calculations used, deploying astronomy, geometry and mathematics to explain their methods. It includes an account of a practical attempt to apply these methods in 2010, on an adventurous voyage from Muscat to Singapore in a reconstructed early medieval dhow, and concludes with an analysis of sailing conditions in the Red Sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(267)"14/20"

Cook voyage artifacts in Leningrad, Berne and Florence Museums 1978 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(455)538

Navy rigger's blocks, stocks or benches / Des Pawson. "These benches almost a tool in their own right appear to be almost unique to Naval dockyards."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.24

The Kent coast : Gravesend to Margate /Anthony Lane. "Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history. The Romans built their fort at Reculver, and the abbey that later occupied that site had direct links with Canterbury Cathedral. The Dutch raided Queenborough and Sheerness in 1667; there was the famous Mutiny at the Nore in 1797; and prisoners were kept in wooden hulks at Sheerness from various other conflicts after that. The offshore waters were known to almost every sailor in the maritime hall of fame. Sir Francis Drake, Sebastian Cabot, Lord Nelson, Sir John Franklin and others all sailed from London or Chatham. Commencing at Gravesend, this book makes a journey, sometimes over water, but also across the marshes and through the harbours, villages and industrial estates that constitute maritime Kent, to eventually arrive at Margate, reflecting on the many changes that have occurred over the last hundred years."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.223(210.5)

Post-war Japan as a sea power : imperial legacy, wartime experience and the making of a navy /Alessio Patalano. "In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the modern Japanese military in light of the country's alliance with the US. The book places the institution in a historical context, analysing its imperial legacy and the role of Japan's shattering defeat in WWII in the post-war emergence of Japan as East Asia's 'sea power'."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"19/20"(52)

Legal and ethical lessons of NATO's Kosovo campaign Wall, Andru E, 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.39(496.51)

The no.1 Smithery, Chatham Dockyard, 1805-1984 : 'let your eye be your guide and your money the last thing you part with' / "A description and history of the Smithery and associated Foundry are given. An opportunity for development is identified, and problems of management, conservation and interpretation are explored."--From title page. 1984 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

With Commodore Perry to Japan : the journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 /edited by John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough. "With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personal account of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the USS Mississippi. The documentary edition, endorsed by the National Historic Publications & Records Commission, provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition, the opening of relations with Japan, and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Also included are fifty-five illustrations ranging from hand drawn, pen-and-ink scenes of everyday life sketched by Speiden and other members of the crew to exquisitely detailed pith paintings by Chinese artists."--Provided by the publisher. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SPEIDEN

Trade and shipping in the medieval West : Portugal, Castile and England :a series of lectures in memoriam for professor Armindo de Sousa, given in the University of Porto, November 2009 /by Wendy R. Childs. This book offers a survey of European travellers and includes a discussion of the economic developments that encouraged trade and travel, with focus on general Iberian connections to northern Europe. Europe contained a highly mobile society in the later Middle Ages, in which merchants and seamen, nobles, diplomats and soldiers, churchmen and pilgrims travelled frequently, often long distances, and returned home to disseminate information about places they had seen and peoples they had met. Villagers who might not travel far from home could nonetheless hear tales from well-travelled servants of local lords, pilgrims and soldiers, mendicants and other churchmen, merchants and seamen. Trade was a major driver of geographical mobility; of the travelling groups merchants and seamen were among the most frequent and regular travellers, and they brought with them not only goods, but people, news, and information. Iberia and England were integral parts of the European commercial network, and Portuguese, Castilian, Basque, and English merchants and seamen travelled widely and regularly. This book begins with a survey of European travellers (who travelled, why, where, and what sources they left behind), and includes a discussion of the economic developments that encouraged trade and travel. It then focusses on general Iberian connections to northern Europe, which pre-dated the early voyages of discovery and continued during them, before concentrating on Portuguese trade with the north, especially with England. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382"1350/1500"

The whalers' base : facts, photos and people associated with the Norwegian presence in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, New Zealand 1924-1936 :a 90th anniversary souvenir/J.P.C. Watt Watt, J P C 2014 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

No safe haven : told for the first time : an epic story of endurance by the allied Merchant fleet in the Mediterranean : from the Barbary coast to Bari, 1942 to 1944 Glenton, George 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61:940.545

De schipbreuk van de Batavia, 1629 Roeper, V D 1993 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71Dutch East India

The changing scene of merchant shipping : a photographic survey /David Hucknall. "The shipping industry is one of constant, dramatic change. Driven by a multitude of factors, including globalisation, technological advances, the demand for higher efficiency and ever-larger boats, mergers and acquisitions have taken place to change the playing field of the industry immensely. Here David Hucknall delves into his stunning collection of unique photographs to highlight the changing scene of the merchant shipping industry since the late 1990s, documenting its fast-paced development. Taken primarily in the UK, but also in important ports such as Hamburg and Vancouver, all are complemented by diligently researched and informative captions, making this volume a must-read for all modern shipping enthusiasts."--Provide by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2"19/20"

General instructions and regulations by Order of the Honorary Committee ca.1920]. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 623.82IMPLACABLE

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