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A companion to the Falklands War / Gregory Fremont-Barnes. "The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the centre of the conflict, even today the sovereignty of the islands is hotly contested in political circles. For the first time, renowned military historian Gregory Fremont-Barnes has compiled a definitive A-Z guide to the British involvement in the Falklands conflict, including personalities, weapons, battles, ships, places, and much more. This accessible yet comprehensive companion to the Falklands War will be a welcome addition to any enthusiast?s shelves."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1982"(829)
The impact of the Russo-Japanese War / edited by Rotem Kowner. "The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control of Korea, was watched at the time very closely by observers from many other countries keen to draw lessons about the conduct of war in the modern industrial age. The defeat of a traditional European power by a non-white, non-western nation became a model for imitation and admiration among people under, or threatened with, colonial rule. Examining the wide impact of the war and exploring the effect on the political balance in northeast Asia, this book focuses on the reactions in Europe, the United States, East Asia and the wider colonial world, considering the impact on different sections of society, on political and cultural ideas and ideologies, and on various national independence movements."--Provided by the publisher. 2007 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1904/1905"(47:52)
H M Dockyard, Chatham, 7th to 16th May 1965 : bi-centenary exhibition of the launch of HMS Victory Office of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
Sea transport of the A.I.F. / prepared in Naval Transport Board by Greville Tregarthen. Tregarthen, Greville. [19--] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(94)
The sea hunters : escort carriers v U-Boats, 1941-1945 Poolman, Kenneth 1982 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.74
Museums in Scotland : report by a working party 1986 Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(411)
The metal fighting ship in the Royal Navy, 1860-1970 / by E.H.H. Archibald; illustrated by Ray Woodward. Archibald, E. H. H.-(Edward H. H.). 1971. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.82(42)"1860/1970"
The Reliant teachers pack / National Maritime Museum National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123RELIANT
The Golden Hinde A description of the construction of the replica of the warship Golden Hinde (or Golden Hind) together with some details of Sir Francis Drake laying claim to California during a voyage of the original vessel in 1579. 1973. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
Death in the Irish sea : the sinking of the RMS Leinster Stokes, R 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542"1918"
Philip II's empire : a decade at the edge /Felipe Fernâandez-Armesto. Fernâandez-Armesto, Felipe. 1999. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92PHILIP II
A Confederate biography : the cruise of the CSS Shenandoah /Dwight Sturtevant Hughes. "From October 1864 to November 1865 the CSS Shenandoah carried the Civil War around the globe, through every extreme of sea and storm. Her officers represented a cross section of the Confederacy, from Old Dominion first families through the Deep South aristocracy to a middle-class Missourian. Among these men were a nephew of Robert E. Lee, a grandnephew of founder George Mason, a son-in-law to Raphael Semmes, grandsons of men who fought at George Washington's side, and an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt. They considered themselves Americans, Southerners, rebels, and warriors embarking on the voyage of their lives, defending their country as they understood it and pursuing a difficult, dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no longer mattered. This book is, as Adm. Raphael Semmes describes, a biography of a cruise and a microcosm of the Confederate-American experience"--Provided by publisher. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1861/1865"(73)
Damals im Rauchsalon Rauchen und Rauchsalons an Bord der Ozean-Liner /Rico A. Reinle "In diesem Buch werden die Wandlungen in Gestaltung und Stil des Bordrauch-salons zur Zeit der Liner nachgezeichnet, begleitet von zahlreichen, teils farbigen Bilddokumenten aus zeitgenèossischen Quellen. Damit ist ein Segment aus der Geschichte der maritimen Innenarchitektur im internationalen Rahmen heraus-gehoben. Doch die Darstellung der Geschichte des Bordrauchsalons erèoffnet zugleich einen Einblick in die Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Rauchens selbst, in die wechselnden Bewertungen, denen es ausgesetzt war und die sein rèaumliches Umfeld, seinen dekorativen Rahmen mitbestimmten."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.3
Draught surveying : a manual for the marine surveyors and ship's officers Dibble, W J 1993 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.004.58
The Hunstanton lifeboats Stibbons, Theo 1984 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 627.772(426.1)
River Ouse Bargeman : A lifetime on the yorkshire Ouse /David Lewis "The Ouse reaches into the heart of Yorkshire from the Humber Estuary. Until the 1980s, loaded barges made the challenging journey from Hull to Selby, bearing bulk cargoes for the mills of the town. The bargees had to be tough and resourceful; physically strong enough to handle their craft, wise enough to combat the river's shifting currents and savvy enough to deal with those supplying short measure. Laurie Dews of Selby worked the Ouse from 1937 to 1987, and is now the only man remaining with first-hand experience of a lost way of life. In this book, "River Ouse Bargeman", Laurie's words of wit and wisdom give a skipper's eye view of a barge loaded to the gunwales fighting upstream, unloading at the mill and drifting back with the tide. Laurie spins many a yarn about a bargeman's social life, too. His first-hand account includes the mysterious river crafts of singling out and penning up, the tricks and tell tales to show where the ever-shifting river channel lay and the camaraderie of life in the close-knit watery world. In this book, alongside Laurie's account, there is a factual commentary, illustrated by many images from Laurie's collection dating back over a century, and extracts from official documents and maps."--Provided by the publisher 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.62
Empire's crossroads : a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day /Carrie Gibson. "Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. Gibson opens with these fraught years of discovery and settlement, which gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, and in turn the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. From Cuba to Haiti, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters, but of fortune seekers, pirates, scientists, and tourists. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion-European and American-but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Evocatively written, Empire's Crossroads reinterprets five centuries of history that have been underappreciated for far too long."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.9
A portable cosmos : Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world /Alexander Jones. "In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct inspection and on increasingly powerful radiographic tools and surface imaging have successfully reconstructed most of the functions and workings of the Mechanism. It was a machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it, with a half dozen dials displaying coordinated cycles of time and the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets. A Portable Cosmos presents the Antikythera Mechanism as a gateway to understanding Greek astronomy and scientific technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought. Although the Mechanism has long had the reputation of being an object we would not have expected the ancient world to have produced, the most recent researches have revealed that its displays were designed so that an educated layman would see how astronomical phenomena were intertwined with one's natural and social environment. It was at once a masterpiece of the genre of wonder-working devices that mimicked nature by means concealed from the viewer, and a mobile textbook of popular science."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.111(38)
Slavery, geography and empire in nineteenth-century marine landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica / Charmaine A. Nelson. "Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn von Zach, Herzogl. Sachsischem Obersten und Directorn der Sternwarre Seeberg bey Gotha Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1803":094
Dock workers : international explorations in comparative labour history 1790-1970 Davies, Sam 2001 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 627.3(100)"1790/1970"-057.2
The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War / David Hobbs "In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. By 1918 the RN was so far ahead of other navies that a US Navy observer sent to study the British use of aircraft at sea concluded that 'any discussion of the subject must first consider their methods'. Indeed, by the time the war ended the RN was training for a carrier-borne attack by torpedo-bombers on the German fleet in its bases - over two decades before the first successful employment of this tactic, against the Italians at Taranto. Following two previously well-received histories of British naval aviation, David Hobbs here turns his attention to the operational and technical achievements of the Royal Naval Air Service, both at sea and ashore, from 1914 to 1918. Detailed explanations of operations, the technology that underpinned them and the people who carried them out bring into sharp focus a revolutionary period of development that changed naval warfare forever. Controversially, the RNAS was subsumed into the newly created Royal Air Force in 1918, so as the centenary of its extinction approaches, this book is a timely reminder of its true significance."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.38"1914/1918"
Unravelling the Franklin mystery : Inuit testimony /David C. Woodman. "David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin expedition has taken on new importance in light of the recent discovery of the HMS Erebus wreck, the ship Sir John Franklin sailed on during his doomed 1845 quest to find the Northwest Passage to Asia. First published in 1991, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery boldly challenged standard interpretations and offered a new and compelling alternative. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman was the first to recognize the profound importance of Inuit oral testimony and to analyze it in depth. From his investigations, Woodman concluded that the Inuit likely visited Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. Much of the Inuit testimony presented here had never before been published, and it provided Woodman with the pivotal clue in his reconstruction of the puzzle of the Franklin disaster. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery is a compelling and impressive inquiry into a part of Canadian history that for one hundred and seventy years left many questions unanswered. In this edition, a new preface by the author addresses the recent discovery and reviews the work done in the intervening years on various aspects of the Franklin story, by Woodman and others, as it applies to the book's initial premise of the book that Inuit testimony holds the key to unlocking the mystery."--Provided by the publisher 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1845/1848"
Silk thread : China and The Netherlands from 1600 /Tristan Mostert and Jan van Campen "Silk Thread uses objects from the Rijksmuseum collection to explore the shared history of China and the Netherlands from 1600 to the present. This book pays lavish attention both to the intensive efforts of Dutch traders to reach China and establish a trading post, and to the Dutch people?s fascination with Chinese goods. The products of the encounter - the silk, porcelain and lacquerware, the travelogues and atlases - defined perceptions of China in the Netherlands and far beyond. In the same period, the Netherlands gained a small but significant place in Chinese consciousness. The often-turbulent relationship between China and the West forms an intriguing contrast to the enduring Dutch interest in China and the magnificent objects emanating from it."--Provided by the publiser. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(492:51)