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Chemical principles of textile conservation / âAgnes Tâimar-Balâazsy and Dinah Eastop Timar-Balazsy, Agnes 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 746.0288

Stephen of Linthouse : a record of two hundred years of shipbuilding 1750-1950 Carvel, John L 1950 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12(414)

This is Mars / Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, Xavier Barral ; collaborations by Sâebastien Girard and Nicolas Mangold. This Is Mars offers a previously unseen vision of the red planet. Located somewhere between art and science, the book brings together for the first time a series of panoramic images recently sent back by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Since its arrival in orbit in 2006, MRO and its HiRISE telescope have been mapping Mars's surface in a series of exceptionally detailed images that reveal all the beauty of this legendary planet. Conceived as a visual atlas, the book takes the reader on a fantastic voyage; plummeting into the breathtaking depths of the Velles Marineris canyons; floating over the black dunes of Noachis Terra; and soaring to the highest peak in our solar system, the Olympus Mons volcano. The search for traces of water also uncovers vast stretches of carbonic ice at the planet's poles. [2013]. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 523.43

Semi-Graphic Co-Ordinate Computation Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1931 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.47

'Pepys and the health of the Navy' / address by Professor Christopher Lloyd MA in the Painted Hall at Greenwich at the Annual Dinner on 16 June 1978 Lloyd, Christopher 1978 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS

Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1808 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1808":094

The luckiest thirteen : The forgotten men of St. Finbarr - A trawler crew's battle in the Arctic. /Brian W. Lavery "A true-life drama of an intense battle for survival on the high seas. The Luckiest Thirteen is the story of an incredible two-day battle to save the super trawler St Finbarr, and of those who tried to rescue her heroic crew in surging, frozen seas. It was also a backdrop for the powerful stories of families ashore, dumbstruck by fear and grief, as well as a love story of a teenage deckhand and his girl that ended with a heart-rending twist. From her hi-tech hold to her modern wheelhouse she was every inch the super ship the great hope for the future built to save the fleet at a record-breaking price but a heart-breaking cost. On the thirteenth trip after her maiden voyage, the St Finbarr met with catastrophe off the Newfoundland coast. On Christmas Day 1966, twenty-five families in the northern English fishing port of Hull were thrown into a dreadful suspense not knowing if their loved ones were dead or alive after the disaster that befell The Perfect Trawler. Complete with 16 pages of dramatic and poignant photographs from the period."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ST FINBARR

Declinationes stellarum fundamentalium novae ex ultimis ill Bessel observationibus derivatae : dissertatio qua ad audiendam orationem pro loco in facultate rite obtinendo /invitat Eduardus Luther. Luther, Eduard, 1859. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524,3(083.8):094

A voyage to the Pacific ocean : undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere :performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery ; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 /written by James Cook [and] by James King. Cook, James, 1785. • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available.

A short history of the Thornycroft coastal motor boats (C.M.Bs.) / Thornycroft, John I. & Co. John I. Thornycroft & Co 1920. • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 623.824:629.12THORNYCROFT

Fisherfolk of Carrick : a history of the fishing industry in South Ayrshire /Catherine Lucy Czerkawska ; with an introduction by Stewart P. Sanderson. Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy. 1975. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.2(414.2)

Picturing India : people, places and the world of the East India Company /John McAleer. "The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the role it played in Indian life. They mirror significant shifts in British policy and attitudes towards India. The Company's story is one of wealth, power, and the pursuit of profit. It changed what people in Europe ate, what they drank, and how they dressed. Ultimately, it laid the foundations of the British Raj. But few historians have considered the visual sources that survive and their implications for the link between images and empire, pictures and power. This book draws on the unrivalled riches of the British Library, telling the story of individual images, their creators, and the people and places they depict. It will present a detailed picture of the Company and its complex relationship with India, its people and cultures."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.71EAST INDIA

The greatest storm / Martin Brayne. Brayne, Martin. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.55

Dictionary of nautical words and terms : 8000 definitions in navigation, seamanship, rigging, meteorology, astronomy ... /by C.W.T. Layton ; revised by Peter Clissold. "This book has been compiled to embody, in one volume, the words and terms that are, or have been, used by seamen in connection with their work. It deals with navigation, seamanship, rigging, meteorology, astronomy, naval architecture, average, ship economics, hydrography, cargo stowage, marine engineering, ice terminology, buoyage and other nautical matters. The number of entries is nearly 8000; as many of these entries bear more than one definition some - having as many as five - the total number of definitions given approximates 8600. Every endeavour has been made to extend the scope of the book through as wide a range of subjects ancillary to nautical work as would be helpful and interesting to the professional mariner, and to the enquiring layman. The book ranges through numerous aspects of nautical activity, and through many centuries of navigation and seamanship."--Provided by the publisher. 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 800.866:656.61ENGLISH

NorthLink Ferries : The island's lifeline /Miles Cowsill "This new book covers the history of ferry services to Orkney and Shetland and includes a wealth of outstanding and historical pictures. The book also includes the development of NorthLink and the major improvements on ferry operations to the Islands over the last 10 years. Features on: refit of NorthLink vessels, distribution and freight services from Shetland and Orkney, and Willie MacKay, a long standing master, gives the readers an insight to the passage from mainland Scotland to the Islands."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.66

Off the Deep End : A History of Madness at Sea /Nic Compton "Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds - and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 613.86(26)

Admiral Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder, KCB, 1820-1886 : correspondence - pictures - papers [2003?] • CD-ROM • 1 copy available.

Neglected skies : the demise of British naval power in the Far East, 1922-42 /Angus Britts. "Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era. In this book, Angus Britts explores the end of British naval supremacy from an operational perspective. By primarily analyzing the evolution of British naval aviation during the interwar period, as well as the challenges that the peacetime Royal Navy was forced to confront, a picture emerges of a battle fleet that entered the war in September 1939 unready for combat. By examining the development of Japan's first-strike carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, Britts charts both the rise of Japan as a wartime power as well as the demise of the Royal Navy. Japan, by concentrating their six largest aircraft carriers into a single strike force with state-of-the-art aircraft, had taken a quantum leap forward in warfighting at sea. Simultaneously, British forces found themselves outmatched in this Eastern theatre and Britts makes the case, by looking at a set of key battles, that this is where the global supremacy of Britain's naval power ended."--Provided by publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42:5)

Shaping the day : a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 /Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift. Glennie, Paul. 2009. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 529.7(93)

Ship : 5,000 years of maritime adventure /Brian Lavery. Lavery, Brian 2004. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123

The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854-1856 / Andrew C. Rath. "The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book considers each campaign from an imperial perspective extending from South America to Finland. Ultimately, this regionally-focused approach reveals that even the smallest Anglo-French naval campaigns in the remote White Sea had significant consequences in fields ranging from medical advances to international maritime law. Considering the perspectives of neutral powers, including China, Japan, and Sweden-Norway, allows Rath to examine the Crimean conflict's impact on major historical events ranging from the "opening" of Tokugawa Japan to Russia's annexation of large swaths of Chinese territory. Complete with customized maps and an extensive reference section, this will become essential reading for a varied audience."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1853/1856"(477.7)

Clash of fleets : Naval battles of the Great War, 1914-18 /Vincent P. O'Hara "Clash of Fleets is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during World War I. Much more than a catalog of combat facts, Clash of Fleets explores why battles occurred; how the different navies fought; and how combat advanced doctrine and affected the development and application of technology. The result is a holistic overview of the war at sea as it affected all nations and all theaters of war. A work of this scope is unprecedented. Organized into seven chapters, the authors first introduce the technology, weapons, ships, and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in 1914. The next five chapters explore each year of the war and are subdivided into sections corresponding to major geographic areas. This arrangement allows the massive sweep of action to be presented in a structured and easy to follow format that includes engagements fought by the Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Ottoman, and Russian Navies in the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Mediterranean, and North Seas as well as the Atlantic, India, and Pacific Oceans. The role of surface combat in the Great War is analyzed and these actions are compared to major naval wars before and after. In addition to providing detailed descriptions of actions in their historical perspectives, O'Hara and Heinz advance several themes, including the notion that World War I was a war of navies as much as a war of armies. They explain that surface combat had a major impact on all aspects of the naval war and on the course of the war in general. Finally, Clash of Fleets illustrates that systems developed in peace do not always work as expected in war, that some are not used as anticipated, and that others became unexpectedly important. There is much for today's naval professional to consider in the naval conflict that occurred a century ago"--Provided by publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.45

Navies in the 21st century / Conrad Waters "What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the end of the Cold War. It provides the overall political and economic context, assesses significant naval operations from the first Gulf War to Russia's annexation of Crimea, reviews changes in the objectives and composition of the principal fleets, describes major design developments amongst the main warship types, and examines wider technological and operational developments, including naval aviation, shipbuilding and manning. It follows the successful approach and format of Seaforth's annual World Naval Review, with individual sections by internationally acknowledged experts, and is heavily illustrated in a similar style. As a succinct, single-volume overview of how contemporary navies have evolved to meet today's challenges it is unrivalled, and will prove invaluable to defence professionals and interested enthusiasts alike."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(100)

Micrometrical measures of 364 double stars : with a seven-feet equatorial achromatic telescope: taken at Slough, in the years 1828, 1829, 1830 /by J.F.W. Herschel, Esq. M.A.; F.R.S. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

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