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Cunard White Star liners of the 1930s / H.M. Le Fleming Le Fleming, H M ca1950 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123.3(42)"19"

Watermarks in paper : in Holland, England, France, etc, in the XVII and XVIII centuries and their interconnection Churchill, W A 1935 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 676.2.051

The German fleet in decisive combat / by Rudolf Troeltsch. Troeltsch, Rudolf. 1914. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.459(43)

A treatise on astronomy : theoretical and practical, part II. Vol. I /Robert Woodhouse, A.M. F.R.S. Woodhouse, Robert 1823 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52

Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration /Claire Louise Warrior "This dissertation examines the roles that families played, and continue to play, in sustaining British polar exploration."--Provided by the author. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Fostering family history services : a guide for librarians, archivists, and volunteers /Rhonda L. Clark and Nicole Wedemeyer Miller. "Here is everything you need to promote your library as a center for genealogical study by leveraging your collection to help patrons conduct research on ancestors, document family stories, and archive family heirlooms. Discusses the reference environment and offers tips for strategic planning for local studies. Includes hints of how to assess, organize, discard, or donate family heirlooms. Offers suggestions for caring for family history archives, including physical enclosures, digital copies, and the importance of data backups. Features templates for partnership agreements with other organizations"-- 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.5

Map of the basin of La Plata : based upon the results of the expedition under the command of Thos. J. Page, U.S. Navy, in the years 1853, '54, '55, & '56. and of the adjacent countries. Compiled from the best authorities /engd. on stone by J. Bien, 60 Fulton St. N.Y. Bien, Julius, circa 1856 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 912.43(261.683):094

Barrow built submarines / Edited by Lt. Cdr. Barrie Downer "This book forms a part of the NavyBooks series on warships built at the many shipyards around UK. However, it is also slightly different, while the expected technical details and specifications are included, as well as much interesting history of the employment and operations of the submarines pictured, and the men that served in them, every image is a painting and not a photograph. The book starts in 1900 when 'Vickers Sons and Maxim Ltd' of Barrow-In-Furness took the order to build the first submarine, a Holland Class, for the Royal Navy and concludes with a painting of HMS ASTUTE leaving Barrow for sea trials in 2010. It includes an index of every 'Barrow Built Boat' from 1901 to 2016. Not only is it a fine work of art, fit to grace any bookshelf or coffee table but it is also a very useful reference for anyone interested in the history of submarines and, indeed, the history of the Barrow in Furness shipyard."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(428.5)

Atlantic pilot atlas : pilot charts and regional weather conditions for the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean Clarke, James 1989 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 527.83(084.4)

The British overseas : a guide to records of their births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials, available in the United Kingdom Yeo, Geoffrey 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 351.755.2

Ellesmere Port : canal town 1795-1921 Jarvis, Adrian 1977 • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 656.625(427.1)

The Dardanelles : an epic told in pictures. [191-?] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.455(496.1)

The Anglo-Japanese alliance, 1902-1922 / edited by Phillips Payson O'Brien. "The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end, and who reach a number of interesting and innovative conclusions on the agreement's ultimate importance."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327(42:52)

Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin' /edited by Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody. "Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3620941

Admiral William A Moffett : architect of naval aviation "Naval aviation historian William F. Trimble provides a clear and detailed portrait of the man who took on the challenge of forming an aeronautical bureau within the U.S. Navy in 1921 and then nurtured the early development of naval aviation. Describing Admiral William A. Moffett as one of the first high-ranking naval officers to appreciate the importance of the airplane and the effect it would have on the fleet, the author contends that the admiral's strong background as a surface officer gave him a credibility and trust with his superiors that others could not match. The author attributes Moffett's desire to keep aviation as part of the fleet, along with his diplomacy, tenacity, and political and military knowledge, to the success of the infant air arm during its formative years. [...] The book is equally candid about the admiral's shortcomings, including his heavy-handed support for airships, a technological dead end that squandered millions and led to Moffett's death in 1933 when he went down with the airship Akron during a storm."--Provided by the publisher. 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.7

Canada's bastions of empire : Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918 /Bryan Elson. "This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First World War. As he explains, Halifax gave the Royal Navy the land base they needed to project British power along the whole east Atlantic coast of North America. Victorias Esquimault did the same thing for the Pacific coast. During the 1800s the United States grew dramatically, adding huge swaths of lands west, south and north that had belonged to France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia while pushing aside native peoples. More than once the American government came into conflict with Britain over British territory in North America. There were threats of war and annexation, and American popular support for absorbing Canada was strong. In this book Bryan Elson shows how the British presence in Halifax, and later in Victoria, stood in the way of US designs on Canada. American leaders knew that the British Navy, with its bases on both coasts, had the power to cut them off from the rest of the world with a naval blockade. The American threat to Canada was effectively countered by the British presence in these two cities. The two bastions played their most important role in the early years of the First World War. As Bryan Elson explains, in 1914 the United States stood aside while the British Empire, including Canada, took on Germany. In this situation, the British navy including the Canadian navys first east coast warship mounted a show of force by stopping all incoming and outgoing traffic from the port of New York. This lasted until the US finally opted into the war, on the side of Britain, in 1917. Meanwhile, on the west coast the Equimault naval base was buttressed by the extraordinary action of the B.C. provincial government which at the start of the war bought two new submarines from a shipyard in Seattle for the fledgling Canadian navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42+71)

Celestial images : astronomical charts from 1500 to 1900 Boston University Art Gallery (Boston, Mass) 1985 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 061.43(083.83)

The book of the cosmos : imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking "In this monumental book, Professor Dennis Danielson has assembled a remarkable anthology that surveys the richness and excitement of the human quest to understand the universe: its origin, its structure, and its significance. From the ancient world to the latest theories of cosmic physics, The Book of the Cosmos presents the art as well as the science of human attempts to describe the universe, not only in colourful scientific prose but also in engaging excerpts from poetry and philosophy, diaries and dialogues, essays and epistles, from writers as diverse as Aristotle, Copernicus, Cicero, Albert Einstein, and Edgar Allan Poe."--Provided by the publisher. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.8 DAN

The history of yachting Phillips-Birt, Douglas 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.125.1/.3

Fourth series of observations with a twenty-feet reflector : containing the places, descriptions, and measures of 1236 double stars (reduced to the beginning of 1830) : the greater part of them not previously described /by J.F.W. Herschel, Esq. M.A. Late fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; F.R.S.L. and E., M.R.I.A., F.G.S., M.A.S., M.C.U.P.S. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

The art of science : Nicolas Baudin's voyagers 1800 - 1804 /edited by Jean Fornasiero, Lindl Lawton and John West-Sooby. "It was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts, studying the natural environment and recording encounters with indigenous peoples. Inspired by the Enlightenment's hunger for knowledge, Baudin's expedition collected well in excess of 100,000 specimens, produced more than 1500 drawings and published the first complete chart of Australia. Baudin's artists, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, painted a series of remarkable portraits of Aboriginal people and produced some of the earliest European views of Australian fauna. An integral part of the French scientific project, these exquisite artworks reveal the sense of wonder this strange new world inspired."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(94)"1800/1804"

Russian imperialism and naval power : military strategy and the build-up to the Russo-Japanese war /Nicholas Papastratigakis. "From 1904-1905, Russia and Japan were locked in conflict arising from rival imperial ambitions in the Far East. Nicholas Papastratigakis offers an integrated analysis of Russian naval strategy in the decade before this Russo-Japanese War, in which the Russians suffered catastrophic defeat. He seeks to determine the extent to which their defeat can be attributed to flawed Tsarist naval strategy in the region. Rooted in rich primary resources from Russian, French and British archives, the book sheds new light on Russia's conduct in international affairs in the pre-World War I era. He places Russian naval strategy in the broader context of Russian military strategy at the turn of the century, and of imperialism and 'navalism' in general. This book will be of enormous interest to scholars and students of naval, military, imperial and Russian history."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1904/1905"(47:52)

French warships in the age of sail 1626-1786 : design, construction, careers and fates. "The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Louis XIV"s navy grew rapidly to become the largest and most powerful in the world, at the same time establishing a reputation for the quality of its ship design that lasted until the end of sail. The eighteenth century was to see defeat and decline, revival and victory, but by 1786 the French Navy had emerged from its most successful naval war having frequently outfought or outmanoeuvred the British Navy in battle, and in the process making a major contribution to American independence. This book is the first comprehensive listing of these ships in English, and follows the pattern set by its companion volume on the 1786 - 1861 period in providing an impressive depth of information. It is organised by Rate, classification and class, with significant technical and building data, followed by highlights of the careers of each ship in every class. Thus for the first time it is possible to form a clear picture of the overall development of French warships throughout the whole of the sailing era. Certain to become the standard English-language reference work, its publication is of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navies of the sailing era."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.82(44)"1626/1786"

Dangerous properties of industrial materials Sax, N Irving 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 614.8

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