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Emma Hamilton / Julie Peakman. Peakman, Julie, 2005. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAMILTON, EMMA

Mappings 1999 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 528.9

The 100-year secret : Britain's hidden WWII massacre /Benjamin Jacobs, with Eugene Pool. "On 3 May 1945, the Royal Air Force attacked a fleet of ships carrying more than seven thousand survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The war was nearly over, and the survivors had endured one of history's most hellish ordeals, only to die at the hands of their allies. [...] In The 100-Year Secret Benjamin Jacobs collaborates with writer Eugene Pool to describe his miraculous escape from a burning transport ship [...] and investigates why the incident, which had its 60th anniversary in May 2005, appears in no history books. [...] The 100-Year Secret is the first complete account in English of this horrific and surpressed tragedy. The 100-Year Secret is also the first book-length description by an actual survivor. Furthermore, it contains new information about the incident, its particulars, and its perpetrators not found in other accounts. It is both a riveting personal story [...] and an important revision of both Jewish and world history." --Provided by the publisher. c2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.354(42)"1945"

The Seaman's Medical Advocate : Or, An attempt to shew that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British Nation through the yellow fever /Elliot Arthy "Written by a naval surgeon in 1798, this medical treatise provides a frank and harrowing account of life in the British navy. Elliot Arthy started his career as a surgeon's mate in the Africa and West Indies merchant service. He eventually became a surgeon, and worked on a slave ship for many years. In this publication he shows that at least 5,000 seamen were lost to Britain annually through yellow fever and other illnesses, a loss the nation could little afford during wartime. Stressing the 'absolute necessity' for naval surgeons, Arthy's treatise is divided into six parts: the first examines the nature and causes of yellow fever; the second discusses how seamen come into contact with the disease; the third focuses on other causes of the loss of seamen on board ships of war; the fourth on statistics. The fifth and sixth parts suggest methods of prevention."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 613.68

Night of the U-boats Lund, Paul 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827.3(43)

Dover in the great war. "Situated on the south coast of England, geographically and strategically, Dover more than played its part in the First World War. It was from its harbour that the many vessels of the Dover Patrol set about preventing German ships from using the English Channel. It was undoubtedly one of the most important Royal Naval units that Britain had during the First World War. Because of its important defensive roll, Dover was identified as a legitimate and relevant target by the German authorities. As a result, German Zeppelin's and Gotha aircraft subjected Dover to 113 aerial attacks, dropping 185 bombs in the process. The first of these raids took place on Christmas Eve, 1914; this was also the first time a German bomb had been dropped on British soil. The last raid was on 24 August 1918, in which twenty adults and three children were killed. The local residents who, for whatever reason, were unable to enlist in the military during the war, but who still felt the desire and obligation to serve their King and country, were able to do so in organisations such as the Dover Volunteer Training Corps. Most towns had similar units, and their members carried out some sterling work on the Home Front. By the end of the war, Dover and its people had sustained through testing and difficult times. Like every community throughout the nation, they had paid a heavy price. They had been as close to the war as it was possible to be, without actually being on the Front Line. Ships had sailed from its harbour to engage the enemy, and wounded soldiers had returned to the same harbour. Its men had gone of to fight in the war and, sadly, 721 of them never came back."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.223

Echo soundings errors, adjustments and reporting Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1948 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 551.46.082

Tables of the velocity of sound in pure water and sea water for use in echo-sounding and sound-ranging Matthew, D. J. 1939 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.46.082

Captain Cook & his exploration of the Pacific / by Roger Morriss. Morriss, Roger. 1997. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 910.4(93/96)"1768/1780"

The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn / Margaret Willes. "Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests--diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books--and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS

Flemmings Karte der Schiffsversenkungen unserer U-Boote nach Lage und Zahl dargestellt auf Grund amtlichen Materials, mit Seeschlachten, Sperrgebieten, Land-Gewinn und -Verlust / hrsg. von J.I. Kettler. Kettler, J. I. [1918] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 940.545.1(43)"1914/1918"

The naval war in the Baltic 1939-1945 / Poul Grooss. "From the shelling of the fort at Westerplatte, on the Polish coast, on 1 September 1939, to the loss of thousands of German refugees at sea in May 1945, the Baltic witnessed continuous and ferocious fighting throughout the Second World War. In this new book, the author chronicles the naval warfare and merges such major events as the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet campaign against Sweden in 1942, the three wars in Finland 1939-44, the Soviet liberation of the Baltic states, the German evacuation of two million people from the East, and the Soviet race westwards in 1945. There are also included fascinating insights into, until now, poorly understood topics such as Swedish co-operation with Germany, the use of the Baltic by the Germans to train U-boats crews for the Battle of the Atlantic, the secret weapons trials in the remote area of Peenemunde, and the RAF mining campaign that did much to reduce the threat of new and revolutionary German submarine technology. Furthermore, the author explains how messages from Bletchley Park were the basis for the RAF attacks on German coastal regions. The political and military backgrounds of the war in this theatre are explained while the details of ships, radar, artillery, mines and aircraft are all covered. This is a superbly researched work which shows how the naval war in the Baltic shaped the Second World War in ways that have not been fully understood. It is a major contribution to the naval history of this era."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545(261.3)

The second great war edition of the fleet annual and naval year book 1916 / compiled by Lionel Yexley. 1916. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359(42)(058)"1916"

Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1812 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1812":094

Instructions for Predicting Tides and Tidal Streams in Home Waters Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1940 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 551.466.713

Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the beginnings of secondary school mathematics : a history of the Royal Mathematical School within Christ's Hospital, London 1673-1868 /Nerida F. Ellerton, M.A. (Ken) Clements ; foreword by Benjamin Wardhaugh. "This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title--Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton--need no introduction, and this book draws attention to their special contributions to the history of school mathematics. According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key players in defining what school mathematics beyond arithmetic and elementary geometry might look like. The scene at which most of the action occurred was Christ's Hospital, which was a school, ostensibly for the poor, in central London. The Royal Mathematical School (RMS) was established at Christ's Hospital in 1673. It was the less well-known James Hodgson, a fine mathematician and RMS master between 1709 and 1755, who demonstrated that topics such as logarithms, plane and spherical trigonometry, and the application of these to navigation, might systematically and successfully be taught to 12- to 16-year-old school children. From a wider history-of-school-education perspective, this book tells how the world's first secondary-school mathematics program was created and how, slowly but surely, what was being achieved at RMS began to influence school mathematics in other parts of Great Britain, Europe, and America."-Provided by the publisher 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.231.41

Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn F. von Zach, Herzoglichen Sachsen-Gothaischen Oberhosmister Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1809 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1809":094

A history of yachting in pictures Heaton, Peter 1972 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 797.14

La fabriqe de l'ocâean Indien : cartes d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquitâe-XVIe siáecle) /under the direction of Emmanuelle Vagnon and âEric Vallet. "Richly illustrated, this book invites us on a journey through more than twenty centuries of cartography, where we discover how the Indian Ocean has been imagined and represented, in the East and the West, from the first Babylonian maps to the planispheres of the end of the sixteenth century. It does not merely describe the emergence of modern cartography from the 16th century European navigations; it also considers the knowledge coming from the great areas of the Old World, from the Far East to Europe, through the worlds of Islam, to contrast different points of view and explore common approaches that, beyond geographical and cultural distances, have shaped a progressively unified image of this space. Through the observation of the traces, names and illustrations on numerous documents - maps, regional maps, globes and planispheres - constructed on several scales, the reader is thus invited to go through and discover the multiple representations of a vast maritime space common to several cultures."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 900

British and empire warships of the Second World War / H. T. Lenton. Lenton, H T 1998. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 623.82(41-44)"1939/1945"

Sailing past the point / Bernard McCall "Without doubt Battery Point in Portishead is one of the best locations in the UK to watch ships as they pass by. Shipping enthusiasts will stake the claims of other viewing points but it is difficult to surpass the variety of ships seen at Battery Point ? and their closeness to the observer on land. To illustrate this variety, we published Passing the Point in 2005 and Still Passing the Point in 2010. Shipping does not exist on a limb; like everything else it is subject to change and variation. The changes in the Bristol Channel shipping scene over the last twelve years have been considerable. The photographs have been arranged in small groups to illustrate the various types of ships which pass Battery Point. There are now various websites which purport to feature the passing shipping. In fact most of these offer little information other than basic (and sometimes incorrect) details cribbed from other websites. This book will provide interesting details about the ships, their builders, their cargoes, and, where appropriate, their significance within the wider maritime world."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.4(424.1)

The Hovercraft : Photographs from the Archives of the World's Only Hovercraft Museum /Jim Gray "Lee-on-the-Solent is synonymous with planes and seaplanes, but it is also the home of another, slightly more unusual form of transport - the hovercraft. After the first cross-channel crossing by a hovercraft in 1959, there was a revolution in design and development. Within a decade, the mighty SRN4, capable of carrying 400 passengers and sixty cars across the English Channel in less than forty minutes, had arrived. As the commercial hovercraft thrived, the military also continued to innovate; the British Interservice Hovercraft (Trials) Unit (IHTU) being established in 1961. Utilising the archive of the world?s only hovercraft museum, based in Lee-on-the-Solent and boasting more than seventy historic craft, Jim Gray uses a wealth of rare images - many unpublished - to explore the importance and impact of the hovercraft, offering a fascinating glimpse into a vehicle that has captivated the imagination of the public for more than fifty years."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.1.039

Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland National Gallery of Scotland [1983?] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(414.45)538

Sailing ships of the Bristol Channel "The Bristol Channel has an incredibly rich maritime history, reaching back to when men first went to sea in ships powered by the wind. Many were built locally ? the Bristol Channel pilot cutters have a legendary reputation right across the world; seventeen original vessels still exist and modern ones are still being built. John Cabot set sail from Bristol in the Matthew and reached America, while, at the other end of the scale, there are the small double-ended Somerset flatners fishing Bridgewater Bay. At least three famous Antarctic exploration vessels loaded Welsh coal before heading south. The story of Scott?s Terra Nova is well known and the Scotia, which pioneered Antarctic exploration, was later wrecked and burnt out on Sully Island. Bringing the story up to date is Challenge Wales, an around-the-world racing yacht now based in Cardiff and active in sail training and youth activity. In between are a whole host of unsung vessels of all sizes, each with their own tale to tell. Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel brings all this salt-stained heritage, courage and tenacity into one colourful and highly readable volume; maritime history is in our blood and this book will enrich it."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.1(424.1)

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