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The Captain class frigates of World War Two : an operational history of the American-built destroyer escorts serving under the white ensign from 1943-46 Collingwood, Donald 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823(42:73)

12 metre class : the history of the international 12 metre class from the first international rule to the America's Cup An account of "the history of the 12 metre yacht class, focusing on designers, owners, skippers and crews, and telling the story of how the class was conceived, developed and its influence on the evolution of yacht design. It includes a complete register of every 12 metre ever built."--Provided by the publisher. 2001 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.125.12"19"

Crusoe's island : A rich and curious history of pirates, castaways and madness /Andrew Lambert. "From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific. The tiny island assumed a remarkable position in British culture, most famously in Daniel Defoe's novel. Andrew Lambert reveals the truth behind the legend of this place, bringing to life the voices of the visiting sailors, scientists and artists, as well as the wonders, tragedy and violence that they encountered."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4

Four travel journals : the Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874 /edited by Herbert K. Beals ... [et al.] 2007 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT

America's sailors in the Great War : seas, skies, and submarines /Lisle A. Rose "When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America's sailors were immediately forced to engage in the utterly new realm of anti-submarine warfare waged on, below and above the seas by a variety of small ships and the new technology of airpower. The U.S. Navy substantially contributed to the safe trans-Atlantic passage of a two million man Army that decisively turned the tide of battle on the Western Front even as its battleship division helped the Royal Navy dominate the North Sea. Thoroughly professionalized, the Navy of 1917-18 laid the foundations for victory at sea twenty-five years later."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.451.6

Instructions for the Use of the Douglas-Schafer Sounding Traveller Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1912 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.5

A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851 / by the Rev. R. Sheepshanks. Sheepshanks, R 1860. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Sheepshanks

Bibliography of imperial, colonial, and Commonwealth history since 1600 "The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented growth of research and publication on the history of Britain's empire, the Commonwealth, and British expansion overseas. Historical work by area specialists has transformed the state of knowledge concerning colonial North America, India, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia, the Pacific, and Australasia. Much has been written about Britain's interests and presence in areas and societies never formally subjected to British rule, such as Latin America, and the Middle and Far East. Most recently, a preoccupation with the reciprocal impact of overseas expansion and colonial possessions on Britain itself has produced a rapidly growing historiography. Publication on this scale has made it virtually impossible for anyone either to keep track of the results or to follow up particular interests. Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible."--Provided by the publisher. 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 01(41-44)

Morskoæi muzeæi Rossii = Maritime museum of Russia /[avtory-sostaviteli K.P. Guber, A.A. Tron']. 2009. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(26:470)

Paddle steamers of the Thames / Peter Box Box, Peter 2000 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 629.123.21(282.242.4)

The Saltwater Frontier : Indians and the Contest for the American Coast /Andrew Lipman. "Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores."--Provided by the publisher 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(42:492)(=97)

Buttons of the United Kingdom Royal Navy & misc UK public authority / compiled by Tim Burt. Burt, Tim 2015. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Steam titans : Cunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic /William M. Fowler Jr. "'Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(261)

Bibliography of nautical books 1988 / Alan Obin Obin, Alan 1988 • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 016(26)

The Nobel century / preface by Stig Ramel ; introduction by Asa Briggs. 1991. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 06.05NOBEL

Observationes astronomicas : institutas in specula Universitatis caesareae Dorpatensis, publici juris facit Senatus Universitatis /F.G.W. Struve, Speculae Dorpatenis Director Struve, F. G. W.-(Friedrich Georg Wilhelm), 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1831/1838"

History curatorship Kavanagh, Gaynor 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.4(091)

Admiral Satan : the life and campaigns of Suffren "Cavaliero's biography was the first in English of Admiral Pierre Andrâe de Suffren de Saint Tropez, le Baillie de Suffren. "Le Baillie de Suffren was an undisputed hero of the French Ancien Regime. Admired by both Nelson and Napoleon and known to his lascars as 'Admiral Satan', Suffren's reputation centred on his campaign during the Second Anglo-Mysorean War of 1782-3 - the last great challenge by France to Britain's supremacy in the Indian sub-continent. This account of Suffren's career in the Indies not only provides a fascinating study of one major naval campaign, but also an in-depth analysis of naval strategy and tactics, warfare, and the importance of Suffren's revolutionary role and effect on later naval campaigns."--Provided by the publisher. 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

Compact data for navigation and astronomy 1996-2000 Yallop, B D 1995 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527(083.4)"1996/2000"

A catalogue of the East India ships' journals and logs 1600-1834 Farrington, Anthony 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.71EASTINDIA(093.2)

Transport and communications / edited by Kenneth Veitch. "The movement of people, goods, services, ideas and information has dictated the nature of everyday life in Scotland since the earliest times, and has helped to determine the boundaries and character of the nation itself. This multi-author volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of transport and communications. The chapters are divided into five thematic sections: water transport, land transport, air transport, communications, and transport and communications in their wider contexts. The chronological and geographical coverage is wide, ranging from the birlinns of the medieval western seaboard to aviation in the Northern Isles, and a variety of approaches to the study of the subject is offered. Each chapter can stand alone, but taken together they indicate the profound influence that transport and communications have on Scottish life and society."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 380.9411

William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer : A study in mid 19th-century engineering /Richard Byrom "William Fairbairn (1789-1874) was one of the greatest of 19th-century engineers yet he is strangely overlooked. This is the first definitive biography for 140 years. It chronicles Fairbairn's role in the development, in the UK and abroad, of mills, waterwheels, steam engines, boilers, iron steamships, locomotives, iron bridges, cranes and elevators. It provides illustrations for many of today's current areas of debate, as it discusses the sources of Fairbairn's success, the extent of his influence and the reasons for the firm he founded failing within a year of his death. Fairbairn was the leading experimental research engineer of his time; and his Manchester works were an outstanding success, with his trainees producing five professors of engineering and two engineers knighted for their work. Fully researched and profusely illustrated, the book will appeal to all with an interest in engineering history: academics and non-academics alike. The author was introduced to William Fairbairn as an undergraduate in Manchester and went on to gain an MPhil and PhD in Fairbairn studies. He remains fascinated by this remarkable engineer."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRBAIRN

Fifty famous liners 3 Braynard, Frank O 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.3

Cases and Materials on the carriage of goods by sea. Dockray, Martin 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.794/.795

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