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British Ironclads 1860-75 : HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet' /Angus Konstam. "In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she entered service, became the most powerful warship in the world. Just like the Dreadnought half a century later, this ship changed the nature of naval warfare forever, and sparked a frantic arms race. The elegant but powerful Warrior embodied the technological advances of the early Victorian era, and the spirit of this new age of steam, iron and firepower. Fully illustrated with detailed cutaway artwork, this book covers the British ironclad from its inception and emergence in 1860, to 1875, a watershed year, which saw the building of a new generation of recognisably modern turreted battleships."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(42)"1860/1875"

The Cree Journals : the voyages of Edward H Cree, Surgeon RN, as related in his private journals, 1837-1856 /edited and with an Introduction by Michael Levien. Cree, Edward H 1981. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.49"1837/1869"(42)

Admiralty movement books : World War II :index of ship types :index of commissioned ships used for war purposes by stated ship type. 2001. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 940.545.9(42)

Map of the Moon / by W. H. Wesley and Mary A. Blagg. Wesley, W H 1935. • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 523.34(084.3)

Unchained man : the Arctic life and times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett /Maura Hanrahan. "Across the barren ice field of the Arctic Ocean, two men strode 700 miles towards Siberia on a near-impossible rescue mission to save those they'd left behind--crew of the Karluk who'd been stranded after pack ice crushed and sank their ship. One of the men walking for help in 1913 was the legendary Robert Bartlett, captain of the Karluk, who four years earlier navigated the Arctic for Robert Peary's disputed achievement at reaching the North Pole. He made over 50 voyages to the Arctic and was only at peace in the ice fields. Bartlett's heroics are so celebrated that the man himself has been obscured by mythology and myth-making. Based on archival research in three countries, Unchained Man is a biography of Robert Bartlett, one of the central figures in international polar exploration and Arctic history."-- [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92

Marine painting Calvocoressi, Richard 1978 • OVERSIZE • 2 copies available. 75.047(26)

The Titanic and the city of widows it left behind : the forgotten victims of the fatal voyage /Julie Cook. "When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisations, adaptations and books, the focus has mostly continued to be on the ones who died. The Titanic and the City of Widows it Left Behind focuses on another group of people - the widows and children of the crew who perished on board. Author Julie Cook's great-grandfather was a stoker who died on Titanic. Her great-grandmother had to raise five children with no breadwinner. This book focuses on Emily and the widows like her who had to fight for survival through great hardship, whilst still grieving for the men they loved who'd died on the ship. Using original archive sources and with accounts from descendants of crew who also lost their lives, the book asks how these women survived through abject poverty and grief - and why their voices have been silent for so long."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3TITANIC

London's waterfront : the Thames from Battersea to the Barrier Brown, Nicholas Waldemar 2003 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 914.21(282.242)

Cornwall's maritime heritage : with special places to visit /Alan Kittridge. Kittridge, Alan. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942(423.7)

Liverpool's historic waterfront : the world's first mercantile dock system Ritchie-Noakes, Nancy 1984 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 627.3(427.2)

A Land Power Goes to Sea : Austria's Naval History 1382-1918 /Wilhelm M. Donko Donko, Wilhelm M., 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49

To be a sailor's wife / by Hanna Hagmark-Cooper. "The duality of maritime family life, the relationship between reconstruction and discourse and the symbolic status of the seafarer's wife are at the core of this book, which brings maritime women's experiences to the fore, widening the perspective of maritime history. Based on the collected life stories of seafarers' wives from the Aland Islands in Baltic Sea, Hanna Hagmark-Cooper draws attention to the cyclical nature of maritime family life and to the seafarers' wives' perception of leading two parallel lives; one when they are on their own and one with their husbands at home. The author considers how discourses change over time and colour narratives, and she investigates the women's attitudes to the myths surrounding the image of the seafarer's wife."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.87230948972

From hunter to hunted / Bernard Edwards. "In the early stages of the Second World War, Donitz's U-boats generally adhered to Prize Rules, surfacing before attacking and making every effort to preserve the lives of their victims' crews. But, with the arming of merchantmen and greater risk of damage or worse, they increasingly attacked without warning. So successful was the U-boat campaign that Churchill saw it as the gravest threat the Nation faced. The low point was the March 1943 attack on convoys SC122 and HX229 when 44 U-boats sank 22 loaded ships. The pendulum miraculously swung with improved tactics and technology. In May 1943 out of a force of over 50 U-boats that challenged ONS5, eight were sunk and 18 were damaged, some seriously. Such losses were unsustainable and, with allied yards turning out ships at ever increasing rates, Donitz withdrew his wolf packs from the North Atlantic. Expert naval author and historian Bernard Edwards traces the course of the battle of the Atlantic through a series of thrilling engagement case studies."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.451.6"1939/1943"

Maritime women : global leadership /Momoko Kitada, Erin Williams, Lisa Loloma Froholdt, editors. "This exciting new WMU book series' volume features the first attempt to include detailed experiences of women in the maritime sector at a global level. It highlights the achievement of women in the maritime sector, in particular, women's leadership and service to the sustainable development of the maritime industry. The volume contains contemporary studies on maritime women and follows an inter-disciplinary approach. It offers an overview of women's integration into the maritime sector since the late 1980s as well as benchmarking its impact on various levels, such as policy, employment, education, leadership and sustainability. Even 20 years after the Beijing Declaration, gender-related challenges at work still remain in the maritime sector, for example, lack of gender policy, difficulty in work-life balance, access to education, and leadership opportunities. The book addresses a series of recommendations that may further help the integration of women into the maritime sector."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/082

The Port of Bristol / Andy King. ''The Port of Bristol looks at a slice of the Port's long history and industrial heritage (1908 - 1977), a period in which it was thriving and growing dramatically. During the 1870s a number of granaries and mills were constructed in the City Docks, and more throughout the twentieth century at Avonmouth which, a decade later, became a major miling centre, with a million tons of grain arriving each year. Oil importing became the Port's biggest trade during the 1940s, while by the end of the 1960s there were major plants in the area producing zinc, carbon black, bricks and fertiliser. In the same decade Avonmouth was important a quarter of the UK's tea, as well as raw materials for two of Bristyol's other traditional industries; cocoa and tobacco. The period covered by this book begins with the opening of the Royal Edward Dock at Avonmouth in 1908 and ends with the opening of the Royal Portbury Dock in 1977, which has since become the modern centre of the Port of Bristol, dealing with bulk cargoes, forest products and more cars than any other port in Europe. Illustrated with over 200 photographs from the Port of Bristol Authority Collection held at the Bristol Museums Service - many of which have not been seen in print before - Port of Bristol presents the reader not only with a unique insight into the everyday life of the Docks and the people who worked there, but also with a flavour of the life of the Port during a golden age.''--Provided by the publisher. 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.10942

Frieze : contemporary art and culture. c1991- • JOURNAL • 1 copy available.

Women who stay : seafaring and subjectification in an Ilocos town /Roderick G Galam "Women Who Stay addresses the question of how women married to seafarers are shaped by migration and how they in turn shape migration. Looking at subjectivity as social becoming, it examines how Ilokano, Philippine, and global historical and economic processes have shaped the women's lives and experiences. While offering a culturally nuanced account of how women in an Ilocos town have navigated the spaces and times of their lives, the book also engages with broader social issues and concepts making it of interest to scholars and students of gender, migration, family, subjectivity, and the global maritime industry."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Singapore & the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800 / John N. Miksic. "Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. The picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea presents Singapore's history in the context of Asia's long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore's pre-colonial past."--Provided by the publisher 2013 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 382(592.3)

Labyrinth of ice : the triumphant and tragic Greely polar expedition /Buddy Levy. "Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge-vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness-as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely's wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune-at any cost-and how their journey changed the world"-- 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1881/1884"

Carpathia : the extraordinary story of the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic /Jay Ludowyke (author). 'In 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur Rostron immediately turns Carpathia northwest and sails full speed through the dark night, into waters laden with icebergs. Meanwhile, almost a century later, Carpathia's wreck has been finally discovered. She's over 500 feet down and only a few divers in the world can attain this depth. Among them is Englishman Ric Waring's team, who are determined to be the first to reach the wreck. In this captivating and intensely researched story, we follow the dual narratives of Rostron and the Carpathia, and of Waring's team and their dangerous determination to reach the wreck. We learn the history - and the fate - of the Carpathia, beyond 1912 and into World War I. Rich in history and drama, this true story reads like the best fiction.'-- Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123CARPATHIA

Canton days : British life and death in China /John M. Carroll. "The first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842, this book challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China."-- [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42:51)"17/18"

Il catalogo delle stelle doppie / Giovanni Battista Amici ; a cur a di Alberto Meschiari = Catalogue of double stars. Amici, Giovanni Battista, • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Captain's Wife This is a historical novel following the true story of Mary Patten. She was the wife of Captain Joshua Patten, and travelled with him when he was hired to navigate the Neptune's Car, a clipper ship, from New York to San Francisco in 1856. The voyage was troubled from the outset. There was a plot of mutiny amongst the crew and Mary's husband fell ill as the ship reached the equator. She had no choice but to take command of the ship and navigate round Cape Horn while encountering exceptionally bad weather. Although Mary had learnt to navigate on a previous voyage with her husband, on the Neptune's Car she had to deal with an unstable crew and nurse her sick husband. She also discoverd that she was pregnant while on the voyage. 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22-055.2

Sighted sub, sank same : the United States Navy's air campaign against the U-boat /Alan C. Carey. "Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food and armaments sailing across the Atlantic from North America. This battle of the Atlantic evolved into a far-ranging conflict beyond the North Atlantic and the eastern seaboard of the United States. It covered the frigid waters off Iceland down to the warm waters of Florida, through the Caribbean Sea, across the ocean to the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean Sea, down to Africa, and across the South Atlantic to Brazil's southern tip. Nazi Germany's efforts to deny supplies from reaching Europe came at a high price, losing 783 U-boats and approximately 30,000 men between 1939 and 1945 with land and carrier-based naval air units sinking 83 German submarines of the 159 sunk by American aircraft. German allies saw their submarines targeted as well in the Atlantic with Imperial Japanese submarine I-52 and the Italian Archimede falling victim to American naval aircraft armed with depth bombs or acoustic homing torpedoes. This story of the United States Navy's use of air power to hunt down and destroy German submarines unfolds in dramatic detail in Sighted Sub, Sank Same. The book contains over 200 colour and black and white photographs allowing for a visual imagery of the campaign while personal interviews, interrogation reports, personal correspondence, and after-action reports weave a fascinating history about the naval air campaign in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.451.6(73)

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