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The winter queen : Elizabeth of Bohemia /Carola Oman. "The extraordinary story of Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662), the 'Winter Queen'. Daughter of James VI of Scotland (James I of England) and Anne of Denmark, she married Frederick V, Elector of Palatine. Her husband's acceptance of the throne of Bohemia in 1619 precipitated the Thirty Years War. Both Bohemia and Palatine were lost and the royal family fled to Holland where they lived in extreme poverty, dogged by misfortune." "Throughout this period, by sheer force of her personality, beauty and courage, Elizabeth maintained her role at the centre of her court-in-exile. She lived long enough to see her son Charles Louis restored to the electorate. Her daughter Sophia was the mother of George I of England. This beautifully written biography also paints pictures of late Shakespearean England in which she spent her youth and of the Restoration England to which she returned in old age."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA

Aft through the hawsepipe "The author joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman in 1947 at the age of 15. He describes life on the lower deck when recruitment of Boy Seamen was coming to an end and the Royal Navy was dealing with the after effects of the war. He tells of his service on a number of ships and his selection as an Upper Yardman, the first rung on the ladder to becoming an officer, a process known as 'going aft through the hawsepipe'. This led to his commission as a sub lieutenant in 1954 [... and ] to the Submarine Service where after serving in a number of positions he was appointed to command HMS/M Aurochs. Bryan's last submarine was HMS/M Valiant and he contrasts this nuclear propelled vessel with the 'agricultural' equipment fitted in RN ships when he began his career."-- Provided by the publisher. The book contains over 20 photographs. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SMALLEY, BRYAN

British naval power in the East, 1794-1805 : the command of Admiral Peter Rainier /Peter A. Ward. "When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security problem was compounded in 1795 when the French overran the Netherlands and the extremely valuable Dutch trade routes and Dutch colonies, including the Cape of Good Hope and what is now Indonesia, fell under French control. The task of securing British interests in the East was a formidable one: the distances were huge, communication with London could take years, there were problems marshalling resources, and fine diplomatic skills were needed to keep independent rulers on the British side and to ensure full co-operation from the East India Company. The person charged with overseeing this formidable task was Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808), commander of the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and the East from 1794 to 1805. This book discusses the enormous difficulties Rainier faced. It outlines his career, explaining how he carried out his role with exceptional skill; how he succeeded in securing British interests in the East - whilst avoiding the need to fight a major battle; how he enhanced Britain's commanding position at sea; and how, additionally, in co-operation with the Governor-General, Richard Wellesley, he further advanced Britain's position in India itself."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RAINIER

H-bombs & hula girls : Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea /written and compiled by Michael Johnston. "Published to coincide with the 60th anniversay of Britain's first successful thermonuclear bomb testing in the Pacific, H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the tale of ten young men brought together through National Service in the Royal Navy and taking part in Britain?s top secret tests near Christmas Island. They experience at extremely close quarters what the world is told were three megaton H-bomb explosions, going on to show their country's flag in Hawaii, then around the South Pacific, and finally round all of South America. Theirs is the only British warship ever to sail directly from Port Stanley to Puerto Belgrano, mooring next to the Argentine flagship General Belgrano. H-Bombs & Hula Girls evokes the Cold War atmosphere of Britain in the 1950s and the race to secure the nation's place among the thermonuclear powers, but also paints the picture of a heterogeneous group of young men enjoying life-shaping experiences together: learning to be sailors, exploring island paradises, participating in three vast explosions, being their nation's goodwill ambassadors as they encounter completely different cultures, and here and there experiencing life-threatening moments and even having their hearts broken. This fascinating memoir of the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea, crafted from journals, letters, and contemporary records, plus the wonders of hindsight, culminates in the surprising realisation that Operation Grapple may not have been quite what it seemed." --Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.454.8

Hipolito Ruiz : a botanist at the ends of the earth :his unpublished personal notes during the expedition to Chile and Peru, 1777-1788 /Foreword by Agustin E. Edwards. Ruiz, Hipâolito, 2017. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

To the four winds : famine times in North Longford Mimnagh, John 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 325.254.6(415:94)

The English seaside in Victorian and Edwardian times Hannavy, John 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 711.455(210.4:42)

Scottish lighthouse pioneers : travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland /Paul A. Lynn. "In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvellous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland -- lighthouses which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for sailors and fishermen risking their lives in these notoriously dangerous waters. But what was it actually like to be a Scottish lighthouse engineer, and how did the professional activities interact with social and economic conditions in Scotland at the time? How did the Northern Lighthouse Board's Engineer (almost invariably a Stevenson) cope with weeks aboard a small lighthouse vessel, travelling around the rugged Scottish coastline on dangerous tours of inspection and interacting with local people in some of the remotest regions of Europe? The author reveals the fascinating story of the Stevensons as family members as well as engineers -- brilliant yet fallible, tough yet vulnerable, with private lives that are little known, even to lighthouse enthusiasts. It sets their work in a historical and social context, drawing heavily on eye-witness accounts by two of Scotland's most celebrated literary sons: Walter Scott, internationally famous poet and member of the Edinburgh establishment; and Robert Louis Stevenson, young family member and disenchanted engineering apprentice desperate to become an author. The reader is taken to the Orkney and Shetland Islands with descriptions of the chain of Stevenson lighthouses that illuminate a vital shipping route between the North Sea, Baltic, and North Atlantic. Finally we travel to Muckle Flugga, the northernmost outpost of the British Isles and last link in the chain, a vicious rock on which David and Thomas Stevenson dared to build their 'impossible lighthouse'."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.715(411.1/.2)

Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. By Lieut. Col. W.H. Emory. made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the "West" ... United States.-Army.---Corps of Topographical Engineers. 1848 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(73)"1846/1847":094

Franklin and his friends : portraying the man of science in eighteenth-century America Fortune, Brandon Brame 1999 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 5(091)

The Routledge handbook of maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600 / Wim Blockmans "The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 exploresthe links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks' economic functions alongside their intercultural exchanges, contacts and practical arrangements in ports on the European coasts. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 38(4)

Prâecis historique : des opâerations gâeodâesiques et astronomiques, faites en Hollande : pour servir de base áa la topographie de cet âetat /exâecutâees par le Lieutenant General Baron Krayenhoff. Kraijenhoff, Cornelis, 1827. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.28

Tugs in colour - British built / Andrew Wiltshire "This book is a sequel to Andrew Wiltshire's first book on tugs Looking Back at British Tugs. This time he concentrates on examples that were completed in British Shipyards. He has always been fascinated by the number of small shipyards that once existed around the UK, and often by the location of these yards."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.2

A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor : betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice /Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. An account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the 'scapegoat' Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, the failure of the top brass in Washington to provide Kimmel with vital intelligence prior to the attack, and the continuing efforts of the family to have Kimmel formally exonerated. [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.6"1941"

Safety in museums and galleries 1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 614:069

German Military Cargo Ships Produced in Series Programs in Southern Europe 1941-1945 : A Photographic Documentation of the KT and SME Vessels of the Kriegsmarine built in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Area ,Wilhelm Donko "The programme to build the Kriegstransporter (KT) was a desperate last attempt of Germany to provide replacements for the lost merchant ships in the Mediterranean. It was based on a personal initiative by Adolf Hitler. Its main aim was to fill the urgent need of supply for Rommel's troops in North Africa. The KTs proved very successful for this task but came too late and in far too small numbers to change the course of events. For the rest of the war they were used for transport duties in the Mediterranean by Gemany and Italy while the ships built in the Black Sea region were primarily used as submarine chasers by the German Kriegsmarine. The programme of the Black Sea Standard Ships (SME) came much too late to improve the transport capacity of the Axis Powers in the isolated theatre of war, finally no such ship was completed before the end of the war, but two vessels were delivered provisionally in November 1944."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12(43)"1941/1945"

British India S.N. Co Haws, Duncan 1987 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.2

Black May "This book is the story of the month in the spring of 1943, 'Black May' as the Germans called it, when the Allies finally and decisively gained the upper hand in the Battle of the Atlantic and it became clear that the submarine threat would be defeated. In the course of that month the Allies, confronted with the largest submarine force yet sent out into the Atlantic, sunk 41 U-boats and damaged another 37 and Admiral Doenitz was forced to withdraw the surviving boats from the fray. Most significant of all, one major convoy, ONS.5, which was targeted by several wolfpacks in rapid succession and should, in the light of past experience, have suffered severe losses, survived largely unscathed while the attacking wolfpacks were relentlessly hunted down by the escorting ships and aircraft. Michael Gannon describes the hundreds of separate engagements that took place in the course of the month in vivid detail, drawing upon archive records on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the personal recollections of those involved on both sides. [...] He also reproduces the transcripts of secretly recorded conversations between captured U-boat crewmen, which provide a fascinating insight into their attitudes and morale.[...]The courage and determination of the men who fought was crucial but the Allied victory was also the result of improvements in stategy, tactics and technology, including the introduction of centimetric radar and radio-direction finding gear, and all of these factors are examined and analysed here."--Provided by the publisher. 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.827(43)"1943"

Recovered memories = Memorias recobradas : Spain, New Orleans and the support for the American Revolution = Espaäna, Nueva Orleans y la ayuda a la Revoluciâon norteamericana /Josâe Manuel Guerrero Acosta (ed.). Guerrero Acosta, Josâe Manuel, 2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 973(460)

Artefacts of encounter : Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum histories /edited by Nicholas Thomas, Julie Adams, Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku & Amiria Salmond ; photography by Gwil Owen. "The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies or belief systems but of indigenous cultures at the formative stages of their modern histories, and exemplify Islanders' institutions, cosmologies and social relationships. Recently, scholars from the Pacific and further afield, working with Pacific artefacts at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (MAA), have set out to challenge and rethink some longstanding assumptions on their significance. The Cook voyage collection at the MAA is among the four or five most important in the world, containing over 200 of the 2000-odd objects with Cook voyage provenance that are dispersed throughout the world. The collection includes some 100 artefacts dating from Cook's first voyage."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)

The defeat of the enemy attack on shipping, 1939-1945 Navy Records Society (Great Britain) 1997 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 940.542.9

Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary coast and Italy, 1500-1800 Davis, Robert C 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(2)

Naval firepower : battleship guns and gunnery in the Dreadnought Era /Norman Friedman ; drawings by A D Baker and W J Jurens. Friedman, Norman, 2008. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 623.9"1906/1945"

Archives of the scientific revolution : the formation and exchange ideas in seventeenth century Europe 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5(093)

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