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Une histoire de la meridienne : textes, enjeux, debats et passions autour du meridien de Paris 1666-1827 Martin, Jean-Pierre 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 944.361.1(160)
The Viking discovery of America : the excavation of a norse settlement / Helge Ingstad, Anne Stine Ingstad Ingstad, Helge • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 973.013
British Destroyers 1939-45 : Pre-war Classes /Angus Konstam "The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these were veterans of World War I, fit only for escort duties. Most though, had been built during the inter-war period, and were regarded as both reliable and versatile. Danger though lurked across the seas as new destroyers being built in Germany, Italy and Japan were larger and better armoured. So, until the new, larger Tribal-class destroyers could enter service, these vessels would have to hold the line. Used mainly to hunt submarines, protect convoys from aerial attack, and take out other destroyers, these ships served across the globe during the war. This fully illustrated study is the first in a two-part series on the real workhorses of the wartime Royal Navy, focusing on how these ageing ships took on the formidable navies of the Axis powers."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.1(42)
The Times atlas of the oceans 1983 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 551.46
Terra Australis : Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia /edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. "Matthew Flinders is the man who gave Australia its name. A Voyage to Terra Australis, first published in two volumes in 1814, is his masterwork in which he vividly describes his voyages to map the great island continent between 1796 and 1803. Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, this version includes the journey Flinders made with George Bass to prove that Tasmania is an island, his herculean voyage in the Investigator circumnavigating Australia and his account of the wreck of the Porpoise. Flinders writes about his meetings with Aborigines, his encounters with French explorers and Macassan fishing fleets, and about the unforgettable wilderness of Australia."--Provided by the publisher. 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(94)"1796/1803"
Terra Australis : Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia /edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. "First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and communicating with Aborigines, of the scrub and wilderness. His descriptions of the difficulties that he and his sailors faced still bristle with energy and immediacy two hundred years later. This is Flinders' story in his own words, neglected until now, but destined to be eagerly read by all ages."--Provided by the publisher. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Investigator
ICOM Committee for Conservation : 14th triennial meeting, The Hague, 12-16 September 2005 : preprints /[managing editor, Isabelle Verger] ICOM Committee for Conservation.-(14th :-The Hague) 2005. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069.44
Navy Board Ship Models / Nick Ball and Simon Stephens "From about the middle of the seventeenth century the Navy's administrators began to commission models of their ships that were accurately detailed and, for the first time, systematically to scale. These developed a recognised style, which included features like the unplanked lower hull with a simplified pattern of framing that emphasised the shape of the underwater body. Exquisitely crafted, these were always rare and highly prized objects - indeed, Samuel Pepys expressed a profound desire to own one - and today they are widely regarded as the acme of the ship modeller's art. Today examples form the highlights of collections across the world, valued both as art objects and as potential historical evidence on matters of ship design. However, it was only recently that researchers began to investigate the circumstances of their construction, their function, and the identities of those who made them. This book, by two curators who have worked on the world's largest collection of these models at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, summarises the current state of knowledge, outlines important discoveries, and applies this new-found understanding to many of the finest models in the collection. As befits its subject, Navy Board Ship Models is visually striking, with numerous colour photographs that make it as attractive as it is informative to anyone with an interest in modelmaking or historic ships."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 086.5:623.82(42)
Bosun's call "Describes the author's hilarious experiences during his time spent on the lower deck in the Royal Navy; starting as a Boy Seaman, he slowly makes his uncertain way towards his goal of acting sub Lieutenant. Covering the years between 1949 and 1956, we experience a country still on wartime rationing, low pay, strict discipline and a time of general drabness. Yet despite this, most young people were filled with optimism brought beautifully to life in this tale of eccentric and colourful characters serving on both the lower deck and in the wardroom."--Provided by the publisher. 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124:92Willis
A second series of micrometrical measures of double stars : chiefly performed with the 7-feet equatorial, at Slough, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833 /by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Knt. Guelp. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1834 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094
European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen. "Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326
Great American ships Delgado, James P 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123(73):069
Heligoland : Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea /Jan Rèuger. "On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of Hitler's island fortress. Pressed as to why it was not prepared to give Heligoland back, the British government declared that the island represented everything that was wrong with the Germans: 'If any tradition was worth breaking, and if any sentiment was worth changing, then the German sentiment about Heligoland was such a one'. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Jan Rèuger explores how Britain and Germany have collided and collaborated in this North Sea enclave. For much of the nineteenth century, this was Britain's smallest colony, an inconvenient and notoriously discontented outpost at the edge of Europe. Situated at the fault line between imperial and national histories, the island became a metaphor for Anglo-German rivalry once Germany acquired it in 1890. Turned into a naval stronghold under the Kaiser and again under Hitler, it was fought over in both world wars. Heavy bombardment by the Allies reduced it to ruins, until the Royal Navy re-took it in May 1945. Returned to West Germany in 1952, it became a showpiece of reconciliation, but one that continues to bear the scars of the twentieth century. Tracing this rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War, Heligoland brings to life a fascinating microcosm of the Anglo-German relationship. For generations this cliff-bound island expressed a German will to bully and battle Britain; and it mirrored a British determination to prevent Germany from establishing hegemony on the Continent. Caught in between were the Heligolanders and those involved with them: spies and smugglers, poets and painters, sailors and soldiers. Heligoland is the compelling story of a relationship which has defined modern Europe."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 943/.512
Cosmos : an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology /John North. North, John David. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.8
Sail away ladies : stories of Cape Cod women in the age of sail /Jim Coogan. "During the great age of sail, hundreds of women accompanied their seafaring husbands on voyages that took them around the globe. In their journeys, they faced storms, pirates, shipwrecks, seasickness, and loneliness so far from home, family, and friends. Yet they also met with great adventure. Based on the journals and letters of these remarkable ladies, Sail Away Ladies presents the experiences of twelve Cape Cod women who braved the oceans and who shared their adventures with the people they left behind at home. Theirs is a proud and often overlooked chapter in Cape Cod?s seafaring history."--Provided by the publisher. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22-055.2
The Royal Museums of Greenwich : the centre of the world? :a cultural analysis /Maria Montserrat Româan Sastre Sastre, Maria Montserrat Româan 2018 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
Proceedings of the fifth symposium on shipbuilding on the Thames : Symposium organised by the Docklands History Group held at the Museum of London Dockyards, February 2012 /Chris Ellmers "The symposium, the first to be organised by the Group, took place in February 2012. The following papers, read on that day, are included in the proceedings which were edited by Chris Ellmers: Foreshore Archaeology: Thames Shipbuilding and Breaking by Gustav Milne and Eliott Wragg/The Mysterie of the Shipwrights by Rodney Brown/Gordon and Company, Deptford: Discovering a lost London Shipyard by Chris Ellmers/Artists and the Thames Shipyards byPieter ven der Merve/Thames Sailing Barges and their Builders by Richard Hugh Perks/John Scott Russell and the Construction of HMS Warrior by Andrew Lambert/Maudslay, Sons and Field's Greenwich Shipyard by Mary Mills/The Social and Economic Impact of the Closure of Thorneycroft's Yard, Chiswick in 1909. by James Wisdom."--Provided by the Publisher. 2013 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12
Britannia's Navy : on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914 /Barry Gough ; foreword by Admiral (ret'd) John Anderson. "The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough examines the contest for the Columbia country during the War of 1812, the 1844 British response to President Polk's manifest destiny and cries of "Fifty-four forty or fight," the gold-rush invasion of 30,000 outsiders, and the jurisdictional dispute in the San Juan Islands that spawned the Pig War. The author looks at the Esquimalt-based fleet in the decade before British Columbia joined Canada and the Navy's relationship with coastal First Nations over the five decades that preceded the Great War."-- [2016] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42+7)"1812/1914"
Alison's atlas of the wars in Europe 1792-1815 "This Atlas, intended to illustrate the most important period of modern history, consists of a series of plans of sieges and battles, pointing out every circumstance of locality, affecting the operations detailed, and maps of extensive portions of country, exhibiting at one view the whole range of a campaign, with the relative positions and political boundaries of Empires and States"--Provided by the publisher. Contents also include a concise vocabulary of military and marine terms. Facsimile published from the 1875 edition. 1994 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.48"1792/1815"(4)
Soviet naval power in the Pacific Da Cunha, Derek 1990 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(47:265/266)
Bristol Channel pilot cutters : A thesis /David H. Phillips. Phillips, David H. 2015 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.16
Queen Victoria Ashworth, Leon 1997 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 942.081
On a grander scale : the outstanding life of Sir Christopher Wren /Lisa Jardine. Jardine, Lisa. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WREN
British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880 Beeler, John F 1997 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.02(42)"1866/1880"