Basic Steam Locomotive Maintenance

D.C. Buell

Chatham Pub.

Washington Steam Locomotives

Politics & Social Sciences

Johnsen, Kenneth

Social Sciences

Nelson Speaks: Admiral Lord Nelson In His Own Words

Biographies & Memoirs

Callo, Joseph F.

Nelson, Horatio Nelson

Historical

Sir William Clowes's superb seven-volume study is the preeminent history of the Royal Navy and England's maritime legacy. This remarkable series includes the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Clements Markham, and H. W. Wilson. Covers the 18th century from the accession of George I in 1715 to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1793.

The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 3

History

William Laird Clowes

Sir Clements Robert Markham

Military

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The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 4

David Lyon's highly regarded Sailing Navy List detailed every Royal Navy warship of the age of sail by era, ship type and class. This book is the much-anticipated follow-up volume. It provides details of design and construction history, technical specifications, and fates for all warships of the important but poorly documented period between 1815 and 1889, which saw the introduction of steam power and the gradual replacement of sail. Extensively illustrated, the new work includes a representative collection of original plans from the little-seen collection at the British National Maritime Museum. In addition, appendixes cover captured, purchased and hired vessels, as well as Coast Guard and packet vessels for which the Royal Navy was responsible. Rif Winfield ably brought this volume to fruition after David Lyon's death in 2000 and their final collaboration is sure to be treasured by historians as well as modelers for its detailed data and diagrams. 200 plans and illustrations. Appendixes. 9 1/2 x 111/4 inches.

The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889

LYON, David

WINFIELD, Rif

This book is a beautifully illustrated companion to Hornblower's fictional career describing and illustrating all the main incidents in the ten novels. C S Forester's Hornblower novels have been avidly read for over two generations and are as popular today as when they were first published. They recount stirring adventures in the Royal Navy during the era of the Napoleonic wars and paint a vivid picture of the Senior Service at a time when it grew to dominate the world's oceans. C S Forester's companion to his hero's career describes all the incidents as they appeared in the ten novels, starting with Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and running through to Hornblower in the West Indies, and the chapters are all illustrated with beautifully drawn maps and charts. Some thirty of these, and over one hundred drawings and marginal decorations, bring to life both the events and characters that appear in the novels. In the second part of the book the author describes how the novels were written, what inspired the adventures and how they relate to the real world of the Royal Navy.

The Hornblower Companion

Literature & Fiction

C.s.forester

Genre Fiction

David K Brown brings the knowledge and experience of a long career as a Naval Constructor to an account of the design of the warships with which the Royal Navy fought the First World War, and the influence of that conflict upon future warship design. This is a design history of British warships before, during and immediately after that war, when the Royal Navy was at the summit of its power, and truly ruled the waves. As well as the building of the new classes of Dreadnought battleship and the controversial battlecruisers, this book covers the development in the design of cruisers and smaller craft, and also the new weapons of naval warfare which were to have such influence in later years, the submarine and the aircraft carrier. A full analysis of the experience of battle damage in the First World War is given, and the effect that had on post-war designs up to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1923. It is also illustrated with contemporary photographs and draughts of the most significant designs.

The grand fleet: Warship design and development, 1906-1922

Brown, D.K.

For every naval officer, in fiction or reality, the frigate was the most sought after command. As dashing as a modern destroyer, the frigate offered the excitement of independent service with the prospect of a glorious single-ship battle or a fortune to be made in prize money. Their actions have been the stuff of history and sea fiction for generations, but the ships themselves are hardly documented at all. This book fills that gap with comprehensive descriptions of the design, construction, armament and fitting of individual classes, as well as the factors that influenced their development and the roles they were expected to perform. Supporting the narrative are detailed lists on all classes, including the prizes captured from opposing French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and American navies and comparative aspects like performance under sail. Based on extensive new research, the author goes beyond the frigate's specifications to background issues like the construction experiments prior to the adoption of the Seppings' diagonal system, and the improvements to guns, mounting, and powder during the wars of 1793-1815. This handsome large-format volume is fully illustrated with original plans, photographs of models, and contemporary prints. It will be a rich addition to any maritime bookshelf and provide first-time readers of this genre with an in-depth look at a sailing vessel steeped in naval lore.

Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars

Science & Math

Robert Gardiner

Technology

Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-4 and was launched one hundred years ago, in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986, and this book tells the story of that chequered history. Despite a number of expeditions to the Southern Ocean during the 1800s, at the close of that century the continent of Antarctica remained a mystery. To remedy this the Royal Geographical Society proposed a National Antarctic Expedition and a purpose-built vessel, the Discovery, was specially designed. Based on a whaleship, she was massively built to withstand ice, and was equipped with a hoisting propeller and rudder. She set sail from Cowes on 6 August 1901, under the command of Captain Scott, and entered the Ross Sea in January. The southern sledging expedition, of Scott, Shackleton and Wilson, reached within 500 miles of the South Pole. In 1905, a year after her return to Europe, she was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company and worked as a simple cargo carrier between London and their trading posts in the Canadian Arctic; she traded under charter throughout the First World War; was later sent to rescue Shackleton's men, marooned on Elephant Island; while in 1925 she became the first Royal Research Ship, and investigated the environment of the great whales in the Southern Ocean; in 1929-31 she was used by Sir Douglas Mawson to survey what became Australian Antarctic territory. Moored on the Thames Embankment, she survived the London Blitz and then returned to Dundee in 1986 where she is afloat today. The vivid descriptions of the voyages and the legendary bravery of the explorers who sailed her into ice-bound waters conjure up the lost world of wooden ships and Antarctic exploration.

Voyages of the Discovery: The Illustrated History of Scotts Ship

Savours, Ann

Earth Sciences

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