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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.

DKK 460.00
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The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.

DKK 530.00
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The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 1: 1902-18 - B.mcl. Ranft - Bog -

The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 1: 1902-18 - B.mcl. Ranft - Bog -

David Beatty joined the Victorian Navy in 1884. His early career therefore occurred at a time of great technological, tactical and strategic challenges to the Royal Navy. In 1910 he was promoted to Rear Admiral, and from 1912 served as Naval Secretary to Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. This role in turn led to his command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, with which he entered the war. The early years of the war saw much frustration. There was also disappointment at the failure to bring about a decisive action with the German navy. The Battle of Jutland (May 1916) led to his often quoted comment, ‘There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today’. Attempts to learn lessons from the battle – and attribute blame – would long outlast the war. In November 1916, Beatty was appointed Commander-in-Chief, with Jellicoe, his predecessor in this position, becoming First Sea Lord. His main concerns in this position included solving the problems revealed by Jutland, countering the U-boat threat, maintaining morale in the Royal Navy and prosecuting the increasingly effective blockade of Germany. For Beatty, the war ended triumphantly, with his receiving the surrender of the German fleet. In 1919, he became First Sea Lord and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet and he retired in 1927. This volume spans the period up to the end of the First World War. The first section covers Beatty’s career as a Captain, to set the context for the bulk of the volume, which focuses on the War itself. The Battle of Jutland is covered fairly briefly here, with Beatty’s immediate reaction; his later thoughts can be found in Volume II (NRS Volume 132). The documents included have come mainly from Lord Beatty’s personal collection (at the National Maritime Museum), but also from the Imperial War Museum and the archives of Churchill College, Cambridge. Official papers from the National Archive and the British Library are not included. Both the subject, and some individual documents, overlap with the Navy Record Society collections, Volume 108: The Jellicoe Papers, Volume I (1966) and Volume 111: The Jellicoe Papers, Volume II (1968), both edited by A Temple-Patterson.

DKK 530.00
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The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 2: 1916-27 - Brian Ranft - Bog -

The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 2: 1916-27 - Brian Ranft - Bog -

David Beatty joined the Victorian Navy in 1884. His early career therefore occurred at a time of great technological, tactical and strategic challenges to the Royal Navy. In 1910 he was promoted to Rear Admiral, and from 1912 served as Naval Secretary to Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. This role in turn led to his command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, with which he entered the war. The early years of the war saw much frustration. There was also disappointment at the failure to bring about a decisive action with the German navy. The Battle of Jutland (May 1916) led to his often quoted comment, ‘There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today’. Attempts to learn lessons from the battle – and attribute blame – would long outlast the war. In November 1916, Beatty was appointed Commander-in-Chief, with Jellicoe, his predecessor in this position, becoming First Sea Lord. His main concerns in this position included solving the problems revealed by Jutland, countering the U-boat threat, maintaining morale in the Royal Navy and prosecuting the increasingly effective blockade of Germany. For Beatty, the war ended triumphantly, with his receiving the surrender of the German fleet. In 1919, he became First Sea Lord and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet and he retired in 1927. This second volume examines his time as First Sea Lord, including the long-running controversy over the Battle of Jutland, battles over resources and the fateful issue of the Singapore base. Beatty retired in 1927. The documents selected for this second volume are from the Beatty Papers (National Maritime Museum); Admiralty, Cabinet and Chiefs of Staff papers from the National Archive; the diaries and papers of various politicians and senior naval officers with whom Beatty worked as First Sea Lord; papers from the archive of Churchill College, Cambridge; and papers in the collection of Stephen Roskill. There is some overlap with other Navy Records Society volumes, including Volume 111: The Jellicoe Papers, Volume II, edited by A Temple-Patterson (1968); Volume 121: The Keyes Papers, Volume II, ed. P G Halpern (1980); Volume 130: Anglo-American Naval Relations 1917-1919, ed. M Simpson (1991); Volume 136: Papers Relating to the Collective Naval Defence of Empire, 1900-1940, ed. N Tracy (1997).

DKK 380.00
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The Rupert and Monck Letter Book 1666 - J.r. Powell - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Rupert and Monck Letter Book 1666 - J.r. Powell - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

In 1666 Prince Rupert and George Monk, Duke of Albemarle were appointed by Charles II to a joint command of the fleet that had been engaged in the Second Dutch War, fought largely at sea, for five years without either side gaining much advantage. The appointment of two men to share a single responsibility is a risky thing to do at the best of times and, on the face of it, appointing such contrasting characters as Rupert and Monk appeared to be asking for trouble; but the King was a shrewd judge of men, he knew his dashing – at times impetuous – nephew well and had known Albemarle since the latter had been instrumental in bringing about the Restoration. Both were long serving soldiers with considerable seagoing experience and both were accomplished organisers of military affairs; they had known each other for some years and it is fair to assume that they respected each others capabilities. The letters themselves give a strong indication of harmonious co-operation. The pair, particularly Albemarle, had a significant influence of the development of naval battle tactics. This period saw the genesis of the method of fighting fleet actions in a ‘line of battle’ that was to persist right up to Jutland in 1916. At the time that Albemarle took command of the fleet, naval battles were conducted as a general mêlée but he applied a soldier’s orderly approach to disposing of forces for a land battle and in 1653 he had laid down instructions for fighting in line. The letters give an insight into how the new naval administration being put together by the Duke of York and Samuel Pepys was developing. There were familiar problems with pay, victualling and the quality of ship construction but these may be seen as largely the natural result of a rapidly expanding organisation.

DKK 333.00
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The Rupert and Monck Letter Book 1666 - J.r. Powell - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Rupert and Monck Letter Book 1666 - J.r. Powell - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

In 1666 Prince Rupert and George Monck, Duke of Albemarle were appointed by Charles II to a joint command of the fleet that had been engaged in the Second Dutch War, fought largely at sea, for five years without either side gaining much advantage. The appointment of two men to share a single responsibility is a risky thing to do at the best of times and, on the face of it, appointing such contrasting characters as Rupert and Monck appeared to be asking for trouble; but the King was a shrewd judge of men, he knew his dashing – at times impetuous – nephew well and had known Albemarle since the latter had been instrumental in bringing about the Restoration. Both were long serving soldiers with considerable seagoing experience and both were accomplished organisers of military affairs; they had known each other for some years and it is fair to assume that they respected each others capabilities. The letters themselves give a strong indication of harmonious co-operation. The pair, particularly Albemarle, had a significant influence of the development of naval battle tactics. This period saw the genesis of the method of fighting fleet actions in a ‘line of battle’ that was to persist right up to Jutland in 1916. At the time that Albemarle took command of the fleet, naval battles were conducted as a general mêlée but he applied a soldier’s orderly approach to disposing of forces for a land battle and in 1653 he had laid down instructions for fighting in line. The letters give an insight into how the new naval administration being put together by the Duke of York and Samuel Pepys was developing. There were familiar problems with pay, victualling and the quality of ship construction but these may be seen as largely the natural result of a rapidly expanding organisation.

DKK 979.00
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The Jellicoe papers - A. Temple Patterson - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Jellicoe papers - A. Temple Patterson - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This substantial selection of the professional and private papers of Admiral John Jellicoe, first Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), extends from 1893 to 1935. Its publication was directly followed in 1969, by Professor Patterson’s succinct biography of the admiral. Since then, a resurgence of interest in the Battle of Jutland and in pre-war naval provision has resulted from the publication (in 1989 and 1993) of Professor Ranft’s The Beatty Papers (NRS vols. 128 & 132) and from the publication in 1984 of Professor Sumida’s edition of The Pollen Papers (NRS vol. 124), followed in 1989 by his book In Defence of Naval Supremacy Sumida reopened the question of British gunnery at, and before, Jutland. Since then Paul Halpern, in his Naval History of World War I (1994), has provided a comprehensive account and assessment of all the participants. For any further reconsideration of this complex period, The Jellicoe Papers, together with The Beatty Papers, will remain a primary source. The first volume merely touches, in an introduction, on Jellicoe’s time as DNO, but there are documents for his time as Controller and a few for the years 1910 to 1914. Nearly a hundred fascinating pages track Jellicoe’s initial twelve months, from August 1914, as C-in-C of the Grand Fleet. His abiding sensitivity to the pervasive danger from mines and submarines is soon communicated to Battenburg: ‘Scapa is the only base we have which is almost safe against submarines.’ There are nine pages of extracts from Grand Fleet Battle Orders foreshadowing aspects of the battle which would eventually come. A further hundred pages cover the period February 1915 to February 1916. The Dogger Bank action is analysed, especially the gunnery. The question of the North Sea bases is debated. Elsewhere Fisher complains of Jellicoe’s ‘lugubrious forecasts’. However, on 17 May, Crease writes that Fisher has resigned, having tired of always ‘watching the First Lord instead of the Germans’. Jellicoe urges the Admiralty to provide for more minesweeping and for further offensive mining. He also suggests air spotting by seaplanes. Jellicoe and Beatty agree in deploring the ‘battle practice’ results of Tiger and Lion. More such practice is the only remedy envisaged. In January 1916 Jellicoe writes generally to Balfour about tactics and strategy. He rules out sending the fleet to the Baltic but endorses submarine operations there. The volume concludes in Part IV with the long-awaited event of ‘Jutland and its Preliminaries and its Aftermath’. Here, a great deal – if not quite all – is revealed. There are four excellent diagrams. (See also The Beatty’ Papers NRS Volumes 128 & 132).

DKK 553.00
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The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake - Geoffrey Callender - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Life of Admiral Sir John Leake - Geoffrey Callender - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Leake (1656-1720) was one of the most prominent flag officers of King William and Queen Anne’ s wars. He played a leading part in the relief of Londonderry in 1689, fought at Bantry Bay, Beachy Head, La Hogue and Malaga, twice relieved Gibraltar, captured Cartagena, Alicante, Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, and Sardinia, was five times Admiral of the Fleet, and in the end declined to be First Lord of the Admiralty. This life was written by the admiral’s nephew Stephen Martin-Leake, Garter King of Arms, whose life of his father (Vol 5) was originally appended to it. There is a brief account of the career of his father, Captain Richard Leake. Then Leake’s account of the Battle of Bantry Bay, the trial of the Earl of Torrington and the Battle of La Hogue. He gained post rank and the first part of the volume concludes with the state of the navy during King William’s reign. Leake was Commodore of the squadron to Newfoundland and then became Vice Admiral of the Blue in the Mediterranean campaign of 1703. The volume finishes with a description of his activity at Lisbon where ‘Sir John received orders to stop the galleons in Cadiz which he attempts to do but is prevented by the sinister practices of the Portuguese’.

DKK 518.00
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The Naval Miscellany - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War. They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Scotland under Edward I and Edward VI, the protection of the Iceland fishery in the days of the Commonwealth government, and the operation of prize courts during the wars against France in the eighteenth century. Moving on to the nineteenth century, the supply of timber to the Royal Navy is examined, while two contributions deal with surveying off the west coast of Africa and another prints a diary kept by a member of the Naval Brigade operating onshore in the Zulu War. The most recent contributions deal with the origins and development of the Royal Australian Navy up to the 1950s. Two more controversial subjects are also included; the first gives more information about the storage of cordite on battle cruisers in 1916 and the battle of Jutland; the second documents the relief of Admiral North from Gibraltar in 1940. There is something here for every enthusiast for naval history and for all students of the relevant periods.

DKK 518.00
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The Naval Miscellany - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War. They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Scotland under Edward I and Edward VI, the protection of the Iceland fishery in the days of the Commonwealth government, and the operation of prize courts during the wars against France in the eighteenth century. Moving on to the nineteenth century, the supply of timber to the Royal Navy is examined, while two contributions deal with surveying off the west coast of Africa and another prints a diary kept by a member of the Naval Brigade operating onshore in the Zulu War. The most recent contributions deal with the origins and development of the Royal Australian Navy up to the 1950s. Two more controversial subjects are also included; the first gives more information about the storage of cordite on battle cruisers in 1916 and the battle of Jutland; the second documents the relief of Admiral North from Gibraltar in 1940. There is something here for every enthusiast for naval history and for all students of the relevant periods.

DKK 333.00
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The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood - Edward Hughes - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood - Edward Hughes - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This volume attempts to rescue Nelson’s second-in-command at Trafalgar from the comparative obscurity that had overtaken him since the close of the nineteenth century. Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood (1748-1810), lionised for his role at Trafalgar by his contemporaries and by Victorians, had become widely viewed in the first half of the twentieth century as a naval ‘mediocrity’. The contents are Collingwood’s correspondence (1776-1810) mainly from private collections and do not include any of his official correspondence which can be found at the National Maritime Museum. Thus in this volume there are no broad comprehensive accounts of Trafalgar, though there are related snippets of professional and human interest, not least regarding the sense of injustice felt by the officers of the ships that had not returned home after the battle but stayed on in the Mediterranean and feared themselves forgotten by the Admiralty in the bestowal of rewards. Clearly glimpsed is Collingwood’s own frustration with an Admiralty that, despite his repeated protestations of ill-health, steadfastly refused to relieve him from the Mediterranean command. There are letters to his relations that provide vivid accounts of the Glorious First of June and the battle of Cape St Vincent; letters of a domestic and revealingly personal nature and incidental letters to other recipients including Rear-Admirals Sir Thomas Louis and Sir Thomas Pasley, and Captain Benjamin Hallowell. Inward correspondence, consisting of letters (1808-10) from the Duke of Northumberland, forms an appendix.

DKK 1003.00
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The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This was the first of the Miscellany volumes and while it contains documents from the sixteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority relate to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Of the two sixteenth century documents, one relates to French warship signals and the other is a narrative of the Cadiz expedition. There is a translation of a Portuguese description of the Battle of Quiberon Bay and the journals of Captain Duncan between 1776 and 1782. The rest of the selection are correspondence of Viscount Hood, letters describing daily life in the navy, extracts relating to life in the East India Company’s service, official correspondence on the capture of Heligoland in 1807 and 41 letters to and from Nelson.

DKK 368.00
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The Defeat of the Enemy Attack upon Shipping, 1939-1945 - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Defeat of the Enemy Attack upon Shipping, 1939-1945 - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

During the First World War German use of unrestricted submarine warfare, supported by extensive mining and surface raids, very nearly forced Britain out of the war in 1917. The island’s heavy dependence on seaborne supplies was gravely threatened again in 1939, supplemented this time by air attacks on shipping. After the war Commanders Waters and Barley wrote a Naval Staff History which has long been recognised as an authoritative study of the impact of the German campaign and its ultimate defeat by Britain and her allies. It remains an indispensable basis for any serious study of the Battle of the Atlantic and has here been updated and revised by Dr Grove, who also contributes a perceptive introduction outlining its significance.

DKK 518.00
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The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This was the first of the Miscellany volumes and while it contains documents from the sixteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority relate to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Of the two sixteenth century documents, one relates to French warship signals and the other is a narrative of the Cadiz expedition. There is a translation of a Portuguese description of the Battle of Quiberon Bay and the journals of Captain Duncan between 1776 and 1782. The rest of the selection are correspondence of Viscount Hood, letters describing daily life in the navy, extracts relating to life in the East India Company’s service, official correspondence on the capture of Heligoland in 1807 and 41 letters to and from Nelson.

DKK 266.00
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The Keith Papers - Christopher Lloyd - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Keith Papers - Christopher Lloyd - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

George Keith Elphinstone, Lord Keith (1746-1823) was a Scottish naval officer who entered the navy as a penurious midshipman towards the end of the Seven Years War. He had a long career at sea, during which he missed taking part in any major battle, but held major commands throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (except 1807-1812). He is chiefly known for his skill in commanding very large fleets, often spread over a very wide area, and for the consequent prize money which made him the richest naval officer of his day. He also gained a reputation for being very keen on acquring it. These three volumes only represent a small fraction of the documents in Keith’s very large personal collection of letter and order books and loose documents in the National Maritime Museum, which occupies 124 foot of shelf space. Apart from a small section representing Keith’s role in the naval mutinies of 1797, this volume reproduces documents from Keith’s commands in the Mediterranean between 1798 and 1802. The first notable incident was the escape of Admiral Bruix and his fleet, which Keith, perhaps unluckily, failed to catch and bring to battle. In 1799 Keith became Commander-in-Chief at a difficult time, not helped by a prickly and uncooperative Nelson at Palermo and Naples. Malta was captured in September 1800, after which Keith’s concerns switched to the Eastern Mediterranean. Here he had to deal with that other difficult naval officer Sidney Smith, who, after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Acre, signed the controversial Convention of El Arish. Keith’s particular triumph was his close cooperation with General Sir Ralph Abercromby in the difficult landing of the British army at Aboukir Bay in 1801, and the defeat of the French army in Egypt.

DKK 679.00
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The Keith Papers - Christopher Lloyd - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Keith Papers - Christopher Lloyd - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

George Keith Elphinstone, Lord Keith (1746-1823) was a Scottish naval officer who entered the navy as a penurious midshipman towards the end of the Seven Years War. He had a long career at sea, during which he missed taking part in any major battle, but held major commands throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (except 1807-1812). He is chiefly known for his skill in commanding very large fleets, often spread over a very wide area, and for the consequent prize money which made him the richest naval officer of his day. He also gained a reputation for being very keen on acquring it. These three volumes only represent a small fraction of the documents in Keith’s very large personal collection of letter and order books and loose documents in the National Maritime Museum, which occupies 124 foot of shelf space. Apart from a small section representing Keith’s role in the naval mutinies of 1797, this volume reproduces documents from Keith’s commands in the Mediterranean between 1798 and 1802. The first notable incident was the escape of Admiral Bruix and his fleet, which Keith, perhaps unluckily, failed to catch and bring to battle. In 1799 Keith became Commander-in-Chief at a difficult time, not helped by a prickly and uncooperative Nelson at Palermo and Naples. Malta was captured in September 1800, after which Keith’s concerns switched to the Eastern Mediterranean. Here he had to deal with that other difficult naval officer Sidney Smith, who, after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Acre, signed the controversial Convention of El Arish. Keith’s particular triumph was his close cooperation with General Sir Ralph Abercromby in the difficult landing of the British army at Aboukir Bay in 1801, and the defeat of the French army in Egypt.

DKK 266.00
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Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 - - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The idea behind this volume, according to its editor Brian Lavery, was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society, notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91, 1951, ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107, 1965, ed C C Lloyd.) The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because, stated Brian Lavery, ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815, when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained, especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy, ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages, often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time, and the ways in which they were fed, clothed, allocated space for eating and sleeping, at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations, Captain’s Orders, Medical Journals, discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time.

DKK 530.00
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The Keyes Papers - Paul G. Halpern - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Keyes Papers - Paul G. Halpern - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

George Keith Elphinstone, Lord Keith (1746-1823) was a Scottish naval officer who entered the navy as a penurious midshipman towards the end of the Seven Years War. He had a long career at sea, during which he missed taking part in any major battle, but held major commands throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (except 1807-1812). He is chiefly known for his skill in commanding very large fleets, often spread over a very wide area, and for the consequent prize money which made him the richest naval officer of his day. He also gained a reputation for being very keen on acquring it. These three volumes only represent a small fraction of the documents in Keith’s very large personal collection of letter and order books and loose documents in the National Maritime Museum, which occupies 124 foot of shelf space. Apart from a small section representing Keith’s role in the naval mutinies of 1797, this volume reproduces documents from Keith’s commands in the Mediterranean between 1798 and 1802. The first notable incident was the escape of Admiral Bruix and his fleet, which Keith, perhaps unluckily, failed to catch and bring to battle. In 1799 Keith became Commander-in-Chief at a difficult time, not helped by a prickly and uncooperative Nelson at Palermo and Naples. Malta was captured in September 1800, after which Keith’s concerns switched to the Eastern Mediterranean. Here he had to deal with that other difficult naval officer Sidney Smith, who, after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Acre, signed the controversial Convention of El Arish. Keith’s particular triumph was his close cooperation with General Sir Ralph Abercromby in the difficult landing of the British army at Aboukir Bay in 1801, and the defeat of the French army in Egypt.

DKK 345.00
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Recollections of my Sea Life - David Bonner Smith - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Recollections of my Sea Life - David Bonner Smith - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Captain Boteler (1796-1885) came from a naval family, entering the navy as a Volunteer, First Class in 1808, was made lieutenant in September 1815, commander in 1830 and captain in 1851. He left the navy in 1830. These recollections, full of well-told naval anecdote, were written in old age, and published only for private circulation. They can be considered accurate, though dates are sometimes unclear. Boteler describes his service in the Baltic between 1809 and 1812, though there was an intervening period in the Channel and the North Sea before he returned to the Baltic late in the Napoleonic War. He served after the war in Gibraltar and on the Jamaica station, engaged in the suppression of piracy, and then more generally in the West Indies. Boteler quotes a detailed contemporary account of the battle of Navarino, 1827.

DKK 333.00
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Recollections of my Sea Life - David Bonner Smith - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Recollections of my Sea Life - David Bonner Smith - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Captain Boteler (1796-1885) came from a naval family, entering the navy as a Volunteer, First Class in 1808, was made lieutenant in September 1815, commander in 1830 and captain in 1851. He left the navy in 1830. These recollections, full of well-told naval anecdote, were written in old age, and published only for private circulation. They can be considered accurate, though dates are sometimes unclear. Boteler describes his service in the Baltic between 1809 and 1812, though there was an intervening period in the Channel and the North Sea before he returned to the Baltic late in the Napoleonic War. He served after the war in Gibraltar and on the Jamaica station, engaged in the suppression of piracy, and then more generally in the West Indies. Boteler quotes a detailed contemporary account of the battle of Navarino, 1827.

DKK 979.00
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The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood - Edward Hughes - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood - Edward Hughes - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This volume attempts to rescue Nelson’s second-in-command at Trafalgar from the comparative obscurity that had overtaken him since the close of the nineteenth century. Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood (1748-1810), lionised for his role at Trafalgar by his contemporaries and by Victorians, had become widely viewed in the first half of the twentieth century as a naval ‘mediocrity’. The contents are Collingwood’s correspondence (1776-1810) mainly from private collections and do not include any of his official correspondence which can be found at the National Maritime Museum. Thus in this volume there are no broad comprehensive accounts of Trafalgar, though there are related snippets of professional and human interest, not least regarding the sense of injustice felt by the officers of the ships that had not returned home after the battle but stayed on in the Mediterranean and feared themselves forgotten by the Admiralty in the bestowal of rewards. Clearly glimpsed is Collingwood’s own frustration with an Admiralty that, despite his repeated protestations of ill-health, steadfastly refused to relieve him from the Mediterranean command. There are letters to his relations that provide vivid accounts of the Glorious First of June and the battle of Cape St Vincent; letters of a domestic and revealingly personal nature and incidental letters to other recipients including Rear-Admirals Sir Thomas Louis and Sir Thomas Pasley, and Captain Benjamin Hallowell. Inward correspondence, consisting of letters (1808-10) from the Duke of Northumberland, forms an appendix. The outward correspondence opens in March 1776, when Collingwood was about to become first lieutenant of the sloop Hornet under a brutal and despised captain who had him court-martialled the following year (he was acquitted), and closes in March 1810, when, weary and ailing, he was yet again desperately pleading to be relieved. (The final letter, dated 15 March 1810, is to Collingwood’s sister from the First Secretary to the Admiralty, unaware that the admiral had died at sea on 7 March).

DKK 380.00
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Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean - E.w.r. Lumby - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean - E.w.r. Lumby - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The documents in this focus on the Mediterranean in the years 1912 to 1914 are grouped in four sections, each with an informative Introduction. The first covers the debate on British policy in the Mediterranean which occurred soon after Winston Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty, as well as the conversations between Britain and France in the years before the start of the Great War at both naval and diplomatic levels. The second section records the movement of the German battle-cruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau in the days between July 27 and August 14, 1914. The escape of the Goeben and Breslau from the British Mediterranean fleet after the declaration of war was the grounds for a Court of Enquiry and the Court Martial of Rear-Admiral E.C.T. Troubridge, which are reported in the third section. And the fourth part deals with British naval activity, with particular reference to Turkey and Turkish waters, after these two German ships succeeded in reaching the Dardanelles.

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The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

The Naval Miscellany - Sir John Knox Laughton - Bog - Navy Records Society - Plusbog.dk

This volume contains documents that date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The three for the sixteenth century include English piracy against the Spaniards, a Scottish document about a ship getting under way and the taking of the Madre de Dios in 1592. Two documents from the seventeenth century are a description by Rear Admiral Stayner of the Battle of Santa Cruz and extracts from the notebook of the Controller of the Navy relating to strategy, administration and operations. There is a description of the sale of a seaman’s affects in 1750 and a letter relating to the mutiny at the Nore. Three sets of documents relate to Lord St Vincent and are mainly correspondence from or to him. The rest of the documents are a variety from operations in Egypt in 1801, memoirs of a frigate captain, operations in the Scheldt, Bonaparte’s attempted escape from Bordeaux in 1815, extracts from the journal of Admiral Page and an incident in the 1850s.

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