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The Royal Navy In The Mediterranean, 1915-18

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 This volume needs to be read in conjunction with NRS Volume 115 Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean, 1912-1914. The Mediterranean was a secondary theatre for the Royal Navy and the ships tended to be ageing and retired from fleet duty.
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The Naval Miscellany - Vol. V

by N.A.M. Rodger

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 This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from the Commission of Enquiry in 1608, an account of the Earl of Warwickâ€™s voyage to the Mediterranean in 1627 and documents relating to the management of the Royal Dockyards between 1672 and 1678.
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The Pollen Papers - The Privately Circulated Printed Works Of Arthur Hungerford Pollen, 1901-1916

by John Tetsuro Sumida

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 Arthur Pollen (1866-1937) trained as a barrister but eventually became a successful businessman. In 1900 he became interested in the problem of aiming naval artillery after witnessing a practice firing at sea.
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The Navy Of The Lancastrian Kings - Accounts And Inventories Of William Soper, Keeper Of The Kingâ€™S Ships, 1422-1427

by Susan Rose

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 This volume prints, from a manuscript in the National Maritime Museum, the accounts kept by the official in charge of the Kingâ€™s ships during these years, translated from medieval Latin.
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The Keyes Papers - Vol Iii 1939-1945

by Paul G. Halpern

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 The start of Volume III, 1939-1945, finds Keyes in a frustrating position. Too young for fleet command in the First World War, he was now too old for command in the Second World War. Keyesâ€™s temperament did not allow him to suffer in silence.
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The Keyes Papers - Vol. Ii 1919-1938

by Paul G. Halpern

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 Roger John Brownlow Keyes, first Baron Keyes (1872-1945). Keyes was a controversial man during his lifetime and has remained so ever since. His correspondence and papers is a vast collection held at Churchill College, Cambridge, and these volumes are just a selection of them.
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Naval Administration - 1715-1750

by Daniel A. Baugh

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 This volume follows the organisation of the editorâ€™s seminal study, Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole (1965), but the documents presented here represents a longer period (of thirty-five years) than in his original book.
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The Manning Of The Royal Navy; Selected Public Pamphlets - 1693-1873

by J.S. Bromley

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 How should the Royal Navy be manned? Was impressment the best answer to this question? Was the seizure of men off the streets by Press Gangs acceptable to a freedom-loving society? What was the alternative?
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The Royal Navy And North America - The Warren Papers, 1736-1752

by Julian Gwyn

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 This volume concerns Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703-1752) in North America. A background to the period is given in the introduction to his papers with a brief sketch of Warren. Of special mention is the valuable â€˜Biographical Directory.
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The Keyes Papers - Vol I 1914-1918

by Paul G. Halpern

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 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).
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The Jacobean Commissions Of Enquiry - 1608 And 1618

by A.P. Mcgowan

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 The decade with which this volume deals saw the Navy was emerging from its adolescence, begun under Henry VIII and continued under Elizabeth, into an adulthood where a permanent fleet was maintained by the Crown with an established administration to oversee it.
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Policy And Operations In The Mediterranean - 1912-1914

by E.W.R. Lumby

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 The documents in this focus on the Mediterranean in the years 1912 to 1914 are grouped in four sections, each with an informative Introduction.
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The Siege And Capture Of Havana - 1762

by David Syrett

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 David Syrett came to study the British capture of Havana in 1762 as a forgotten campaign of the Seven Yearsâ€™ War. Through this collection of documents he showed that Havana was arguably the most complex and difficult operation of that war.
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Documents Relating To The Naval Air Service - Vol 1: 1908-1918

by S.W. Roskill

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 The documents in this large volume describes the earliest beginnings of naval aviation when the potential of airpower became apparent to both military and naval men.
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The Rupert And Monck Letter Book 1666

by E. K. Timings e J.R. Powell

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 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.
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The Jellicoe Papers - Vol. Ii

by A. Temple Patterson

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 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 Pattersonâ€™s succinct biography of the admiral.
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The Saumarez Papers - The Baltic 1808-1812

by A.N. Ryan

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 Sir James Saumarez was a Channel Islander with a distinguished naval record. He had fought under Rodney at the Saintes, Jervis at St Vincent, and Nelson at the Nile.
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Documents Relating To Anson'S Voyage Round The World 1740-1744

by Glyndwr Williams

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 Ghost-writing is not a twentieth Century invention. In this volume for the Navy Records Society Dr Williams revealed that the classic best-seller, â€˜A Voyage round the World by George Ansonâ€˜, purportedly written by Ansonâ€™s chaplain Richard Walter, had in fact been ghost-written by Benjamin Robins, a man who had not sailed on the voyage.
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The Jellicoe Papers - Vol. I

by A. Temple Patterson

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 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 Pattersonâ€™s succinct biography of the admiral.
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The Health Of Seamen

by Christopher Lloyd

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 The second half of the eighteenth century saw dramatic improvements in the health of the Royal Navy and, as a result, an enhanced capacity to fight and to successfully impose tight blockades.
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The Papers Of Admiral Sir John Fisher - Vol. Ii

by P.K. Kemp

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 This collection of documents is restricted to official papers written by (or at the instigation of) Admiral Sir John Fisher, first Baron Fisher (1841-1920) in his capacity as First Sea Lord 1904-1910. Fisher was convinced of the inevitability of war with Germany.
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Documents Relating To The Civil War - 1642-1648

by E.K. Timings e J.R. Powell

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 In the struggle between King and Parliament (1642-1648), naval power played a decisive role.
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The Navy And South America - 1807-1823

by Gerald S. Graham e R.A. Humphreys

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 The defence of trade has always been a priority for the Royal Navy. This volume details the operations of the squadrons deployed in South American waters amid the turmoil which began with the French occupation of the Iberian Peninsular and ended with the independence of Argentina, Chile, Peru and, eventually, Brazil.
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Queen Anne'S Navy

by R.D. Merriman

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 This volume presents a selection of documents dealing with the administration of the Navy in the years 1702 to 1714. It can be seen as a sequel to The Sergison Papers (NRS volume 89) which drew on similar material about the administration of the Navy in the years 1689 to 1702.
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