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From a small silver medallion beautifully engraved by a First Fleet convict to the 119-metre Royal Australian Navy destroyer, HMAS Vampire, the Australian National Maritime Museum has an incredibly diverse collection of more than 130,000 items. Here, the museum's curators reveal the fascinating stories behind many amazing objects, including the fastest vessel in the world (Spirit of Australia), a boat made from 2,000 beer cans, the remarkable Saltwater Collection of bark paintings from Arnhem Land, and surfboards inspired by the Bra Boys and the 2005 Cronulla race riots. They tell of unforgettable people - both famous and lesser known - whose lives have been shaped by the sea.
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• Introduction: sound military conclusions
• America and its place in the world
• Readiness in the past, present, and future
• Management, administration, and naval leadership
• Globalization and the fleet
• The political development of naval strategy
• Training of officers and sailors
• Leadership and command
• History and conventional wisdom
• Conclusion: The use and abuse of Alfred Thayer Mahan.

"Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today's problems. This collection of five of Mahan's essays, along with Benjamin Armstrong's informative introductions, illustrates why Mahan's work remains relevant to the 21st century and how it can help develop our strategic thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

The Pandora was a 24-gun Sixth Rate built at Deptford in 1779. The 20- and 24-gun classes were the smallest regularly commanded by a Post Captain and they were consequently known as post ships; they were also the smallest frigate-built ships on the Navy List. The Pandora is best known for her voyage to Tahiti which was undertaken to bring back the Bounty mutineers. Fourteen of them were captured at Tahiti but four of them were drowned when Pandora ran aground on 29 August 1791 on the Great Barrier Reef on her return journey. The surviving ten were eventually brought back to Portsmouth and court-martialled. Three of them were hung. The site of the wreck was discovered and has been extensively excavated by a team led by Ron Coleman.
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A guide to the language and lore of 21st century seafarers. Full of practical advice, this is a dictionary with a difference: many words are illustrated by passages from classic books of the sea, yet more by the experiences of the author aboard an American schooner.
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This action-packed tale focuses on a young U.S. Naval Academy graduate who helped create the Israeli Navy and led it into battle at the onset of Israel's War of Independence in 1948. J. Wandres's book is the first to record the crucial role played by Paul Shulman in the formation of the new nation, and in doing so, he provides a unique window on Israel's history and its relations with the United States. Following his WWII service on a U.S. Navy destroyer, Shulman resigned his commission to help smuggle Holocaust survivors into Palestine, and by early 1948, at the age of twenty-six, was training officers for a new Israeli Navy. The author draws on interviews and correspondence with those who knew Shulman, Israeli and American archives, and declassified secret U.S. State Department documents to tell the story.
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• The ship
• The ship's company
• The Dungaree Navy
• The Hawaiian detachment
• Condition II-underway
• December 7, 1941
• The South Pacific
• The Aleutians
• The Central Pacific and the Typhoon of December 1944
• The uniform
• Liberty
• The Farragut finishing school
• Ship histories.

The World War II-era Farragut class destroyers were a unique collection of eight U.S. Navy ships. The first destroyers to be equipped with five-inch, 38 caliber dual-purpose guns and a fully automated fire control system, they presented unique challenges and experiences for the enlisted men who served aboard them. Fittingly, their sailors were a proud and cocky group, as they served on the smallest, roughest riding, and fastest men-of-war, ships with more firepower for their size than any other class of ship in the U.S. Navy.This book describes the life of the enlisted man aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-war years when the ships were assigned to the Hawaiian Detachment; the war preparation period in 1941; and, finally, the wartime years. First-person narrations from the sailors collected from interviews and correspondence with the few remaining Farragut class destroyer sailors are the primary feature of this book. With the exception of narratives of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the book focuses not on combat but on the day-to-day recollections of sailors who lived and worked on some of the most distinguished ships ever built by the U.S. Navy. The book also briefly describes the evolution of the destroyer and the Farragut class destroyers, five of which survived the war.
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• Confederate Navy Prayer
• Ch. 1. The Beginning
• Ch. 2. The Knowledge Givers
• Ch. 3. The School Ship
• Ch. 4. Before the Storm
• Ch. 5. Call to Duty
• Ch. 6. War on All Sides
• Ch. 7. The Desperate Winter
• Ch. 8. Their Finest Hour
• Conclusion -- Final Thoughts.

Academy on the James is the exciting account of the birth, the life, and the tragic death of the Confederate naval school. Utilizing meticulous research, the author has pieced together a remarkable story of the South's naval school and the young midshipmen who attended it. From the battles below Richmond in the summer of 1864, to the guardians of the Confederate treasury in its retreat south to the Carolinas and Georgia, they remained true to their nation and themselves - and they never surrendered.

"In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the USS Pueblo was poorly armed and lacked backup by air or sea. Its crew, led by a charismatic, hard-drinking ex-submarine officer named Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested sailors in their teens and twenties. On a frigid January morning while eavesdropping near the port of Wonsan, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more patrol boats, shelled and machine-gunned, and forced to surrender. One American was killed and ten wounded, and Bucher and his young crew were taken prisoner by one of the world's most aggressive and erratic totalitarian regimes. Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblo's capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Korea's president in downtown Seoul. Together, the two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint as both North and South Korea girded for war-with fifty thousand American soldiers caught between them. President Lyndon Johnson rushed U.S. combat ships and aircraft to reinforce South Korea, while secretly trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the crisis. Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions in North Korean prisons. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, this book also reveals new details of Johnson's high-risk gambit to prevent war from erupting on the Korean peninsula while his negotiators desperately tried to save the sailors from possible execution. A dramatic tale of human endurance against the backdrop of an international diplomatic poker game, Act of War offers lessons on the perils of covert intelligence operations as America finds itself confronting a host of twenty-first-century enemies"-- Provided by publisher.

Biography of Bhāskara Somaṇa, Admiral from the Indian Navy.

This volume focuses on Admiral William A. Moffett, a graduate of the U S Naval Academy in 1890 who served at sea and ashore for 22 years before he saw aircraft operate with the fleet. He administered a large aviation unit while commanding the US Naval Training Station at Great Lakes, and from 1918 to 1920 he commanded the battleship "Mississpi", which carried aircraft. After that, he became the Directorof Naval Aviation and then the first Chief of the Buraeu of Aeronautics in 1921. Concentrating also on US naval aviation, the book includes a bibliography of Moffet's published writings.
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• Richard Howe
• Alexander Hood
• Samuel Hood
• John Jervis
• Adam Duncan
• George Keith Elphinstone
• James Gambier
• John Duckworth
• John Borlase Warren
• James Saumarez
• Edward Pellew.

This biographical dictionary provides short biographies of more than 500 individuals who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral in the world's naval forces. While naval officers from the American, British, French, and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, several biographies are included on admirals from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain. While the majority of entries are fairly detailed, some are considerably shorter because of limited naval records or lack of available information.The main criteria for inclusion was that each person must have actively served in the rank of at least rear admiral, although each individual did not necessarily become involved in enemy action over the course of his or her career. This effectively rules out people who were granted the rank on retirement or as a courtesy title, or, as in the case of several 'tombstone admirals', who were granted the title posthumously. The book also includes a list of the admirals organized by nationality, a timeline, and a general index.
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• Losses 1904-1914
• losses 1915
• losses 1916
• losses 1917
• losses 1918
• losses November 1918-August 1939
• losses September-December 1939
• losses 1940
• losses 1941
• losses 1942
• losses 1943
• losses 1944
• losses January-July 1945
• losses October 1945-to date.
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"The Admiralty regrets..." is the phrase used in countless official communiques to announce the loss of one of HM ships. Over 800 British warships have been lost in the 20th century in peace and in war. The circumstances of each loss vary enormously; some involve desperate heroism in battle while others are almost farcical and show something of the black humour which attends such occasions. The timespan of the subject matter means that this book becomes more than a mere list of ships' losses. In chronicling the losses, the author also traces the development of naval warfare and weaponry of the 20th century: the book opens with the loss of a ship as a result of a grounding, and closes with the tale of a ship sunk by a guided missile. The losses have been presented chronologically and the strictly defined criteria governing each entry allow for easy presentation as well as comparison. Illustrated with a selection of contemporary photographs.
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Admiral Hyman Rickover personally revolutionized naval warfare and altered the outcome of the Cold War. Concurrently he drove innovation into American industry -- which in the decades since has proven to be a wellspring of power for American technology. As a touchstone of his success, during Rickover's stewardship the Russians had literally dozens of reactor accidents, but Rickover's single-minded focus on safety protected Americans as well as and our lands from nuclear contamination. Rickover did all of this initially by the force of his own personality and eventually by insisting on radical culture change. The author had the good fortune to personally know and be involved with Admiral Rickover as well as many of the most interesting players and protagonists during much of this thirty year process of wrenching cultural upheaval. The author leaves detailed biographical details of Rickover to others, instead focusing on previously unknown historical events in which he personally participated or had unique knowledge which highlight the management and leadership principles behind Rickover's achievements and place important events (President Eisenhower choosing nuclear submarines to counter Sputnik, development of the Polaris Fleet, the relationship of Admirals Zumwalt and Rickover, the loss of USS Scorpion, the superiority of the American submarines over the Soviet fleet, etc.) in an historical perspective. Because of his life's work, the author is uniquely qualified to apply many of Rickover's principles to other situations. For example, Dave well understands the particular navy culture Rickover had to destroy for the author began his own career on a diesel boat. Similarly since the author spent a decade in US industry as either the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Operating Officer, he understands how to identify situations where Rickover's principles can be applied to industry circumstances. This is done at the end of each chapter in the book, thus providing a starting point for any who wish to use this source for case studies.
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• Einführung
• Zur Einführung : Europa, das Meer und die Welt : Reflexionen über einen neuen Zugang zur Europäischen Geschichte / Jürgen Elvert
• Mythos
• Antike Gesellschaften und das Meer : vom Mythos über den Logos zur Seeherrschaft / Ulrich Fellmeth
• Krieg und Seefahrt in der Antike / Raimund Schulz
• Antike Häfen / Thomas Schmidts
• Das Meer und die Selbstorganisation in antiken Gesellschaften : ein Essay an den Beispielen "Entstehung der polis" und "Ende der römischen Republik" / Ulrich Fellmeth
• Schiffbau und Seefahrt
• Amsterdam : ein Zentrum der Entwicklung des europäischen Schiffbaus / Heinrich Walle
• Das Problem der Arbeitsorganisation im Schiffbau : zur Raum- und Sozialordnung der Werft / Christian Ebhardt
• Krieg über See
• Krieg über See / Seekriegsführung und Staatsbildungsprozess in der europäischen Geschichte / Arne Karsten
• Mahan und seine Wirkung auf Tirpitz und Raeder / Jann M. Witt
• Marinen im 21. Jahrhundert : Konstanten, Spannungsfelder und Trends / Udo Sonnenberger, Sebastian Bruns
• Entdeckungen
• Entdecken : eine kleine Mentalitätsgeschichte / Wolfgang Schmale
• Kritik, Einspruch, Paradoxien, Öffnungen : Kurze Anmerkungen zur langen Geschichte der Entdeckungen / Michael Kraus
• Georg Forster und die Erfahrung der Kulturen der Südsee / Horst Dippel
• Die Relación de méritos des Francisco de Orellana : Oder : die mittelalterlichen Wurzeln der spanischen Conquista / Nikolaus Böttcher
• "Animal Agency" als Nebenwirkung der Kolonialgeschichte? : Ökologische Netzwerke und Transfers zwischen Australien, Indien und Afrika, 1850-1920 / Ulrike Kirchberger
• Kulturaustausch
• Heiliger Konfuzius, bitte für uns! : Kulturaustausch durch Mission und die Chinamode des 18. Jahrhunderts / Wolfgang Reinhard
• Das jesuitische 'trojanische Pferd' : Sektorale Kooperation und Wettbewerb im transandinen Vizekönigreich Peru / Javier Francisco Vallejo
• Jussuphs Geschichte : Agency, Kontingenz und Autorität in der Epoche der Türkenkriege / Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz, Mark Häberlein
• Mission und kultureller Austausch in Afrika / Christoph Marx
• Missionare und Esoteriker : Kulturelle Aneignungsprozesse am Beispiel der Religion der yucatekischen Maya / Ute Schüren
• Christliche Mission und Kulturaustausch in Ozeanien / Hermann Mückler
• Sklaverei
• Globalgeschichte der Sklaverei / Michael Zeuske
• Europäische, asiatische und afrikanische Waren im transatlantischen Sklavenhandel / Klaus Weber
• Der transatlantische Sklavenhandel / Claus Füllberg-Stolberg
• Fünf kleine Negerlein : 550 Jahre Missachtung und Selbstbehauptung der Afrikaner / Wolfgang Reinhard
• Migration
• Migration über See / Jochen Oltmer
• Von Eydtkuhnen nach Ellis Island : die Massenmigration aus Osteuropa über deutsche Hafenstädte 1880-1914 / Tobias Brinkmann
• Die Schiffsreise als Denkraum : Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Emigration zwischen dem Abschied von Europa und der Ankunft in Palästina / Joachim Schlör
• Koloniale und postkoloniale Migration nach Europa / Dirk Hoerder
• Migration als Ergebnis individuellen Handelns und kollektiven Aushandelns : eine geschichtswissenschaftliche Verortung / Jochen Oltmer
• Importe : Fremdes Wird Eigenes
• Importe und Impulse aus der überseeischen Welt : Fremdes wird Eigenes / Reinhard Wendt
• Hamburg, die Niederlande und das Zeitalter der Handelskompanien / Jürgen G. Nagel
• Die Biographie der Dinge : die Godeffroy'sehen Ethnographica als Wanderer durch Zeit und Raum / Astrid Windus, Andrea Nicklisch
• On the Pig's back : Subaltern Imperialism, Anti-colonialism and the Irish Rise to Globalism / Hiram Morgan
• Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) : die Autobiographie eines afrikanischen Politikers und Visionärs im Spiegel ihrer Rezeption in Europa / Bea Lundt
• Handel : Export aus Europa
• Maritime Weltwirtschaft : Ökonomische Aspekte der "Europäisierung der Welt" / Markus A. Denzel
• Made in Germany : Deutsche Industrieprodukte für die Welt / Samuel Eleazar Wendt, Klaus Weber
• Ressourcen : vom Fisch Zum Öl
• Schatzkammer und Mülleimer : Europas Meere zwischen Nutzung und Verschmutzung / Jens Ruppenthal
• Metalle aus dem Meer : eine kurze Geschichte des Tiefseebergbaus / Ole Sparenberg
• Meeresforschung
• Meeresforschung : Geschichte und Geschichten aus Westeuropa und den USA / Gerd Hoffmann-Wieck
• The Development of ICES / Helen M. Rozwadowski
• Strömungen als Differenzphänomene : zur Formalisierung von Strömungswissen bei James Renneil / Julia Heunemann
• Seerechtsgeschichte(n) / Nele Matz-Lück
• Tourismus
• Mikrokosmos an Bord : der Beginn der modernen Kreuzfahrt / Dagmar Bellmann
• Verzeichnis der Personen, Orte und Schiffe
• Verzeichnis der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter.

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes that represent the acme of the draughtsman's art. Today they form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is one of a series based entirely on these draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail-complete sets in full colour, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible. Extensive captions point the reader to important features to be found in the plans, and an introduction covers the background to the design. HMS _Victorious_ was a ship with two almost separate incarnations-as built in 1941 she was one of a new type of armoured carrier which saw strenuous wartime service; post-war the ship underwent a massive reconstruction lasting nearly eight years that saw her recommission in1958 as one of the best equipped carriers in the world, ready for another decade of duty. Both these phases of the ship's life are fully documented, which allows this novel form of anatomy to cover two generations of carrier design.
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Arranged by country and class, the book discusses each basic design and presents appearance notes and career summaries.
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Brian Lavery, the pre-eminent historian of the Royal Navy, returns with the third volume of his engaging social history of the Royal Navy's 'lower deck' - the world of the seamen as distinct from the officers of the 'quarterdeck'. He examines the world of the sailor from the outbreak of war in 1939 through 70 years of change up to his place in the modern Royal Navy. The author illuminates the inherent adaptability of the professional sailor, as new technologies demanded increased professionalism, specialization and training. He also focuses on the changing social structure of the Navy, and the periods of expansion as the service coped with great demands made through two World Wars and innumerable other conflicts across the globe.
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• Introduction
• Mission deconstruction
• Equipment, personnel, metrics, and planning factors
• The MAGTF Equipment Structural Assessment (MESA) application
• Conclusion
• Appendixes
• Bibliography.

For various reasons, including the commander's priorities and expected mission requirements, U.S. Marine Corps amphibious lift requirements, that is, the space needed on ships to transport equipment for a given mission, may exceed the U.S. Navy's lift capacity. Thus, Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) afloat generally do not have all their support personnel and equipment on board. What is the impact of this shortfall on a MEU's ability to complete the tasks associated with its mission, especially when the mission includes reconstruction and stabilization operations? Close examination reveals that, in general, MEUs do not fail as a result of these equipment shortfalls; Marine Corps commanders are able to make use of the equipment they have in innovative and creative ways to accomplish the tasks at hand. However, equipment shortfalls do force shortcuts and sometimes sacrifice the quality and speed of task completion. This report describes the development of an automated tool for allocating both equipment and personnel to complete the tasks associated with 15 MEU missions, highlighting the associated equipment implications.

Established in 1986, the U.S. Special Operations Command was set up to bring the special operational disciplines of all branches of the military under a single, unified command to act on missions involving unconventional warfare, special reconnaissance, foreign internal defense, and direct action...The Marine Special Operations Command ("MARSOC") is the newest component of the military's shift toward a fully integrated Special Operations Command structure. At first, the Marines were strongly against any Marines serving under anyone other than another Marine. Then 9/11 happened. In the years following, Marine forces found themselves growing more agreeable to inter-branch operational command, finally forming the Marine Special Operations Command in 2006. Always Faithful, Always Forward follows the journey of a class of Marine candidates from their recruitment, through assessment and selection, to their qualification as Marines Special Operators. Retired Navy Captain Dick Couch has been given unprecedented access to this new command and to the individual Marines of this exceptional special-operations unit, allowing him to chronicle the history and development of the Marine Special Operations Command and how they find, recruit, and train their special operators.
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Recent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated that American carrier air power can conduct coordinated deep-strike missions well beyond coastal reaches, providing around the clock target coverage, consistently accurate target attack, and multiple successful target attacks per sortie.
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William Wilkinson and Timothy Dring provide detailed history and technical design information on each and every type of small rescue craft ever used by the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard, from the early 1800s to current day. By looking at these vessels, many of which featured innovative designs, they shed light on the brave men and women who served in USLSS and USCG stations, saving innumerable lives. In the book and on the accompanying CD, rare photographs and drawings of each type of boat accompany detailed design histories, specifications, and station assignments for each craft. Including motorized, wind-powered, and human-powered vessels, this work will become an important reference for maritime historians, rescue craft preservation groups, and museums, as well as members of the general public interested in these craft.
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