Pointers: Naval History

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• United States of America

• Articles of War, 1749. From Gibbons Burke's Patrick O'Brian resources.

• Ayesha, Ships on Stamps.
• Naval History - Links.
• "Combining Yankee grit and Irish pluck, the Fenians sent a whaling bark to rescue political prisoners from Australia", by George Skoch. An article from Military History published by the Nistory Net.
• Documents in Naval History from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century from the Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, USA.
• The War at Sea, the First World War.
• The American Merchant Marine During World War II
• Nelson and his Navy. Presentation of a CD-ROM disc Anglia Multimedia.
• "The Polish submarine Orzel escaped from internment and went on to fight the Germans against longs odds", by Wilfred P. Deac. An Article from World War II published by the History Net.
• Popular during the Crimean War, the floating battery was revived by hard-pressed Confederates, by Robert Collins Suhr. An article from American Civil War published by the History Net.
• Signalvesenets utvikling i det 18de of begynnelsen av der 19de århundre, by F. Beutich. From Norsk tidsskrift for sjøvesen, 1935, pp 148-157.
• World War II Troop Ship Crossings.

• The Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur from Chris Milligan, Montreal, Canada.

• Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War by Admiral Scheer from the War Times Journal. [Warning! Uses non-ISO 8859-1 characters]
• Albatross - en händelse under första världskriget by Svante Hedin. [In Swedish]
• The Graf Spree Photo Gallery. Ten photographs from the scuttling of the ship.

• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Steve Goldman.
• Samuel Pepys Diary Entries for 10th - 30th June 1667. The Dutch attack on Medway.
• L'Invincible Home Page by Wayne Garrett. HMS Invincible was a originally a French 74-gun ship built in 1744, but which was captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle of Finisterre in 1747.
• Horatio Nelson RN 1758-1805 by David Lawrence.
• Royal Navy in the Napoleanic Era (1793-1815) by Kevin Stall.
• The Battle of Cape St. Vincent 14th February 1797, the bicentenary commemoration of Nelson's forgotten victory by St. Vincent College, Gosport, GB.
• Lord Nelson's Letters and Dispatches. Transcriptions of a large number of Nelson documents dated 1798 and 1805 from the War Times Journal.
• "During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare", by Robert Malcomson. An article from Military History published by the History Net. About Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1776-1863), 10th Earl of Dundonald.
• John Arbuthat Fisher (1841-1920), First Sealord 1904-1910.
• Tragiskt möte på havet, av Peter Danielsson. Skagerakslaget 1916. [In Swedish]
• British Shipping Losses in World War II. The North-East Diary 1939-1945 by Roy Ripley and Brian Pears. It is available in seperate parts from mailbase.ac.uk:
  • Introduction.
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1941, January-May.
  • 1941, June-December.
  • 1942.
  • 1943.
  • 1944.
  • 1945.
  • Appendix.
  • Index. Shipping Index and Index of Place Names.
• Canonesa, Convoy HX72 and U-100.
• "Britannia still rules the waves on the River Thames, where HMS Belfast, now a floating museum, lies at anchor", by David T. Zabecki. An article from Military History published by the Nistory Net.
• 'The Yangtze Incident' - April-July 1949.

• The Austro-Italian Naval Race 1870-1914, by John Fraser Chisholm
• "Mosquitoes with a deadly sting, Italy's tiny MAS torpedo boats cut enemy battleships down to size" by Barry Taylor. An article from Military History published by the History Net.

• Admiral Count VerHuell (1764-1845).

• Norges ubåtshistorie 1901-1997.

• 300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy.
• Russian Navy Photos, comprising the both the Old Russian Navy 1860 - 1917 and Soviet Navy 1918 to present. From the collection of Vladimir Kopylov.

• The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Steve Goldman.
• El combate naval de Trafalgar [In Spanish]
• La Fragata blindada Numancia (1863-1916), the first armoured warship to sail around the world. [In Spanish]

• Flottans historia. [In Swedish]
• Båtsmanshållet i Sverige by Hans Högman. [In Swedish]
• Örlogsstaden Karlskrona. [In Swedish]
• Öresunds sjökrigshistoria. [In Swedish]
• Från lärftskjorta till blåkrage - en uppsats om båtsmännens beklädnad och uniform. Av Per G Strömberg. [In Swedish]
• Slaget vid Baggensstäket år 1719, av Gustav Ruda. [In Swedish]
• Svenska skärgårdsflottan by Hans Högman. [In Swedish]
• Arméns flottas officerare under sengustaviansk tid by Esbjörn Larsson [In Swedish]. An undergraduate paper at the Department of History, Upsala University.
• Båtsmanscontract, 1796. [In Swedish]
• Båtsmansinstruktion, 19th century. [In Swedish]

• The Loss of the Monitor, by a Survivor. From the Century Magazine, 1886, p 229.
• Charleston Civil War Naval & Maritime Operations from the Civil War @ Charleston web site.
• The Famous Confederate Privateer Alabama, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Mar. 14, 1863. From the CSS Alabama Digital Collection.
• Ships of the Confederate States Navy.
• Raising the Civil War Gunboats, Johnsonville, TN, USA.
• Märkvärdiga Monitor vann ingen seger by John E. Persson. [In Swedish]
• The Confederate Navy, electronic card indexes of Confederate Navy personnel. Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA.
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
• The Serapis flag.
• "Father John P. Tabb, an unreconstructed Rebel to end had served the Confederacy aboard blockade runners", by Charles A. Earp. An article from ??? published by the History Net.
• The Great White Fleet, San Francisco to Hawaii in 1907-1908 as illustrated by postcards from the Meyers Collection.
• The Maritime Heritage Foundation Inc., Jacksonville Florida, with information on the Rattlesnake of 1780.
• Thomas A Edison: Unorthodox Submarine Hunter, by E David Cronon
• The US Submarine S-51 collided with and was sunk by the SS City of Rome in 1925.
• Cruiser Scout, Recollections of War in the Pacific by Paul A. McKinley, Chief Warrant Radio Technician, United States Navy, 1937-1946.
• Documents relating to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, transcribed by Larry W. Jewell et al.
• The War in the Pacific, A Brief History and Timeline.
• The United States Navy in the Pacific War, 1941 - 1945, by Tim Lanzendörfer, Wiesbaden.
• Full Fathom Five. The US Submarine War Against Japan.
• World War II - Keeping the Memory Alive. Partly of naval history interest. Mostly US centric.
• The Battle of Midway, June 3-6, 1942.
• The Battles for Leyte Gulf, 23-25 October 1944.
• The Battle of Samar, a component of the battle of Leyte Gulf in WWII.

Copyright © 1996 Lars Bruzelius.