Britannia's Dragon
Britannia's Dragon

Author: J.D. Davies

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0752494104

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Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.

Pembroke Dock
Pembroke Dock

Author: Phil Carradice

Publisher: Accent Press (UK)

Published: 2006-06

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1905170181

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Presenting the history of Pembroke Dock, this fascinating social study focuses on the ships built in the yards, including those in Queen Victoria's navy and the Royal Yachts. When the dockyard was suddenly closed, the town was left without a reason for existence. What followed was a brutal battle for survival.

Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy
Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy

Author: Lieutenant Commander Lawrie Phillips

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0750955201

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The Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock produced over 250 warships for the Royal Navy, including five royal yachts, between its founding in 1814 and its closure after the First World War. Prior to this, no ocean-going ships had ever been built on the south shores of Milford Haven, where the most complex piece of machinery used was the horse-drawn plough. Yet within twenty years Pembrokeshire men were building major British warships and they did so for the next hundred years. This long century, from the Napoleonic Wars until after the First World War, covered all the major changes in warship design and construction, from wood to iron and then steel, and from sail to steam, and paddle wheel to screw propulsion. In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated work, naval historian Lawrie Phillips, who was born and bred just outside the dockyard walls, tells the story of this royal yard, its ships and the Pembroke men who built them.

A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)
A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)

Author: Lloyd Jones

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1742539467

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Stone by stone the basilica was being dismantled in order to be put back together again. Each stone was painted with a number and laid with care onto pallets spread over the ground . . . I kept thinking about those numbered stones. Some purpose began to take shape. I began to wonder if I might re-trace and recover something of my own past, to reassemble it in the manner of the basilica. It was a matter of looking to see if any of the original building blocks remained, and where might I find them. The 2011 earthquake that shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, Jones embarks on a journey of discovery – uncovering hardships endured and sorrows kept hidden. Grandparents never spoken of or met emerge from dusty archives as he unearths lives torn apart by tragedy and unspoken mysteries. Like the city that is exposed, Jones must come to terms with a history that is not one he may have imagined. Also available as an eBook

Pembroke People
Pembroke People

Author: Richard Rose

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780953554201

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"The text is divided into two main parts. Part I is an alphabetical listing of the inhabitants of Pembroke and Pembroke Dock, whose occupations are known or identifiable, arranged in sections according to their trades or professions... The normal type of entry is that of a family group, giving details of the husband and wife, their wedding if known, the baptisms of any children and any additional information that is available about the family and its members. About 2400 married couples and the weddings of about 1000 of them are identified in Part I. Part II contains the maiden names of many married women with cross references to their husbands' occupations in Part I, selective references to the trades of other persons and details of persons whose names occur in the parish registers and other sources, but whose occupations are unknown or uncertain"--p. 16.

Gentlemen and Tarpaulins
Gentlemen and Tarpaulins

Author: Andrew Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780198202639

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This is the first scholarly study of the Royal Navy during the reigns of Charles II and James II. Historians have long viewed the Restoration Navy through the eyes of Samuel Pepys, the greatest diarist and naval administrator of the age. Perceptive and intelligent as Pepys was, he presentedonly a one-sided view of the Navy, that of a bureaucrat attempting to reorganize it. J. D. Davies assesses this traditional picture of the Restoration Navy in the light of recent scholarship, using the evidence not only of Pepys but of his contemporaries. He examines the reactions of naval personnel to the demands imposed by Pepys, and analyses the structure of the service. Healso explores the lives and attitudes of the men (the `tarpaulins') and their officers - the quests for promotion, enrichment, and glory; the very different problems posed by peace and war; the nature of life at sea; and the role of the Navy in national life. Gentlemen and Tarpaulins provides afascinating glimpse into the history of the Royal Navy.

Endeavour
Endeavour

Author: Peter Moore

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0374715513

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"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for History An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. The first history of its kind, Peter Moore’s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship’s role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism. Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history’s most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.