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Baker, Richard, Holt, W.J., Lenaghan, J., Sims, A.J. & Watson, A.W. British Warship Design in World War II: Selected Papers from the Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Annapolis: NIP; London: Conway, 1947, 1983, x, 214 pp. 156 illustrations.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , Royal Navy, Britain, England, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, world war 2, second world war

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Baker, Richard. Dry Ginger: The Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu. London: Allen, 1977, 254 pp. Name: because rum ration eliminated during his watch.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, 20th century, twentieth, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , First Sea Lord, professional head of Admiralty , officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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Baker, Richard. The Terror of Tobermory: An Informal Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson. London: Allen; Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1972, 1999, xviii, 170. Foreword: Earl Mountbatten; torpedo specialist.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn, officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, torpedo, underwater weapon, propelled weapon, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, weapon, arms trade

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Baker, Sidney John. My Own Destroyer: A Biography of Captain Matthew Flinders, Explorer and Navigator. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962, 1963, 146 pp.

Keywords:

exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude

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Baker, T.E. "Contraband of War." Ph.D. diss, Harvard, 1947.

Categories:

neutrality; trade; voyage;

Keywords:

neutrality, neutral, treaty , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, voyage

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Baker, Thomas. Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century North Africa: The Journal of Thomas Baker, English Consul in Tripoli, 1677-1685. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Association of University Presses, 1989, 261 pp. Ed: C.R. Pennell; memoir; Mediterranean politics.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Barbary, pirate, corsair, Mediterranean, North Africa , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer

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Baker, William Avery & Tryckare, Tre. The Engine-Powered Vessel: From Paddle-Wheeler to Nuclear Ship. New York: Grosset & Dunlap; London: Watts, 1965, 1966, 267 pp. Folio; profusely illustrated.

Keywords:

age of steam, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , 19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, 21st century, twenty-first, twenty first, nuclear , propulsion , ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Baker, William Avery. "Fishing under Sail in the North Atlantic." See B. Labaree, Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion, 1975.

Keywords:

age of sail, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , historian, history, historical, fishing, fishery, fish, herring, cod, trawling , enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic

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Baker, William Avery. Sloops and Shallops. Barre: Barre, 1966. By noted naval architect.

Keywords:

age of sail, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Baker, William Avery. The Lore of Sail. Gothenberg: Nordbok; London: Hamlyn, 1975, 1983, 1984, 256 pp.

Keywords:

age of sail, maritime history, naval history , naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary

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Baker, William Avery. The Mayflower and Other Colonial Vessels. London: Conway, 1983, xii, 180 pp.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , ship, boat, vessel, voyage

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Baker, William Avery. "The Mayflower Problem." Am Nep, 14 (January 1954): 5-17.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, age of sail, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , ship, boat, vessel

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Baker, William Avery. The New Mayflower: Her Design and Construction. Barre: Barre, 1958, xviii, 164 pp. Replica, 1950s.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 20th century, twentieth, age of sail, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , model, ship model, model building , ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Baker, William F. Running Her Easting Down: A Documentary of the Development of the British Tea Clippers Culminating in the Building of the Cutty Sark. Caldwell: Caxton, 1974, xiv, 170 pp. Folio.

Keywords:

age of sail, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , maritime history, naval history , ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Baker, William John. A History of the Marconi Company. London: Methuen; London: Routledge, 1970, 1996, 413 pp. Guglielmo Marconi, 1874-1937; major innovation, early 20th century.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, age of steam, communication, communicate, telegraph, radio, underwater cable , company, charter, shipping, commercial , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation

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Balano, Dorothea Moulton. The Log of a Skipper's Wife. Camden: Down East, 1979, x, 160 pp. Ed: James W. Balano; British case; memoir.

Keywords:

memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , officer, quarterdeck, leader , voyage, woman, merchant marine

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Balard, Michel. "Coastal Shipping and Navigation in the Mediterranean." See R. Gardiner, Cogs, Caravels and Galleons, pp. 131-38.

Keywords:

age of sail, coastal vessel, monitor, ferry , middle ages (400-1399), Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude

Abbreviations
AHR American Historical Review
Alb Albion
alt alternate
Am Nep American Neptune
AQ & DJ Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
ASLIB Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses)
BIHR Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Can His Rev Canadian Historical Review
Can J His Canadian Journal of History
comp Compiled by
DAI Dissertation Abstracts International
EcHR Economic History Review
ed editor or edited by
EnHR English Historical Review
HisAHR Hispanic American Historical Review
HJ Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal)
His Res Historical Research
His Tod History Today
Intell & Nat Sec Intelligence and National Security
IJ Mar His International Journal of Maritime History
IJ Nau Arch International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
IHR International History Review
intro introduction
J Am His Journal of American History
J Asian His Journal of Asian History
JBS Journal of British Studies
J Cont His Journal of Contemporary History
J Econ His Journal of Economic History
JI & CH Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
J Mar Res Journal for Maritime Research
J Mil His Journal of Military History
J Mod His Journal of Modern History
JRUSI Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute
J Soc His Journal of Social History
JSAHR Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
J Stra Stu Journal of Strategic Studies
J Trans His Journal of Transport History
J Wor His Journal of World History
MM Mariner's Mirror
Mil Aff Military Affairs
NHS Naval History Symposium (USNA)
NMM National Maritime Museum
Nav Rev Naval Review
NWCR Naval War College Review (US)
Nel Dis Nelson Dispatch
NIP Naval Institute Press
Nor Mar Northern Mariner
Pac His Rev Pacific Historical Review
P & P Past and Present
Traf Chron Trafalgar Chronicle
trans translated by
UP University Press
USNIP Proceedings of the Naval Institute
Vic Stu Victorian Studies
War & Soc War and Society
War in His War in History
W&MQ William and Mary Quarterly
WSS World Ship Society

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