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Agar, Augustus. Baltic Episode: A Classic of Secret Service in Russian Waters. London: Hodder & Stoughton; Annapolis: NIP, 1963, 1983, 255 pp. Dedication: Admiral Sir Walter Cowan; Baltic operations of RN, 1919-1920; small attack boats in Gulf of Finland; sank Soviet cruiser; by operational commander who received Victoria Cross; written after his retirement.

Keywords:

Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , battles, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 1, first world war, interwar, personality, prominent leader, noted person

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Agar, Augustus. Footsteps in the Sea. London: Evans, 1959, 336 pp. Memoir, 1st & 2nd World Wars; secret operations in Baltic in 1st; shipped gold reserves of Britain to U.S. in 2nd.

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Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , economics, economic policy, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war

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Ailes, Mary Elizabeth. "Ships, Sailors, and Mediators: England's Naval Aid to Sweden, 1658-1659." Historian, 67 (Summer 2005): 275-98. Transformation of naval forces in early modern era; English provided professional & monetary assistance to Sweden to stabilize Baltic trade.

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17th century, seventeenth, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , commerce, trade, business, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , economics, economic policy, education, educate, training, train, teaching, teach, schooling, school, learning, learn

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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652-1862. Harvard Economic Studies Series, # 29 & Classics of Naval Literature Series. Cambridge: Harvard UP; Hamden: Archon; Annapolis: NIP, 1926, 1965, 2000, 2004, xxvii, 485 pp. Intro: Timothy J. Bean; classic concerning logistical problems & sea power; supply a continuing problem for RN; influenced commercial, colonial & foreign policies, e.g., access to Baltic; thesis now superseded.

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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, logistics, supply, supplies, sea power, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, ship, boat, vessel, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, commerce, trade, business, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations

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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. "The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652-1862." MM, 38 (February 1952): 4-22. Also Maritime Miscellany Series, # 5; elaboration on his Forests and Sea Power, 1926.

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age of sail, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , logistics, supply, supplies, sea power

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Aldridge, David D. "Royal Navy in the Baltic, 1715-1727." See W. Minchinton, Britain and the Northern Seas, pp. 75-80.

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18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , logistics, supply, supplies, Royal Navy, Britain, England, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations

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Aldridge, David D. "Sir John Norris, 1660?-1749." See P. Le Fevre, Precursors of Nelson, pp. 128-49.

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18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , Royal Navy, Britain, England, personality, prominent leader, noted person , leadership, leader, command, commander in chief

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Aldridge, David D. "The Victualling of the British Naval Expedition to the Baltic Sea, 1715-1727." Scandinavian Economic History Review, 12 (1964): 1-25. During this period, 9 separate expeditions into the Baltic; commanded by Sir John Norris, Byng & Wager; new theater of operations & new logistical problems; Victualling Board met requirements creditably.

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18th century, eighteenth, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , Royal Navy, Britain, England, victualling, food ration, diet for naval personnel, nutrition , logistics, supply, supplies, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Allen, W.E.D., ed. Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings, 1589-1607. 2 vols. Publications of the Hakluyt Society, 2 ser, #s 138 & 139. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1970, xlii, 640 pp.

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16th century, sixteenth, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , Hakluyt Society publication, voyage, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Anderson, Alden. "British Trade in the Baltic in the Eighteenth Century." Noted as in progress: Ph.D. diss, Yale, 1914.

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18th century, eighteenth, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Anderson, Roger Charles. Naval Wars in the Baltic during the Sailing Ship Epoch, 1522-1850. London: Francis Edwards, 1910, 1969, x, 433 pp. Series of naval wars; chronological.

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16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of steam, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , logistics, supply, supplies, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, battles

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Aselius, Gunnar. "'The Unskilled Fencer': Swedish Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Navy, 1921-1928." See J. Sweetman, NHS-10, 249-70.

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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , interwar, strategy, strategic

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Aselius, Gunnar. "The Baltic in Soviet Strategy, 1920-1940." See W. McBride, NHS-13, pp. 177-202.

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Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , interwar, strategy, strategic, sea power, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Aselius, Gunnar. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 1921-1941. Naval History & Policy Series, # 29. London: Cass; London: Routledge, 2004, 2005, xiv, 266 pp.

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20th century, twentieth, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , Royal Navy, Britain, England, sea power, strategy, strategic, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, interwar

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Ashmore, L.H. Forgotten Flotilla: British Submarines in Russia, 1914-1919. Portsmouth: Manuscript Press, 2002, 413 pp. Intro: Brian Head; preface: Peter Ashmore; C-Class & E-Class submarines; to Baltic to aid Russia..

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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 1, first world war

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Astrom, Sven-Erik. "Britain's Timber Imports from the Baltic, 1775-1830: Some New Figures and Viewpoints." Scandinavian Economic Historical Review, 37 (1984): 57-71.

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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , logistics, supply, supplies, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Astrom, Sven-Erik. "English Timber Imports from Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century." Scandinavian Economic Historical Review, 18 (1970): 12-32.

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18th century, eighteenth, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , logistics, supply, supplies, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Astrom, Sven-Erik. From Cloth to Iron: The Anglo-Baltic Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. I: The Growth Structure and Organization of the Trade. II: The Customs Accounts as Sources. Helsingfors: Fennica, 1963-1965, 346 pp.

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17th century, seventeenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , commerce, trade, business, logistics, supply, supplies, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, wool, commercial product, wool trade

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Astrom, Sven-Erik. From Tar to Timber: Studies in Northeast European Forest Exploitation and Foreign Trade, 1660-1860. Helsinki: Finnish Society of Science & Letters, 1988, 229 pp.

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17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , commerce, trade, business, logistics, supply, supplies, north sea, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, wool, commercial product, wool trade

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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