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Bailey, Chris Howard. Social Change in the Royal Navy, 1924-1970: The Life and Times of Admiral Frank Twiss. Stroud: Sutton, 1996, xix, 236 pp. For RNM; 64 illustrations; foreword: John Wells.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , discipline, Royal Navy, Britain, England, seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor

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Bailey, D.W. "The Board of Ordnance and Small Arms Supply: The Ordnance System, 1714-1783." Ph.D. diss, London, 1989. Under I. Roy.

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18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, gunnery, gun, weapon , Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Bailey, David. Ships in the Making: A History of Ship Model Testing at Teddington and Feltham, 1910-1994. London: Lloyds, 1995, 358 pp.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , model, ship model, model building , general history, general survey, survey, Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Bailey, Douglas. We Built and Destroyed. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1944, 132 pp. Singapore; by British civil engineer.

Keywords:

dockyard, shipyard, Navy yard, Singapore, campaign, battle, siege, naval base, commercial port, entrepot, disastrous surrender , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Anglo-Japanese, Japan , strategy, strategic

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Bailey, Henry Christopher. The Sea Captain. London: Howard Baker, 1969, 341 pp.

Categories:

merchant marine; officer;

Keywords:

officer, quarterdeck, leader

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Bailey, Jim. Sailing to Paradise: The Discovery of the Americas by 7000 BC. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 1995, 464 pp. Claim: in Bronze Age, search for copper & tin, the driving force of ancient world; to America, Africa; others contend: rubbish & nonsense.

Keywords:

ancient (100 b.c. - 499 a.d.), Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure

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Bailey, Michael R. "I. K. Brunel: Exploding the Myth." Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 78 (2008): 1-10.

Keywords:

personality, prominent leader, noted person , shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, merchant marine, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect

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Bailey, Richard W. "Sutton Hoo and Seventh-Century Art." See R. Farrell, Sutton Hoo: 50 Years After, pp. 31-42. Noted links to Ireland, religious & secular.

Keywords:

ancient (100 b.c. - 499 a.d.), art, painting, painter, artistic, design , culture, music, literature, language, art , Sutton Hoo, ship burial, archaeological site

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Bailey, Sarah Barter. Prince Rupert's Patent Guns. Leeds: Royal Armouries, 2000, 153 pp.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Civil War, English, English, England, gunnery, gun, weapon

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Bailey, Susan F. Women and the British Empire: An Annotated Guide to Sources. Themes in European Expansion Series, # 3. New York: Garland, 1983, 202 pp.

Keywords:

imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , bibliography, list, listing , woman

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Bailey, Thomas Andrew & Ryan, Paul B. Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War. New York: Free Press, 1979, xi, 303 pp. Undeclared naval war, 1939-1941; e.g., issues: bases-destroyers deal, lend-lease, Germany-first strategy.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , strategy, strategic, united states navy, US navy, destroyer, torpedo boat destroyer, anti-submarine warfare vessel , world war 2, second world war

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Bailey, Thomas Andrew & Ryan, Paul B. The Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern Warfare and Diplomacy. London: Macmillan, New York: Free Press, 1975, xvi, 383 pp. Denounced claims of Admiralty, & particularly Churchill, conspiracy; no arms, no explosives, no soldiers.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , Royal Navy, Britain, England, torpedo, underwater weapon, propelled weapon, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 1, first world war, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology

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Bailey, Thomas Andrew. "The Sinking of the Lusitania." AHR, 41 (October 1935): 54-73.

Categories:

Anglo-German; liner; U-boat; wreck;

Keywords:

Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , liner, passenger liner, steamship

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Baillie, G.H. Clocks and Watches: An Historical Bibliography. London: NAG; London: Holland, 1947, 1951, 1978, 414 pp.

Keywords:

bibliography, list, listing , instrument, navigation, compass, clock , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude

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Baily, J.T. Herbert. Emma: The Life of Lady Hamilton. Portsmouth: Hard; London: Menzies, 1905, 1993, 127 pp. Alt. subtitle: A Biographical Essay; with a catalogue & Her Published Portraits; 27 plates.

Keywords:

art, painting, painter, artistic, design , Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Nelson , Nelson, Horatio, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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Bailyn, Bernard & Bailey, Lotte. Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study. Cambridge: Belknap, 1959, xi, 148 pp.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Bailyn, Bernard & Morgan, Philip D. Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Chapel Hill: NCUP, 1991, 454 pp.

Keywords:

Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , culture, music, literature, language, art , emigration, immigration, migration, Diaspora , colonialism, colony, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England

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Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005, ix, 149 pp. Linked visions, European & American.

Keywords:

Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , culture, music, literature, language, art , Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, general history, general survey, survey, sea, ocean, maritime

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Bailyn, Bernard. "Braudel's Geohistory: A Reconsideration." J Econ Hist, 11 (Summer 1951): 277-82.

Keywords:

economics, economic policy, historian, history, historical, Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command

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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