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Barker, R.D.J. "Precision Strike from the Sea: HMS Splendid and Tomahawk." JRUSI, 144 (August 199): 73-75.

Categories:

missile; ship;

Keywords:

missile, rocket, ballistic missile, ship, boat, vessel

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Barker, Ralph. Goodnight, Sorry for Sinking You": The Story of the SS City of Cairo. London: Collins, 1984, v, 246 pp. November 1942, by U-68.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , liner, passenger liner, steamship , U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , world war 2, second world war

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Barker, Ralph. The Blockade Busters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1976, 224 pp. Transfer of special steel from Sweden to U.K.

Keywords:

blockade, logistics, supply, supplies, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Barker, Ralph. The Hurricats. London: Pelham, 1978, xi, 207 pp. Naval operations in 2nd World War; RAF planes catapulted from ships.

Keywords:

aircraft carrier, carrier, warfare, aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war

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Barker, Ralph. The Ship-Busters: The Story of the RAF Torpedo Bombers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957, 372 pp.

Categories:

aviation; ship; torpedo; World War II;

Keywords:

aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, torpedo, underwater weapon, propelled weapon, ship, boat, vessel, world war 2, second world war

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Barker, Richard "'Many May Peruse Us.': Ribbands, Moulds and Models in the Dockyards." Revista de Universidade de Coimbra, 34 (1987): 539-59.

Categories:

dockyard; model; shipbuilding;

Keywords:

dockyard, shipyard, Navy yard, model, ship model, model building , shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders

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Barker, Roland, ed. The Log of a Limejuicer: The Experiences under Sail of James P. Barker. London: Putnam, 1934, 264 pp.

Keywords:

age of sail, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor , Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Barker, Rosalin. "Cook's Nursery: Whitby's Eighteenth-Century Merchant Fleet." See G. Williams, Captain Cook, pp. 7-20.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, Cook, James, merchant marine, port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot , coal, propulsion, coaling, collier, to coal ship , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Barker, Rosalin. Prisoners of the Tsar: The Baltic Embargo of 1800-1801. Beverley: Highgate, 1992, vi, 66 pp. Sailors held in Russia.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , Baltic, sea, trade, naval stores , prisoner of war, prisoner, convict, Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Barker, Rosalin. "Thomas Rogers and the Judith of Whitby: The Voyage Accounts of a Seventeenth-Century Merchant Ketch." Nor Mar, 17 (2007): 19-39.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, north sea, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , merchant marine, personality, prominent leader, noted person , ship, boat, vessel

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Barker, Simon. The Ship: Retracing Cook's Endeavour Voyage. London: BBC. In support of a TV series; voyage of 1768.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, Cook, James, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , ship, boat, vessel, voyage, Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Barker, Thomas M. "A Debacle of the Peninsular War: The British-Led Amphibious Assault against Fort Fuengirola, 14-15 October 1810." J Mil Hist 64, (January 2000): 9-52. Debacle; faulty collaboration, army & RN.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, Anglo-French, France , invasion, armada, landing , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia

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Barker, Thomas M. "The Ljubljana Gap Strategy: Alterrnative to Anvil/Dragoon or Fantasy?" J Mil Hist, 56 (January 1992): 57-85. Counterfactual; Churchill's "soft underbelly."

Keywords:

Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , Anglo-Italian, Italy , Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , strategy, strategic, world war 2, second world war, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief

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Barker, Rosalin. The Rise of an Early Modern Shipping Industry: Whitby's Golden Fleet, 1600-1750 (Woodbridge, Boydell, 2011) VIII 189 pages

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, merchant marine, business

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Barker, Rosalin. "Thomas Rogers and the Judith of Whitby: The Voyage Accounts of a Seventeen-Century Merchant Ketch." Nor Mar, 17 (July 2007): 19-39. Presents unique insight on merchant trade; Whitby had a hundred of these vessels.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, coastal vessel, monitor, ferry , merchant marine, ship, boat, personality, prominent leader, noted person , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Barkham, Michael M. "The Offshore and Distant-Water Fisheries of the Spanish Basques, c. 1500-1650." See D. Starkey, History of North Atlantic Fisheries, pp. 229-49.

Keywords:

16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, fishing, fishery, fish, herring, cod, trawling , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence

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Barley, Frederick. "A British Sailor Looks at the United States Navy of the Early Nineteenth Century." Am Nep, 21 (January 1961): 57-69. Lt. Frederick Fitzgerald De Roos, RN, HMS Jupiter, 1820s.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, age of sail, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , officer, quarterdeck, leader , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Royal Navy, Britain, England, united states navy, US navy

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Barlow, Edward. Barlow's Journal of His Life at Sea in King's Ships, East and West Indiamen and Other Merchantmen from 1659 to 1703. 2 vols. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1934, 575 pp. Ed: Basil Lubbock.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , East India Company, charter company, Raj , merchant marine, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Barlow, Frank. The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty. New York: Longman, 2002, xiv, 141 pp. Built up unparalleled power including self-promotion to kingship; led naval forces.

Keywords:

anglo-saxon, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, English Channel, Imperial Defence, fortification , Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence, invasion, armada, landing , middle ages (400-1399)

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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