PORTSMOUTH ROYAL DOCKYARD HISTORICAL TRUST

Bibliography and Publications

PRDHT LIBRARY

The PRDHT holds a large number of books and documents relating to: management of the Dockyard, training of craftsmen and technical standards, technical references, trade notes, Health & Safety Regulations, etc. These are being catalogued but an indication of the scale and number may be obtained from the current Library List.

PRDHT PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE

These publications may be ordered by debit or credit card, bank transfer or PayPal by clicking the button alongside each one.

They are also available by post (p & p cost in brackets) from: Mr A. Slade, 10 Lightfoot Lawn, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO48HX. Tel: 023 9273 0356.

Cheques should be payable to: PRDHT Support Group.

JOURNAL No.4

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust publication (1996)

A4 glossy paperback.   £1.00 (£0.90)

Articles and photographs of the Block Mills; Lignum Vitae; the INFLEXIBLE solution; the construction of No's 14 & 15 Docks; on Detached Duty to Russia 1916; the Dockyard was my playground (Memories of Mrs Ann Hall); memories of a shipwright apprentice in the early thirties; the Bermudans and All That Jazz (the transfer of Bermuda Dockyard apprentices to Portsmouth Dockyard in 1950 on the closure of Bermuda Dockyard); jetty construction; a Royal Sail Training Ship.

JOURNAL No.5

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2003)

A5 glossy paperback  £1.00 (£0.50)    Free to new members

Articles and photographs including: Collection Survey, Small Steam Engines, 1952 Apprentices re-union, the "Pique" Stone, the Royal Sovereign, Calculating before the Calculator, "Chips".

JOURNAL N0. 6

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication ( 2005 -2006)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: Brunel & The Block Mills, Sir Samuel Bentham, IFOS 2005, Service Abroad, Dockyard railway, Sir Richard Gregory, The Underground Reservoir, Items for Newspapers of 1880, Dockyards & Naval Communications, Oral History, etc.

JOURNAL No. 7

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2006-2007)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: The Original Museum Concept, No.9 Storehouse Library, Odd Happenings at the Power Station, Green Areas in Portsmouth Naval Base, The Pigeon Service, The Burial of the Queen, Sport, bravery Award, Quiz, Burning Fuel Oil, etc.

JOURNAL No. 8

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2007-2008)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: Sportsmen of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1942-1944 My Career Begins, Promotion, The Home Guard, Origins of the Society, Overview of the Support Group, Women Dilutee Recorders, The Nab Tower, Quiz, etc.

JOURNAL No.9

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2008-2009)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: A Visit to the Spithead Review 1897, The Old Fire Station, The Old Naval Academy, Block Mills Conservation, Story of a Joiner, Supply of Timber for Wooden Warships, etc.

JOURNAL No.10

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2009-2010)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: Remembering the Block Mills of 1956, "Portsmouth" Tune, Naval Dockyards & Establishments, Dockyard Home Guard Unit, Don't Use Nylon, Lord Mayor Visit, Pantomimes, Plays & Concerts, Electrical Apprentices Re-union, The Apprentice, etc.

JOURNAL No.11

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust Publication (2010-2011)

A5 glossy paperback £1.00 (£0.50)

Articles and photographs including: Rate Book Memories of an Employee, Portsmouth Dockyard Home Guard Unit, No More Rabbits Please!, Pasley Pattern Semaphore (c.1916) Recovery, Promotion Opportunities - Royal Dockyards, Memories of HMS CORNWALLIS, Pompey Dockyard - An Experience, etc.

BRUNEL'S BLOCK MILLS

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society publication (1989)

A5 glossy paperback   £1.00 (£0.60)

A detailed account of the setting up of a mechanised system for the manufacture of pulley blocks by Brigadier General Sir Samuel Bentham and Marc Isambard Brunel during the first decade of the 1800's.

DISCOVERY OF THE STEAM BASIN CAISSON

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society publication No.2 (1987)

A4 non-glossy paperback B/w plans and sketches    £1.00 (£0.70)

An account of the discovery during road repairs undertaken in 1984, of theoriginal caisson to No.2 Basin, (the Steam Basin), in Portsmouth Dockyard. The caisson had been buried in-situ when a new, larger entrance to the basin was constructed in 1876.

GIVE 'ER A CHEER BOYS

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society publication No.5 (1989)

A4 glossy paperback Text, photographs, diagrams and plans.     £3.00 (£1.00)

A record of many activities in the Great Docks of Portsmouth Dockyard during the period 1830-1914.

WINDOWS TO THE PAST

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society publication No. 6 (1991)

A4 glossy paperback.   B/w photographs with explanatory text.   £2.50 (£0.90)

A further record of the activities within the Dockyard bringing it up to the 1970's

SHIPS IN AND OUT OF PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD

Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust publication No.7 (1998)

A4 glossy paperback.   £3.00 (£1.00)

In celebration of the International Festival of the Sea held in Portsmouth Dockyard in the summer of 1998, the Historical Trust produced this edition containing 84 pages with 137 B/w photographs with accompanying text. The record of activities is brought up to 1997 and covers Dockyard involvement during the operation for the recovery of the Falkland Islands in 1982.

PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE BY PHOTOCOPY

These are also available from Alan Slade at the above address (p & p £0.90 each), or may be ordered from the HMS VICTORY Souvenir Shop.
No’s. 1, 3 & 4 (1984) and No. 5 are Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society Publications, matt, A4, paperback.
 

PUBLICATION No.1

A DICTIONARY OF DOCKYARD LANGUAGE

36 pages. A description with drawings of the language of the Dockyard 'Matey'.

£4.00 (£1.00)

PUBLICATION No.3

THE ROYAL DOCKYARD AT PORTSMOUTH 1929

46 pages. A description of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1929 and work in hand during that year.

£4.25 (£1.00)

PUBLICATION No. 4

PORTSMOUTH ROYAL DOCKYARD. A SHORT PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY

32 pages. Photographs with description, of a selection of the workshops and other parts of the Dockyard with some of the ships under repair

£3.50 (£1.00)

MAPS AVAILABLE                (P & P up to three maps £1.00)

PORTSEA TOWN FORTIFICATIONS & ROYAL DOCKYARD 1860

20" x 18" coloured. £2.00 (£1.00)

GARRISON TOWN OF PORTSMOUTH 1860

18"X16" B/w    £1.50 (£1.00)

GOSPORT TOWN & FORTIFICATIONS 1860 - 70

16"x14" B/w     £1.50 (£1.00)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following is a selected list of books relating to Portsmouth and the Royal Dockyard:

Burt, R.A. British Battleships of World War One, Weidenfield Military, 1986
Burt, R.A. British Battleships 1919-1939, Weidenfield Military, 1993
Evans, David. Building the Steam Navy. (Dockyard Technology and the Creation of the Victorian Battle Fleet) 1830 – 1906. Conway Maritime 2004.
Coad, Jonathan. Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy, Victor Gollancz Ltd. London, 1983
Coad, Jonathan. Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Portsmouth, 1700-1850, The Portsmouth Royal Navy Museum Trading Company Ltd, 1981.
Gates, William, The Illustrated History of Portsmouth, Charpentier, 46 High St, Portsmouth.
Goss, J.W. Portsmouth Built Warships 1497-1967, Kenneth Mason Publications, 1984
Hannan, Bill. Fifty Years of Naval Tugs, Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall, 1995.
Hill, J.R. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, Oxford University Press, 1995
Hough, R. Dreadnought, A History of the Modern Battleship, London, Michael Joseph, 1965
Hepper, D. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919, Chatham Publishing, 2006.
James, Admiral Sir W. M. The Portsmouth Letters, Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, 1946.
Lunn, K. & Day, A. History of Work & Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards, Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1999. MacDougal, Philip, Royal Dockyards,  David & Charles London, 1982.
Morriss, Roger, The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Leicester University Press, 1983.
Morris, D. Cruisers of the Royal & Commonwealth Navies since 1879, Maritime Books, Liskeard, Cornwall.
Parkes, Dr. Oscar OBE. AINA, A History of British Battleships 1860-1950, Seeley Service, 1957.
Jane’s Fighting Ships, London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1900, 1910, 1919, 1934, 1940, 1945, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1984, 1990
Thomas, R. D. & Patterson, B.H. Dreadnought in Camera - 1905-1920, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1998.
Courtney, S. & Patterson, B. H. Home of the Fleet, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2005.
Page, William.  A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight,  Constable & Company Ltd, 1908
Patterson, B. H.  The Royal Navy at Portsmouth since 1900, Maritime Books Liskeard, Cornwall, 2005.
Patterson, B. H. A Military Heritage. A History of Portsmouth & Portsea Town Fortifications, Acme Printing, Fort Cumberland and Portsmouth Military Society, 1984.
Quail, Sarah.  The Origins of Portsmouth and the First Charter. City of Portsmouth 1994.
Knighton C. S. Pepys and the Navy. Sutton Publishing Ltd. 2003.
Warlow, B. Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy, Maritime Books Liskeard, Cornwall, 1992.
Stenton, F. M. Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1971.
Sainsbury, A. B.  The Royal Navy Day by Day. Ian Allan Publishing.
Semark, H. W. The Royal Naval Armament Depot of Priddy’s Hard, Elson, Frater and Bedenham, Hampshire County Council, 1997.
Watton, Ross,  Aircraft Carrier Victorious, Conway Maritime Press Ltd. 1991.