1. Introduction (Margaret Deacon); 2. Marine Science in the UK before WWII (Margaret Deacon); 3. Steps toward the founding of NIO (Margaret Deacon); 4. The founding director, Sir George Deacon (Anthony Laughton and Margaret Deacon); 5. Group W at the Admirality Research Library: Personal reminiscences by some of its members (edited by Michael Longuet-Higgins); 6. Ocean ecology (Peter Foxton and Martin Angel); 7. Whales and whaling (Howard Roe); 8. Ocean currents - entering the modern age (Jim Crease); 9. Exploring ocean variability (John Gould); 10. Internal waves and all that (Steve Thorpe); 11. Seawater - its chemical and physical properties (Fred Culkin); 12. Wave research at Wormley (Michael Longuet-Higgins); 13. Waves, surges and tides (David Cartwright); 14. Applied Wave Research ('Tom' Tucker); 15. Sidescan sonar - a tool for seafloor geology (Arthur Stride); 16. The rocks below the deep ocean (Anthony Laughton); 17. Engineering and Applied Physics ('Tom' Tucker and Brian McCartney); 18. Research ships (Anthony Laughton); 19. The library - a key research tool (Pauline Simpson); 20. The 'backroom boys' (Anthony Laughton); 21. The legacy (Anthony Laughton and Howard Roe).show more
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