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by Thomas Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
No Fighting Chance, Ireland's Lady of the Lake Disaster of 1833, recounts the "little Titanic" disaster when 250 Irish emigrants suddenly found themselves abandoned by their captain in a rapidly sinking ship in the waters off Newfoundland. Earlier that day, tno_fighting_chance-1he Lady of...
Adrift
A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder...
Sinking of the TITANIC
The world's greatest sea disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1912): “ … A graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls.
Giving exciting escapes from death and acts or heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors....
The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
First published in 1808, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor became a standard guide throughout the 19th century in both England and the United States. Author Darcy Lever compiled the text for "a young gentleman whose inclinations at that time led him to the choice of a sea-faring life," and he later...
Pembroke Dock 1814-2014
A Bicentennial Look Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In 2014 Pembroke Dock celebrates 200 years since its founding, when a Royal Dockyard - the only one ever to exist in Wales - was established here on the banks of Milford Haven. The dockyard was the reason for the rapid development of the town, with people from rural Pembrokeshire and from all around...
Inshore Craft
Traditional Working Vessels of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles.
The types are arranged by coastal area and each is described in terms of its shape and design, fitness for location...
Gateway to the World
The Port of New York in Colour Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved in trade between Europe, Africa and North America. However, its real expansion came in the nineteenth century when increasing industrialisation and the development of canals and then railways caused...
Carriers at War
1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners.
The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2...
Grand Fleet 1914–19
The Royal Navy in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
World War I was the first real time in 100 years that the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in defense of the country. This book tells of the creation and development of the Grand Fleet under the drive of the energetic and charismatic admiral of the fleet, "Jacky"...
Pirate Killers
The Royal Navy and the African Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing ‘The King of the Pirates’, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court.
On the Barbary Coast...
Conspiracies at Sea
Titanic and Lusitania
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Great disasters always attract conspiracy theories and this is just as true of disasters at sea as it is of those on land or in the air. The sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, two of the great maritime disasters of the twentieth century, have attracted more than their share of these theories....
by Jones, Steve, Peeke
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2002
The Lusitania Story is the complete story of this most famous ocean liner, told for the first time in a single volume. The Lusitania is today most remembered for controversy surrounding her loss by a German submarine attack in 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life...
The Artificial River
The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1997
The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers,...
by Ian Nicolson, C. Eng. FRINA Hon. MIIMS
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Comfort is not a measureable quality, mainly because it means different things to different people. It also changes according to the weather, the time of year, the size of the boat, the distance from land, the prevalence of seasickness, and the state of the drinks locker. However, sound initial design,...