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Cover of Great White Fleet

Great White Fleet

Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships

by John Henry
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013

For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as far west as Duluth, Minnesota, and as far east as the Lower St. Lawrence River. The passenger...
Cover of Historic Shipwrecks of Penobscot Bay
by Harry Gratwick
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014

Thousands flock to the beautiful coastline along Penobscot Bay every year, but the dark sea has often turned treacherous. Temperamental skies become stormy without notice; violent gales challenge even the most seasoned captains. Craggy rocks can be virtually invisible to oncoming vessels, like the "Alice...
Cover of The Colombo Bay
by Richard Pollak
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

In the face of killer storms, fires, piracy, and terrorism, container ships the length of city blocks and more than a dozen stories high carry 90 percent of the worlds trade. This is an account of one ship's voyage and of the sailors who daily risk their lives to deliver six million containers a year...
Cover of Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

Tragedy in the Quadrangle

by David Frew
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late night collision brought 68 of its weary immigrant...
Cover of Edinburgh's Leith Docks 1970-80

Edinburgh's Leith Docks 1970-80

The Transition Years

by Malcolm Fife
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Leith has been Edinburgh’s main port since the Middle Ages. It is one of the oldest harbours in the country, dating back to the twelfth century. Modern Leith docks took shape in the nineteenth century with the construction of stone quays and breakwaters. The late 1930s saw a further major expansion...
Cover of Heritage of the Sea

Heritage of the Sea

Famous Preserved Ships around the UK

by Peter C Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

The 21st century saw the naval power of Great Britain rise from that of an obscure island to that of a worldwide empire. British shipping and seamen dominated the globe for four centuries and the ships that explored the world and those which guarded them represent a unique treasure-trove of maritime...
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Between the Tides

Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast

by Roy Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered. A ship can disappear suddenly without a trace. Or a loss may involve a fascinating web of intrigue and drama. Exploration, the aftermath of wrecking in remote regions of the world and the interaction of survivors with local...
Cover of Post-War Canadian Pacific Liners

Post-War Canadian Pacific Liners

Empresses of the Atlantic

by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

Canadian Pacific was one of the great Atlantic liner companies, sailing out of Liverpool on the St Lawrence route to Montreal and Quebec. With crisp white hulls and their distinctive chequered funnels, they were the 'Empresses of the Atlantic', a great part of the last grand era of the Atlantic liners....
Cover of Tramp Ships

Tramp Ships

An Illustrated History

by Roy Fenton
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013

The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence...
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Sailing Seven Seas

A History of the Canadian Pacific Line

by Peter Pigott
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

Under Canadian Pacific's red-and-white-checkered flag, the company's founders, George Stephen and William C. Van Horne, created a rail-sea service from Liverpool to Hong Kong. Boasting sternwheelers, Great Lakes bulk carriers, ferries, and luxurious ocean-going liner leviathans, the Canadian Pacific...
Cover of Passing Ships
by Gordon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

On a blustery, West Highland summer’s day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards from Mallaig up through the Sound of Sleat between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Skye. The spray from its bow wave flew high up her sides and dark smoke was tugged from...
Cover of Union Castle Liners

Union Castle Liners

From Great Britain to Africa 1946-1977

by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to the South African Cape. Carrying passengers as well as cargo, including the all-important mail, it was a byword in travel - 'every Thursday at 4', as one of the big Union-Castle liners set off for Cape...
Cover of Picture History of American Passenger Ships
by William H., Jr. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012

Loving tribute to luxury liners documents more than 100 ships, including the Leviathan, the America, the Independence, the President Polk, and the United States. Detailed captions provide a wealth of information on tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. Introduction. Preface by David Perry. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs.
Cover of Floating Palaces

Floating Palaces

The Great Atlantic Liners

by William H. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most luxurious and fastest ocean liners and it started with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the first of fourteen four-stackers built between 1897 and 1921. The...
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