Ships category: 1007 books
by The National Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives and give a vivid picture of the situations that...
Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany
A Ditty Bag of Wonders from the Golden Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Lt Cdr Julian Stockwin shares his love and knowledge of the sea in this entertaining collection of maritime stories and little-known trivia. Featuring nautical facts and feats, including superstitions at sea, the history of animals on the waves - until 1975 when all animals were banned from Royal...
Maritime Manitowoc
1847-1947
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
From schooners to submarines, Manitowoc has been home to shipbuilders and their craft for over 200 years. Thanks to the vast collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Maritime Manitowoc: 1847�1947 uncovers the fascinating and colorful Golden Age of shipbuilding in the area. This book explores the...
The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book
Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their "far-ranging web of wit and allusion,"...
Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations:
A Memoir and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations" is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient of the Coast Guard's highest award, the Gold Life-saving Medal, and hero of the Disney movie The Finest Hours. While the public will recognize Webber's name from the movie and the...
by Alan Major
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Using his personal ship, Mora, William, Duke of Normandy, invaded Britain with a fl eet of similar ships. It was the fi rst of a long line of ships with Royal associations. The word ‘yacht’ did not come into British usage until the seventeenth century, it being a Dutch word. King Charles II, while...
The Graveyard of the Pacific
Shipwreck Tales from the Depths of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors clung desperately to the rigging. Few made it the short distance...
Shanghaiing Sailors
A Maritime History of Forced Labor, 1849-1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“Shaghaiing,” or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as “crimps,” and they had no respect for a man’s education, social status, race, religion, or seafaring experience. The merchant...
by Alistar Roach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Norman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeler of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous models have come to be regarded as masterpieces of draughtsmanship, workmanship and realism; more than technically accomplished ship models, they are truly works...
In Titanic's Shadow
The World's Worst Merchant Ship Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A collection of the 40 worst mercantile disasters in history—revealing that, despite popular belief, the Titanic tragedy was far from being the worst disaster at seaWhile the victims of the Titanic disaster at 1,507 persons accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships described in this...
by Conrad Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This annual has an established reputation as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship...
Golden Stripes
Leadership on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Although merchant ships carry 90% of the world’s trade, the mariners who run them have little guidance on leadership. This can result in disasters such as the Titanic, Costa Concordia, the Exxon Valdez, and the recent El Faro. With modern ships being worth several million dollars, seafarers need...
by Cassie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
In the snowy predawn of February 18, 1942, a convoy of three American ships zigzagged up the North Atlantic toward Newfoundland, heading for one of the worst disasters in naval history. The ships were under radio silence to protect their position from the threat of German U-boats. A storm was raging,...
Stranded
Alaska’s Worst Maritime Disaster Nearly Happened Twice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska’s worst maritime disaster — until it nearly happened again.
In 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by...