Naval category: 2015 books

Founded in 1937, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, has trained more than 20,000 professional mariners—and, in the process, has weathered many turbulent times. In Peace and War draws on extensive research—including archival work and interviews with past and present-day...

Originally published in two volumes in 1933, this amalgamated edition provides an in-depth description of the hull, deck fittings, and rigging of this famous ship, together with a detailed account of the building of a scale model, which was added to the collection at the Science Museum in South Kensington,...

What was it like to live and work at a lighthouse during the heyday of shipping and fishing? How did lighthouse keepers and their families stationed on remote islands while away the long, cold, lonely hours between trips to the mainland for food and supplies? Here you'll find a record of the charming...

Did you know there's a Coast Guard? You did? Well, I guess you don’t need this book, then.  OR DO YOU? See, the Coast Guard does a lot more than just guard the coast: it goes all over the world saving lives, fighting smugglers, and being really, really awesome. It has fought...

A group of Navy SEALs are called in to clear a plane of passengers on board a flight with a bomb on it. After a mix up in intelligence, the SEALs are forced to watch helplessly as the real doomed flight takes off and blows up in front of them. Three years later, the leader of brutal nation, known...

The part played in the Civil War by the small Marine Corps of the United and Confederate States is overshadowed by the confrontations of the great armies. Nevertheless, the coastal and riverine campaigns were of real importance, given the strategic significance of the Federal blockade of southern...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. ILLUSTRATIONS. CHAPTER I. ... CHAPTER XXXVIII. APPENDIX A. APPENDIX B. APPENDIX C.

This study describes the courts of vice-admiralty as they existed in the American colonies at the beginning of the revolutionary struggles, analyzes the changes in the courts and their jurisdiction from 1763 to the outbreak of the war, and examines the American objections to the vice-admiralty system. Originally...

This latest step-by-step volume from Phil Reed tackles what, for many, are regarded as the ultimate expression of the ship model maker's art, the Navy Board model. These beautiful early eighteenth-century works of art are well represented in the major maritime museums both here and in the States as...

The plan was for the  Bismarck to break out into the Atlantic — the very phrase indicates one of the problems faced by German sea power, getting past the British Isles — and operate beyond land-based air power, running amok amongst allied convoys.

Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra  was a final salute to a bygone era of   opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982, Britain went...

The true story of Hitler's mightiest battleship, how it was hunted, fought, and destroyed in the crucial battle for the Atlantic. In 1941, the Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic, its mission to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war for Germany. How...

It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril when under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who was enslaved as a concubine in 1629, was just one woman who endured a castaway experience. Award-winning historian Joan Druett (Island of the Lost, The Elephant Voyage), relates the stories of women...

An elite team of Navy SEALs is training for a mission to take down one of the most viscous terrorist groups in the world. But through a leak in US Intelligence, the scar-faced leader of the terrorist organization learns of the forthcoming SEALs' mission. While the SEALs are stationed on an aircraft...