Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
A Girl Aboard the Titanic
The Remarkable Memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old Survivor of the Titanic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
We went on the day on the boat train…I was 7, I had never seen a ship before... it looked very big... everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would...
On the Edge of Survival
A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
From the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, comes a thrilling true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas
A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on...
The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic
I Survived the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors...
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the Titanic
Years after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet...
Submarine
A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top...
Ten Hours Until Dawn
The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having lost...
The New Get Rid of Boat Odors, 2nd Edition
A Boat Owner's Guide to Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This is the completely-updated 2nd Edition of Peggie Hall's famous book "Get Rid of Boat Odors." "The New Get Rid of Boat Odors, 2nd ed." by Peggie Hall, known by many of her fans as "The Headmistress," will teach you how to eliminate annoying odors on your boat by treating...
Another Great Day at Sea
Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
Voyage of The Slave Ship
J.M.W. Turner's Masterpiece in Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.M.W. Turner’s greatest and most memorable paintings. Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) in Great Britain produced unprecedented wealth and luxury. For artists...
The River
A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"Ask anyone what they love most about Winzer, and they seem always to tell you it's the people, the family and friends webbed around each of us. True. But for me the town is also, and perhaps mainly, the larger-than-life characters who ghost around in my imagination and my memory: rumrunners...
Fire Canoe
Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.
Their captains were seafaring skippers who had migrated inland. Their pilots were indigenous people who could read the shoals, sandbars, and currents of Prairie...
Alligators of the North
The Story of the West & Peachey Steam Warping Tugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s. This warping tug was capable of towing al og boomk across a lake and then portaging itself to the next body of water. Steam-powered and rugged, it was one of the pioneers in the mechanization of the forest industry...
November's Fury
The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication...
by Anthony Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Anson Northup, the first steamboat on the Canadian prairies, arrived in Fort Garry in 1859. Belching hot sparks and growling in fury, it was called "fire canoe" by the local Cree. The first steam-powered passenger vessel in Canada had begun service on the St. Lawrence River in 1809, and...