Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
Sea Devils
Pioneer Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
A detailed history of the submarine, from the first man-powered submersibles to the deep sea exploration and military crafts of todayPioneer submariners built astonishing contraptions which made perilous voyages or sank like stones. Some were driven by muscle-power or steam engines with chimneys....
Seven Seas, Nine Lives
The Valour of Captain A.W.F. Sutton, CBE, DSC and Bar, RN
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber...
Titanic
A Survivor's Story & the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they...
Titanic, First Accounts
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
**Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic—in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art
The Titanic, First Accounts graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth...
by Campell McCutcheon, Archibald Gracie
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
"Very vivid..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Awakened by the shuddering of a huge iceberg puncturing the side of the ship, Colonel Archibald Gracie was quickly dressed and on deck to see the aftermath of what was to become the most famous collision in history. He had gone to bed early on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Why does the sinking of the Titanic hold such fascination for us? Many reasons have been advanced for the continuing fascination of this epic tragedy, but none, we think, can contribute as much to an understanding of it as the four accounts collected in this volume.All four authors were survivors,...
Hen Frigates
Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic...
Downunder
The history of found shipwrecks along the Central and Hunter Coastlines.
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Have you ever wondered about some of the stories of the maritime disasters that have happened along the Central Coast and Hunter Coastlines of Australia? This book visits the individual histories of located shipwrecks along this notorious coastline.
Some of the stories include the tale of...
by Jeff Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Finally back in print after more than twelve years, this is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand – including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and nautical enthusiasts.
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing...
Shipwrecks Off the East Coast
Harrowing Tales of Rescue and Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Shipwrecks Off the East Coast tells the stories of nine ill-fated vessels as they navigated the often treacherous waters of the Atlantic region. Among them: the wreck of the SS Atlantic, only miles from safety in Halifax, where 562 people perished, including all women and children aboard but one solitary...
by Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore—he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the...
by Charles Erskine
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
In 1838 the able-bodied seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes who was setting out on a voyage of discovery around the world.
From the Pacific to Antarctic to Atlantic, Erskine would travel with this expedition to the furthest corners of the Earth.
He would go on...
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
An Economic and Technological History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.