Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
by Cindy Hunter Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Harborless, a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, is part history and part reinvention. The poems explore tragic wrecks in rivers and lakes, finding and forming artistic meaning from destruction and death. Each poem begins in a real, historical moment that Cindy Hunter Morgan transforms...
by William H., Jr. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Big, fast, and powerful, the Queen Mary lived a long life that included 1,001 successful Atlantic crossings. Launched in Southampton, England in 1934, the ship at one time held the record for the fastest-ever North Atlantic crossing, and for a number of years carried the rich and famous across the...
by Dick Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
After joining the Australian Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen, Dick Jolly trained as an engineer before joining the Australian National Line as a cadet. After a four-year apprenticeship, he gradually gained promotion while travelling around the Australian coast. Fascinated by the world of commercial...
The Shipbroker's Working Knowledge
Dry Cargo Chartering in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
The Shipbroker’s working knowledge is a book for employees involved in the shipping industry and particularly those dealing or about to deal with the chartering of dry cargo ships. It provides personal knowledge that the author gained during the performance of his duties in the various departments...
by Graham Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting...
Lost Maine Coastal Schooners
From Glory Days to Ghost Ships
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Dramatic true stories of New England maritime history, with photos.
Large, wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the advent of steam-powered craft, however, these elegant four-, five-, or six-masted wooden ships became...
British Paddle Steamers
The Heyday of Excursions and Day Trips
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
For a hundred years excursion paddle steamers gave all the social classes the opportunity to enjoy a cruise on the briny from ports, resorts and piers around the UK. For the most part, everything usually went well on these trips; however, sometimes it did not, and this book chronicles tales of the...
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...
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...