Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
Tropic Suns
Seadogs Aboard an English Galleon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A historian and sailor describes how 16th-century voyages from England to the Americas were madeWhen a ship set out for the Americas in the 16th century, the crew faced a long voyage and a host of difficulties along the way. Ship-building, navigation, and provisioning were all crucial to the vessel...
Electric Boats and Ships
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Electric propulsion for boats was developed in the early 19th century and—despite the advent of the internal combustion engine—continued with the perfecting of the modern turbo-electric ship. Sustainable and hybrid technologies, pioneered in small inland watercraft toward the end of the 20th century,...
All at Sea
Twenty Years at the Helm of Tall Ships
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations—there were six children. Dominick bought the successor, a Baltic Trader, and then found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between...
Ice Ship
The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big question—was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to...
Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years
Tourist Third Cabin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years: Tourist Third Cabin offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the Normandie, and the Olympic transported new breeds of tourists between Europe and North America, and dazzled them with their technological marvels and palatial...
Oriana & Aurora
Taking Cruising into a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1995, P&O introduced the 70,000grt Oriana into service. She was to be the replacement for the long-lived Canberra and she ushered in a new period in British cruising history. Popular from her first days of service, she has become the epitome of P&O style, offering luxurious accommodation...
The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II
Rocket Ships of the Pacific Amphibious Forces
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The “Interim” LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy’s first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing naval combatants, these ships began...
Titanic's Last Secrets
The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did?
To answer the question,...
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
"Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown." -The Maritime Executive Through masterful research and elegant prose, Curt Brown traces the devastating intersection of nature's fury and corporate greed. It was Thanksgiving...
by Logan Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This is one of the first and most famous books published after the sinking of the Titanic, and contains much material from contemporary newspaper accounts. It was written by Logan Howard-Smith (under the pen name of Logan Marshall), an editor who specialized in the rapid publication of books about...
Norma & Gladys
The Famous Newfoundland Knockabout Schooner
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador’s industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasting freight to remote seaside towns. Her story also illustrates the worst examples of the province’s...
The Sea and Civilization
A Maritime History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways,...
Sinking of the TITANIC
The world's greatest sea disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1912): “ … A graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls.
Giving exciting escapes from death and acts or heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors....
Scots And The Sea
A Nation's Lifeblood
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
With over six thousand miles of rugged coastline, nowhere in Scotland is more than forty-five miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports. No wonder then that the sea has shaped Scotland, and in turn the Scots have helped to shape maritime history, trade and communications.
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