Ships & shipping: general interest books

Compiled by K Nussbaum. Including principal routes in Belgium and The Netherlands. This map shows the distances,...  Read More >>

Read these fascinating accounts from steamboat passengers, crews and newspapermen from the nineteenth century. This...  Read More >>

Think of a major shipping disaster and the first that jumps into mind is that of the Titanic, the White Start liner...  Read More >>

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This is an aide--memoir of things that a skipper of a yacht or motor boat need to know and may find hard to remember....  Read More >>

Guiding Lights takes a tour of the coast of England, visiting the immense variety of lighthouses on headlands, cliff...  Read More >>

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Although the subject of naval camouflage is of immense importance to warship enthusiasts, model makers, and naval...  Read More >>

This is the story of the design and development of British Lightvessels that have protected the coast since 1732,...  Read More >>

David MacBrayne was a partner from 1851 in the firm of David Hutcheson & Co and when the Hutchesons retired in 1879...  Read More >>

This book is great for fixing marine diesel engines in yachts, motor cruisers and canal boats. The essential are...  Read More >>

""A stupendous feat of reportage. "" -Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours...  Read More >>

A #1 BC Bestseller and the Winner of the 1999 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award for BC Book of the Year.  Read More >>

Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text...  Read More >>

Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text...  Read More >>

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Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the ""Karluk's""...  Read More >>

Though cruise ships are also included here, the majority of this volume is devoted to the grand ocean liners built...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the Confederate ironclad fleet of the American Civil War. It includes a cutaway of one of the...  Read More >>

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This report discusses the June 6, 2000, fire that occurred on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia, while...  Read More >>

On the surface, choosing the correct propeller for a particular boat seems simple. But one factor affects another,...  Read More >>

This is the second volume of Stuart Nicol's look at James Macqueen, the driving force behind the forming of the...  Read More >>

This is the second volume of Stuart Nicol's look at James Macqueen, the driving force behind the forming of the...  Read More >>