Ships & shipping: general interest books

Deep Challenge blends oil-patch history, eyewitness accounts of disasters, and open access to the official files...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

A memoir of Annette Brock Davis s life at sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line.  Read More >>

Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gathered their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends and embark on an amazing...  Read More >>

In this handy little book, George Reid describes the numerous causes of compass error: variation, deviation, misalignment,...  Read More >>

Over 120 illustrations. From ancient times to the present day, marine disasters have been a fact of everyday life....  Read More >>

The care and craftsmanship in the art of building wooden vessels has become a thing of the past. Replaced by the...  Read More >>

The dramatic story of the rescue of two men from a cruise ship on Lake Superior as it drifts out to sea in hurricane-force...  Read More >>

Gives advice to students and naval architects on how to design ships, with particular regard to hull design. This...  Read More >>

Here is the story of the unique vessels that make up BC history's fleet, from the Beaver and the Lady Alexandra...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

Specific Models Covered:75 HP, 90 HP, 100 HP, 115 HP, 125 HP, 135 HP,; 150 HP, 150 XR6, 150 Magnum III, 175 HP,;...  Read More >>

A guide for owners of new and traditional boats, featuring detailed information on costs for all aspects of maintenance...  Read More >>

The first true pilot guide to the ICW, containing both quick reference charts and piloting instructions in a side-by-side...  Read More >>

In 1958 the SS Edmund Fitzgerald entered the Great Lakes and was the biggest ship to sail fresh water. In 1975,...  Read More >>

Over a few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Robert Longden took a series of photographs of the narrow boat...  Read More >>

The Protection of Wrecks Act, passed some 25 years ago, is designed to ensure that shipwrecks of histori cal or...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful...  Read More >>

A photographic history of the Yorkshire Ouse navigation  Read More >>

 Read More >>