Ships and boats: general interest

The Port of Dover is Europe's busiest ferry port and is situated in south-east England.

The fishing industry has always played an important part in Ireland's history.

This is the story of lightkeepers' contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons - their primary function of course - 'for the safety of all'.

Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility.

Was the ship doomed by a faulty design?

On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage.

If human error only starts to explain how accidents happen in complex, adaptive systems, what does the rest of the explanation look like?

2008 was a magical year for Cunard.

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

A practical, hands-on manual covering the entire Day Skipper syllabus in a step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on the water.

This extensively updated third edition of the classic casebook Marine and Coastal Law provides readers with an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide to landmark laws, regulations, and legal decisions governing the United States' vast marine and coastal resources.

The stretch of water between the Isle of Wight and the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth has been one of the busiest shipping areas around the British Isles since antiquity.

Former Classic Boat editor Nic Compton has spent over 20 years sailing and photographing classic yachts, and this is the culmination of his decades-long passion - a stunning collection showcasing the 20 most beautiful and fascinating classic boats still sailing today.

The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years.

This is a thought-provoking work, capturing the march of time which overtook the maritime world in the last quarter of the 20th century.

This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II).

In 1973 David Christie moved house from Essex to Scotland, but it wasn't till 1974 that he discovered the joys of sailing on Calmac's ships.

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores.

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores.

The Union victory at Gettysburg is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War but many scholars consider the capture of Vicksburg the decisive action.

In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast.

This book is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of installing miniature steam engines in model vehicles.

Caronia was built in 1927 on the beach at Tolcarne, Newlyn, Cornwall by Henry, Theodore & Sidney Peake.

A fiberglass hull's seamless nature leads many boatowners to conclude that repair must be difficult.

With a foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh, who travelled to the Antarctic on the maiden voyage of the RRS John Biscoe, this is the story of the ship's final voyage in the Antarctic to the British Antarctic Survey bases.

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The first Lake District steamers were designed to serve the numerous villages and settlements along the side of the lakes.

A bestseller in hardback, this beautiful celebration of Britain's rich waterways heritage is now available in paperback and ebook.

The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail.

This book is a collection of classic articles on building yachts and motor boats, dealing with design, repairs and maintenance, equipment, materials, and many other related aspects.

Many people remember with great fondness the pleasure steamers that plied the River Thames in the years after the end of the Second World War.

Reeds Marine Insurance is aimed at all those who have little or no experience of marine or any other form of insurance working within the maritime transport field.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world.

In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine.

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Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first half of 1862, slow and heavy ironclads proved ineffective in patrolling the waters.

On October 20, 1910, RMS Olympic was launched at Belfast.

Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional shipping companies trading or based in Liverpool slowly vanished because of containerisation or competition from passenger aircraft.

South Wales is historically associated with coal, both in its mining and exporting.

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In the late 1960s, P&O established ferry services in the North Sea and English Channel.

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War.

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid- 1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishing.

In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, and when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages.

2008 was a magical year for Cunard.

'Functionality is never an excuse for poor design' said the naval architect Nicolo Costanzi, a man whose synthesis of engineering and artistry created practical ships of sublime beauty.

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "e;raiders and rebels"e; who terrorized the seas.