Ships and boats: general interest

With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history.

The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.

An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle.

A unique guide to this famous warship, collating authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles.

Packed with fascinating facts and using original source material about the ship, this is a perfect introduction to the Cutty Sark.

A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.

A unique guide to this famous warship, collating authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

Under Canadian Pacific's red-and-white-checkered flag, the company's founders, George Stephen and William C.

The Frances Smith was not only the first steamboat to be built in Owen Sound, but also the largest vessel on Georgian Bay at that time.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

Edward Teach Blackbeard-is one of the legends of the so-called golden age of piracy.

A richly illustrated story from the glory days of passenger travel on the Great Lakes.

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials.

A history of life on board HMS Victory, the world's most famous warship.

The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s.

“An inspirational/enjoyable book with excellent representations of a wide variety of [Motor Torpedo Boats] by various modelers in a variety of scales.

Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served.

Until recently, there was little practical knowledge of the ships of the distant past.

The execution of Captain William Kidd on 23 May 1701 is one of the most controversial and revealing episodes in the long history of piracy.

The story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race - the most dramatic in yacht racing historyThe waters between Sydney and Hobart are famously treacherous.

A history of life on board HMS Victory, the world's most famous warship.

The essential compendium covering the year in naval developments-the only annual overview of its kind.

Packed with fascinating facts and using original source material about the ship, this is a perfect introduction to the Cutty Sark.

The author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars.

The British maritime historian explores the golden age of cargo liners and the routes they took around the world in this beautifully illustrated volume.

The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.

Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage Award The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships.

One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet.

The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants.

The use of flags afloat and in most maritime situations is of interest and relevance to anyone going to sea whether for commerce or pleasure.

The use of flags afloat and in most maritime situations is of interest and relevance to anyone going to sea whether for commerce or pleasure.

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

The incredible true survival story of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga - and his record-breaking fourteen months lost at sea.

Since the end of the nineteenth century there has been a stunning succession of transatlantic liners, from the White Star Line's Oceanic of 1899 to the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 of 2004.

Since the end of the nineteenth century there has been a stunning succession of transatlantic liners, from the White Star Line's Oceanic of 1899 to the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 of 2004.

This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

It is hard to imagine a more male-dominated field in the nineteenth century than sea navigation.

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 interiors.

'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes.

A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including highly experienced crew who studied this potential saviour through marine binoculars.

William Dampier - buccaneer, journalist, naturalist and explorer - once shocked and delighted the literary world with the scarcely credible tales of his voyages.

The Great Western is the least known of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's three ships, being overshadowed by the later careers of the Great Britain and the Great Eastern.

The traditional cargo-carrying narrowboat - recently voted one of the 100 icons of England - emerged with the construction of the narrow canal network and lasted in until 1970 when the last regular long-distance contract was lost.

On 17 September 1921, the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton left London aboard his ship Quest, bound for the Antarctic on what would prove to be his final voyage.