Ships and boats: general interest

Entering service a full ten months ahead of Titanic, the Olympic was a near identical sister ship,the fi rst of a class of three liners, two of which would sink.

Often a lifeline for remote waterside communities, the Scottish pier has been a functional rather than a pleasure pier.

Buying a boat can be a minefield, but a handbook like this will make it a lot easier for would-be boat owners to make sensible, informed choices.

Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas.

Using his personal ship, Mora, William, Duke of Normandy, invaded Britain with a fleet of similar ships.

A highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II.

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage.

The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles is the first manual to provide a basic "e;"e;How To"e;"e; for using small observation-class ROVs for surveying, inspection and research procedures.

This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is.

The romantic dream of downsizing, giving up the ratrace, and living life at 4mph on the inland waterways is proving more and more attractive.

This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is.

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built.

This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory, industrial cluster policy and small area level analysis.

The fourth edition of the acclaimed full-colour annual focusing on all facets of 'scratch-built' model shipbuilding, as well as related articles on restoration, archaeology, historical research and marine art.

Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years.

The history of the U.

Silke Arends war in den Kombüsen der Seenotrettungskreuzer der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS).

A Welshman’s witty and gritty sailing adventure memoir with “the bite of fine sea salt and a whiplike delivery” (Kirkus Reviews).

This encyclopaedic volume synthesises 25 years of research and development of this unique rig as adapted to western craft.

The merchants of Manchester were concerned about the high tariffs charged at Liverpool Docks and the excessive rates for transhipment of goods to Manchester.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world.

The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River Thames down river to Tilbury and Harwich.

The CSS Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War and was the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe.

The first tugs were built at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a result of the development of enclosed docks and the increase in size and power of sea-going vessels.

Our Blue Planet provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of maritime and underwater archaeology.

Radar and ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aids) are standard systems on all commercial vessels and are widely used in the leisure maritime sector.

Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.

“A complete operational history of the Bismarck .

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

Many books have been written about the River Thames, some of them devoted to bridges, but not one has been specifically devoted to ferries on the river, until now.

For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships.

The second in a series of highly practical, hands on, step-by-step photographic manuals, Replacing Your Boat's Electrical System
fills a gap in the market for the DIY boat builder and repairer.

There is something beautiful and nostalgic about wooden boats.

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

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

This is the first complete publication of a rare collection of letters and poems written from 1790 to 1792--many of which have never appeared in print--telling the true story of Peter Heywood, a young Royal Navy midshipman on H.

Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans.

Anyone who admits to a sense of confusion when confronted with the bewildering array of European waterway signs, symbols, rules and regulations should find this book useful.

An illustrated sailing guide for beginner and expert alike!

The fourth edition of the perennial best-seller.

The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892.

Step aboard Boater, a mesmerising voyage along the tranquil waterways of England, written by former UK Canal Laureate, Jo Bell.

Expert authors demonstrate the topic using pilot drawn from an FAA/NASA sponsored database.

From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse.

In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.

Colonial pioneers began entering the logging and forestry industries in great numbers along the Allegheny and Appalachian mountains during the late 1700s and were soon producing more products than they could use.

Take a look at the River Thames in East London now and you would think that it is commercially dead.

In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Following on from his bestselling The Complete Day Skipper and The Complete Yachtmaster, yachting legend Tom Cunliffe turns his attentions to the third strand of the RYA syllabus.