Ships and boats: general interest

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II.

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

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the United States has sought to achieve Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's vision of "e;command of the sea"e; using large battle fleets of capital ships.

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

Electric propulsion for boats was developed in the early 19th century and--despite the advent of the internal combustion engine--continued with the perfecting of the modern turbo-electric ship.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

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

The history of the U.

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.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.

Perhaps more than all the campaigns of the Union armies, the Union naval blockade--covering all major Southern ports along 3,500 miles of coastline for the duration of the war--brought down the Confederacy.

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.

This book follows the author's experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.

In becoming "e;a useful man"e; on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia.

The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumbermans batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat.

Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened on the Titanic, and tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking and rescue; and, for those who survived, of their coming ashore in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maines Penobscot Bay.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

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

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

In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay joined the Royal Navy and spent the next eight years at sea.

The modern lobster boat has evolved slowly over decades to become the craft it is today: seaworthy, strong, fast, and trusted implicitly by the lobstermen and women to get the job done and get them home, each and every time, through the most terrifying--and sometimes life-threatening--conditions that the sea can dish up.

Heavy gun mountings dominated the design of larger warships, on account of their size, weight, protection and cost.

London's docks were once the busiest in Britain.

An illustrated treasury of expert tips on maintenance, navigation and seamanship from the internationally renowned Tom Cunliffe.

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.

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.

Distinctive, original, fresh in in tone and manner, with a quaint whimsicality of feeling and expression.

A fully illustrated collection of the most thrilling shipwrecks of all time!

Shouldn't your boat's name look as distinctive as your boat?

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

This densely illustrated, hands-on guide to diesel engine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair renders its subject more user-friendly than ever before.

In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.

Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air-wing deployments.

This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand.

An exploration of the complex roles that bodies--both literally and figuratively--play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series reveals much about the novels' many meditations on mind and body.

The only reference devoted entirely to splicing today's ropesThe Splicing Handbook includes step-by-step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices in traditional twisted and modern braided ropes, and it covers every kind of splicing project you are likely to encounter, including modern cordage such as Spectra; mainstream rope materials such as Dacron and nylon; and wire and rope-to-wire splices.

Compact enough to slip into your flight ease and comrehensive enough to ensure master, of the daily parlance of pilots, this handy reference clarifies nearly 3,000 essential acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, technical terms, and slang definitions used in aviation.

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.

An illustrated treasury of expert tips on maintenance, navigation and seamanship from the internationally renowned Tom Cunliffe.

Anyone going to sea needs an understanding of maritime flags, and this handy book is the perfect pocket-sized reference.

This study seeks to help fill knowledge gaps on maritime trade in the Pacific.

Maritime trade is an essential lifeline for the remote island nations of the Pacific, which rely almost entirely on imports for essential goods.