Ships and boats: general interest

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.

Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St.

In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea and to ships.

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.

There is a need to capture a child's attention using appropriate themes just to get him/her to go over a book.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history.

Traveling across the great northern expanses from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway remains one of the greatest driving adventures of all time.

Readers say it best: fascinating book with beautiful photos and information regarding all kinds of light housesFrom ancient times until the present, lighthouses have symbolized safety, homecoming, and the seafaring way of life.

For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook you need to own.

In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.

Here is the ultimate collection of stories about the sea for sailors old and young, experienced seamen and armchair admirals.

Manned almost entirely by reservists, the USS Abercrombie (DE343) and her sister ships did the dirty work of the Pacific War.

The history of shipping in America, as traditionally recounted, is based primarily on the fortunes of the American merchant marine.

Savor the story of the ultimate warship in Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship, which chronicles the history of Sovereign of the Seas, an immensely powerful floating fortress.

A breathtaking minute-by-minute account of the most catastrophic tragedy-at-sea since the sinking of the Titanic-told by a survivor.

On January 25, 1917, the HMS Laurentic struck German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank.

On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank.

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

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

This volume completes the reissue of R.

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

The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage.

Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.

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

From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States.

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

When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L.

Manned almost entirely by reservists, the USS Abercrombie (DE343) and her sister ships did the dirty work of the Pacific War.

Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed.

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

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

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.

A breathtaking minute-by-minute account of the most catastrophic tragedy-at-sea since the sinking of the Titanic-told by a survivor.

The excavation of the shipwreck La Belle grabbed public attention in Texas, across the nation, and overseas.

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The movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits.

Between the world wars, France produced some of the largest and fastest destroyers in the world.

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.

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers.

Rescue From Grampa Woo is an exciting tale of fear and heroism on Lake Superior.

Lightkeeping on the St.

Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North.

The Empress of Ireland's last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St.

For a large number of countries, the task of Arctic exploration and implementation of year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route, which has become a reality today due to global warming, has become increasingly relevant in recent years.

The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew.

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who served in wars against the United States and Napoleonic France.

The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew.

In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) embarked on his third and final expedition into the Canadian Arctic to force the Northwest Passage.