Ships & Shipbuilding - History
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RMS Queen Mary
$31.99 Add to cartLaunched in an era when speed and grandeur went hand in hand, the RMS Queen Mary is the last survivor of the golden age of ocean liners. From the time of her maiden voyage in 1936, passengers crossed … [more below]
- Author: Tarbell Cooper, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1531653383
- Language: English
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Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks
$29.95 Add to cartEvery shipwreck has a story that extends far beyond its tragic end. The dramatic tales of disaster, heroism, and folly become even more compelling when viewed as junction points in history–connecting… [more below]
- Author: Jensen, John Odin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209027
- Language: English
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Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck
$15.95 Add to cartSuperior Never Gives Up Her Dead
On November 10, 1975, the massive ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald succumbed to a stormy Lake Superior, leaving no survivors. Memorialized in song and legend, the Fitzgera
- Author: Andra-Warner, Elle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0974020737
- Language: English
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The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework
$14.95 Read moreThe perfect shipboard reference, this volume is packed with useful “hands-on” information: sailor’s tools, basic knots, and useful hitches; handsewing and canvas work; dozens of other topics. Over 100… [more below]
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Smith, Hervey Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0486264408
- Language: English
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Canadian Pacific Ships: The History of a Company and Its Ships
$38.99 Read moreEstablished in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the company and its ships
In 1873 a company was formed to cons- Author: Collard, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 075099875X
- Language: English
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Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History
$33.99 Add to cartLake George is bustling with boaters, swimmers, fishermen and many others, enjoying its scenic, quintessentially Adirondack shores. But the depths below hide a whole other world–one of shipwrecks and… [more below]
- Author: Zarzynski, Joseph W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1540205754
- Language: English
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The Yankee Whaler
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the finest, most colorful and definitive studies of whaling ever published. Construction and outfitting of ships, crafts and routines, hunting methods, much more. 133 halftones. 17 line illustr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Ashley, Clifford W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0486268543
- Language: English
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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
$24.95 Add to cart“A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes.”
—Frederick Stonehouse, maritime historianIn 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossi
- Author: Brown, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050494
- Language: English
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Expedition Whydah
$19.99 Add to cartA Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater Exploration
Bored by his successful life and obsessed with a boyhood dream of lost pira
- Author: Clifford, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0060929715
- Language: English
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
$24.99 Add to cartThe Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms… [more below]
- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0786884460
- Language: English
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
$19.99 Add to cartEye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; eac- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058295
- Language: English
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
$20.00 Add to cartIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a pa
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0312334362
- Language: English
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RMS Titanic in 50 Objects
$40.99 Read moreThe story of the worldʼs most famous liner, told through a fascinating selection of important objects
Showcasing a mixture of original artefacts, authentic reproductions, and items from Titanic‘- Author: Beveridge, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0750998555
- Language: English
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Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
$32.99 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of the Titanic‘s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenge
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0470873876
- Language: English
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Tragedy and Triumph on the Great Lakes
$29.95 Read moreRichard Gebhart traces little-known voyages of Great Lakes ships that sailed the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s. They bore cargoes to and from the lakes and as far as Constantinople. Gebhart recovers… [more below]
- Author: Gebhart, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864836
- Language: English
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Sailing the Sweetwater Seas: Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940
$45.00 Read moreThe Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, b
- Author: Jepson, George D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072277
- Language: English
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Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale
$24.95 Add to cartShipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicle- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1517912849
- Language: English
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RMS Queen Mary: The World’s Favourite Liner
$75.00 Read moreProbably the most famous, and certainly one of the best-loved ships in the world, the Cunard transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary has now been preserved at Long Beach, California as a floating hotel and
- Author: Ellery, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1399053051
- Language: English
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
$18.99 Add to cartThe classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07, 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077642
- Language: English
