Ships & Shipbuilding
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Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
$21.99 Add to cartLake Erie has seen its share of disasters, claiming more ships per square mile than any other body of freshwater. Read the mysteries of its most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.
The
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Frew, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 162619551X
- Language: English
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Classic Ships of the Great Lakes
$25.95 Add to cartRobert Campbell’s Classic Ships of the Great Lakes presents a visually stunning array of historical and present-day inland shipping including passenger ships, whaleback, bulk carriers, self-unloaders,… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1933272503
- Language: English
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U.S. Destroyers, Revised Edition: An Illustrated Design History
$105.00 Read moreThe Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achi… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1682477576
- Language: English
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010
$20.00 Read moreThe history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the- Series: New Vanguard #317
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856872
- Language: English
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How to Build Wooden Boats: With 16 Small-Boat Designs
$14.95 Read moreWritten especially for the amateur boat builder, this concise guidebook contains clear, practical directions and designs for building 16 modern small boats, rowboats, sailboats, outboards, a 125-class
- Series: Dover Woodworking
- Author: Monk, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 05 1993
- ISBN10: 048627313X
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
$24.95 Read moreThe ‘Fabulous Flotilla’, called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all it
- Author: Strachan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1849955328
- Language: English
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Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River
$24.99 Read moreThe Thousand Islands’ very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be see… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Kunz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 146712401X
- Language: English
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Deadly Voyage: The S.S. Daniel J. Morrell Tragedy
$22.80 Read moreThis is the harrowing story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell was caught in a deadly storm on Lake Hur
- Author: Kantar, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0870138634
- Language: English
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British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939-45
$20.00 Read moreA history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain’s lifeline to the United States.
As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain- Series: New Vanguard #319
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472858115
- Language: English
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Asd Tugs: Thrust and Azimuth: Learning to Drive a Z-Drive
$49.99 Read moreAn Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) tug or towboat is a high-performance vessel that is responsive, quick to maneuver and extremely powerful. In the hands of a skilled operator maneuvering these vessels l… [more below]
- Author: Slesinger, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0764356828
- Language: English
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Understanding J. Bruce Ismay: The True Story of the Man They Called ‘The Coward of Titanic’
$28.99 Read moreAn insight into the man at the heart of the world’s most infamous maritime disaster
Following the Titanic disaster, Bruce Ismay was savaged by both the British and American press for deserting the sh- Author: Ismay, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750998660
- Language: English
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How to Build Glued-Lapstrake Wooden Boats
$39.95 Read moreWhen you finish reading this book, you?ll understand just what you need to do to build a terrific boat. A boat that is lightweight, forever appealing to the eye, a boat that doesn?t leak and doesn?t r… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 281
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0937822582
- Language: English
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Warship 2023
$60.00 Read moreThe latest edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development, and service of the world’s warships.
For over 45 years, Warship has been the- Author: Jordan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857135
- Language: English
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U.S. Aircraft Carriers, Revised Edition: An Illustrated Design History
$130.00 Read moreThe Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achi… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682477622
- Language: English
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Lake Boats: The Enduring Vessels of the Great Lakes
$29.95 Add to cartThe romance of the great inland sea in 32 additional pages and 30 new photographs.
Praise for the first edition:
“Lavishly photographed and romance-packed … a visually stunning collection of phot
- Author: McDonnell, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1770854894
- Language: English
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
$14.95 Add to cartShips and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men wh… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0912514515
- Language: English
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Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-Class, Lion-Class, H-Class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-Class
$20.00 Read moreAn illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II.
Before the start of World War II, the battl- Series: New Vanguard #314
- Author: Stille, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1472846729
- Language: English
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We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
$33.99 Add to cartThis new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0824815823
- Language: English
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Italian Heavy Cruisers: From Trent to Bolzano
$85.00 Read moreWhen the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively banned the building of battleships, competition between the major navies concentrated on the next most powerful category, heavy cruisers limited to… [more below]
- Author: Brescia, Maurizio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682478718
- Language: English
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Battle for the Columbia River: The Rise of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company
$23.99 Read moreA war over riches on the Columbia River.
While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first… [more below]- Series: Transportation
- Author: Ostler, Mychal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154083
- Language: English
