Ships & Shipbuilding
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska’s High Seas
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift withou
- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0312302568
- Language: English
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Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping
$29.95 Add to cartIn 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. Embarkin
- Author: Beukelaer, Christiaan de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1526163098
- 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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A General History of the Pyrates
$39.95 Add to cartFamed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner,
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0486404889
- Language: English
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Inspecting the Aging Sailboat
$20.00 Add to cart“. . . the perfect place to begin, or continue, your education.”
—SailingWhether you are shopping for a used fiberglass boat or prioritizing maintenance tasks on the one you already own, this book s
- Author: Casey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0071445455
- Language: English
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The Panama Guide: A Cruising Guide to the Isthmus of Panama
$39.95 Add to cartThe Panama Guide, 2nd ed. is the most comprehensive guide written about the extraordinarily beautiful waters of the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Panama. It contains vital information for planning w… [more below]
- Author: Zydler, Nancy Schwalbe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1892399091
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- Language: English
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Titanic Survivor
$17.95 Add to cartViolet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on… [more below]
- Author: Jessop, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1574093150
- Language: English
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11:40: Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS Titanic
$50.00 Read moreA new in-depth study into those pivotal moments, both leading up to the striking of the iceberg, and across those crucial minutes afterwards, during which the fate of Titanic, and the 2,208 souls aboa
- Author: Payne, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803991763
- Language: English
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Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
$18.99 Add to cart“A dramatic tale. . . . Sherry brings the pirates vividly to life with his rousing telling of their daring cruises and outrageous feats. . . . I heartily recommend Raiders and Rebels to anyone who enj
- Author: Sherry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061572845
- Language: English
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Bethlehem Steel
$40.99 Add to cartThe Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support t… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Berger-Carmen, Tracy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1540251594
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- 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 Saltwater Highway: One Man’s Journey Through the International Dry Bulk Maritime Market
$32.00 Read moreA captivating and informative portrait of the business of maritime dry bulk shipping.
According to the International Chamber of Shipping, a global trade organization representing 80 percent of the wor- Author: Whitworth, Anthony R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888450543
- Language: English
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Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models
$39.95 Read moreThe National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the s… [more below]
- Author: Lavery, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 139902485X
- Language: English
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Boat Mechanical Systems Handbook (Pb)
$55.00 Add to cartThe First Ever Guide for Optimizing Boat Systems
This guide is invaluable for anyone designing or installing mechanical systems on a new boat, retrofitting an existing boat, or evaluating a boat’s ope
- Author: Gerr, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1265807221
- 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
