Ships & Shipbuilding
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The American Fishing Schooners, 1825-1935
$66.99 Add to cartThe evolution of the American fishing schooner from the 18th century to the last working and racing schooners of the mid-1930s is recounted in this book. The designers, builders and crews are discusse… [more below]
- Author: Chapelle, Howard I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 716
- Publish Date: March 15 2007
- ISBN10: 039303755X
- 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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The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
$18.95 Add to cartA first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories.
The Coast Guard is one of the nation’s five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United St- Series: Greatest
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1493027026
- Language: English
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Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction (Revised)
$69.99 Add to cartThe text covers all types of craft from flat-bottom rowboats to ocean cruisers and commercial vessels, and aids the builder in overcoming difficulties and discouraging delays resulting from the lack o… [more below]
- Author: Chapelle, Howard I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393035549
- 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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Never Say P*g: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions
$18.95 Add to cartThe nautical reference book you never knew you needed: a compendium of all superstitions maritime and marine. Learn your A-B-Seas of sailors’ guiding magic and mythos–and why you should never stir yo
- Author: MacDonald, R. Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1550179799
- Language: English
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Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- 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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The Maine Lobster Boat: History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel
$35.00 Add to cartFilled with colorful characters, old maritime tales, and fascinating details, this a definitive look at the origins and lore of Maine’s most ubiquitous vessel.
- Author: Lee, Daniel Sheldon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750040
- Language: English
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The Wreck of the Portland: A Doomed Ship, a Violent Storm, and New England’s Worst Maritime Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartThe SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England… [more below]
- Author: Conway, J. North
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493059467
- 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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Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
$16.95 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: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1574091840
- Language: English
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Read moreThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- Language: English
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On the Water: A Century of Iconic Maritime Photography from the Rosenfeld Collection
$65.00 Read moreThe golden age of sailing and boating comes alive in this selection of photographs curated from the unparalleled archive of this great American sport.
The Rosenfelds’ photographs of competition sailbo- Author: Voulgaris, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0847873463
- Language: English
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
$17.99 Add to cartDeadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Se
- Author: Thompson, Kalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0061766305
- Language: English
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartSkeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hell… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0316159352
- Language: English
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0307408868
- 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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Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History
$34.99 Add to cartFor more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history. Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside oft-forgotten histo… [more below]
- Author: Bleyer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1540238407
- Language: English
