Maritime History

In contrast to the voluminous literature on trench warfare, few scholarly works have been written on how the First World War was experienced at sea...

A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea.An accompli...

Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twi...

#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Trage...

A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement.In the spring of 1553 three ships s...

Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across ...

Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an...

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteen...

The discovery and mining of the Comstock Lode in Nevada forever changed the mining culture of the American West. Using the pen name Dan De Quille, ...

Amid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book focuses on h...

Lords of the Sea tells the true story behind the upcoming blockbuster 300: Rise of an Empire and explains how the Athenians established the modern ...

Before William Stanley Lambert became a cadet in 1883, he had already sailed 44,890 miles round the world in a childhood voyage that took him two y...

In 1803, at the age of 14, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy, and for the next eight years experienced the trials and tribulatio...

Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed i...

Surviving the Essex tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced-out of necess...

A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses including highly experienced crew who studied this potenti...

It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to the South African Cape. Carrying passengers as...

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources s...

More than a million people came to witness one of the most important moments in maritime history when Cunard's Three Queens returned to their spiri...

At a time when everything is constantly changing, it can be comforting to look back. British Passenger Liners in Colour is just that: a look back a...

From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling p...

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery an eloquent...

Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been...

Passenger ships have always played a key role in shaping our lives and destinies. From the biggest to the smallest, the most beautiful to the most ...

From the 1890s, the German shipping lines had begun to build the fastest and most luxurious liners. It had started when Kaiser Wilhelm had visited ...

The emergence of the submarine in 1914 as a major strategic weapon was swift and unexpected. On 5 September 1914, a British light cruiser, HMS Path...

In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, ...