Maritime History

_From War to Peace_ tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of na...

Death byFire and Icetells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboatLexingtonon Long Island Sound in January 1840. Built in 1835 by Cor...

The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland''s coast and the e...

Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United Statesand t...

On 15 April 1912, passengers stood on a dimly lit Boat Deck, looking down at the lifeboats they were told to enter. In the freezing air, away from ...

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall ...

The Pool of London has long been a busy place. It has been the focus of seaborne trade with the city since the Roman galleys first arrived with exo...

The Great Western is the least known of Isambard Kingdom Brunels three ships, being overshadowed by the later careers of the Great Britain and the ...

The Great Western is the least known of Isambard Kingdom Brunels three ships, being overshadowed by the later careers of the Great Britain and the ...

David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy. The books is divid...

The book is about Liverpool docks and the dockland area its history, strategic importance in times of peace and war; the kinds of cargoes carried i...

James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging ci...

An examination of one of the most famous ships of all time, from a refreshingly different angle. Compiled from authentic period sources with nostal...

The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and ...

This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bial...

The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine.5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military install...

With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail.In 1775 thirteen isolated...

Explores the golden age of piracy and the violent reality behind the romantic legend.

'The art of command isto be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother...

The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of ...