Maritime History

In 1914 Ireland was a naval backwater with only one base of any size in Co Cork. However, by the end of World War I, there were 18 naval bases oper...

This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham ...

When Arthur Anderson invited William Makepeace Thackeray to take a cruise in 1844, and to write about it, British shipping lines offered passage on...

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracys Golden Age - spanni...

Blitzkrieg, or Lightning War, was a new concept that Germany unleashed on a series of countries beginning with Poland on 1 September 1939, and cont...

A dark secret lurked aboard HMASAustralia, the flagship ofthe Royal Australian Navy. In 1942, with a Japanese invasion looming, those aboard the sh...

Examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliam...

Many people are familiar with the term dazzle design, but what of its origins and objectives as a defensive practice at sea? And was it the only ap...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Ur...

A unique guide to this famous warship, collating authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique gu...

This timely follow-up to Conways highly successful Marine Art of Geoff Hunt (2004) presents the considerable artistic output of Britains leading ma...

When human's learned, in 1903, they could cruise over land in a heaver than air flying machine, they never dreamed of using an advanced model of th...

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pac...

A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island. Captain C...

This is the fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successive incarnations. Autho...

The true story of loss of His Majesty's Submarine Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her sinking. On 1st...

During the Second World War, the Arctic saw an unusually high intensity of action, adventure, excitement and tragedy, and Swastikas in the Arctic: ...

A swashbuckling narrative of treachery and obsession involving pirates, fur seals, competing governments, and near war.In Roar of the Sea, [Deb Van...

Packed with fascinating facts and using original source material about the ship, this is a perfect introduction to the Cutty Sark. Constructed on ...

Not many ships cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled b...

Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why t...

Figureheads developed from an ancient tradition of decorating vessels with painted eyes, carved figures and animal heads. Vikings in Northern Europ...

The advent of the jet airliner all but killed the liner on the Atlantic route but the ships to Australia survived into the 1970s, not just on the l...

�The ship was almost instantly in flames � Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall o...

The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve peop...

What do characters as diverse as Alfred the Great, the architect Sir Christopher Wren, diarist Samuel Pepys and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Ho...

England has a long and involved relationship with the sea. It has provided a final line of defence against invasion, the route over which the count...

Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries. Here acclaimed historian Sam Willis traces the astonishing tales of ships that have met wit...

The SS Great Britain Story is a concise account of one of the most famous steamships ever built. The great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brun...

The early 1930s could not have been worse for shipping. With the coming of the Depression, the North Atlantic had grown very short of its most prec...

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations un...

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue. Go ri...

This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newf...

This beautifully illustrated history portrays two of the French fleets most glamorous liners in their post-war heyday. Île de France was a ship wit...

The lifeboats of Valentia have been in service since 1946, when the volunteer crew were summoned to action by the firing of maroon flares. Dick Rob...

Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of fe...

A history of maritime warfare off the Jersey coast from the perspectives of both Patriot and Loyalist privateers. 538 Pennsylvania and New Jer...

Britain has a history of producing and using a wonderful array of fishing boats, some of which still sail under private ownership. These older vess...