Maritime History

The remains of the world''s most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years af...

À partir dune incroyable collection de photos découverte dans la base sous-marine des U-Boote de Brest à la fin de la guerre, et restée cachée jusq...

A companion to his successful first book, James Pottingers new volume Scottish Fishing Boats: A New Look looks farther afield, and covers the fishi...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, competition between the North Atlantic shipping lines was fierce. While Britain responded to the commerc...

'A paradise - tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor.' The contemporary view of Henry VIII's younger sister, Princess Mary Rose, as...

The author has acquired a vast wealth of knowledge, data and experience in boat angling, sport and wreck diving over a period of almost 50 years an...

This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the end of the World War II. The author d...

Over four years, four ships were lost under different circumstances and 4,000 lives with them but one thing linked them all: it was John Charles B...

The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanics old...

When Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only v...

A fourteen-year- old merchant navy apprentice called John Tate, sent eleven letters back to his mother in Gateshead over a six-year period in the 1...

There are virtually no biographies of naval enlisted personnel, making Dennis L. Noble's book wholly unique. Richard McKenna was an enlisted sailor...

Many historic houses decorating Skip Finley's native Martha's Vineyard were originally built by whaling captains. Whether in his village of Oak Blu...

Taking a highly original thematic approach to the study of Horatio Lord Nelson Joel Hayward analyzes the admiral's unique war-fighting style doctri...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present. ...

Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, competition between the North Atlantic shipping lines was fierce. While Britain responded to the commerc...

There is not a statue of Zachariah Charles Pearson (1821-1891), twice Mayor of Hull, on the land he gifted to the City for its first public park. W...

Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War ...

The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Brunel, was the first ocean-going vessel to be screw-driven and built entirely of iron. When she was lau...

In 1873 a company was formed to construct the first railway across Canada. It soon branched out into shipping, chartering ships from the Cunard Lin...

Coward. Brute. Yellow-livered.For over 100 years, J. Bruce Ismay has been the scapegoat of the Titanic disaster. He is the villain of every film an...

2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor.Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumble...

Around the British Isles many former working sailing craft survive from the once large fleets of distinctive local types, such as the Humber keel, ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY and THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY'A thrilling account' The Times'A...

FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely. New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-...

Between the last battle fought entirely under oars in 1571 and the first fought entirely under steam in 1866, naval warfare in the Middle Seas a...

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out o...

In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain...

Southern Lights recounts the story of how New Zealand lighthouses were established through the transfer of technology from Scotland to New Zealand ...

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which inspire with their a...