Maritime History

An interesting and insightful book exploring the author's efforts to follow in his father's footsteps and succeed in the tumultuous fishing industr...

Limited edition leather-bound slip-case including Volume One Design and Construction and Volume Two Interior Design and Fitting Out. RMS Titanic, t...

This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operat...

This is the first biography of Captain Robert Ryder V.C., Royal Navy (1908-1986), one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder l...

In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorde...

Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media...

In 2009, the United States was hit broadside by Somali pirates who attempted to capture the U.S. flag ship Maersk Alabama. Suddenly, the pirates we...

While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illu...

This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets a...

Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the authorThis acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea ...

The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces ea...

Admiral Lord Nelsons diamond Chelengk is one of the most famous and iconic jewels in British history. Presented to Nelson by the Sultan Selim III o...

The age of steam was the age of Britains global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world see...

One of the greatest treasures in the archives of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum is the Hansen Collection, consisting of over 4500 negativ...

Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic childrens sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, and many other books in the same seri...

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across Nor...

In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon ...

During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along ...

Lo Jung-pang, a renowned professor at the University of California, Davis, completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 112...

Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early ...

The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and applicati...

Mike Peyton lied about his age to enlist, worried that the war would be over before he had a chance to join in. After training, he initially fought...

'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it. I can remember the colours, the sounds, e...

Entering service in 1938, the Nieuw Amsterdam was the Holland America Line flagship until the construction of the Rotterdam in the late 1950s. Her ...

The 1954 film On the Waterfront brought to life the New York docks of the 1950s, when it was often said that a ship, usually a freighter, arrived o...

Perched on an isolated rock in the Scottish Hebrides, this is a fascinating and comprehensive account of Skerryvore, 'the most graceful lighthouse ...

From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, ...

Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. Following ...

Focusing on the second half of the eighteenth century, a period when Britain was almost continuously at war, this book looks at different social gr...

The story of Britains colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few...

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order ...

The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal N...

This book recounts the efforts over many years to dive wrecks that contained treasure in one form or another. The often prolonged and sometimes dan...

The rich history of the P&O Line began in the 1830s when steam power was still in its infancy, and this, coupled with longer voyages, meant tha...

Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity''s battle with the forces of n...

Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Wa...

Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. N...

James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...

On Friday 15 April 1927, the Derry Standard began to publish local photographs in the pages of its newspaper, with the hope `to present in the Derr...

Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the...

Racundras First Cruise is Arthur Ransomes account of Racundras maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him f...

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the...

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, televi...

The growth of the ocean liner was driven not only by political and social changes, and developments in marine technology and design but also by inc...