Maritime History

This title features the latest historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the E...

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish...

A smuggler ... honest thief or wretch? Opinion was divided some 200 years ago when smuggling was in its heyday and known as that infamous traffick....

Pirates have long captured peoples imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye-patches and buried treasure. But what was life r...

We are delighted to announce the publication, in partnership with The RNLI, of a special, Limited Edition of The Lifeboat: Courage on our Coasts. T...

Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands ...

Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteent...

The Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) was one of the highest decorations given for extreme acts of valour to all ranks of the German armed forces during...

The Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation, relegated in news columns by Eng...

British fishermen, crusaders, Explorers, smugglers, traders, Inventors, convicts, settlers in the hold. Pirates, shipwrights, whalers, And our nav...

Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavo...

Discover over 5000 years of seafaring history, packed with first-hand accounts of triumphs and disasters A fascinating journey through more than 5...

Erik Petkovic's Lake Erie Technical Wreck Diving Guide is packed with tales of sailing ships and steamers that foundered, succumbed to storms, coll...