Maritime History

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 ...

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...