Maritime History

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...