Ships & Boats: General Interest

The inaugural title in our exclusive new series of books about traditional boats and traditional seamanship. Wooden boats didn't disappear with th...

RMS Lusitania sank in May 1915 as the result of a torpedo from the U-20. 1,198 people died that day as she sank in less than twenty minutes off the...

The West Cumbrian ports of Whitehaven, Harrington Workington and Maryport have a surprisingly rich and important maritime history, dating back to t...

The Llangollen Canal is the now the busiest and most popular pleasure cruising waterway in the British Waterways' network. Running for forty-six m...

Drawn from the best of Adrian Morgan's entertaining columns musing on the world of traditional boats and the joys of building, sailing and working ...

Since its inception in 1992, The Mariner’s Book of Days has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see prin...

From about 1840 to the 1960s, steam ruled the waves. Most larger vessels were steam-powered but in the past fifty years, steam has given way to die...

The history of Chatham Dockyard has been an eventful one. It owes its inception to King Henry VIII who, in 1547, selected the River Medway at Gilli...

Great American Shipwreck Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship's encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monso...

In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley,...

This work brings to life the last days of carrying cargo under sail, written in Bob Roberts' lively and evocative style.

Here's a book to hurl at the culinary barbarian on your crew, though it's a lot more than a simple defense against digestion...John Payne, who writ...

An extraordinary collection of interviews with lighthouse keepers and their families, in their own words – a record of a vanished profession and a ...

A history of the Royal Yacht Britannia

The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska’s worst maritime disaster — until it nearly happened again. In 1918, the C...

The untold history of the maritime branches of two giants of early-twentieth-century Canadian railroads.The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Ca...

One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun. The Royal Mail Ship Seg...

The story of steamboating in the Canadian West comes to life in the voices of those aboard the vessels of the waterways of the Prairies.Their capta...

The Empress of Ireland’s last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence Rive...

Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteen...

A guide to the language and lore of 21st century seafarers. Full of practical advice, this is a dictionary with a difference: many words are illust...

Have you ever wondered, when looking out to sea, about the anonymous gray forms passing by. What kind of ship is it? Where is it going? What does i...

Considered to be the saltiest shore in England, the Blackwater provides the background for John Leather's story of Essex seafaring. It is an accura...

It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or are su...