Ships & Boats: General Interest

With its vast system of enclosed docks and one and a half thousand working wharves, London was once the world's greatest port. Ships arrived from f...

Coastal shipping, the twilight years

This is a book about life in a great maritime port of the 1960s. The photographs from the period show a busy, vibrant scene of commercial and indus...

The popularity of Thames paddle steamers as a means of transport began in the 1820s. They transported millions of holidaymakers along the river and...

It seems surprising that anyone could dream of having aircraft-carrying submarines, but from the early days of the First World War, the two have be...

The Irish Boats: Liverpool - Dublin is a history of the ferries and steam packets in the Irish Sea between Dublin and Liverpool since the 1830s.

The Grand Union Canal, one of the most famous waterways in the UK, links London to Birmingham. This guide explores the southern half of the canal, ...

The history of the Mersey lighthouses.

The Rochdale Canal, the first to open and most successful of the three trans-Pennine canals, was built two hundred years ago. Trade boomed on the c...

The Trent and Mersey Canal first came into use in 1777. A vital transport link for the industries of the midlands - indeed Josiah Wedgewood of the...

A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous...

Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to se...

The death of her father begins Dorothy Weil’s search for what causes the family’s “spinning of in all directions like the pieces of Chaos.” She emb...

What finally happened to the USS Arkansas, the Pennsylvania, the Saratoga? Naval historian Kermit (Kit) H. Bonner follows the stories of more than ...

Cruising French Waterways has rapidly become the leading descriptive guide to the astonishingly varied network of rivers and canals that penetrate ...

This expertly researched volume focuses on the history of destroyers, frigates and submarines. Country-by-country directories cover the key chronol...

The ships of Rosslare Harbour

A hilarious, true story of life-change, no going back, 40th birthdays and mid-life crisis. Follow the adventures of a husband and wife (plus two sm...

The spectacular French flagship France, the longest liner ever built, was the latest transatlantic supership when completed in the 1960s, and, acco...

This expertly researched volume is divided into two parts, the first half focussing on the history of destroyers and frigates, and the second on th...

On an icy cold day in February 1942, while undergoing conversion into a troopship, the former French Line flagship, Normandie, the most glamorous l...

Looks at canal schemes, canal companies, boatmen and their work, the struggle to keep the canal navigable, canal versus railway, and post-war and r...

History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks. Learn the haunting ...

Until the advent of the helicopter, the only way to visit St Kilda was by sea and two companies made the trip their own. John Macallum and Martin O...

One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this c...

The People of Wales have always looked to the sea for employment and trade. This book looks at different types of vessels used along the coast, for...

The Holland America Line was founded in 1873 and operated a fleet of passenger and cargo vessels from the Netherlands to the east and west coasts o...

In 1871 a bright new star appeared on the Liverpool shipping scene. Like a phoenix, the White Star Line grew out of the ashes of a bankrupt sailing...