Ships & Boats: General Interest

Details the 400 vessels that came into a bay on the Suffolk coast and never left it: sunk or stranded for the most part by gales, greed or gunshot;...

No one knows when the first sail was raised to propel a boat on the River Mersey, but much speculation abounds. Theoretically, sailing ships could ...

A unique volume on a neglected area of military history. At the revolution, the Tsar’s navy, such as it was, was obsolete and scattered, much of it...

Ballycotton lifeboat station is one of the most famous in Ireland, and one of the best known of any in the whole lifeboat service. First establishe...

In the post-1945 era, the aircraft carrier has remained a valued weapon despite the development of nuclear weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, ...

The river Arun rises near Horsham and flows 37 miles to the English Channel at Littlehampton. For many centuries the waterways assumed an important...

This book completes Mike Taylor's three-volume coverage of craft on the Humber's inland waterways. Volume one dealt with tugs and towing barges and...

Within ten years of man's first flight, the armies and navies of the world had seen the potential of the flying machine. This book looks at the shi...

Compiles interviews with boat people and the people who worked the inland waterways during the final decades of commercial canal carrying. This boo...

The Kennet and Avon comprises three waterways, the Kennet Navigation from Newbury to Reading, the Avon Navigation from Bristol to Bath, and man-mad...

Tom McCluskie followed his father and was apprenticed into Harland & Wolff's shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast. Harland and Wolff was a hard ...

Roger Cartwright and Clive Harvey update their definitive history of the British cruise ship, looking at the history of the British cruise ship fro...

Winding its way from Braunston to Salford, under Spaghetti Junction, this illustrated guide covers the northern part of the Grand Union Canal, acco...

Since its founding as an engine manufacturer in the 1820s, Cammell Laird has had connections with the British and foreign navies. The Birkenhead sh...

A history of the water crossings of Gloucestershire from the Aust-Beachley ferry to the smaller river ferries such as at Tewkesbury. It tells the s...

William H. Miller tells the story in words and pictures of the most famous cruise ship to sail from the UK. Canberra was the last ocean liner to be...

From its inception, P&A Campbell dominated steamer travel on the Bristol Channel, both for tourism and trade between Bristol and South Wales. T...

In 1947, one of the last paddle steamers built in the UK entered service on the Clyde. She was the PS Waverley, now famous as the world's last sea-...

Fifty years ago—on April 26, 1956—the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steam...

Aquitania entered service two months before the start of World War One and was scrapped six years after World War Two ended. For two wars she spent...

The lifeboat station at Wells-next-the-Sea is an integral part of the town and locality. The lifeboat crew, all volunteers with the exception of th...

In the early 1950s it seemed as if Greek shipping companies were springing up everywhere. For a country almost unknown as a passenger ship-owning s...

The second in the series about the Irish Sea Ferries from Liverpool looks at the ships that sailed to Cork and to Waterford from the 1820s until th...

In this evocative story of his unusual upbringing on the May Flower, Nick Ardley gives us a colourful account of life on the water. He tells tales ...

From Orkney and Shetland to the north east coast, and from Fife to Berwick, fishing boats have been an important part of the maritime heritage of S...

This informative volume looks at broad and narrow, the canal network, different users, types of boats and barges, decorations, things you should kn...

The third volume in Robert Forsythe’s series looking at Britain’s railway shipping services through their publicity. The Eastern Region was a part ...

Features the tugs and towing barges that have moved cargoes on the Humber's inland waterways from early in the twentieth century to contemporary ti...

Coal mining and iron working prospered in the West Midlands in the nineteenth century, after the development of local industry, in particular metal...

The Basingstoke Canal was built towards the end of the 'great canal mania' in the eighteenth century. It was intended to provide a transport route ...

In 1815, a small paddle-wheeled steamship left the River Clyde and made the long and hazardous journey down the coast of Britain to the Thames. In ...

From the early wooden-walled steamships to coastal destroyers, the fleets of coastal vessels grew to become a major part of the naval armoury. It w...

The Nottingham Canal ran from Trent Bridge to join the Cromford and Erewash canals at Langley Mill. The canal itself was abandoned in the 1930s and...

Wending its way from Fenny Compton to Oxford, the southern part of the Oxford Canal passes through some of England's prettiest landscapes and pictu...

A brief illustrated history of the great Atlantic liners from Lusitania and Titanic to Queen Mary 2. Since the end of the nineteenth century there...

From "abaft" to "Zulu," including terms as new as "bowrider" and as old as "starboard," here is the language of pleasure boating—clearly defined te...