Ships & Boats: General Interest

A continuation of Silvana Editoriale's Posters series, this volume presents the most significant examples of advertising graphics produced by Itali...

From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of t...

This is the illustrated story of the last water speed record attempt made by Donald Campbell in 1966/7. Featuring a diary beginning with his first ...

Ellerman Lines was formed by John Reeves Ellerman at the end of the nineteenth century. Ellerman left home at age 14, and at 24 he established J. E...

Birmingham is famously reputed to have more miles of canals than Venice. These canals contributed much to the citys growth, bringing coal and merch...

For centuries, Somerset depended on its harbours and rivers as its lifeblood. This is the story of the countys ports, pills and waterways the uniq...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. First published in 1898, Moonfleet is a rivetin...

A compact guide to 40 of the most iconic ships that have shaped warfare from the Ancient world to today. Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, nav...

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with S...

Motoring journalist Ashley Hollebone reveals for the first time the full story behind the hovercraft, a wonderful British invention that was create...

Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969, GT cars had tended to be expensive, temperamental, impractical and rarefied. Ford decided there was no reaso...

Constructed from the wood of over 6,000 trees HMS Victory was designed as a first-rate ship, packing a formidable punch with over 100 guns arranged...

Chief Engineer James Hamilton Tomb (1839-1929) devoted almost 12 years of his early life to wartime naval service - first in the Confederate States...

For as long as an American naval force has existed, black sailors have served it with bravery, distinction, and little or no recognition. They h...

On October 27, 1864, two marvels of the Civil War collided on the Roanoke River near Plymouth, North Carolina. The first was the formidable Confede...

In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad s...

The availability of inexpensive steel, so crucial to the United States' emergence as a leading industrial power in the late nineteenth century, ...

While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried hi...

The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through...