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Diesels Afloat: The Essential Guide to Diesel Boat Engines
Diesel engines are installed in just about every yacht and in most large motorboats and, while professional help is often at hand, sometimes it is not. Indeed, engine failure is...
The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models
A technical history of the ship from 1600 to 1850 through models, with informative illustrations and text, by the author of Warships of the Napoleonic Era. The National Maritime Museum...
X3 to X54: The History of the British Midget Submarine
Revealing the Midget Class Submarines from X-Class to Stickleback. The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a...
Strike Able-Peter: Stranding and Salvage of the USS "Misouri"
In January 1950 the Missouri ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay and for the next two weeks the nation looked on as an embarrassed Navy tried to refloat her. This...
HMCS "Swansea": The Life and Times of a Frigate
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HMCS Swansea is the story of a ship, just one of Canada's several hundred warships. It is also the story of the men who served in her, and of other...
Carrier Battle Group
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In addition to prowling the high seas with an awesome air arsenal, each of the U.S. Navy's $5 billion aircraft carriers is accompanied by an armada of vessels that comprise...
Explosion Aboard the Iowa
Written by the head of the technical investigating team, this book examines the key factors in the 1989 explosion that killed 47 crewmen.
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 2005-2006:
Internationally acknowledged as the best one-volume reference to the world's naval and paranaval forces, this popular Naval Institute guide is both comprehensive and affordable. Updated biennially since 1976, it has...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely [...]
When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant...
Ship Decoration 1630-1780
This book is a detailed comparative study of the decorative work - figurehead, topside ornamentation and stern gallery design - carried by the ships of the major maritime states of...