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Ramsey Steamship Co. 1913- 2013: 1913-2013
$35.00 AUD
This book celebrates the centenary of the Ramsey Steamship Co. Ltd. It is a short history in words and pictures illustrating its highlights and some of its difficult times. By...
Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...
Full Astern!: An Illustrated History of New Zealand Shipwrecks
The sea may be our highway, but it can charge appallingly high tolls. Our ancestors rightly feared death and destruction at sea. In the last 200 years over 2000 ships...
The Ship That Would Not Die: USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas
Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II-and one of the last five left afloat by war's end-the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other...
Lake Boats: The Romance of the Great Inland Sea
$90.00 AUD
The romance of the great inland sea. This large-format, full-color pictorial pays tribute to the historic ships still at work on the Great Lakes, from ancient cement boats such as...
Gaff Rig H/Bk /Wooden Boats USA
$50.00 AUD
The book titled Gaff Rig H/Bk /Wooden Boats USA by the author John Leather. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Salvage - A Personal Odyssey
The story starts with an account at the age of 17 of the 'Dara' tragedy. It then covers the ten years Captain Ian Tew spent with the Selco Salvage in...
Arklow Shipping
The town of Arklow has a long and proud seafaring tradition. Many local families have been involved in maritime businesses and it was in 1966 that the Hall and Tyrrell...
Coasters Go to War: Military Sailings to the Continent, 1939-1945
$25.00 AUD
Details for the first time the key role played by Allied coasters in supporting military operations during the Second World War in Western Europe. Part 1 of the book tells...
Reefer Ships: The Ocean Princesses
$50.00 AUD
A celebration of a century and a quarter of refrigerated transport by sea, and some of the world's most beautiful ships -- the pure reefers and fruit carriers.
Elders & Fyffes: A Photographic History
$35.00 AUD
Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain's love affair with the humble banana is as...
Commercial Ships on the Great Lakes: A Photo Gallery
$50.00 AUD
For centuries, millions of tons of cargo have moved across the five Great Lakes. The lakes have always held on to the old-school ways of using single screw tugboats, steam...
The Great Northern Railway Ore Docks of Lake Superior
$80.00 AUD
The Great Northern Iron Ore Docks were the largest iron ore docks in the world. Now railfans and history buffs can see how these ore docks were constructed and operated...
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
$55.00 AUD
For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as...
Tall Ships: The Sixteen Square Riggers of Australia and New Zealand
This beautifully photographed book enables the reader to step back in time, to a world when tall ships were the means by which continents were discovered, trade routes were opened...
Sailing Ships from Plastic Kits
Models of sailing ships, with their towering masts and billowing sails, have always held a special fascination for model makers because they capture all the romance of the sea, shipboard...
A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects
The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disaster. Explore the history of the great ocean...
The Lone Ranger Story: From Salvage Tug to Super Yacht
This is the story of a deep sea tug, which later became the world's most accomplished expedition yacht. Launched during 1973 as Simson, she spent the next twenty years braving...
All Boats Are Sinking: Navigating Life, Love and Locks on a Narrowboat
"A vibrant, often hilarious emotional and physical journey. And let's be honest, who hasn't wanted to drift away on a narrowboat?" - Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants All...
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
A "compelling" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
$20.00 AUD
The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades,...
Sailing Alone: A History
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at...
Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck,
An extraordinary true tale of love, shipwreck and survival, beautifully told -- Maurice and Maralyn's escape from 1970s England and its oil crisis, strikes and inflation is also a story...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of...
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry
Shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. ***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** A Financial Times, The Times and The Economist Book of the...
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Combat Biplanes of World War II
The era of the combat biplane is usually thought to have been between 1914 and 1938. By the outbreak of World War II, most of the advanced air forces of...
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book'Jam-packed with information, this book will fascinate sailors, fishers, birders, naturalists, hikers, and anyone interested in the natural world.' - Forbes'This study of rivers, lakes,...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
Blackout
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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style
Author: Veronica Hinke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world's most beloved ocean liner. Learn why...
Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World
Author: Quentin Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Focusing on seven decisive naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in the fifth century BC to...
EMPIRE OF THE SEAS
$20.00 AUD
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The Search for the Sydney
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All at Sea on Land: And First Lady Ten Years on
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