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BP Tankers: A Group Fleet History
This massive new reference work is the first comprehensive, authoritative and detailed fleet history of one of the worldÆs major international oil transportation companies. It is lavishly illustrate...
Price $79.95  
Commercial Ships on the Great Lakes: A P
For centuries, millions of tons of cargo have moved across the five Great Lakes.
Price $29.95 
Cunard's Legendary Queens of the Seas
There are few names more redolent of the great days of transatlantic sailing than the trio of Cunard liners the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Elizabeth 2. The first two, dating from t...
Price $29.95  
Great Lakes Shipping Ports & Cargoes
On average, over 163 million net tons of cargo are moved each year on the Great Lakes in the holds of a vast fleet of steel ships. From the western end of Lake Superior, to the shallow, emerald-color...
Price $34.95 
Inshore Craft of Britain: In the Days of
In the days of sail and oar, before the arrival of marine engines, any number of picturesquely-named craft, built to suit the local conditions, worked and fished out of small harbors and off beaches ...
Price $79.95  
Lifeboat Heroes: Fifteen Historic Lifebo
Since the early 19th century, the RNLI and its predecessors have been at the forefront of saving lives around Britains coasts. Putting to sea in all weathers, they are on duty 24 hours a day, 365 day...
Price $39.95 
Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas
The seas of northern Europe are probably the most heavily traveled in recent millennia, and there are literally thousands of wrecks lying in what is relatively shallow water. Among these a significan...
Price $34.95  
Ocean Ships: 2004 Edition
Of all the maritime titles produced by Ian Allan Publishing there is one--Ocean Ships--that has, over more than 40 years and numerous editions, been the most consistently successful and most regularl...
Price $34.95 
Passenger Liners from Germany 1816-1990
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, German passenger liners carried their cargoes throughout the European waterways and transported millions of emigrants to New York to find places of opportunity...
Price $35.00  
RMS Queen Mary: 101 Questions and Answer
Even before her launch RMS Queen Mary earned a special place in history. Job number 534, as the new Cunard liner was known, was Britains largest passenger ship by far....
Price $19.95 
Ships' Figureheads: The Decorative Bow F
This is the story of the carved wooden bow decorations that once, when sea traffic took place exclusively in wooden ships and under sail, adorned almost every stern. Over 100 illustrations, with over...
Price $24.95  
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on L
It was Thanksgiving 1905 and thirty-one ships were on Lake Superior, making the season's last, daring run--a run old salts had warned against, but to no avail against the shipping companies'...
Price $25.00 
The Captain Cook Encyclopedia
This new encyclopedia of the life of the great explorer Captain Cook is both a meticulous piece of scholarship and an attractive and accessible reference book for the general reader. Cook - the great...
Price $49.95  
The Complete Encyclopedia of Sailing Shi
Provides a detailed look into the history and technical development of the sailing vessels from a primitive beginning to the present day. Includes sail powered warships, merchant ships, and smaller c...
Price $12.99 
The Complete Encyclopedia of Steamships:
Covering some 125 merchant ship types, The Complete Encyclopedia of Steamships: Merchant Steamships 1798-2006 covers the primary features between...
Price $12.99  
The Maritime Paintings of Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor enjoys a level of popularity rare among living fine art painters. With an obvious love for his work, his paintings exude a strong sense of atmospheric nostalgia and a clear understandin...
Price $29.99 
The Tug Book
The Tug Book provides a detailed, up-to-date account of the design and operation of tugs all over the world. This authoritative survey gives a unique insight into these sophisticated vessels and the ...
Price $29.95  
The Voyages of the Great Britain: Life a
Built of iron, powered by steam and driven by the screw propeller, Brunels Great Britain was a radically new type of ship when she first sailed in 1845. Designed to carry passengers in unprecedented ...
Price $22.95 
Tug Book: 2nd Edition
This fully revised and updated second edition provides worldwide coverage of an increasing variety of towing vessels, the development of ever more complex propulsion systems and how tugs are operated...
Price $49.95  
Tugboats of the Great Lakes
From the early days of commercial navigation on the waterways of the Great Lakes, tugboats have been needed to guide the ships in and out of the newly constructed ports. As the means of transportatio...
Price $34.95 
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