Ships and boats: general interest Books
Amberley Publishing River Thames Dockland Heritage London Bridge to
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing River Thames Dockland Heritage Greenwich to
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated celebration of the dockland heritage of the Thames from Greenwich to Tilbury and Gravesend.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Stena Line
Book SynopsisWith many rare and previously unpublished images this book celebrates the famous ferry operator Stena Line.Trade Review'The book is nicely presented and will be of interest to many members.' -- Nautilus Telegraph, September/October 2023
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Irish Sea Ports on the River Mersey and River Dee
Book SynopsisRare and previously unpublished images throughout, this book tells the fascinating history of these hubs of business and activity.
£15.19
Amberley Publishing Tugs and Towing Around Britain
Book SynopsisA fascinating selection of images documenting tug boats around Britain. It is illustrated by previously unpublished photographs from the authorâs collection.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing SS Great Britain
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources.
£11.69
Amberley Publishing Piers of England and Wales
Book SynopsisA photographic journey exploring the seaside piers of England and Wales, capturing the variety of life and structures to be found around our coast
£17.99
Amberley Publishing Lightships
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated history of lightships, written by an authority on the subject. Rare images and detailed information contained within this book.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Canal Boat Lives
Book SynopsisA fascinating collection of images revealing the lives of those who have chosen to escape land-dwelling to live on Britainâs historic waterways.Trade Review'This book is a must for anyone interested in boating life.' -- CanalsOnline Magazine, December 2023'This has to be the coffee-table canal book of the year.' -- Waterways World, February 2024'Through photographs and their own words, this fascinating window into a different way of life will appeal to all those who would like to know more about Britain's canal-side inhabitants.' -- Sea Breezes Magazine, January 2024
£17.99
Amberley Publishing One Crew The RNLIs Official 200Year History
Book SynopsisThis book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has responded over 200 years.Trade Review‘This book is a must for anyone who wishes to delve into the RNLI’s fascinating history and better appreciate the key players and events that have formed one of the UK and Ireland’s most treasured institutions. It has been a personal honour to lead the charity into its 200th anniversary; not least because of its volunteer ethos and humanitarian aims. In these pages readers will discover how this lifesaving mission has been the steel thread that has kept the RNLI and its people ready for every challenge since 1824. Now those challenges and achievements have been documented in a superbly told story: the true 200-year tale of how a lifesaving vision has grown into such a special organisation, all thanks to One Crew.’ -- Mark Dowie, RNLI Chief Executive 2019-2024'In One Crew, Helen Doe, a maritime historian, writes the official history with verve and precision.' -- The Spectator, February 2024
£19.54
Amberley Publishing Glasgow Harbour
Book SynopsisA pictorial history of Glasgow Harbour â the greatest port in Scotland and one of the largest in Britain â from its beginnings to the present day.
£17.99
Amberley Publishing Mersey Shipping Since 2000
Book SynopsisThis book describes how the local changes to shipping since 2000 that have affected the River Mersey.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Vanishing Age of Sail
Book SynopsisSimon Francis Brown explores the uniquely illustrated journals of nineteenth-century shipbuilder Kelsick Wood from Maryport, Cumbria.
£15.29
Amberley Publishing The Titanic Fleet
Book SynopsisThe fascinating stories of each of the ships involved in the Titanic disaster. Will appeal to all those with an interest in the Titanic as well as those interested in maritime history.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing One Crew The RNLIs Official 200Year History
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - This book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has responded over 200 years.
£10.44
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Early Ships and Seafaring
Book SynopsisAimed at anyone with an interest in the building and uses of ancient and medieval boats.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Early Ships and Seafaring
Book SynopsisIn this book, Professor McGrail''s study of European water transport is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, South-east Asia, China, Australia, Oceania and the Americas. Each chapter presents a picture of ancient boatbuilding and seafaring that is as accurate and as comprehensive as it is now possible to achieve. The early rafts and boats of those regions were, as in Europe, hand-built from natural materials and were propelled and steered by human muscle or wind power. This volume ranges in time from the Prehistoric period to today when a number of such traditional craft continue to be built.In Egypt, not only have accounts, models and illustrations of ancient rafts and boats survived, but also a number of early vessels have been excavated some dated as early as the 3rd Millennium BC. In regions such as the Americas, on the other hand, where few ancient craft have been excavated, we are able to draw on accounts and illustrations compiled, from the 16th century AD onwards, by European seam
£21.86
Pen & Sword Books Ltd ShipCraft 32 British Aircraft Carriers
Book SynopsisThe ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.The subject of this volume is the evolution of the Royal Navy's fleet carriers as exemplified by those designed from the keel up for the rol
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection
Book SynopsisThe first full history of the Royal Navy's longest-running commitment. Will be of particular interest to former personnel, as well as to naval historians.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies
Book SynopsisIt is believed that this is the first comprehensive study to be written on the history of ship launches and their ceremonies.
£31.28
Pen & Sword Books Ltd RMS Queen Mary
Book SynopsisA new edition of the classic work, long out of print and unavailable. Completely revised and expanded, with additional illustrations. The ship's story brought up to date, including the latest plans for her future.
£32.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Steam Yachts at War
Book SynopsisThis is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and European royalty, American magnates, the landed aristocracy and the nouveau riche, but when wars came, in 1898 and 1914, they were quickly transformed into warships, and many of their crews became warriors rather than servants. The US Navy was the first to recognise the potential of these elegant vessels. In the Spanish-American war of 1898, the USN short of ships to operate a blockade of Spanish-owned Cuba purchased twenty-eight of them and turned them into patrol craft and bombardment ships. In Britain in 1914 steam yachts became a stop gap navy, filling in for neglected investment in small craft. The USN followed suit in 1917. Their wonderful interiors were ripped out, antiquated guns and sometimes depth charges fitted, and their crews signed into the naval reserves. Around the coasts
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Petrol Navy
Book SynopsisThe first complete account to be written of the operations of naval motor boats in WWI. Copiously illustrated throughout with photos and line drawings. A compelling and exciting narrative.
£32.08
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Craft of the Inland Waterways
Book SynopsisThe book traces the history of the various craft that have been used for transport on Britain's rivers and canals from the earliest times to the present day.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough
Book SynopsisNorman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeller of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous models have come to be regarded as masterpieces of draughtsmanship, workmanship and realism; more than technically accomplished ship models, they are truly works of art.This new book is both a tribute to his lonely genius and a practical treatise for model shipwrights. Ough lived most of his adult life far from the sea in a flat high above the Charing Cross Road in London, where his frugal existence and total absorption in his work led to hospitalisation on at least two occasions; he was an eccentric in the truest sense but he also became one of the most sought-after masters of his craft. Earl Mountbatten had him model the ships he had served on; his model of HMS Queen Elizabeth was presented to Earl Beatty; film production companies commissioned models for effects in several films. Incorporating many of his original articles from Model Maker Magazin
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Victory ShipCraft 29
Book SynopsisThe ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships.
£15.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Royal Yachts Under Sail
Book SynopsisThe first book to deal in detail with the development and uses of royal yachts.
£40.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd British Battleships 1889 1904
Book SynopsisA new softcover edition of a classic work at a very pleasing price. Superb photographs from the author's exhaustive collection. Simply the best reference book available on the most popular subject in naval history -destined for bestseller status.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd British Cruisers
Book SynopsisAuthoritative, comprehensive and highly original. Full technical details, with much new information and insight; many plans and photographs. A partner to Friedmans hugely successful books on British destroyers.
£21.25
Read Books In the Days of the Tall Ships
£35.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Replacing Your Boats Electrical System
Book SynopsisThe third in a series of highly practical, hands on, step-by-step photographic manuals, Replacing Your Boat''s Electrical System fills a gap in the market for the DIY boat builder and repairer. It is a subject covered only in piecemeal fashion by the yachting press, which, like general boat repair manuals, can''t go into the level of detail Mike Westin does in this superlative volume.This is a visual, hand-holding guide, dwelling on the details as it explains each procedure rather than focusing on the theory (which is relegated to an appendix, for those who wish to go further).Trade Reviewa Do it Yourself guide to stripping out and upgrading your boat's electrics, by an author who's actually done it himself. * Canal Boat *Logical, clear and aided by good illustrations * Cruising Magazine *
£21.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Maidens Trip
Book Synopsis______________Wonderfully written, humorous and humane, and beautifully evocative of the time'' - Independent Summer ReadsSmith''s writing exudes wisdom and humour, and her descriptions ... are vividly drawn'' - Times Literary SupplementHope and energy radiate from every sentence of this lovely volume as it emerges into the light after its long sojourn in the cemetery of forgotten books'' - Daily Mail______________A classic and unforgettable tale of three girls who abandon their middle-class comforts for an adventure of a lifetime during the Second World WarIn 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry Trade Review'It must have been an astonishing imposition for the canal people when war brought them dainty young girls to help them mind their business, clean young eager creatures with voices so pitched as to be almost impossible to understand." So begins this joyous and rare memoir of a time when a group of girls ‘in the deep sea of adolescence' work the barges in England during World War Two. One envies Emma Smith's precise and sly humour in her portrait of life on the canals, the details on the opening of a lock, and most of all the catching of that era and that adventure that now will live forever' * Michael Ondaatje *‘It's wonderfully written, humorous and humane, and beautifully evocative of the time' * Independent Summer Reads *‘Hope and energy radiate from every sentence of this lovely volume as it emerges into the light after its long sojourn in the cemetery of forgotten books' * Daily Mail *‘Smith's writing exudes wisdom and humour, and her descriptions of the main activities involved [...] and of the accidents and frustrations, as well as the moments of teenage revelation, exhilaration and joy - are vividly drawn' * Times Literary Supplement *
£11.69
Press Holdings International, Inc. Nautical Astronomy
£28.02
University Press of the Pacific Marine Auxiliary Machinery and Systems
£49.40
University Press of the Pacific Statics and Dynamics of the Ship Theory of Buoyancy Stability and Launching
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Waterfront Manhattan
Book SynopsisThe waterfront was the key to New York City's growth and prosperity. For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land. In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entireTrade ReviewWell researched, engagingly told, and rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail, Waterfront Manhattan represents a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringIn Waterfront Manhattan, Schlichting has woven an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history.—Erin Becker, Long Island Maritime Museum, Global Maritime HistoryThis is an important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City's harbor, encompassing all five of the city's boroughs and also New Jersey's shoreline.—Evelyn Gonzalez, William Paterson University, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface1. Growth, Decline, and Rebirth2. Water-Lots and the Extension of the Manhattan Shoreline3. The Ascendency of the Port of New York4. New York's Waterway Empires5. The Social Construction of the Waterfront6. The Port Prospers, the Railroads Arrive, and Congestion Ensues7. The Public and Control of the Waterfront8. Crime, Corruption, and the Death of the Manhattan Waterfront9. Rebirth of the WaterfrontNotesIndex
£18.45
Capstone Press All about Boats Wonder Readers Fluent Level
Book Synopsis
£6.64
Rowman & Littlefield Final Voyage
Book SynopsisFinal Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters tells the stories of the deadliest and most often forgotten maritime tragedies in the history of seafaring.Table of ContentsIntroduction In the Hands of God Catastrophe at sea during the Age of Sail America's Titanic Triumph and tragedy aboard the Sultana The Halifax Explosion The loss of a ship, the devastation of a city War at Sea From the Spanish Armada to the Bismarck Britain's Darkest Hour The loss of the Lancastria and why Churchill covered it up The Age of Total Loss Tragedy without triumph during the Second World War Ten Thousand Dead The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff Worse than Titanic Maritime disasters since the Second World War
£14.24
Amberley Publishing Artemis
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated and detailed account of this much-loved vessel.
£17.99
Amberley Publishing Three Greenwich Built Ships
Book SynopsisThe Thames was once Britain's shipbuilding heart, with its banks teeming with men toiling on wooden-hulled vessels. David Ramzan looks at three Greenwich-built ships, their design and their impact on the world.
£17.99
Amberley Publishing Titanic Hero
Book SynopsisThe story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors.Table of Contents1. Goodbye to the Sea 2. Adventures in Sail 3. Into Steam 4. Command 5. The Loss of The Titanic 6* War - Why We Failed in Gallipoli 7. Sidelights on 'The Show' 8. HMHS Mauretania 9. HMS Tuber Rose 10. The Social Whirl 11. More Atlantic Nights 12. The Americans 13. 'The Liner She's a Lady' 14. Then and Now 15. A Word for the Men 16. 'Go to Sea, My Lads' 17. What of the Future? List of Illustrations
£18.04
Amberley Publishing Titanic 9 Hours to Hell
Book SynopsisA major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived.Trade Review'Quite the best and most level-headed telling of the whole story I have ever read' THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'So enthralling that you can almost hear the ghosts of the drowned, pressing to share their memories of that night of terror' THE DAILY MAILTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Arrival: 18 April 1912, New York & Washington 2. Three Ships: Titanic, Carpathia & Californian 3. The Players: Captains & Crews 4. An Ominous Beginning: 10 April 1912, Southampton 5. Outward Bound: 10 - 13 April 1912, Cherbourg, Queenstown & the North Atlantic 6. Into the Ice Zone: 14 April 1912, North Atlantic 7. Collision: 23.40, 14 April 1912, North Atlantic 49 Degrees 57 Minutes West, 41 Degrees 44 Minutes North 8. A Troubled Silence: 23.41 - 24.00, 14 April 1912 9. Uncovering the Boats: 00.01 - 00.30, 15 April 1912 10. Lower Away: 00.31 - 01.00, 15 April 1912 11. The Looming Crisis: 01.01 - 01.30, 15 April 1912 12. Nowhere to Go: 01.31 - 02.00, 15 April 1912 13. Waiting for Oblivion: 02.01 - 02.17, 15 April 1912 14. Descent into Hell: 02.18 - 02.20, 15 April 1912 15. The Survival Lottery: 02.21 - 04.00, 15 April 1912 16. Deliverance: 04.01 - 08.30, 15 April 1912 17. The World Waits: 15 - 18 April 1912, USA, Great Britain & Elsewhere 18. Honouring The Dead: April - May 1912, North Atlantic & its Periphery 19. Searching for the Truth: April - May 1912, New York & Washington 20. The British Perspective: May - June 1912, London 21. Post Mortem: The World After the Titanic Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£11.69
Amberley Publishing Why the Titanic Sank
Book SynopsisAlthough the answer appears obvious, there is far more to the sinking of the Titanic than is popularly understood.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Nature Sets its Trap 2 The Ice Warnings 3 Peering into the Darkness 4 All a Question of Speed 5 Construction and Design 6 The Lifeboat Problem 7 The Other Ships 8 The Lifeboats in the Water 9 The Lessons of the Titanic Select Bibliography List of illustrations Index
£13.49
Amberley Publishing Arthur Ransome on the Broads
Book SynopsisThe inside story of the two Swallows and Amazons books set on the Norfolk Broads.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Solway Firth to Hartland Point The Fishing
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the fishing industry from the Solway Firth to Hartland Point has changed and developed over the last century
£11.24
Amberley Publishing Chatham Naval Dockyard Barracks Through Time
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks have changed and developed over the last century.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing The Ships of Scapa Flow
Book SynopsisA new look at the naval base at Scapa Flow, Orkney, and the ships that have used it and still remain today.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Book SynopsisFounded in 1838, and operating to South America from Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific.
£17.99
