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Pacific Steam Navigation Company: Fleet List & History by Ian Collard
RRP: £19.99£13.73Founded in 1838 in Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific and primarily traded from the UK to the Pacific coasts of South America. Its most famous ships included the Reina del Pacifico and the... -
Ferries of Gloucestershire by Joan Tucker 9780752442389
RRP: £17.99£13.33A history of the water crossings of Gloucestershire from the Aust-Beachley ferry to the smaller river ferries such as at Tewkesbury. It tells the story of the county's ferries through the past 1,000 years, from a time before bridges onwards. Joan Tucker... -
RMS Mauretania: Classic Liners by Andrew Britton 9780752479507
RRP: £19.99£14.69This long-awaited book tells the remarkable story of the second Mauretania (1938-65): her construction, her naming, her maiden voyage and her distinguished Second World War service, told through extracts from a rare diary of a soldier. Also recalled are... -
British Motor Fishing Vessels by John McWilliams
RRP: £16.99£12.28British traditional working boats are famous - Morecambe Bay prawners, Manx luggers, Scots fifies and zulus, Lowestoft and Yarmouth drifters, Yorkshire cobles, Colchester smacks, Hastings beach boats, Brixham trawlers, and many others. Over a... -
Sealink British Ferries by Ian Collard
RRP: £15.99£10.85Sealink's antecedents go back to the packet boats of the days before steam. The invention of the steam engine greatly assisted the development of the railways and led to the growth of the packet boats. The private railway companies recognised the need... -
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture by F. H. af Chapman 9780486451558
RRP: £18.49£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486451558Author Fredrik ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Steamers and Ferries of the Northern Isles by Alistair Deayton
RRP: £14.99£9.70Services from mainland Scotland to Orkney and Shetland were, from the dawn of steam navigation right up until 2002, in the hands of the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Company, known as the North Company, whose predecessors dated back to... -
Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast by Robert MacKinnon
RRP: £19.01£14.54For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its... -
Sailing Past the Point by Bernard McCall 9781902953847
RRP: £16.00£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902953847Author Bernard McCallFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Bernard McCallPublisher Bernard McCall -
Ship Decoration 1630-1780 by Andrew Peters 9781848321762
RRP: £30.00£21.95This 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 Europe in the zenith of the sailing era. It covers both warships and... -
Life and Death on Little Ross: The Story of an Island, a Lighthouse and its Keepers by David R. Collin 9781849953597
RRP: £18.99£15.65Little Ross is an attractive and unspoiled island and its lighthouse, beautifully designed by the famous Stevenson family, is officially a 'lesser' light, far away from busy sea lanes, at the summit of this remote island.The island was unknown to most... -
Tilbury Landing Stage Through Time by Geoff Lunn
RRP: £14.99£9.70Located on the north bank of the River Thames opposite Gravesend, with which there has been a ferry link for centuries, Tilbury Landing Stage is a fine vantage point for viewing shipping passing to and from upriver berths. Ever since it opened in 1930... -
Dutch Navies of the 80 Years' War 1568-1648 by Bouko de Groot
RRP: £10.99£7.77The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648. In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in... -
Hovercraft - The Story of a Very British Invention by Arthur Ord-Hume 9781840337389
RRP: £21.95£19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337389Author Arthur Ord-HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Liverpool Sailing Ships by Michael Stammers 9780752442433
RRP: £14.99£11.28No one knows when the first sail was raised to propel a boat on the River Mersey, but much speculation abounds. Theoretically, sailing ships could have used this stretch of water in as far back as pre-Roman times, but the oldest proven vessel was that of... -
Shipyard at War by Ian Johnston 9781848322165
RRP: £30.00£21.95Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels - major warships down to destroyers and submarines,... -
Great Passenger Ships that Never Were: Damned By Destiny Revisited by David L. Williams
RRP: £40.00£30.24Great passenger ships that never were is a completely revised and updated version of Damned by Destiny (Teredo Books, 1982), a comprehensive account of the large passenger ships that, for one reason or another, never entered commercial service. Some... -
Cargo Liners and Tramps by Mark Lee Inman
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the post-war era, there was still a demand for ocean-going travel, not just on the glamorous large liners and mail ships, but also on much smaller ships. Many of these could be just as well appointed and comfortable and doubtless provided an intimacy... -
The Caledonian Canal by A.D. Cameron 9781839830518
RRP: £12.99£11.78The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century. Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each other and... -
Waveney Fast Afloat lifeboats: The RNLI's 44ft Waveney lifeboats, their design and history by Nicholas Leach
RRP: £12.00£8.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909540231Author Nicholas LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Foxglove Publishing LtdPublisher Foxglove Publishing Ltd -
Formulae for the Mariner by Richard M. Plant
RRP: £11.99£7.59This book is a compilation of all the formulae that a mariner is commonly called upon to use but the exact workings of which he has perhaps forgotten. For each subject category, the author states the basic parameters in narrative form, often including a... -
Pirates: Truth and Tales by Helen Hollick
RRP: £11.99£7.72The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, 'The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.' The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas - pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who... -
Thames Tugs in Colour by Andrew Wiltshire 9781902953823
RRP: £9.95£7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902953823Author Andrew WiltshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bernard McCallPublisher Bernard McCall -
The Once-Ubiquitous Paddle Steamer by John Hannavy 9780857100924
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857100924Author John HannavyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books -
Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks by David T. Hughes 9780752432489
RRP: £12.99£9.37The history of Chatham Dockyard has been an eventful one. It owes its inception to King Henry VIII who, in 1547, selected the River Medway at Gillingham to be his main fleet anchorage. As more ships were added to the royal fleet the work of the dockyard... -
Between the Tides: Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast by Roy Stokes
RRP: £15.99£10.85There have been millions of shipwrecks, but just a few have been remembered. A ship can disappear suddenly without a trace. Or a loss may involve a fascinating web of intrigue and drama. Exploration, the aftermath of wrecking in remote regions of the... -
Warships and Warship Modelling by David Wooley 9781854862402
RRP: £19.95£15.25This is a book which will appeal equally to naval enthusiasts and ship modellers. It offers an overview of the design, development and classification of modern warship types and it studies the constructors' original models, explaining why and how they... -
Oriana: A Photographic Journey by Rachelle Cross 9780750989251
RRP: £20.00£14.71Oriana was the first in a new generation of British-based cruise ships specifically designed for the UK market. She was built by Meyer Werft in Germany and was named by HM the Queen, giving her fame and recognition from day one. Entering service in 1995,... -
Tanker Barges on the Humber Waterways by Mike Taylor 9780752439211
RRP: £12.99£9.37The introduction of iron tanks within barges in the early twentieth century enabled much heavier cargoes to be carried on the Humber waterways, including liquids such as coal tar or vegetable oils and, by the 1920s, petrol. By the late 1950s/early 1960s,... -
Thames Crossings Through Time by Geoff Lunn
RRP: £15.99£10.85Amid peaceful countryside, past historic towns and through the heart of London, the River Thames flows in an easterly direction for some 346 kilometres from its source in Gloucestershire until entering the North Sea. Over many centuries civilisations... -
The Ian Nicolson Trilogy by Ian Nicolson
RRP: £14.99£10.10This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from England via the Panama Canal to Vancouver, Canada. It goes on to describe how Ian returned home from... -
Stena Line by Ian Collard
RRP: £15.99£10.85The major company in the short-sea passenger and freight business in 2020 is the Swedish Stena Line, who operate services to Europe, Scandinavia and Ireland from United Kingdom ports. The company was founded in 1962 by Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg,... -
The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel's Great Western Steamship by Helen Doe
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Great Western is the least known of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's three ships, being overshadowed by the later careers of the Great Britain and the Great Eastern. However, the Great Westernwas the first great success, confounding the critics in becoming... -
Shipwrecks of the Cunard Line by Sam Warwick 9780750985383
RRP: £25.00£18.15This fascinating book provides a unique record of the careers and final underwater resting places of ships of the Cunard Line, whose rich history spans over 300 ships and nearly two centuries. Many books have been published on Cunard's heritage but the... -
The Cromford Canal by Hugh Potter 9780752428024
RRP: £12.99£9.37The Cromford Canal was a bold undertaking, linking the Derwent and Upper Erewash valleys to the main canal system of England. Collieries, ironworks, mills, limestone and gritstone quarries all flourished alongside it. Although penetrating the southern... -
Scottish Fishing Boats: A New Look by James A. Pottinger
RRP: £16.99£12.64A companion to his successful first book, James Pottinger's new volume Scottish Fishing Boats: A New Look looks farther afield, and covers the fishing history of the areas of north-east Scotland, the west coast and Shetland. Topics covered include... -
Shadows on the Water: The Haunted Canals and Waterways of Britain by Allan Scott-Davies 9780752455921
RRP: £12.99£9.37This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings reported across Britain's canal and waterways network: echoes in dark tunnels; stone steps stained red with blood spilled long ago; ghostly footsteps accompanying... -
Ships: The History and Specifications of 300 World-Famous Ships by Chris Bishop
RRP: £9.99£6.65Fully illustrated in a striking landscape format, Ships contains 300 mercantile and military vessels arranged in chronological order, from ancient times to the present day. Every type of vessel from every part of the world is featured, from Phoenician... -
Bristol City Docks Through Time by Brian Lewis 9781848683846
RRP: £15.99£10.85Bristol City Docks Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Bristol's docks, and what they meant to the people of this area throughout the... -
Tales from the West Midlands Canals by R. H. Davies 9780752455006
RRP: £14.99£11.28Beginning with the early days of canals in the West Midlands, tracing the work of the Lunar Society, including members Boulton and Watt, and the Earls of Dudley, Robert Davies follows the changing patterns of these waterways over 200 years of history...