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  • At the Helm of USS America
    James E. Wise / Scott Baron
    Only the best officers are given command of U.S. Navy ships, and only the elite of these are selected for aircraft carriers. The USS America was the third of four Kitty Hawk-class super-carriers. Commissioned in 1965, decommissioned in 1996, she served three times in Vietnam, and once each in Libya, the Persian Gulf and Bosnia. This book profiles the 23 men who commanded the...
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    64,73 €

  • Patrick O’Brian’s Bodies at Sea
    Michael Leigh Sinowitz
    An exploration of the complex roles that bodies--both literally and figuratively--play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series reveals much about the novels’ many meditations on mind and body. Beginning with a consideration of genre norms and the bodies of the novels’ main characters, the book’s focus shifts to the ways the series offers interconnections between the human bod...
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    42,94 €

  • The Liberty Ships of World War II
    Greg H. Williams
    This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship’s namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that bu...
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    110,22 €

  • Rough Weather All Day
    David Hirzel
    The Arctic journal of Patrick Cahill, Machinist’s Mate on board the U.S.S. Rodgers, sent from San Francisco in 1881 to find out the fate of the missing exploration ship Jeannette. After a fruitless search, the Rodgers retired for the winter to St. Lawrence Bay in Siberia, where she burned to the waterline. The stranded seamen were taken in by the native Tchouchkis, who shared...
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    21,70 €

  • Lasting Friendships
    Ralph W. Stanley / T. B. R. Walsh
    Originally developed in the late 1800s as a working boat and fishing platform, the Friendship sloop has survived as a type and has become recognized as an American sailing classic. This is the story of a family of boats and how they weathered more than a century of change and transition, and why they still have a passionate following today. With hundreds of photographs, both ...
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    26,59 €

  • Mainers on the Titanic
    Mac Smith
    Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened on the Titanic, and tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking and rescue; and, for those who survived, of their coming ashore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a fascinating addition to the Titanic story. ...
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    13,75 €

  • Shanghaiing Sailors
    Mark Strecker
    'Shaghaiing,' or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as 'crimps,' and they had no respect for a man’s education, social status, race, religion, or seafaring experience. The merchant ships were involved in the opium, tea and gold trades, and the practice was spurred...
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    57,31 €

  • 'The Voyage of the F.H. Moore' and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts
    Charles H. Robbins / J. Ross Browne / Samuel Grant Williams
    In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship’s official logbook. Complementing this are excerpts from three other acc...
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    42,92 €

  • She’s Bound to Be a Goer
    Creighton C. Forsman
    She’s Bound to be a Goer tells the forty year story of the steamboats that served Fairhope, Alabama from its beginning in 1894 as well as those serving the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. The construction of a bridge for automobiles across the upper part of Mobile Bay doomed the steamboats. 3 ...
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    15,70 €

  • Three Knots to Nowhere
    Ted E DuBay / Ted E. Dubay
    This book follows the author’s experiences in the United States Navy from 1966 through 1972. They include a personal background, boot camp, electrician’s school, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Program, assignment to the USS Henry Clay during an overhaul in Charleston, South Carolina, subsequent transit to Hawaii, and deterrent patrols out of Guam. The work begins with the crew of on...
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    28,34 €

  • Le Roy Fitch
    Myron J. Smith
    This is the first published biography of Lieutenant Commander Le Roy Fitch, U.S. Navy. Fitch saw action on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers; fought against Morgan, Wheeler and Forrest, as well as irregulars; commanded an ironclad monitor during the Battle of Nashville; and was renowned for his abilities in counterinsurgency and convoy tactics. ...
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    59,26 €

  • Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard
    S. S. Rabl / SSRabl
    Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard makes building a variety of classic wooden boats accessible to anyone. Using the illustrated instructions in this book, you can truly build a boat-dingy, sailboat or cruiser-in your spare time, in your backyard or garage. Considered the best in its field for over five decades, Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard. offers the best practices of boat...
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    39,92 €

  • Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard
    S. S. Rabl / SSRabl
    Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard makes building a variety of classic wooden boats accessible to anyone. Using the illustrated instructions in this book, you can truly build a boat-dingy, sailboat or cruiser-in your spare time, in your backyard or garage. Considered the best in its field for over five decades, Boatbuilding in Your Own Backyard. offers the best practices of boat...
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    28,94 €

  • Shipwrecks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland Waters
    Gary Gentile
    GARY GENTILE'S POPULAR DIVE GUIDE SERIES Over 100 GPS and loran numbers included As suggested by the title and series name, this volume covers the most well-known wrecks sunk in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay. For each of the wrecks covered, a statistical sidebar provides basic information such as the dates of construction and loss, previous names (if any), tonnag...
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    20,30 €

  • The Law of the Sea
    James B. Morell
    The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, the result of 14 years of negotiation, was accepted by 159 nations. It was, however, rejected by the Reagan administration, a position quite at odds with the widespread international support the treaty enjoyed from other nations. First discussed is the customary law of the sea and efforts to negotiate a stable, legal regime, focusing on ...
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    56,36 €

  • World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands
    Greg H. Williams
    During World War II, the U.S. Navy swiftly expanded to include an array of vessels, from smaller yachts and fishing boats bought early in the war for patrol work to fast, modern commercial ships built to haul troops and supplies. After the Allied victory, this diverse fleet became unnecessary and the Navy sold many of its vessels. This comprehensive catalog documents the Nav...
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    73,62 €

  • William B. Cushing in the Far East
    Julian R. McQuiston
    Fresh from success in sinking the Albermarle in the Civil War, the young Captain Cushing was assigned to command the gunboat USS Maumee in Hong Kong to aid the restoration of America’s naval power in Asia. By linking such aims to British policy, and by courting Chinese and Japanese officials, he succeeded in re-establishing American naval and commercial power in the Far East...
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    42,85 €

  • The Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864
    Myron J Smith / Myron J. Smith
    Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing northern flank for the South’s fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. For much of the next year, Federal efforts to capture the citadel focused on possession of that stream. Huge battles and mighty expeditions were launched (Chickasaw Ba...
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    81,32 €

  • Buccaneers and Privateers
    Richard Frohock
    This book takes a fresh look at English buccaneering and privateering literature from the Golden Age of Piracy and includes discussion of well-known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan as well as more obscure figures like Captain George Cusack. ...
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    111,30 €

  • Boat Carpentry
    Hervey Garrett Smith
    2012 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book, the first of its kind, makes clear the difference between 'boat carpentry' and 'house carpentry'. On a boat there is hardly a straight line, in a house almost all the lines must be straight. Many tools used by the boat carpenter are almost unkn...
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    15,60 €

  • The Titanic on Film
    Linda Maria Koldau
    The narrative surrounding the Titanic’s voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems tailor-made for film. With clear categories of gender, class, nationality, and religion, the dominating Titanic myth offers a wealth of motifs ripe for the silver screen-heroism, melodrama, love, despair, pleasure, pain, failure, triumph, memory and eternal guilt. This volume provides ...
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    57,14 €

  • The Enemy at Trafalgar
    Edward Fraser
    The men and ships who fought NelsonAvid readers and students of the Napoleonic Wars are often disappointed at the paucity of information translated into English on the subject of French forces. This is particularly frustrating since it is well known that there is a wealth of material available in French concerning the war on land and at sea. This book will therefore be somethin...
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    28,45 €

  • The Enemy at Trafalgar
    Edward Fraser
    The men and ships who fought NelsonAvid readers and students of the Napoleonic Wars are often disappointed at the paucity of information translated into English on the subject of French forces. This is particularly frustrating since it is well known that there is a wealth of material available in French concerning the war on land and at sea. This book will therefore be somethin...
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    19,51 €

  • Titanic Survivor
    John Maxtone-Graham / Violet Jessop
    Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on both the catastrophes and the socioeconomic climate of the time. ...
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    15,30 €

  • Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call
    Herbert Ford
    Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, often lethal surf and sudden gales, the island’s standing as the home of the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutineer cohorts from H.M.S. Bounty has drawn thousands of ships to its shores. This maritime history of the island chronicles every ship that has calle...
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    110,22 €

  • The USS Ward
    Richard P. Klobuchar
    In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning 'four stackers' from the navy’s reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of firing the first shot in America’s war against Japan. In the three years that fol...
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    44,13 €

  • James D. Bulloch
    Gary L. McKay / Walter E. Wilson
    American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy’s most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South’s covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built 'invulnerable' ocean-going ironclads; sustained Co...
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    59,04 €

  • American Privateers in the War of 1812
    Timothy S. Good
    During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy numbered several dozen ships and captured fewer than 200 British vessels. American privateers, on the other hand, commanded more than 200 vessels and captured more than 1,000 British ships. The privateers proved the only American force that consistently threatened Britain throughout the Atlantic, especially along the coasts of the Britis...
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    109,71 €

  • Why the USS Scorpion (SSN 589) Was Lost
    Bruce Rule
    In their official report of 29 January 1970, the SCORPION Structural Analysis Group (SAG), which included the Navy’s leading experts in submarine design, submarine structures, and the effect of underwater explosions, advised the Navy Court of Inquiry (COI) that the US nuclear submarine SCORPION was lost on 22 May 1968 becase of the violent explosion of the main storage battery....
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    35,61 €

  • Engineer in Gray
    James H. Tomb / R. Thomas Campbell
    Chief Engineer James Hamilton Tomb (1839-1929) devoted almost 12 years to naval service--first in the Confederate States’ Navy during the American Civil War and then in the Marinha do Brasil during the War of the Triple Alliances. A steam engineer by profession and a torpedo expert by circumstance, Tomb was in the forefront of naval weapons technology. He also had the courag...
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    58,51 €


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