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  • "Get the hell off this ship!"

    Memoir of a USS Liscome Bay Survivor in World War II

    James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy at 18.His plainspoken, personal memoir recounts three years of service (1942-1945), from his induction at Winston Salem, North Carolina, to the sinking of his ship, the escort carrier USS ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "Let Us Go Free"

    Slavery and Jesuit Universities in America

    A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United StatesThe Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the order’s impact on higher education. Less well known, however, is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole"

    Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scripture

    Series series Race, Religion, and Politics series
    How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon’s 1974 impeachment hearings. However, before she developed faith in the Constitution, Jordan had faith in Christianity. In “My Faith in the Constitution is Whole”: ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" and Other 19th Century Whaling Accounts

    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 accounts of whaling voyages: ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • (Not So) Old Men and the Sea

    A Toe in the Cruising Waters

    " The author and his First Class Mate have provided those who may be new to boating with hundreds of tips to help make their cruising experiences safe and pleasurable "-Jennifer Castle Field, President, Chapman School of Seamanship"Prestegaard's writing has style and elegance, and a way of stoking the imagination. If you're one of the old or idle retirees looking for a change in your routine, read ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 10 Greatest Ships of the Royal Navy

    by John Ballard ...
    For more than 150 years it was the world’s most powerful force: between victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the withdrawal from ‘east of Suez’ in the 1960s, the ships of the Royal Navy were ubiquitous. From Newfoundland to New South Wales and Cyprus to Ceylon, the Royal Navy was there, protecting British interests, projecting British power and maintaining British prestige. An Act of Parliament laid ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 10 Jahre QUEEN MARY 2 in Hamburg

    Eine Erfolgsgeschichte ohnegleichen

    by Ingo Thiel ...
    Hamburg bejubelt die QUEEN! Wer kann sie erklären, die Faszination und Anziehungskraft, welche die QUEEN MARY 2 auf die Hamburger ausübt? Ist es die von Haus aus "maritime Ader" der Hanseaten? Oder werden hier Sehnsüchte und Träume geweckt, die tief in den ja eher als nüchtern geltenden "Nordlichtern" schlummern? Wo immer die Ursache liegt: Auch 10 Jahre nachdem der Luxusliner das erste Mal die ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Historic Ships in Full Color

    Series series Dover Maritime
    This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that visited North America around A.D. 1001 to Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria (1492), and the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. 100 illustrations in full color. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Facts about Ships and Boats

    Do you know how many cannons a Tudor ship could carry? How many people go missing from cruise ships every year? What is a hawsehole? And why are submarines painted black? This fantastic quick-read eBook features 101 amazing facts about ships and boats, split into categories such as famous ships, seafaring terminology, naval ship classes and many more. So if you want to know what the fastest ship ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Facts about the Titanic

    Do you know how many miles beneath the surface of the waves the wreck of the titanic lies? What do scientists and historians now believe led to the iceberg only being seen at the last minute? The flares that were sent up by the crew were supposed to signal ‘distress’ - but what did they actually say? All these questions and more are answered in this fascinating eBook which contains over one ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Dinge, die man über Kreuzfahrten wissen muss

    Warum sind Schiffe immer weiblich? Auf welchem Kreuzfahrtschiff "lebt" ein Geist? Seit wann gibt es Kreuzfahrten? Die Kreuzfahrtgeschichte und -gegenwart: Rekorde, Unbekanntes, Extremes und Kuriositäten werden vorgestellt. Wagen Sie eine Reise durch Besonderheiten und Geheimnisse dieser speziellen Seefahrten. Informativ und unterhaltsam erlebt jeder Kreuzfahrtfan 101 Aha-Erlebnisse. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't!

    April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 101 Wonders of the Waterways

    A guide to the sights and secrets of Britain's canals and rivers

    A charming and characterful guidebook to the best of Britain's diverse and fascinating canal network for all waterway enthusiasts.Beautifully illustrated, this compendium uncovers the many extraordinary, notable and surprising places to be found on Britain's waterways. Our canals and rivers link into a diverse 3,000-mile-long network, and 101 Wonders of the Waterways shows you that wherever you ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 11:40

    Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS Titanic

    by Brad Payne ...
    A new in-depth study into those pivotal moments, both leading up to the striking of the iceberg, and across those crucial minutes afterwards, during which the fate of Titanic, and the 2,208 souls aboard, was realizedAt 11:40pm on April 14, 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic and began to sink. From the moment the iceberg was spotted, the ship was on a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 150 Jahre Bugsier

    by Jan Mordhorst ...
    150 Jahre sind vergangen, seit im Januar 1866 die Aktiengesellschaft Vereinigte Bugsir-Dampfschiff-Gesellschaft in das Handelsregister der Hansestadt Hamburg eingetragen wurde. Seither hat die Bugsier-Reederei einen beispiellosen Werdegang durchlaufen. Ihre leistungsstarken Schlepper und Bergungsfahrzeuge erlangten durch zahlreiche spektakuläre Einsätze und Bergungen Weltruhm. Der ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 1545: Who Sank the Mary Rose?

    by Peter Marsden ...
    A “wonderful” account of the raising of a sixteenth-century warship, and answers to the long-running mysteries surrounding her loss (Naval Historical Foundation).In 1982, a Tudor Navy warship was raised in a major salvage project that represented a landmark in maritime archaeology. The Mary Rose had spent over four centuries underwater, and contained the skeletons of numerous sailors as well as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 18th and 19th Century English Women At Sea

    by Marilyn Clay ...
    18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the three types of women one would normally find, legally, or illegally, on board a ship during the 18th and early 19th Centuries. 1. Prostitutes. 2. Officer's and midshipmen's wives plus other female passengers during wartime. 3. Women masquerading as sailors or crewmen.This book cover all of them, and also ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1912 FACTS ABOUT THE TITANIC

    Fascinating, lesser-known facts about the Titanic and details on the ship, the passengers, and the sinking. The book also explores aspects of the wreck today and salvage operations. Although the main events of the Titanic disaster are well known, significant facts and tidbits remain obscure. Who were the thousands of men who built the giant ship? How were the bodies of the victims collected and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Collins Classics)

    by Jules Verne ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.'Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 200 Years of The Lancaster Canal

    An Illustrated History

    by Gordon Biddle ...
    2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Lancaster Canal from Wigan to Kendal. Designed by the celebrated engineer John Ronnie, it is notable for a large number of aqueducts, including the magnificent Lune Aqueduct at Lancaster. A large aqueduct across the Ribble Valley at Preston was never built, leaving the canal in two sections connected by a temporary horse tramroad which ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2017 USS Fitzgerald Accident: Navy Preliminary Inquiry and Line of Duty Determination Report Regarding Injuries and Deaths of Seven Sailors in June 2017 Collision with Container Ship ACX Crystal

    This is a complete reproduction of the official Navy report issued in August 2017 about its line of duty investigation of the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) collision off the coast of Japan June 17. This report specifically reviews the crew's damage control activities, the nature and extent of injuries to the crew and efforts to provide medical care to the most critically injured personnel, along with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2023 International Conference on Marine Equipment & Technology and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Desen Yang ...
    Series Book 375 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
    This book contains original, peer-reviewed, and selected research papers that were presented at the 2023 International Conference on Marine Equipment & Technology and Sustainable Development, which took place in Beijing, China on April 1st 2023. The papers cover a range of topics, including but not limited to: the vision and goals of building a maritime community with a shared future, marine ... Read more

    $332.99 USD

  • 21st Century Essential Guide to Navy Submarines: Past, Present, and Future of the Sub Fleet, History, Technology, Ship Information, Pioneers, Cold War, Nuclear Attack, Ballistic, Guided Missile

    This ebook presents a magnificent compilation of authoritative U.S. Navy documents on the past, present, and future of America's submarine fleet. Contents of this comprehensive digest of fascinating Navy submarine publications include:HISTORY: Early Years to Nuclear Power; Submarine Pioneers; Submarine Technology through the years from David Bushnell's Turtle, the first American submarine; Holland ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Marine Safety Manual Volume One, Marine Safety Program, Environmental Response, Commercial Vessel Safety, Boating Safety

    Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) manual covers the basics of the marine safety program including boating safety, commercial vessel safety, environmental response, and more.In the early 1800's, Congress was reluctant to address "marine safety" issues with regard to the steamboat industry. Only after a long series of marine ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus