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Aquitania - Cunard's Greatest Dream - The Ship Beautiful - N
Les Streater has considerably expanded his 1997 edition of this book to 156 pp plus two fold -out double-page plates


Baltic Ferries
Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of car ferry services between Sweden and Finland


Ben Line
One of Scotlands premier cargo liner companies is the subject of our latest book


Calendar 2010
As usual, Lanasta have produced another fine calendar for merchant shipping enthusiasts


Canadian Empresses: Vol 1
The author is never one to shy away from huge tasks


Cruise Ships: 3rd Edn
The format of Bill Mayes' standard reference guide to Cruise Ships is still the same, but every entry has been checked and most updated


Dictionary of Passenger Ship Disasters


Fred Olsen Line and Its Passenger Ships
An updated edition of Anthony Cooke's superb new book on the Fred Olsen Line passenger ships


From British Columbia to LA (via Japan)
This video shows the loading and unloading of lumber, pulp, steel and newsprint cargos by gantry cranes


Hollywood to Honolulu: The Story of the Los Angeles Steamsh
For over a decade during the “Roaring Twenties,” a great white ocean liner would sail from berth 156 in Los Angeles every Saturday


Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in
During the last century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the fifteenth century


Images of Warsash and the Hamble River: 1790-2009
A popular and well-known local figure in Warsash, Bryan Woodford has become a successful author for the second time


Jumping Ships: The Global Adventures of a Cargo Ship Apprent
On a global nautical voyage that takes him from Africa to the Far East, and from India to Greece, a young navigating apprentice finds his sea legs and tries in vain to keep out of trouble; heli-skiing in Canada, taking on pirates in Nigeria and disguising


Lancashire Nobby
Nick Miller brings his training in naval architecture to bear on this comprehensive history of the Lancashire nobby


Luxury Liners: Their Golden Age and the Music Played Aboard
We have recently received a really novel book called Luxury Liners: Their Golden Age (and the Music played aboard) published by Edel Entertainment


Maritime History 7 - The Mataro Model, Lifeboat Prins Hendri
This issue features possibly the oldest ship model in Europe, the Mataro model, an historic lifeboat, the Prin Hendrik and the Dutch East Indies SS Insulinde


Maritime History 8 - Hospital ship Oranje, Arnemuiden hoogaa
This issue contains features on The history of the motor ship Oranje of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (Nederland Line) with the emphasis on her special function as hospital ship in the service of the allied in WW-II


MV Balmoral the First 60 Years
MV Balmoral the First 60 Years brings together, in words and pictures, a celebration of the first 60 years of MV Balmoral's career as a sea-going pleasure steamer


Now the Long Trick's Over
The author was a merchant seaman whose long career spanned forty-five years! From 1932 to 1977 he sailed with a number of British shipping companies, including many years with the Bolton Steamship Company of London and R


Ocean Ships 2009 (15th edition)
First published over 40 years ago, Ocean Ships has become the bible for maritime enthusiasts, providing authoritative and detailed information on all the world's ocean-going passenger and cargo ships


Port of Southampton in the 60s and 70s
The port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s


Ports of Scotland 2010
Published annually in December, Ports of Scotland is a comprehensive reference book for all ports users


QM2: The World's Greatest Ocean Liner, Round Britian Commemo
This 5th Anniversary souvenir publication marks QM2's 2009 Round Britain Commemorative Voyage


Richard Dunston Ltd of Thorne & Hessle, Yorkshire Shipbuilde
More than 200 photographs in the book trace the developments that occurred during the twentieth century in Richard Dunston's shipbuilding yards at Thorne, near Doncaster, and Hessle, near Hull


RMS Queen Elizabeth: The Ultimate Ship
The Cunard-White Star Line's Queen Elizabeth was the largest ship in the World and one of the fastest and most luxurious


Shadow on the Moon
An armed pirate gang, led by the cunning and ruthless Henry Kaduna are attacking and robbing ships off the port of Lagos in Nigeria


Ships of the White Star Line
The White Star Line was one of the most illustrious and controversial names in the history of passenger shipping


Significant Ships of 2008


SS United States: Speed Queen of the Seas
Built in 1952 at Newport News, the SS United States was designed from the outset to be the fastest ship afloat

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