McPhee, John,

Looking for a Ship: the Merchant Marine.

NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1990). VG PB. In less than 10 years the US Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than 2,000 ships to fewer than 400 & Andy Chase is looking. for a ship and a job. He finds one aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry Washburn. The journey takes them on a 42 day run down the Pacific coast of S. America with the crew telling sea stories of other runs & other ships, disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity & courage. Thus emerge the history & character of an extraordinary calling.

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Book number: BOOKS037139I

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McPhee, John,

Looking for a Ship audio tape, unabridged narration by George Guidall.

Prince Frederick, MD, Recorded Books, (1991). VG in VG slipcase ex-library. McPhee aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, a merchant marine vessel leaving from Charleston ona 42-day run to S. America. The sailors tell him stories of tragedies they've witnessed as well as apocryphal tales with regret for a world and way of life that is quickly passing. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS041613I

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Meredith, Lee W.,

1912 Facts about Titanic.

Mason City, IA, Savas Pub Co, (1999). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Who was the first to see the iceberg, why were ice warnings unheeded, how were the bodies of the dead collected, where were. they buried, etc.?.

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Book number: BOOKS027634I

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Mieder, Wolfgang,

Salty Wisdom: proverbs of the sea.

Shelburne, VT, New England Press, (1990). VG PB. Bright blue cover with sailor at helm. "A whistling sailor, a crowing hen, and a swearing woman all ought all three. to go to hell together." Over 500 proverbs about the sea & the seafarer's way of life.

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Book number: BOOKS034980I

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Miller, Conrad, introduction by Boris Lauer-Leonardi,

Small Boat Engines, inboard & outboard.

NY, Sheridan House, 1975. G in G DJ ex-library.

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Book number: BOOKS011643I

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Miller, David,

The World of Jack Aubrey.

Philadelphia, Courage, (2003). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. This is the world of the Royal Navy in the early 1800s, an age when British ships clashed with Napoleon's armada, when the. death defying fears of naval hero Jack Aubrey provoked and thwarted the dictator and other scoundrels, in a saga chronicled over the course of 20 novels written by Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated guide with exhaustive coverage of such technical technical terms as the carronade, bowsprit, and the forecastle, the finer points of weapons, ships, and uniforms that filled the historical mileu. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS053669I

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Miller, David,

Wreck of the Isabella.

Anapolis, MD, Naval Institute, 1st U.S. ptg. VG in G DJ. Absolutely true this tells the tale of a group of ordinary people who felt themselves involved in an extraordinary episode. When one ship was wrecked on the remoe and totally deserted Falkland Islands due to the incompetence of its drunken master, two ships came to the rescue of these castaways, one British and one American. Their adventures contain high courage and base cowardice, honesty and skulduggery, good luck as well as misfortune. DJ edge wear, owner and inscription.

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Book number: BOOKS055466I

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Mixter, George W.,

Primer of Navigation with complete tables and work forms and special information for yachtsmen and other mariners.

NY, Van Nostrand, (1943). 15th ptg. G. Navigation coastwise and at sea. Complete course in elementary piloting, celestial navigation, etc. Binding tanned at edges,. owner stamp. Laid in "Benefit Guide for Officers and Enlisted Men United States Navy and United States Naval Reserve compiled by the Bueau of Naviation with owner notations.

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Book number: BOOKS039896I

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Moody, Alton B.,

Navigation Afloat: a manual for the seaman.

NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1980). VG in VG DJ. A fresh look at the whole subject. Book summaries pasted to front endpapers & flyleaf, few stains to front DJ flap, owner. stamp.

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Book number: BOOKS051057I

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Mordal, Jacques, translated by Len Ortzen,

Twenty-Five Centuries of Sea Warfare.

NY, Bramhall, (1959). 1st ptg thus. VG in VG DJ. From a hollowed-out tree trunk to the latest nuclear submarine man has used the sea to carry on his unending strife with his. fellow men. Few light spots ft endpaper, DJ edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS034120I

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Morgan, Dodge,

The Voyage of American Promise.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Dodge started a small electronics company in a garage, built it into a multi-million dollar business which he sold to finance. the boat that would carry him around the world. Promise was almost wrecked in a hurricane before getting started, but he finally sailed out of Portland Harbor to cheers. Ten days later it limped into Bermuda. Patched it set sail again with $20 borrowed to pay his fuel bill.

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Book number: BOOKS046438I

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introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison,

Old Ironsides: the story of USS Constitution: a pictorial history.

Boston, MA, Burdette & Co., (1963). G in G DJ ex-library. Poem Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1820, "Ay. tear her tattered ensign down!" begins the book. JFK remembers being. taken down to the USS Constitutio in Charlestown, MA, and that "the sight of that historic frigate stirred my imagination and made American history come alive for me". Kennedy's grandfather Congressman John F. Fitzgerald found the gallant old ship rotting away in the Portsmouth Navy Yard and in 1897 submitted a resolution to the House calling on the Secretary of the Navy to take steps to save it again. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS051236I

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Morison, Samuel Eliot,

Spring Tides.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 1st ed. VG. A retired rear admiral and historian's love for sailing, enough to make the reader want try it too. Blue binding, white sail. boat, green lettering on front cover. Spine faded.

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Book number: BOOKS050841I

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Morris, Jerry,

New England under Sail: a guide to sailing ships, ferries, & historic vessels: a guide book.

Castine, ME, Country Roads Press, (1993). G PB ex-library. A guide to it all, even the villages and festivities in each. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS051265I

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Mowat, Farley,

The Serpent's Coil: an incredible story of hurricane-battered ships and the heroic men who fought to save them.

NY, Lyons Press, (2001). VG PB (advance uncorrected proof). The New York Times calls this book an almost physical experience because of this unique episode in annals of the sea. Serpent's coil is the symbol for cyclone. It recounts the amazing story of the Liberty ship Leicester which sailed for New York from England in the summer of 1948, ran into a herricane with the loss of 6 lives, and was abandoned in the mid-Atlantic. It also tells of the Foundation Josephine which tracked the derelict Leicester over a vast distance, found her listing severely, and towed her another thousand miles to Bermuda, where both ships ran into yet another hurricane. A classic of the sea.

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Book number: BOOKS054778I

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