HAWKEY, ARTHUR

Black Night Off Finisterre the Tragic Tale of an Early British Ironclad

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1557501882. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of one tiny edge nick to the top spine end. "An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859. The British Admiralty had been considering armored warships since 1856 and prepared a draft design for an armored corvette in 1857; in early 1859 the Royal Navy started building two iron-hulled armored frigates, and by 1861 had made the decision to move to an all-armored battle fleet. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40107

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 1557501882 Ships & Sailing Arthur Hawkey Ironclads British Naval History Ships & Sailing

HAWS, DUNCAN

Merchant Fleets in Profile 1 the Ships of the P & O, Orient and Blue Anchor Lines

Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens, Ltd, 1978. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0850593190. Illustrated by Duncan Haws. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and the spine of the dust jacket has some sunning.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 43840

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 0850593190 Ships & Sailing Duncan Haws P & O Company Orient Blue Anchor Lines Merchant Fleets

HILL, JIM DAN

Sea Dogs of the Sixties Farragut and Seven Contemporaries

New York, NY: A. S. Barnes & Company, Inc, 1961. Reprint. Paperback. Trade PB. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book with thick cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The white book cover has some light generalised toning. There is some beginning bumping /wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 49464

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing Jim Dan Hill Civil War Ships Civil War Navies

HODGSON, C. V.

Manual of First-Order Triangulation (Special Publication No. 120)

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1935. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book with side staples. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and nicking. There is a previous owner's name inked on the top edge of the front cover. There is a thin tear to the rear spine of the dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 40053

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing C. V. Hodgson Triangulation Coast Guard U. S. Coast Guard And Geodetic Survey Ships & Sailing

HOOD, JEAN

Marked for Misfortune an Epic Tale of Shipwreck, Human Endeavour and Survival in the Age of Sail

London, England: Conway Maritime Pr, 2004. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0851779417. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Some four months into her voyage the Winterton entered the Indian Ocean, and it was whilst she was passing through the Mozambique Channel at 2 a. M. On 20 August that she struck a rock-strewn reef some seven miles off the western shore of Madagascar. The guns were thrown over the side and part of the cargo was jettisoned, but within a couple of hours Captain Dundas had to take the unenviable decision to cut away her masts. At daybreak her yawl was despatched inshore to solicit assistance, but any hopes of Dundas using her other boats were lost that evening when the long boat, cutter and jolly boat were smashed to smithereens by the sea breaking over the ship. On the 21st the yawl returned to the wreck, but conscious that the heaving sea might thrust her into the stranded Winterton Dundas ordered her back to shore. That night the situation deteriorated to such an extent that the ship began to break up, and at 6 a. M. On 22 August Captain Dundas ushered some sixty-odd people including all the female passengers on to the safety of the poop deck with what provisions he could muster. The rest of the men were ordered to take their place in the mizzen-chains, and it would later be reported that the ultimate sacrifice was made as Dundas ordered the poop deck to be cut away. Three hours later the ship broke up into four pieces, and as the buoyant poop deck drifted slowly ashore the starboard side of the ship rolled over and the body of Captain Dundas was seen to float out of the quarter galley. Some forty other passengers and crew also met their death as the ship broke up, including the first mate and three young women." (from website: morethannelson). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 41247

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 0851779417 Ships & Sailing Jean Hood East India Company The Winterton Survial Shipping Disasters Ship Wrecks Africa

DE KAY, JAMES TERTIUS

Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian 1809-1922

New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393038041. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is clean and bright. "HMS Macedonian was a 38-gun fifth-rate Lively-class frigate in the Royal Navy, later captured by USS United States during the War of 1812. Macedonian was built at Woolwich Dockyard, England in 1809, launched 2 June 1810, and commissioned the same month. She was commanded by Captain Lord William FitzRoy. Among the original crew was the 13-year-old Samuel Leech, who later wrote a memoir of his experiences. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40106

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 0393038041 Ships & Sailing James Tertius De Kay Frigates Frigate Macedonian War Of 1812 Ships & Sailing

LARN, RICHARD

Cornish Shipwrecks (Volume 3) the Isles of Scilly

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1971. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Born in Norfolk and raised in Great Yarmouth before being evacuated to Oxford during the Second World War, he went to a sea training school (TS. Mercury, Hamble) at the age of 14. Larn taught himself to dive in 1947, using a German-made Dräger U-boat escape set in the River Thames. He then joined the Merchant Navy where he served his apprenticeship as a deck-officer with the South American Saint Line and eventually became 2nd Mate. In 1950 he transferred to the Royal Navy where he stayed for 22 years. As a Chief Petty Officer Mechanician/diver he served in Korea and initiated diving from Dragonfly helicopters to recover ram-jet un-manned gunnery target drone aircraft off Malta, being dropped into the sea wearing diving equipment with Petty Officer John Guppy, up to five miles offshore, to assist a rescue tug in recovering the targets intact. They were possibly the first divers in the Royal Navy to operate using diving apparatus from helicopters, long before SAR divers. He also participated in diving expeditions all over the world. Larn then specialised in air-launched weapons, Firestreak, Redtop, Sidewinder, Bullpup, Mk.43 and 44 homing torpedoes, and the 2000lb HEMC nuclear bomb, and was Chief Petty Officer i/c the Guided Weapons Section on board HMS Hermes for three years, which required Positive Security Vetting to Top Secret - Atomic. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40001

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing Richard Larn Cornwall, England Shipwrecks Ships & Sailing

LENZEN, VICTOR FRITZ

Benjamin Peirce and the U.S. Coast Survey

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press, Inc, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "USCS Benjamin Peirce was a schooner that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1855 to 1868. The Coast Survey acquired Benjamin Peirce in 1855 and placed her in service along the United States East Coast, where she spent her entire Coast Survey career. She was named for the preeminent American mathematician of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Peirce, who was a friend of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Alexander Dallas Bache, and succeeded Bache as Superintendent in 1867. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 50639

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Biography Victor Fritz Lenzen U. S. Coast Survey American Scientists Astronomers

LINKLATER, ERIC

The Voyage of the Challenger

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1972. Hardcover. B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has some light rubbing, nicking and wear to the spine ends and corners. "The Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the mother vessel, HMS Challenger. Prompted by Charles Wyville Thomson—of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific tasks, equipping her with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers included Commander John Maclear." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 40584

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing Eric Linklater HMS Challenger Science & Discovery Series Royal Society Oceanography Naturalists Ships & Sailing

DE LONG, GEORGE W & RAYMOND LEE NEWCOMB

Our Lost Explorers the Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedition

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1883. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition only and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and wear, along with edge wear and fraying to the top spine end. The text pages are generally clean, however several pages have edge tears. Both the front and rear inner hinges have cracked and been repaired by a former owner. The front inner hinge has cracked again. The front pastedown page has had tearing and been repair by a fomer owner. "The Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, officially called the U. S. Arctic Expedition, was an attempt led by George W. De Long to reach the North Pole by pioneering a route from the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait. The premise was that a temperate current, the Kuro Siwo, flowed northwards into the strait, providing a gateway to the hypothesized Open Polar Sea and thus to the pole. This theory proved illusory; the expedition's ship, USS Jeannette and its crew of thirty-three men, was trapped by ice and drifted for nearly two years before she was crushed and sunk north of the Siberian coast. De Long then led his men on a perilous journey by sled, dragging the Jeannette's whaleboat and two cutters, eventually switching to these small boats to sail for the Lena Delta in Siberia. During this journey, and in the subsequent weeks of wandering in Siberia before rescue, twenty of the ship's complement died, including De Long." (from Wikipedia). Good .

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Book number: 50657

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing Travel & Exploration George W. De Long Raymond Lee Newcomb The Jeannette Expedition Arctic Exploration

LUNDY, DEREK

The Way of a Ship a Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail

New York: Harpercollins/Ecco, 2002. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 067697371X. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 40508

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 067697371X Ships & Sailing Derek Lundy Square-riggers Sailing Ships Beara Head Ships & Sailing

MAJDALANY, FRED

The Eddystone Light

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine conditon and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears and nicks. There is some noticeable edge wear and wrinkles to the spine ends of the dust jacket. "The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse that is located on the dangerous Eddystone Rocks, 9 statute miles (14 km) south of Rame Head in England. While Rame Head is in Cornwall, the rocks are submerged below the surface of the sea and composed of Precambrian gneiss. The current structure is the fourth to be built on the site. The first and second were destroyed by storm and fire respectively. The third, also known as Smeaton's Tower, is the best known because of its influence on lighthouse design and its importance in the development of concrete for building. Its upper portions have been re-erected in Plymouth as a monument." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 39464

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: Ships & Sailing Fred Majdalany Eddystone Light Lighthouses Ships & Sailing Ships & Sailing

MCKEE, FRASER

Sink All the Shipping There the Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners

St. Catherines, ON: Vanwell Publishing Ltd, 2004. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1551250551. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43504

Catalogue: Ships & Sailing

Keywords: 1551250551 Ships & Sailing Fraser Mckee Canada Merchant Ships Fishing Schooners