Product Description: ‘The new directory, Inshore Craft, is a spectacular achievement.’ Wooden Boat Magazine. This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft which once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles...read more

Product Description: Follow the evolution of the steamship from the paddle steamer, to the screw-propelled vessel, to the introduction of the marine compound engine that cut fuel consumption and required less room on the ship. Also explained is the introduction of iron construction...read more

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Product Description: This edition brings together all the archaeological knowledge of the world's boats and ships for the benefit of the maritime archaeologist, as well as for the general reader and enthusiast, the historian and the student. But is is much more than a catalogue of the world's boat finds...read more

Product Description: The North American schooner "Bertha L. Downs" was one of many large four-, five- and six-masted schooners which were built on the banks of the Kennebeck River at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. These huge wooden vessels were almost universally employed in the coastal trade and the principal part of this was coal from Virginia to New England...read more

Traces the development of ships from prehistoric log rafts to the ships used by fifteenth century explorers, and shows each step in constructing a wooden ship

Product Description: Book by Greenhill, Basil

Product Description: This book provides a broad outline of the character and history of the North Sea, a body of water that has been a highway of shipping, trade, economic and cultural exchange. Its fascinating history is here recorded by scholars and writers from the countries it surrounds.

Describes the merchant sailing ships of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and depicts the life and experiences of their sailors