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The Archaeology of Underwater Caves

By Peter B. Campbell (editor)

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9780992633677 | Highfield Pr, June 30, 2016, cover price $70.00

British Submarine Vs Italian Torpedo Boat: Mediterranean 1940-43

By Peter Dennis (illustrator), David Greentree and Ian Palmer (illustrator)

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9781472814128 | Osprey Pub Co, June 21, 2016, cover price $20.00

A History of St Mawes Sailing Club

Product Description: St Mawes Sailing Club was founded in 1920 and has functioned without interruption from that date, with the exception of the war years. Today, its principal functions include sailing instruction and the organization of racing, both for local people and for holiday visitors...read more

By Nigel Sharp

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9781445652993 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, June 19, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: St Mawes Sailing Club was founded in 1920 and has functioned without interruption from that date, with the exception of the war years.

Boats of South Asia

Product Description: This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent. A fascinating and accessible read for anyone interested in boats or the South Asian way of life, as well as ethnographers, maritime archaeologists and historians, Boats of South Asia covers recent, exhaustive fieldwork in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; and covers a vast array of traditional boats used in the sub-Continent today for fishing and other coastal, riverine tasks...read more

By Eric Kentley, Sean McGrail and Colin Palmer

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9780415297462 | Routledge, January 1, 2003, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent.

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9781138964839 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 31, 2016), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent.

Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner

By Gayle Hendrix (narrator)

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9781522691389 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 24, 2016), cover price $9.99

Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors: A Guide to Maritime Photographs for Family Historians

Product Description: Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Willsâs helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret the evidence caught on camera. Since maritime roles have been so vital to Britainâs prosperity and military might, they are among the commonest professions depicted in photographs of our ancestors, and his handbook is the ideal introduction to them...read more

By Simon Wills

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9781473834330 | Pen & Sword, May 19, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Willsâs helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret the evidence caught on camera.

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History

Product Description: Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extant source material, it examines how the trade was organised and financed with particular reference to the fishing village of Polperro on the south coast of Cornwall, where it was masterminded by Zephaniah Job, known as the ÂSmugglersâ Bankerâ...read more

By Jeremy Johns

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9781445651682 | Ill edition (Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2016), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Ships of Ellis Island

Product Description: The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892. In the peak years of immigration to the United States, between 1905 and 1914, an average of 1 million people were processed each year at Ellis Island, the peak coming in 1907, when on 17 April alone over 11,000 migrants passed through the station on their way to a new life...read more

By William H. Miller

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9781445651620 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The federal immigration station on Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, opened on 1 January 1892.

River Severn: From Source to Sea

Product Description: From a water-laden bog in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales to the mighty Bristol Channel, the River Severn carves its way through some of the most picturesque and varied landscapes in the country. River Severn: From Source to Sea follows the entire course of the river, describing its relationship with the surrounding countryside and how it has shaped local inhabitantsâ lives for centuries...read more

By Jan Dobrzynski

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9781445649047 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From a water-laden bog in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales to the mighty Bristol Channel, the River Severn carves its way through some of the most picturesque and varied landscapes in the country.

Boatbuilding: Cold-moulded and Strip-planked Wood

Product Description: Cold-moulded wood boatbuilding predates fibreglass and has been used successfully for sailing dinghies, offshore racing yachts, fast multihulls and powerboats, and even rowing shells. It involves bonding together layers of wood veneers or thin planks to make a strong, lightweight and watertight hull...read more

By Ian Nicolson

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9781445651668 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Cold-moulded wood boatbuilding predates fibreglass and has been used successfully for sailing dinghies, offshore racing yachts, fast multihulls and powerboats, and even rowing shells.

Swinging the Lamp: Thames Estuary Tidal Tales

Product Description: Pure salt water courses through Nick Ardleyâs veins: he was brought up on a Thames spritsail barge and âsailedâ the high seas on ocean going ships. For many years he weaved his way through the Thames estuaryâs tidal creeks and rivers, mostly aboard his clinker sloop, exploring, noting and investigating, with his mate beside him...read more

By Nick Ardley

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9781781554982 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2016, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Pure salt water courses through Nick Ardleyâs veins: he was brought up on a Thames spritsail barge and âsailedâ the high seas on ocean going ships.

Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

Product Description: After every disaster, someone has something to hide.... A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean...read more

By Paul Heitsch (narrator)

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9781511396790 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 3, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: After every disaster, someone has something to hide.

Jadeweserport Wilhelmshaven: Die Entstehung eines Jahrhundertprojektes / The Origins of a Centennial Project

Product Description: With the opening of JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven in autumn 2012 a once-in-a-century project is going into operation. By capturing aesthetic snapshots of the largest deep-water port during ist genesis these portraits by the photographer Heinrich Hecht reveal the beauty of 360 hectares of reclaimed land - sometimes not always at the first glance...read more

By Oskar Baumann, Gotz Greiner (illustrator) and Heinrich Hecht (photographer)

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9783782210560 | Bilingual edition (Maximilian Verlag, May 1, 2016), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: With the opening of JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven in autumn 2012 a once-in-a-century project is going into operation.

HSVA@100: 1913-2013: A century of pivotal research, innovation and progress for the maritime industry

Product Description: In 2013 the Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (HSVA) celebrates its 100th anniversary. This book commemorates its maritime research, innovation and progress driven by their clients and their projects. This book is not a collection of scientific papers, but is an enjoyable celebration of model testing and the resulting products â ships and maritime structures in stormy seas and freezing waters...read more

By Jurgen Friesch, Hollenbach, Peter Neumann and Ostersehite

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9783877001356 | Maximilian Verlag, May 1, 2016, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In 2013 the Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (HSVA) celebrates its 100th anniversary.

First Class Cargo: A History of Combination Cargo-passenger Ships

By William H. Miller

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9780750965088 | History Pr Ltd, May 1, 2016, cover price $35.00

Operation Neptune: The D-day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe

By Craig L. Symonds

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9780190462536 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 2016, cover price $16.95

Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron

By Eric L. Clements

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9781844862894 | Conway Maritime Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $30.00

Hidden History of Maritime New Jersey

Product Description: An estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jerseybut these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls. Ancient arrowheads found on the shoreline of Sandy Hook reveal Native American settlement before the land was flooded by melting glaciers...read more

By Stephen D. Nagiewicz

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9781467118293 | History Pr, April 25, 2016, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: An estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jerseybut these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls.

Boatbuilding on Mount Desert Island

Product Description: Mount Desert Island possesses a rich and diverse history of boatbuilding. Chester Clement was the first of the "lobsteryacht" builders, and Bunker and Ellis elevated the concept. Henry Hinckley started on an old boat-repair wharf and built a world-class brand...read more

By Laurie Schreiber

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9781467118682 | History Pr, April 25, 2016, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Mount Desert Island possesses a rich and diverse history of boatbuilding.

Aboard the Portland: A History of the Northwest Steamers

By Rebecca I. Harrison

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9781492237921 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 23, 2016, cover price $19.99

Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam

By Brian J. Rouleau (introduced by)

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9781623493806, titled "Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail & Steam" | Texas A & M Univ Pr, April 8, 2016, cover price $35.00

Light in the Darkness: A History of Lightships and the People Who Served on Them

Product Description: Light in the Darkness examines the origins of the lightship service, the obstacles and prejudices that faced originators of the idea and the subsequent development of the vessels and working practices over the years. Throughout the centuries, this dangerous occupation has claimed the lives of a number of lightship crews and those who tried to save them...read more

By Liam Clarke

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9781445646589 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2016, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Light in the Darkness examines the origins of the lightship service, the obstacles and prejudices that faced originators of the idea and the subsequent development of the vessels and working practices over the years.

The World Water Speed Record: A History

Product Description: The quest for the Water Speed Record is one of the most dangerous, least forgiving and most unheralded of endeavours. Defined by the fatal crash of Donald Campbell in 1967 on Lake Coniston, it lacks some of the glamour of the land speed record, yet hundreds have made attempts over the years â many with spectacular and sometimes tragic results...read more

By Roy Calley

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9781445655345 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2016, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: The quest for the Water Speed Record is one of the most dangerous, least forgiving and most unheralded of endeavours.

Steamship Travel: The Interwar Years

Product Description: Tourist Third Cabin' offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the Normandie, and the Olympic transported new breeds of tourists between Europe and North America, and dazzled them with their technological marvels and palatial interiors...read more

By Andrew Varias

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9781445649863 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2016, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Tourist Third Cabin' offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen Mary, the Normandie, and the Olympic transported new breeds of tourists between Europe and North America, and dazzled them with their technological marvels and palatial interiors.

Along the Waterfront: Freighters at New York in the 1950s and 1960s

By William H. Miller

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9781445654089 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 19, 2016, cover price $34.95

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