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Description » This up-to-date standard reference is a must have for every mariner's bookshelf. Compiled by Captain Jeffrey Monroe, Master Mariner and Director of the Department of Ports and Transportation for Portland, Maine, and Captain Robert Stewart, Ph.D., Chair of the Business Administration Department at the California Maritime Academy, Dictionary of Maritime and Transportation Terms is as complete a maritime dictionary as has ever been available on the market. From the Cornell Maritime Press.

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Description » Highly qualified “NAVSPEAK” linguists, the Cutlers have built upon the original work, culling, adding, and bringing the entries up to date for the twenty-first century. Official abbreviations like NGA are included as well as such colorful, unofficial vocabulary as SNAFU. Helpful notations of word origins for the very old and very new make definitions even clearer. From the US Naval Institute Press.

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Description » For this completely revised and fully updated edition, Deborah Cutler and Thomas Cutler identify and clearly define a vast array of terms that can make documents and conversations with naval professionals so bewildering. Highly qualified “NAVSPEAK” linguists, the Cutlers have built upon the original works, culling, adding, and bringing the entries up to date for the twenty-first century. From the US Naval Institute Press.

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Description » This is an online book from the Historic Naval Ships Association. The Text Book of Seamanship, 1891, is an updated age of sail textbook at the beginning of the true transition of warships from sail to steam power. Original text by Stephen Bleecker Luce, Commodore, U. S. N.

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Description » A Most Fortunate Ship: A Narrative History of Old Ironsides", Revised Edition by Authors:

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Description » A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by Author's Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, and J. Worth Estes

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Description » Basically about Percy & Small and their schooners, this is a wonderful book filled with interesting photos and plans (some of which are foldouts) and detailed descriptions of schooners built by the yard between 1894 and 1920. There is also a great deal about the actual construction of the ships, liberally illustrated with photos taken on site as they were being built. The book is a treasure for anyone interested in schooners. I bought it sight unseen, based only on a description posted by Amazon and I'm very pleased with it.

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Description » This book is published by Osprey publishing which does a lot of quick reference books for modelers sold generally in hobby stores. It is an 8 x 10 paperback with glossy paper. It has a brief history the American Humphreys class frigates, i.e United States, Constitution, President etc for a total of 18 ships. It ONLY covers those frigates. It is basically a drawn out encyclopedia entry (48 pages) with some color plates and drawings. A couple showing mast layouts that might be useful to modelers. A cut away of the Constitution's deck layout is also included. This is mainly a historical quick reference book as such, useful pictures/info for modeling is lacking. It works good for those with limited space or budget (it's cheap) for a full library. JI give it roughly 1 out of 5 for modeling and 3 out of 5 for historical info.

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Description » The anchor is one of the most important pieces of equipment on any vessel and one of the most common motifs and symbols on land--appearing in heraldic designs, on pub signs, and in churchyard sculpture, among other places. This book explains how the first simple pierced stones developed through the killick into the modern devices of today that hold the heaviest super tankers. No nautical archaeologist, naval historian, modelmaker, yachtsman, or boatswain should be without this basic reference book on the subject. By Betty Nelson Curryer

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Description » This revised edition features accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive drawings. In addition to these, a colour representation of Bounty on the jacket provides a useful painting guide, on the back of which is a beautifully folded large scale plan of the ship. by John McKay

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Description » For anyone interested in sailing ships and boats that used to ply the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, this book provides a world of old photos taken between the 1920´s to about the 1970´s. The book includes pictures of Log Canoes, Bugeyes, Pungies, Sloops, Two - masted Schooners, Rams, Skipjacks and Three - and Four masted Schooners. I think it could be a useful source to anyone wanting to know what this ships really looked liked and what they were used for. There are also some good pictures of abandoned vessels in decay. Along with some of the pictures, you can also find a brief history of the ship / boat and what happened to it. If you like books like this, I highly recommend it. By Robert H. Burgess

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Description » As a book from the American Heritage Junior Library, one might not expect too much from a "childrens book". It is in fact a short but fascinating read covering the rise of trans-oceanic sea commerce, through the clipper era and into it's fade from glory.

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Description » The turn of the sixteenth century saw the start of a revolution in warfare at sea - A revolution long in the making, remarkably swift once begun. The driving force was gunpowder, the principale agents the galley and galleon. A beautifully written account of the age conveys exactly how a country like Portugal could establish outposts from South America to the Pacific, how Christian fleets wrested control of the Mediterranean from the Ottoman Empire, and why the "invincible" Spanish armada met with disaster in its attempt to invade England. A vivid page-turner.

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Description » Lauded as one of the finest books in the field of naval history, this comprehensive account of sixteenth-century galley warfare includes detailed descriptions of all major actions in the Mediterranean and around the Arabian peninsula. First published in 1974 and recently revised, the work is packed with technological insights into the strategy and tactics of galley warfare between the Ottoman Empire and its Spanish and Portuguese opponents. An expert analysis of the struggle between Christian Europe and Ottoman Turky in the sixteenth century.

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Description » Want an extraordinary book for your Coffee Table? The extraordinary photography in this book was inspired by the author's reading of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels. In small museums along the English coast, and in private collections, McGuane has recorded artifacts recovered from shipwrecks and preserved by modern conservation techniques. Taken together, these unique treasures provide a window onto the everyday life of sailors and officers in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic era............By James P. McGuane

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