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  • Captain Cook's Merchant Ships

    Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery

    While the story of Endeavour is widely known, Captain Cook sailed with eight ships, which began their lives as merchant vessels. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these vessels and the people who sailed in them. In placing these ships and people in the personal, political, social, financial, scientific and religious contexts of their times, this book provides a comprehensive and ... Leer más

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  • The Yorkshire Mary Rose

    The Ship 'General Carleton' of Whitby

    The ship 'General Carleton' was built in Whitby in 1777 and sank off the coast of Poland in 1785. When she was excavated in the 1990s a wide range of artefacts were recovered many of which, due to being coated in tar from the ship's cargo, were in a remarkable state of preservation - most notably a unique collection of sailors' clothing. It is because of the picture these objects give us about ... Leer más

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  • True Stories from Nova Scotia's Past

    CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring people who don't make it into conventional history books. These incredible accounts include: the plot ... Leer más

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  • The Challenge

    Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812

    In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant shipping, the lifeblood of British defence.War polarised America. The ... Leer más

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  • The Bounty

    The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

    Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this ... Leer más

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  • Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany

    A Ditty Bag of Wonders from the Golden Age of Sail

    Lt Cdr Julian Stockwin shares his love and knowledge of the sea in this entertaining collection of maritime stories and little-known trivia. Featuring nautical facts and feats, including superstitions at sea, the history of animals on the waves - until 1975 when all animals were banned from Royal Navy ships - and how the inventor of the umbrella helped man the British Navy, it is packed with ... Leer más

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  • Plunder & Pillage

    Atlantic Canada's Brutal and Bloodthirsty Pirates and Privateers

    For over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada's east coast. Pirates roamed the North Atlantic, and master storyteller Harold Horwood recounts their action-filled careers, crimes and violent deaths. Privateerslicenced by governments to harass the enemyaimed to capture enemy ships and plunder their cargo.Among the characters readers meet in these pages are the folk hero, ... Leer más

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  • Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John

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    de William Henry ...
    The tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group, 2,000 never made it to their destination, killed by disease and hunger during the voyages, their ... Leer más

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  • Four Years on the Great Lakes, 1813-1816

    The Journal of Lieutenant David Wingfield, Royal Navy

    David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806, at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months. Following his release, Wingfield had some intriguing adventures on the Upper Great Lakes before returning to England. Once home, he used his handwritten notes, kept during his time in North America, as ... Leer más

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  • Tars

    Life in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War

    de Tim Clayton ...
    Tars is a gripping firsthand account of life in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War, from which Britain emerged as the world's major power.Through the lives of the main protagonists - a small band of sailors from across the ranks - Trafalgar author Tim Clayton paints a vivid picture of the navy and the era at its bloodiest and most tempestuous phase, beginning in 1758. From close-quarter ... Leer más

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  • Endeavour

    The Ship That Changed the World

    de Peter Moore ...
    "A joy of a biography, offering up a blizzard of maritime and political fascinations . . . an immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." —Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped a... ... Leer más

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  • Atlantic's Last Stop

    Courage, Folly, and Lies in the White Star Line's Worst Disaster Before Titanic

    de Bob Chaulk ...
    In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1873—as the lookouts looked, the steersman steered, and the captain slept—something was happening to the SS Atlantic. The tide had quietly carried the White Star Line ocean liner twelve miles off course, and land was closer than anybody realized—or was willing to believe. The wreck of the SS Atlantic would become the worst transatlantic passenger ship disaster ... Leer más

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