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PAASCH'S ILLUSTRATED MARINE DICTIONARY (import)
Paasch, Captain H. (ISBN 0-85177-700-7)
1997 (First pub. 1885) HC, 220 pages, 85 pages line drawings, W/INDEX
This remarkable book was first published under the title"From Keel to Truck". An exhaustive explaination of all principal
parts of a ship's structure and equipment. He describes with illust. , the main types of steam and sailing vessels;wooden
and iron hulls;propulsion machinery;anchors and related equiptment;masts, spars, rigging, knots, splices etc. and tables
of standard measurments. Definitions are set out in three vertical columns, English, French and German. Price $28.95 + S/H
ASTERN BUSINESS: 75 Years of U. K. Shipbuilding (import)
Parker, Geo. H.
1996, PB, 119 pages, 55 photographs. ISBN 0-905617-80-0
The story of the progress and demise of the United Kingdom ship building Industry. Price $23.95 + S/H
LIGHTHOUSES
Pearson, Lynn F.
PB, 32 pages, 43 illustrations, 0 7478 0257 0
The story of the lighthouse is as fascinating and diverse as the design of the buildings themselves. This book relates
the story of their construction , often in desperately dangerous and stormy conditions, looks at the lives of their keepers
and the complex lighting systems in their care, and considers how automation has changed the modern lighthouse. There is a gazetteer of about 180 lights around the British Isles. Price $5.95 + S/H
NORWEGIAN AMERICAN LINE, 1910-1995 (import)
Pedersen, Bjorn and F. W. Hawks
1995, PB, 80 pages, 114 photographs. 108 ships. ISBN 0-905617-79-7
This book covers 85 years trade from the early days of immigration to North America to the current operation of large car-carring vessels trading worldwide. Price $18.95 + S/H
The Bard Brothers:Painting American Steam and Sail
Peluso, Jr. , Anthony J.
1997. HC. 175 pages. 152 illus. index/bibliog. ISBN 0-8109-1240-6
THE BARD BROTHERS: Painting America Under Sail and Steam. By the Mariner's Museum with A. J. Peluso, Jr.
Surveys paintings of twin brothers who became the greatest chroniclers of the steamboat era. Abundant;selection of
portraits, regarded as folk art because of their naive style, but sharply observed and meticulously detailed. 152 illustrations. 121 in color. (10 1/4"X 8 1/4") Price $35. 00 + S/H
THE NOURSE LINE
Perry, F. W. & Laxon, W. A.
1991. PB. 56 pages. Index of ships. ISBN 0-905617-62-2
A company which operated one of the last great sailing ship fleets. Nourse Line became part of the P&O Group in 1917. 56 pages, 59 photographs, 69 ships. Price $14.95 + S/H (import)
MYSTIC BUILT:Ships and Shipyards of the Mystic River, Connecticut, 1784-1919
Peterson, William N.
1989, HC, 254 pages, 201 illus. , appendix, Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-913372-51-X
From the shipyards of Mystic and Noank came nearly 2, 000 vessels, including clipper ships, Civil War steamships, deep
-water merchant ships, and coastal barges. Part one contains histories of individual Mystic shipyards. Part two contains
biographies of 563 known vessels built at Mystic. Profusely illust. , will be of great interest to scholars and maritime enthusiasts. Price $36. 00 + S/H
SEA WAR 1939-1945
Piekaalkiewicz, Janusz
1980, HC, 353 pages, 307 illustrations. ISBN 0-7137-1665-7
Winston Churchill wrote that nothing had caused him more concern during 1939-45 than the U-boat threat in the
Atlantic. SEA WAR is an exhaustive chronological account of every theatre and every major event in which one of the
combatant navies took part. Factual, objective and obsorbing, Sea War draws on sources as diverse as official reports,
propaganda documents and press accounts. An indispensable reference source for historians of the Second WW and for all those interested in naval history. Price $29.95 + S/H
THE MARY:The Story of No. 534
Potter, Neil and Frost, JACK
1998, PB, 262 PAGES, REVISED AND UPDATED BY FROST, lINDSAY. ISBN 1900867028
A complete and up-to-date narrative history-from the decision, in 1926, to build the first ever 1000ft liner and the maiden
voyage of R. M. S. Queen Mary ten years later, right up to her present use as an hotel and conference centre in Long Beach, California. Price $31.95 + S/H
SHIPWRECKS ON THE VIRGINIA COAST and The Men of the United States Life-Saving Service
Pouliot, A. Richard and Julie Pouliot
2nd printing 1994, HC, ISBN 0 87033 352 6
1874 -1915. On the Atlantic Coast of Virginia, scarcely 100 miles long, between 1874 and 1915 more than 600 incidents
occurred in which the Life Saving Service was involved. Nearly 7, 000 lives were imperiled in the stranding of vessels. Of
these, only 102 lives were lost and only 220 vessels were wrecked beyond hope. Names, statistics, and illustrations are given. Valuable reference book. Price $18.95 + S/H
A CELEBRATION OF THE SEA
Prentice, Rina (Foreword by Hugh Scully)
1994. HC. 120 pages. (9"x11")Index. Biblo. ISBN 0-11-290531-5
Art collection from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich England. These objects, most of which date from the
eighteenth and nineteeth centuries, and the stories that they tell will hold a wide fascination for antique lovers and
collectors, maritime and general historians and all those interested in ships and the sea. Price $39.95 + S/H (import)
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