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  • Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

    by Nathan Lipfert ...
    From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse. Celebrating the bicentennial of Maine, historian Nathan Lipfert, in cooperation with the Maine Maritime Museum explores the rich history of Maine shipbuilding. Though concentrating primarily on shipbuilding activity in the two centuries since statehood, the ... Read more

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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

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  • Reign of Iron

    The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

    by James L. Nelson ...

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sea of Gray

    The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah

    by Tom Chaffin ...
    "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." —Nathaniel PhilbrickThe sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Duel Between the First Ironclads

    by William C. Davis ...
    One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of ... Read more

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  • Last Flag Down

    The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship

    by John Baldwin, Ron Powers ...
    As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider’s name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty ... Read more

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  • HMS Terror

    The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship

    by Matthew Betts ...
    In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest technologies for polar service and, at the time, were the most advanced sailing vessels developed for Polar exploration. Both ships, but especially HMS ... Read more

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  • Outer Banks Shipwrecks

    Graveyard of the Atlantic

    by Mary Ellen Riddle ...
    Series series Images of America
    Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Weather, geography, war, piracy, and human error have all contributed to this dense shipwreck zone. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship ... Read more

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  • Lost Maine Coastal Schooners

    From Glory Days to Ghost Ships

    by Ingrid Grenon ...
    Dramatic true stories of New England maritime history, with photos.Large, wooden-hulled schooners graced the seas of coastal Maine for more than a century as vessels of trade and commerce. With the advent of steam-powered craft, however, these elegant four-, five-, or six-masted wooden ships became obsolete and vanished from the harbors and horizons.The Edward Lawrence, the last of the six-masters ... Read more

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  • USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit

    The War of 1812 on the Great Lakes

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 79 - Duel
    The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.Carrying between 12 and 22 cannon, the British and American sloops-of-war were ship-rigged, brig-rigged or schooner-rigged vessels. Lakes actions often involved two ships facing each other broadside to broadside, the best example of ... Read more

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  • Lightning Beneath the Sea

    The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age

    by James M. Tabor ...
    The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world.In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mayday!

    Shipwrecks, Tragedies & Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore

    by Van Field ...
    From dramatic rescues to coastal catastrophes, a riveting collection of maritime lore from the eastern shore of Long Island.Since the mid-1600s, eastern Long Island's shoals, sandbars, and assorted submerged hazards have caused many an unlucky vessel to become shipwrecked. The frequency of wrecks rose to a grim crescendo during the mid-nineteenth century, as New York and New England peaked as ... Read more

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