THE SHIPS & SHIP BUILDING
COLLECTION
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A truly unique and wonderful
collection of over 120 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first
time on DVD data disc covering all aspects of SHIPS & SHIP-BUILDING.
Discover the history of ship-building
and vessels of all kinds – from Greek warships to Trans-Atlantic passenger
ships, from sail ships and clippers, to boats and canoes. Read about wooden
boat building, steel ship building, naval architecture, the design process and
the construction of ships. Study the history of ocean shipping, ancient and
modern trade routes, merchant vessels, seamanship and navigation at sea. Learn
about motor boats, steamships and the clipper ships of Great Britain and America. Some of the books contained within this
collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of
reference material. Overall, this is the ultimate collection for anyone with an
interest in the history of ships and ship-building. The full list of titles
included speaks for itself….
This superb compilation of 123
vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous
photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in
high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop,
computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire
books or select pages.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
A
bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825; being a guide to published
lists of early immigrants to North America by
H. Lancour (1913)
A cruising
companion, ships and the sea by E. C. Talbot-Booth (1916)
A floating
home by C. Ionides (1918)
A history of
our firm - being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its
offshoots and connections, 1804-1920 by J. Rankin (1921)
A manual of
naval architecture by W. H. White (1889)
A new
treatise on the practice of navigation at sea - containing all the details
necessary to enable the mariner to become a good practical navigator by W.
Thoms (1902)
A practical
course in wooden boat and ship building by R. M. Van Gaasbeek (1918)
A Sailor-boy's
log-book from Portsmouth
to the Peiho by W. White (1862)
A sketch of
the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents by B.
Woodcroft (1848)
A text-book
of ocean meteorology by A. G. Findlay (1887)
A treatise of
the law relative to merchant ships and seamen, in six parts by C. Abbott (1867)
A treatise on
naval architecture by R. W. Meade (1868)
A treatise on
the stability of ships by E. J. Reed (1885)
All about
ships, With four colour plates and a large number of drawings and photographs
by H. T. Dorling (1912)
American
vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812 (1911)
An
introductory outline of the practice of ship-building by J. Fincham (1825)
Ancient and
modern ships Vol. 1 by G. Holmes (1906)
Ancient mariners
- the story of ships and sea routes by C. D. Forde (1921)
Ancient ships
by C. Torr (1895)
Boat sailing
in fair weather and foul by A. J. Kenealy (1895)
Boat-building
and boating by D. C. Beard (1911)
Boating by W.
B. Woodgate (1888)
Boating trips
on New England rivers by H. P. Fellows (1884)
British
shipping, its history, organization and importance, with a map of main routes
and coaling stations, and full appendices by A. W. Kirkaldy (1914)
Canoe and
boat building by W. P. Stephens (1889)
Captain
Nathaniel Brown Palmer, an old-time sailor of the sea by J. R. Spears (1922)
Clipper ships
of America and Great Britain,
1833-1869 by H. La Grange (1916)
Cold storage,
heating and ventilating on board ship by S. F. Walker (1919)
Concrete
ships by Portland Cement Association (1917)
Electric
lighting for marine engineers; or, How to light a ship by the electric light
and how to keep the apparatus in order, with 134 illustrations by S. F. Walker
(1896)
Electrical
boats and navigation by J. Sachs (1894)
Essay on the
steam boats of the United
States of America by J. Renwick (1913)
Every boy's
book of railways and steamships by E. Protheroe (1911)
Fair winds
& foul - a narrative of daily life aboard an American clipper ship by F.
Perry (1921)
Fifty plates
of shipping and craft by E. W. Cooke (1829)
Handbook of
ship calculations, construction and operation by C. H. Hughes (1917)
Historic
ships by R. S. Holland (1922)
History of
merchant shipping and ancient commerce Vol. 1 by W. S. Lindsay (1874)
History of
merchant shipping and ancient commerce Vol. 2 by W. S. Lindsay (1874)
Instructions
as to the tonnage measurement of ships by Great Britain Board of Trade (1913)
Man on the
ocean. A book for boys by R. M. Ballantyne (1863)
Merchant
vessels by R. Riegel (1921)
Modern
seamanship by A. M. Knight (1921)
Motor boats,
a review of the development and construction of marine motors and motor boats,
their advantages and their future scope by F. Strickland (1917)
Motor boats,
hydroplanes, hydroaeroplanes, construction and operation by T. H. Russell
(1917)
Narrative of
a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-76 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery'
Vol. 1 by G. S. Nares (1878)
Narrative of
a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-76 in H.M. ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery'
Vol. 2 by G. S. Nares (1878)
Nature and
extent of fouling of ships' bottoms by J. P. Visscher (1922)
Naval
architecture a manual on laying-off iron, steel, and composite vessels by T. H.
Watson (1898)
Ocean life in
the old sailing ship days, from forecastle to quarter-deck by J. D. Whidden
(1908)
Ocean Racers
by C. F. Smith (1921)
Ocean
shipping - elements of practical steamship operation by R. E. Annin (1920)
Ocean
shipping by E. W. Zimmermann (1921)
Ocean
steamships - a popular account of their construction, development, management
and appliances by F. E. Chadwick (1891)
Ocean traffic
and trade by B. O. Hough (1921)
Old Marblehead sea captains
and the ships in which they sailed by B. J. Lindsey (1915)
Old shipping
days in Boston by State Street Trust Company (1918)
On marine
motors and motor launches by E. W. Roberts (1901)
On the Action
of Compasses in Iron Ships - article by J. Lilley (1866)
Pen and
pencil sketches of shipping and craft all round the world by R. T. Pritchett
(1899)
Pictures of
ships and the sea by W. R. MacAskill (1912)
Practical
boat-sailing by D. Frazar (1879)
Practical
motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting; a handbook containing information
which every motor boatman should know by C. F. Chapman (1917)
Principles of
ocean transportation by E. R. Johnson (1920)
Rudiments of
Naval Architecture by J. Peake (1855)
Sailing ships
- the story of their development from earliest times to the present day by E.
K. Chatteton (1909)
Sea Witch - a
narrative of the experiences of Capt. Roger Murray and others in an American
clipper ship during the years 1846 to 1856 by A. Laing (1921)
Seagoing and
other concrete ships by N. K. Fougner (1922)
Ship
construction and calculations, with numerous illustrations and examples for the
use of officers of the mercantile marine, ship superintendents, draughtsmen,
etc. by G. Nicol (1909)
Ship wiring
and fitting by T. M. Johnson (1911)
Shipbuilding
from its beginnings Vol. 1 by E. Von Konijnenburg (1913)
Shipbuilding
from its beginnings Vol. 2 by E. Von Konijnenburg (1913)
Shipbuilding
from its beginnings Vol. 3 by E. Von Konijnenburg (1913)
Ship-building
in iron and wood by A. Murray (1863)
Ships &
ways of other days by E. K. Chatterton (1913)
Ships of the
seven seas by H. Daniel (1922)
Some
recollections by Captain Charles P. Low, commending the clipper ships Houqua,
Jacob Bell, Samuel Russell, and N.B. Palmer, in the China trade, 1847-1873 (1906)
Some ships of
the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains by State Street
Trust Company (1913)
Specifications
for construction of steel cargo steamers by Columbia river
ship building corporation (1916)
Stability and
equilibrium of floating bodies by B. C. Laws (1914)
Standardization
of ship materials by F. T. Llewellyn (1919)
Steam
navigation by B. Woodcroft (1847)
Steam vessels
and marine engines by G. F. Howell (1896)
Steamship
conquest of the world by F. A. Talbot (1912)
Steam-ships -
the story of their development to the present day by R. A. Fletcher (1910)
Steamships
and their machinery from first to last by J. W. C. Haldane (1893)
Steamships
and their story by E. K. Chatterton (1910)
Steel ships,
their construction and maintenance - a manual for shipbuilders, ship
superintendents, students, and marine engineers by T. Walton (1901)
Stem to
stern; or, Building the boat by O. Optic (1886)
Stowage and
dangerous cargo by H. K. Barr (1918)
Stowage of
ship cargoes by United
States. War Trade Board. Bureau of Research
(1919)
Text-book of
theorectical naval architecture by E. L. Attwood (1917)
The Atlantic
ferry; its ships, men, and working by A. J. Maginnis (1900)
The British
merchant service; being a history of the British mercantile marine from the
earliest times to the present day by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
The
capability of steam ships, based on the mutual relations of displacement,
power, and speed illustrated by tables,
adapted for mercantile reference by C. Atherton (1854)
The China
clippers by B. Lubbock (1914)
The clipper
ship era; an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their
owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869 by A. H. Clark (1910)
The Clyde
passenger steamers - its rise and progress during the nineteenth century from the 'Comet' of 1812 to the 'King Edward'
of 1901 by J. Williamson (1904)
The colonial
clippers by B. Lubbock (1921)
The electric
propulsion of ships by H. M. Hobart (1911)
The Greek
Warship (article) by W. W. Tarn (1905)
The handbook
of iron shipbuilding by T. Smith (1869)
The history
of North Atlantic steam navigation, with some
account of early ships and shipowners by H. Fry (1896)
The history
of the British convict ship Success and its most notorious prisoners by unknown
author (1912)
The Homeric
catalogue of ships by T. W. Allen (1921)
The
illustrated guide to the Royal Navy and foreign navies, also mercantile marine
steamers available as armed cruisers and transport by F. T. M. Gibbs (1896)
The magnetism
of ships, and the mariner's compass by W. Walker
(1853)
The Marine
room of the Peabody Museum of Salem
by J. Robinson (1921)
The marvel
book of American ships by O. P. Jackson (1917)
The marvels
of the ship; the story of the development of the ship from the earliest times
by E. K. Chatterton (1921)
The Oseberg
ship by A. W. Brogger (1921)
The romance
of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution by E. K. Chatterton (1911)
The sailing
ships of New England, 1607-1907 by J. Robinson
(1922)
The sea; its history
and romance Vol. 1 by F. C. Bowen (1921)
The story of
the New England whalers by J. R. Spears (1910)
The theory
and design of British shipbuilding by A. L. Ayre (1921)
Theoretical
naval architecture; a treatise on the calculations involved in naval design
Vol. 1 by S. J. Pope (1877)
Theoretical
naval architecture; a treatise on the calculations involved in naval design
Vol. 2 by S. J. Pope (1877)
Trans-Atlantic
passenger ships, past and present by E. W. Smith (1917)
Wooden hull
inspection & repair manual by United States. Coast Guard.
Merchant Marine Technical Division (1900)
Wooden
ship-building by C. Desmond (1919)
An absolute must
for anyone with an interest in ships, ship-building, naval architecture, steam
navigation and the history of shipping – an unbelievable treasure trove of
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