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Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white plates. Some edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword; The Birth of an Industry; The Maritime Square-rigged Vessel; Shipbuilders in Nova Scotia; Shipbuilders in New Brunswick; Shipbuilders in Prince Edward Island; Building a Wooden Vessel; The Mariners; The Ship's Business; Navigational Aids to Shipping; and Of Men and Ships; followed by an Epilogue and an index..

Stornoway, Scotland: Acair, 1997. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 201 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: A Scotsman: Famous but Unknown; The Long Shadow of Culloden; Cockpit of the Caribbean; Beyond the Dreams of Avarice; Portents of Things to Come; It Was All a Question of Class; Bare Poles and Battened Hatches; A Parable for Our Time; The Not So Friendly Islands; In Search of Paradise; Extracts from a Minor Classic; A Plot to Murder Bligh; Morrison's Ship; Locked in Pandora's Box; A Narrow Escape from the Gallows; Conscious of My Own Innocence; King of a South Sea Island; A Tale of Two Gunners; Morrison Gets to Culloden; Back to the Wickedest Town; Lost with All Hands; and A Representative Island Seaman..

London: Arrow Books, 1972. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 256 pp. Edge and corner wear with creasing on the spine; some rippling and some light discolouration on the lower right corner of the text block; not store stamped. The Contents are: The King's Left Hand; Sir Henry Morgan; Captain William Kidd; Captain Woodes Rogers; and Dusk of the Sweet Trade; followed by a glossary of sea terms..

New York: Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xxvi) 310 pp. Black boards lettered in silver on the spine; endpaper maps; headband; illustrated with maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Preface to the New Edition: Still They Go. The Nine Little Ships: Will Require One Fireman; The Usual Time in the Morning; Father and Son; A Lifebuoy on the Beach. Battleship: The Battleship Sao Paulo. Black Frost: Mayday; Dodging to Death. The Five Sealers: Off Jan Mayen. Passenger Ship: The Mystery of the Waratah; The Inquiry. Sailing Ship: Two School Ships. The Fishermen of Brittany: Six Ships - Seventy Men. and Tramps: The Oil Tanker; Improperly Ballasted; and Must the Men Die Too..

Toronto: Frederick D. Goodchild, 1918. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. 123 pp. This is an ex-University of Victoria library copy with very few library markings. Blue cloth lettered in silver on the front panel and spine; black and white frontis photograph of the author in his naval uniform. Light wear at the corners with some discolouration on the front panel; previous owner's name inside..

London: Macdonald and Company - Queen Anne Press, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 255 pp. Blue boards decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. The Chapters are: PART ONE: INSTRUMENT OF SURVIVAL: From the Tudors to VJ Day: Four Centuries of Sea Power 1509 - 1919; Two Decades of Decline 1919 - 1939; Poor Relations 1943 - 1945; Retrospect 1945: The Last Lesson. PART TWO: THE INSTRUMENT DEMOLISHED 1945 - 1985: Demobilisation and Austerity 1945 - 1948; The Birth of NATO 1949 - 1950; From Korea to Suez 1950 - 1956; Suez and After: The Fatal Reaction; Submarine Revolution Carrier Debate; The Doomsday Ships: Into the Polaris Era; Nineteen-Sixties: The Deadly Decade; The Long Bleed: 1966 - 1982; The Falklands War March - June 1982; and Falklands Aftermath: On Course for Disaster; followed by notes and an index..

Windsor, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and a map. The Contents are: The Mysterious Sable Island; Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Sable; Pioneering Canada: La Roche's Sable Settlement; The Sable Slaughterhouse of Acadians and New Englanders; The Sable Sea-Hospital of Boston's LeMercier and Company; Sable Victims: Shipwrecks of the Early English Period; A Sable Ghost Story and a Solved Mystery; Sir John Wentworth's Sable Island Humane Establishment; Life as a Sable Colonist; More Sable Victims: Shipwrecks of Sable's Humane Era; The End of Shipwrecks and the Sable Island Pony; Canada's Exploration of Sable; and Sable Now: A Question of the Meaning of Life..

London: Christopher Johnson, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 208 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges and some fading on the spine; chipped at the head of the spine; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper, H. D. Campbell, supposedly a member of the author's family. The Contents are: Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans; A Malta Convoy; Operation Dynamo; A Woman's Story; North Atlantic Battles; Open Boats; The Amateur Doctor; Russian Convoy; The Surface Raider; The Joessing Fjord Incident; War in the Far East; Every Time Lucky; and The Merchant Navy Returns; followed by an epilogue..

London: Macmillan and Company, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 240 pp. Green cloth decorated in gilt on the spine. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Two Sea Stories: The Voyage of the Argonauts - The Odyssey; The Ancient World: The Mediterranean Scene; The Ancient World: The Ships; The Ancient World: Navies, Battles and Admirals; The Vikings; The Northern Ships; Prelude to the Renaissance; The Century of Progress; The Discovery of the World; The Seamen's War; The Seamen's Victory and Betrayal; Foundations of Empire; The Making of a Navy; Toward's Nelson's Navy; Buccaneers, Privateers, Pirates, Smugglers; Round the World Again; The Merchant Service; and The Swan Song of Sail; followed by: Appendix 1: The Hakluyt Society and Others; Appendix 2: On the Use of Public Libraries; Index to the Text; and Index to the Bibliography..

London: David and Charles, 1985. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Revised Edition. 8vo. 191 pp. Orange boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Contents are: There's a Ship Out There Somewhere; The First Expedition Begins; I Need to Borrow Your Ice Breaker; The Final Attempt; On Board the Breadalbane; and Arctic Maritime History..

Middlesex, England: Nauticalia, 2002. Book. Illus. by Gwyn Hughes;. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 199 pp. First revised edition. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Dj painting of Winston Churchill petting a ship's cat by Gwyn Hughes. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Eighty-one stories of ships' cats through history, from Evolution of Ship's Cats to Churchill of HMS Prince of Wales, from Lucky and Tommy D-Day Heroes to Oskar of the Bismarck through The Cat that Caught a Seafull and The Cat that Stowed Away to America and on to Mummified Egyptian Cats Shipped to Liverpool, Cat O'Nine Tails and The World's Great Explorers, followed by an index..

Toronto: Coles Publishing, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xiv) 381 pp. Burgundy cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel; decorated in black and gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. This reproduces the 1898 William Briggs edition. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: The Dawn of Steam Navigation; Early Years of Steam Navigation; The Cunard Steamship Company; North Atlantic Steamship Companies; Steam to India and the East; Steam in the British Navy; The St Lawrence Route; Steam on the Great Lakes; Steam Commerce of the Great Lakes; and Steam Navigation in all the Provinces of the Dominion and in Newfoundland..

London: Frederick Muller, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. 8vo. 416 pp. Gray cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; short scratch and a small scuff mark on the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Cause and Effect; The Submarine Goes to War; U-Boats and Q-Boats; The First Grim Reckoning; History Repeats; The Battle of the North Atlantic; The Pistol at Pearl Harbour; We Got Up at Nine; and Raids and Rewards; followed by: Conclusion; Facts and Figures; Glossary; Bibliography; and an index..

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 203 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This contains far too many stories to list them all here but some of the highlights are: Charles Henry Jeremiah Snider 1879 - 1971 - The Skipper; About the Old Schooners; Stonehookers; Last Coal of Last Century; At the Foot of the Highlands; Highland Creek and Rouge River; Frenchman's Bay; Gunboat Times on the Great Lakes; Millhaven and the Oliver Mowat; Toronto's Timbermen; Sails Still Shimmer on Napanee River; Why the Topmasts Were Sent Down; What Is a Shellback; Sending a Schooner Over Niagara Falls; and many more..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986. Book. Illus. by Alan Daniels;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 256 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; faint impression of a previous owner's name, once written in pencil, on the half-title page, no other interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: The Birth of the Royal Canadian Navy; In the Beginning; The Highest Award for Valour; Training Ships; Combined Operations; Pomp and Circumstance; Dunkirk; Battles in the English Channel; Battles with U-Boats; Survivors; and Yarns Spun in the Dogwatches..

Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1958. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 233 pp. Penguin Book 1329. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams. Translated by Michael Bullock. Foreword by Jacques Yves Cousteau; Introduction by Philippe Tailliez. The Chapters are: The Plans; The Night of 15 - 16 May 1953; The Launching; The Data of the Problem; Small Dives; The First Big Descent; The End of a Cycle; An Alarm in the Sphere; A Ride in a Canyon; First Contacts with the Atlantic; Minus 4050 Metres; and First Steps in the Field of Science; followed by an epilogue and a technical description..

London: John Baker, 1971. Book. Illus. by Charles Gorbing-King; Cecil Bacon;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 127 pp. Red boards with a small silver pictorial on the front panel; lettered in silver on the spine. Illustrated with line drawings by Charles Gorbing-King and with maps by Cecil Bacon. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword; The Raiders; The Fight for Survival; Swans of the Sea God; The Pagans; Two Viking Kings - Olaf Tryggvason and Harald the Ruthless; Attack on the West; Byzantium and the Varangian Guard; Explorers of the North Atlantic; How We Found Out the Facts About the Vikings; and Appendix: Details of the Sizes of the Viking Ships at Oslo, Roskilde and Ladby; followed by an index..

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. Book. Illus. by Thomas Summerscales;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (vi) 183 pp. Green Boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The dustjacket features A Barque Running Before a Gale by Thomas Summerscales, courtesy of the National Maritime Museum. The Chapters are: The Monstrous Ocean; Gone Missing; The Fire Bug; The Riddle of the Gaul; The Phantoms; Enigma Variations; Icebound; Crack Up; Ghost Story; Less than Innocent; and The Ice Ship..

Glasgow, Scotland: Allan T. Conie Publications - Waverley Excursions, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 4to. 96 pp. Oversized softcover. Light wear on the corners with a partial crease on the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. The Chapters are: Waverley - The Early Years; Waverley Enters Service; Summer Days; A Paddler's Varied Duties; The Changing Face of Waverley; Waverley in Difficulties; The End or the Beginning; Waverley Recalled; The 1960s Excursion Fleet; The Preservation Era; A Purser's Perspective; 1981 - A Special Year; Camping at Sea; A View from the Bridge; Far from the Firth; Westward Ho; The Land of the Ever Young; Waverley's Wanderings; Home Waters; Ice Snow and Gales; Waverley's Mighty Engine; Enthusiasm - A Vital Ingredient; Quite a Story to Tell; At Home on the Clyde; and A Future with Bright Opportunity..

St. John's, Newfoundland: Flanker Press Limited, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 164 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The Chapters are: Rose Blanche and Me; The Caribou Disaster; Death March: The Story of a Sealing Disaster; Survived Because of Love: Cecil Mouland's Story; Death March: Wesley Collin's Story; The Florizel Disaster; The Florizel Disaster: Kitty Cantwell's Story; Tragedy at St. Jacques Island: The Katherine Fiander Story; Mutiny on the SS Diana; The Leicester: Saved by Newfoundlanders; The Loss of the Hope; The Empress of Scotland: Captain John Wallace Thomas; John Cabot Landed at Torbray; and Cassie Brown - The Writer..