A History of Greek-Owned Shipping

Gelina Harlaftis

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• This study provides the most comprehensive history of the development of modern Greek shipping ever published, from the mid-nineteenth century to the ... Lees meer

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Joseph Gibbs

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shor... Lees meer

Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War

David Syrett

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spai... Lees meer

Captains Contentious

Louis Arthur Norton

• Hardcover | Studies in Maritime History
• Offers insights into a quirky quintet of naval heroes of the American Revolution. This book observes that many of the captains of the Continental Navy... Lees meer

Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter

Alvah F Hunter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• This memoir begins with the sixteen-year-old Hunter's plaintive efforts to enlist in the Navy. At a time when the Union was about to announce its firs... Lees meer

Captain James Carlin

Colin Carlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces Captain James Carlin is a biography of a sh... Lees meer

Abandoned Ocean

Andrew Gibson, Arthur Donovan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A concise analysis of the decay of the merchant marine through the failed policies that have been imposed upon the industry The Abandoned Ocean offers... Lees meer

A History of Greek-Owned Shipping

Gelina Harlaftis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• This study provides the most comprehensive history of the development of modern Greek shipping ever published, from the mid-nineteenth century to the ... Lees meer

John P. Holland, 1841-1914

Richard Knowles Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• The standard biography of the man who pioneered the modern submarine A classic of maritime history updated with new information, John P. Holland, 1841... Lees meer

Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition

Roger Morriss

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• How one British admiral changed the course of naval history Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition documents the long and varied career of Admira... Lees meer

Confederate Shipbuilding

William N Still

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned fac... Lees meer

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

John M. Brooke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of ... Lees meer

Lifeline of the Confederacy

Stephen R Wise

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy was able to sustain its military forces due to a lifeline of steam propelled blockade runners. And now, for ... Lees meer

Confederate Privateers

William Morrison Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Recounts the exploits of the Confederacy's privately armed ships and of the sailors known as "gentlemen adventurers" The Confederate Privateers recoun... Lees meer

Iron Afloat

William N Still

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Everyone knows the story of the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack. But how many people know the story behind the Confederacy's attempt to build ... Lees meer

A Maritime History of the United States

K Jack Bauer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A Maritime History of the United States is a pioneering study of the role of civilian maritime activities in the development of the United States. It ... Lees meer

The Defeat of the German U-Boat

David Syrett

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• The Defeat of the German U-Boats explains the significance and the outcome of World War II's most important naval campaign in the European theater-the... Lees meer

Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

Nicholas A Lambert

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• An award winning account of British Naval Policy before World War I For most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval poli... Lees meer

Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, 1806-1811

Evabeth Miller Kienast, John Phillip Felt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of B... Lees meer

Patroons & Periaguas

Lynn B Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free Africa... Lees meer

A Sea of Misadventures

Amy Mitchell-Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to und... Lees meer

Guardian of Savannah

Roger S Durham

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy Built out of sand and mud, Fo... Lees meer

Promotion or the Bottom of the River

John M Stickney

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during seve... Lees meer

USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Maritime History
• Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sa... Lees meer