Octavo, paperbound / softbound (stiff, photo. illus. slick wrappers), 127 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships that have met their fates in Florida waters. Potentially more than 5,000 shipwrecks reside off Florida's 1,200 miles of coastline, with hundreds more lost in the state's interior rivers. In and of itself, the Florida Keys archipelago, consisting of approximately 1,700 islands stretching 200 miles, is littered with the remains of close to 1,000 shi... View More...
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Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing Company, (1986).
Seller ID: 71294bd
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 191 pp. Very Good+, in a Very Good+ dust jacket. From dust jacket: From the moment we start thinking about sailing offshore, we're taught the sextant is a device that is not to be tampered with. This can be risky business for the ocean voyager, for celestial navigation can be only as precise as the instrument itself. Daily use, a bump, a jostle, temperature, humidity, even long periods of non-use, can throw the instrument off.. And if that most catastrophic of all events occurs and the sextant is dropped, most navigators will have a real prob... View More...
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (1967).
Seller ID: 9505
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, viii, 266 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear. From dust jacket: Among United States naval historians there has been a marked tendency to ignore South America. This study of the navy's activities during the final years of the Wars of Independence in Chile and Peru makes an important contribution toward filling that gap. Concentrating his attention on the activities of a succession of naval commanders who manned the Pacific Station from 1817 to 1825, Mr. Billingsley points out their often conflicting orders to ma... View More...
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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1980).
Seller ID: 2543qms
Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 372 pp. Near-Fine, with a tape repaired dust jacket (still, attractive). From dust jacket: The character of the navies of the world changed enormously during the nineteenth century: steam supplanted sail, iron replaced wood, ordnance was improved. John Mercer Brooke, who entered the United States Navy in 1841, was both a witness and key contributor to this evolution. While in the navy he distinguished himself first as a naval scientist and designer. He invented an effective deep-sea sounding lead which eventually made possible the laying... View More...
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1985].
Seller ID: 17524scs
Signed by the Author (Twice). Square octavo, paperbound (stapled, stiff full-color illus. wrappers), 48 pp. Very Good+, with light rubbing to covers. Illustrated with numerous photos, drawings. The HMS Warrior marks the most importatn turning point in the whole history of the evolution of the warship. Her design straddles the sail and steam eras; she was a fully rigged sailing ship but she also had steam driven machinery; she had broadside batteries some of the guns had rifled barrels; her hull was iron and armoured but the sailors lived in similar conditions to those of Nelson's day. View More...
Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 246 pp. Good+, with sunned spine and edgewear, neat former-owner stamps and light foxing (age darkened spotting). From Preface: These stories have been arranged in chronological order and contain references to the history of their periods. They constitute, accordingly, something in the nature of a summary, in broad outline, of the history of piracy in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean and the West Indies, from the earliest times until its decline in the eighteenth century. The book is intended for all those people whose admiration of the heroes of advent... View More...
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New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., [1975]. First American Edition.
Seller ID: 70611s
Small octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 215 pp. Full-color plates. Very Good+, with light edgewear and foxing (age darkening) to endpapers, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. View More...
Signed by the Author on ffep. Octavo, black pebbled boards (hardcover), xi, 106 pp. Near-Fine. From Foreword: Most available literature on the subject of ocean transportation is concerned with the myriad details of freight traffic management and the handling and documentation of cargo. The vitally important, albeit controversial, subject of ship management is usually treated in a rather summary fashion, often consisting of little more than an organization chart of some steamship company, together with short descriptions of the employees' duties..... There are some good reasons for this d... View More...
Square octavo, illus. blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations, gilt edges, card-stock pages, [24] pp. Illustrated. Good+, with darkened spine and lightly soiled covers, heavy foxing (age darkened spotting) throughout. Come, see the Dolphin's Anchor forg'd -- tis at a white heat now: The bellows ceased, the flames decreased -- though on the forge's brow/The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound/And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round, All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare; Some rest upon their sledges here, some work ... View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated wrappers), 64 pp. Fine. From lower cover: This book explores the shipboard lives and experiences of the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815) and the Anglo-American War (1812-15). From the adolescent boys seeking action and adventure as midshipmen, to the lieutenants, captains and admirals holding command, this book examines the living conditions; training, weaponry, and responsibilities -- from blockade duty and boarding parties to squadron command and fleet actions -- of t... View More...
Octavo, brown clothhh & gold boards (hadcover), gilt letters, 362 pp. Very Good+, with foxing (age darkening) to page edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. Deeply researched, this narrative of his life, personal and professional, is an absorbing account of a truly singular man, one of the most accomplished and important figures in the nineteenth century Navy. View More...
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Rockford, Michigan: Eric Greinke, [2004]. First Edition, As Stated, Advance Copy.
Seller ID: 00090s
Octavo, softbound, 179 pp. Fine (As New). ÒWritten in the form of a memoir, Eric Grinke's humorous service novel Sea Dog does for the United States Coast Guard what No Time for Sergeants and M*A*S*H* did for the Army and Mr. Roberts for the Navy. Based on the author's real experience as a member of a search and rescue team on the Great LAkes in the late 1960s, Sea Dog puts a different face on those times. Written with a wry, ironic humor, this is a coming-of-age story that parallels the maturation of AMerican society during that period. The story takes place during the glory days of manne... View More...
Large, square octavo, softbound, 120 pp. Fine, in Very Good+ slip case with slight fading and wear to edges. Illustrated in full-color. Contents: Lord Jim Lives!; Sail -- A Phenomenon Inside a Phenomenon; The Ostar -- 20 Years of Battling the Sea; Ostar 1980; Tony Lush -- Sailing on Through; Ghosts of Cape Horn; Built in Taiwan; Voyagers, Not Senior Citizens; Robalo R-260; FD-12; Ocean Ranger 50; Power for the ÔEighties; Letters & Credits. View More...
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Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1837. First American Edition.
Seller ID: qms1524
Duodecimo, blind stamped brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xviii + 115 pp + 12 pp ads. Good+, with heavy wear to spine & dampstaining to covers; besides a neat former-owner inscription (dated 1862), the interior is clean & tight. View More...
