Richard Henry Dana 
The Seaman’s Friend [EPUB ebook] 
Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service

Het boek ‘Zeemans-Woordeboek’ geschreven door J. van Lennep is een uitgebreide gids die zich richt op de maritieme terminologie en zeemanstaal. Het boek biedt een diepgaande verkenning van de specifi …

Frederick Marryat’s ‘Stuurman Flink; of, De schipbreuk van ‘De Vrede» is a classic adventure novel that follows the courageous seaman, Lieutenant Flint, through a harrowing shipwreck and his subsequ …

Phil Carroll takes us on his global odyssey of voyages as a deck cadet in the early-1980s. It was the cusp of change in the merchant navy as containerisation began to dominate world shipping. Heady w …

Second edition — more than 9, 000 copies sold worldwide With over 350 illustrations, this book shows you everything you need to know to maintain a marine diesel system — winterize the diesel system, …

E. James Tull’s innate artistic talent, his caring, nurturing personality, his mechanical skills and attention to detail advanced him from apprentice to owner of the shipyard, and from a young man fi …

In 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14, 000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embark …

Simon Hall’s second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, when cargo carriage at sea saw radical change and the romance of being at sea in old-s …

A tale of 117 years of devotion to duty, peacefulness and calm, disrupted forever by a day of inexplicable violence, a community’s battle to have a lighthouse built. Includes extracts from a lighthou …

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvellous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland – lighthouses which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for …

This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northward …