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 ’Zeemans-Woordeboek’ van J. van Lennep biedt een uitgebreide en gefundeerde verkenning van maritieme terminologie uit de 19e eeuw. Dit werk is niet alleen een woordenlijst, maar ook een cultureel …

In ’Zeemans-Woordeboek’ biedt J. van Lennep een uitgebreide en gedetailleerde verkenning van terminologie die specifiek is voor de maritieme wereld. Het boek, geschreven in een helder en toegankelijk …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There is barely a corner of the five great oceans where Clyde-built is not recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. As late as the 1950s, around a seventh of the total of the world’s sea goi …