Ships & Boats @ Pequot library 

[Arranged by category from most recently published to earliest published]

History of Ships & Sailing:

Leviathan:  the History of Whaling in America.  Eric Jay Dolin, 2007.      639.2 DOLIN

Chesapeake:  Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith.  John Page Williams, 2006.    

          Q 551.46 WILLIAMS

Ship Ablaze:  the Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum.  Edward T. O’Donnell, 2003.

          910.9163 O’DONNELL

Tall Ships Down:  the Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta.  Daniel S. Parrott, 2003.     910.4 PARROTT

Raising the Hunley:  the Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine.

          Brian Ricks and Schuyler Kropf, 2002.     973.7 HICKS

On the Water:  Discovering America in a Rowboat.  Nathaniel Stone, 2002.     917.304 STONE

Women Sailors and Sailor’s Women:  an Untold Maritime History.  David Cordingly, 2001. 

          910.1 CORDINGLY

A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World. 

          W. Hodding Carter, 2000.     910.45 CARTER

Historic Sail:  the Glory of the Sailing Ship from the 13^th to the 19^th Century.  Stephen Howarth &

          Joseph Wheatley, 2000.     Q 623.8 HOWARTH

War at Sea in the Age of the Sail 1650-1850.  Andrew D. Lambert, 2000.     359.322 LAMBERT

Lost Ships:  the Discovery and Exploration of the Ocean’s Sunken Treasures.  Mensun Bound,

          1998.     910.4 BOUND

Ships of the World:  an Historical Encyclopedia. Lincoln P. Paine, 1997.   623.82 PAINE

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic:  the Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were.  Donald S.

         Johnson, 1996.     911.63 JOHNSON

The Encyclopedia of Ships:  the History and Specifications of Over 1200 Ships. Chris Marshall, ed.,

          1995.     Q 623.82 ENCYCLOPEDIA

Men-of-War.  Patrick O’Brien, 1995.     359.322 O’BRIEN

Yachts in a Hurry:  an Illustrated History of the Great Commuter Yachts.  C. Philip Moore, 1994.

          797.14 MOORE

The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure:  the History, Location, and Treasures of Ships Lost at Sea.

          Nigel Pickford, 1994.     Q 910.453 PICKFORD

Atlantic Seafaring:  Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic.  Roger Morris.

          1992.     623.89 MORRIS

Wooden Ship:  the Art, History, and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding. 

         Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin, 1991.   Q 623.8 SPECTRE

Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas:  a History Based on Underwater Archaeology.  George F.

        Bass, 1988.     910.453 SHIPS

The Evolution of the Wooden Ship.  Basil Greenhill, 1988.     Q 623.8 GREENHILL

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:  Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.  Marcus Rediker, 1987.   910.4 REDIKER

The Wood & Canvas Canoe:  a Complete Guide to Its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance.  Jerry Stelmok and Rollin Thurlow, 1987.     Q 623.82 STELMOK

The Challenge.  A. B. C Whipple, 1987.     910.4 WHIPPLE

Early American Ships.  John Fitzhugh Millar, 1986.     Q 387 MILLAR

“A Careless Word – a Needless Sinking”:  a History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the U.S. Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel During World War II.  Arthur R. Moore, 1985.

          Q 940.945 MOORE

A Life in Boats:  the Years Before the War.  Waldo Howland, 1984.  797 HOWLAND

Knights of the Sea.  1982.     Q 359.3 KNIGHTS

Tiller and Whipstaff:  the Development of the Sailing Ship, 1400-1700.   A. P. McGowen, 1981.

          387.2 NATIONAL

Romance of the Sea.  J.H. Parry, 1981.     Q 387.5 PARRY

Early American Ships.  John Fitzhugh Millar, 1986.     Q 387 MILLAR

The Low Black Schooner:  Yacht America, 1851-1945.  John Rousmaniere, 1986.

          797.14 ROUSMA OV

The Life and Death of the Merchant Sailing Ship 1815-1965.  Basil Greenhill,1980.

          387.2 GREENHILL

The Century Before Steam:  the Development of the Sailing Ship 1700-1820.  A. P. McGowan,

          1980.     387.2 NATIONAL

Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft.  Maynard Bray, 1979.     623.82 BRAY

Portsmouth’s Heyday in Shipbuilding.  Gertrude Pickett, 1979.     974.27 PICKETT

The Windjammers.  Oliver E. Allen, 1978.     Q  387 ALLEN

Five Centuries of Famous Ships;  from the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer.  Robert G. Albion,

          1978.     387 ALBION

Steamboats Come True:  American Inventors in Action.  James Thomas Flexner, 1978.    

          623.823 FLEXNER

The History of Ships.  Peter Kemp, 1978.     Q 387 KEMP

Sail, Steam, and Splendour:  a Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic Liners.  Byron S.

          Miller, 1977.     Q 387 MILLER

The Medley of Mast and Sail:  a Camera Record…  Frank G. Carr, 1976.    387.2 CARR

Archaeology of the Boat:  a New Introductory Study.  Basil Greenhill, 1976.     913.03 GREENHILL

Victorian and Edwardian Sailing Ships from Old Photographs. Basil Greenhill, 1976.

          387 GREENHILL

Ships and the Sea:  a Chronological Review.  Duncan Haws, 1975.   Q 387.2 HAWS

Heart of Oak:  a Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era.  G.J. Marcus, 1975.

          942.07 MARCUS

China Tea Clippers.  George Frederick Campbell, 1974.     387.2 CAMPBELL

Men, Ships, and the Sea.  Alan Villiers, 1973.     387 VILLIERS

Ships Through the Ages.  Douglas Lobley, 1972.     Q 387 LOBLEY

Wake of the Coasters.  John F. Leavitt, 1970.     387.0976 LEAVITT

They Live by the Wind:  the Lore and Romance of the Last Sailing Workboats:  the Grand Banks Schooners, the Square-rigged Training Ships, the Chesapeake Oysterboats, the Fishing Sloops of the Bahamas.  Wendell P. Bradley, 1969.      910.4 BRADLEY

Rushton and his Times in American Canoeing.  Atwood Manley, 1968.     623.829 MANLEY

The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1967.    387 CHAPELLE

The Great Age of Sail.  B. W. Bathe, 1967.     Q 387 JOBE

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.  Tappan Adney, 1964.     Q 387 ADNEY

Square-rigger Days.  Warren Armstrong, 1964.     910.4 ARMSTRONG

Voices on the River:  the Story of the Mississippi Waterways.  Walter Havighurst, 1964.    

          917.7 HAVIGHURST

Colonial Vessels:  Some Seventeenth-century Sailing Craft.  William A. Baker,     1962.    387 BAKER

Men, Ships, and the Sea.  Alan Villiers, 1962.     Q 387 VILLIERS

The Ship, an Illustrated History.  Björn Landström, trans. Michael Phillips, 1961.  Q 387 LANDSTROM

The National Watercraft Collection.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1960.     Q 387 CHAPELLE

Five Sea Captains:  Amasa, Delano, Edmund Fanning, Richard Cleveland, George Coggeshall, Joshua Slocum:  Their Own Accounts of Voyages Under Sail.  Walter Magnes Teller, 1960.

          910.TELLER

History of American Steam Navigation.  John H. Morrison, 1958.    387.509 MORRISON

History of Marine Navigation.  Per Arne Collinder, trans. Maurice Michael, 1955.   623.89 COLLINDER

Five Hundred Sailing Records of American Built Ships.  Carl C. Cutler, 1952. 

          387 CUTLER

The History of the American Sailing Navy: the Ships and Their Development.  Howard I. Chapelle,

          1949.     387 CHAPELLE

The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940.  Alexander Crosby Brown, 1940.   387.2 BROWN

Steamboat Days.  Fred Erving Dayton, 1939.     656 DAYTON

Fifty South to Fifty South:  the Story of a Voyage West Around Cape Horn in the Schooner Wander Bird.  Warwick M. Tompkins, 1938.     910.4 TOMPKINS

The History of American Sailing Ships. Howard I. Chapelle, 1935.     699 CHAPELLE

The Sailing Ships of New England.  Series Two.  John  Robinson, 1924.    R 387 DOW SERIES 2

Sailing Ships:  the Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.

           E. Keble Chatterton, 1909.     797.1 CHATTERTON