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Warships for Export - Armstrong Warships 1867 - 1927, by Peter Brook. The latest of the WSS warship monographs deals not with a single class or type of ship but with the products of a single shipbuilder, Armstrongs. In the Pre-Dreadnought and Dreadnought eras Armstrongs were warship builders to the world supplying most smaller navies and some major ones with battleships and cruisers. The Elswick Cruiser was the most innovative of the designs, but the firm also designed and built battleships and armoured cruisers, submarines and a few destroyers and torpedo craft. In many cases Armstrongs designers were untrammelled by demands from navy staffs, and showed what the naval architect could produce when allowed his head. 243 pages, fully illustrated with 160 photographs (some never published before) of every ship plus 93 line drawings including drawings of some of the unbuilt designs. There is also a table of Armstrong guns and a full bibliography and index. Softback: £28.50 |
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Mersey Rovers Documents 350 ships and 33 owners engaged in home-trade tramping from Merseyside.. Alongside well-known owners such as Richard Hughes, Zillah Shipping & Carrying, Richard Clark, United Alkali and I.C.I. are many smaller companies which have their own interesting stories. Fully illustrated, with over 300 photographs plus two maps and eight colour pages illustrating the flags and funnels of the owners. 334 pages with dimensions of 180 x 250mm. Hardback £33.00 |
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Furness Withy This centenary history of one of the largest and most diverse British shipowning groups covers an enormous sweep of fleets. It is surprising how many major liner companies were acquired, Houlder Brothers, Johnston Line, Warren Line, Royal Mail and Shaw Savill to mention just a few. Brief details are included of almost 1500 ships. 248 pages of which 16 are in colour. Hardback: £34.00 |
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Comben Longstaff & Co.Ltd. Comben Longstaff & Co.Ltd. was one of the most prominent shipowners in the UK and European trades, owning a wide variety of coasters and larger ships mostly with names ending - BROOK. The company was notable for building some of the last steamers for the coal trade, and followed these with an attractive series of motorships. There are many intimate glimpses of shipowning in the East Coast coal and other trades during peace and war. The author draws portraits of the founder and of many of the ships based on extensive research amongst those who knew or worked for the company between 1933 and 1980. Hardback, 180 x 250 mm., 176 pages, 180 photographs plus illustrations of flags and funnels used by the company's 136 ships. Hardback £30.00 |
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Short Sea:Long War, 119 British, Belgian, Dutch and French cross-Channel ships, railway steamers etc service in WW2. Softback £21.00 |
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Crossed Flags For generations the ships of New Zealand Shipping and Federal were among the principal links between Australasia and Britain. Crossed Flags recounts the history of the group and details individual ship histories, each illustrated (with only one exception) by at least one photograph in company colours. Includes NZS, Federal, Avenue Shipping, Black Ball companies, cadet ships, managed ships and name derivations. Case bound A4 size, 196 pages, over 335 illustrations and with three pages in colour. £27.50 |
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Wilh Wilhelmsen 1861-1994 133 year history of one of Norway's major shipping companies. Details of 394 ships from sailing ships, through steam and motor freighters to tankers, bulk and container carriers, ro-ro vessels and off shore support ships. A5, 320 photographs. Hardback: £24.00 |
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Tony Starke Series of Registers of Merchant Ships, by Tony Starke & William Schell. Each register gives details of ships completed in a given year. The registers are an invaluable source of information on ships' histories, are widely used and greatly valued by researchers. Ships of over 1000 tons gross are covered but some include ships down to 300 tons gross. Each includes an index of subsequent names but no photos are included. The number of pages varies from year to year but price remains the same. Photocopied, in slide binders at £11.00 per year. Years available: 1893, 1894, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1976 and 1977. Softback in slide binders: £11.00 per volume. |
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The Port of Penzance by Clive Carter 80 Pages slightly under A4, 150 maps, photographs and diagrams mostly not previously published, full colour card cover, fine quality art paper, covers origins of port to present day, chapters on coasting trade, Penzance and Mounts Bay in both wars, local wrecks, rescues etc. services to Isles of Scilly and other topics. Softback: £5.00 |
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The following are facsimiles of port authority handbooks, extremely good reproductions and interesting reading, coal tipping rates 2d. per ton and much, much more. The Port Talbot Railway & Docks Co. Handbook of Rates, Dry Dock Accomodation and General Information, January 1913, 72 pages, illustrated. Softback: £5.95 Lydney Harbour, Docks, and Canal, Dues, Bye-laws, etc., November 1902, 38 pages, no illustrations. Softback:£3.95 Dock Developments at Newport, The Alexandra (Newport & South Wales) Docks & Railway Co.. about 1906, 44 pages, illustrated. Softback: £4.95 |
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Carmania Press : Uninon-Castle Line A Fleet History, by Peter Newall. Peter will already be known to many of you for his book Cape Town Harbour and for his regular series in Ships Monthly - The A - Z of Ocean Liners. With a forward by Laurence Dunn this book is the most comprehensive fleet history ever produced on this famous company. Included are individual histories of over three hundred ships, including all the passenger ships, cargo ships, coasters, tugs, tenders, sailing vessels and war managed vessels. In the 256 silk finish pages, of which 16 are in full colour, there are almost 400 high quality illustrations and photographs many of which have not been published before. The book is hardback, complete with dust jacket and as the print run is limited to 2,500 copies early ordering will be important. Hardback: £32.00 Excellent books with first class reproduction, Carmania often employ the same printer we use. Titles self explanatory, all softback except for Sitmar. Passenger Liners American Style by William H Miller, American liners active in 1940s, '50s and '60s described in Bill Miller's characteristic style. 230 stunning black and white photographs. 160 pages, Softback £15.95 The Sitmar Liners and the V Ships, 1928-1998, by Maurizio Eliseo, A fine history of the Sitmar Line, the other Vlasov-owned shipping companies and their fleets. Full justice is done to the famous Sitmar liners and cruise ships, but there is also very ample coverage of the more mundane cargo vessels and tankers. Full fleet lists are included and the TEXT IS IN ENGLISH.Hardback, 236 pages 340 illustrations of which 60 are in colour. Book also includes 5 fold -out plans. A superb book. Hardback £26.00. Ocean Liner Odyssey, 1958-1969 by Theodore W.Scull. What it was like to travel on the great liners in the 1950's and 1960's. 132 good black and white illustrations. Softback £10.95. Going Dutch - Holland
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Merchant Ships of World War Two A Post War Album. 80 colour photographs of ships built in WW2 photographed in the 1960's 70's and 80's. Hardback £14.95 |
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Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen strives for the same quality as we do in our books, with superb photographs well reproduced, with authoritative text and fleet lists. The text is in German, but the fleet lists are readily understandable, and the photographs speak for themselves. With exchange rates currently favourable, this is probably an unrepeatable opportunity to obtain superb books published in limited editions. Die Stinnes Reedereien Similar in layout to "Deutsche Reedereien" this book is devoted to one company - the Hugo Stinnes Lines - and associated companies. Although the text is in German the fleet list/ship histories are reasonably easy to follow espeically with a small German/English dictionary. 280 pages and 450 + photographs. Hardback £48.00 Deutsche Reedereien (German shipowners) This is a monumental work with five main authors. Of a planned 15, 11 volumes have now been published. Each volume takes a number of German companies, large and small, gives a history of each and a fleet list, with extensive photographic coverage. Each 200 page A4 hardback includes over 300 photographs, facsimiles and maps, and is published in a limited numbered edition of 1100: Volume 1 Ernst Russ, Seereederei "Frigga", Bernh Howaldt, Gebr Petersen, Ragnar Nilsson, E Rickertsen, A Zachariassen. Volume 3 Carl Robert Eckelmann, Hamburg; John T. Essberger, Hamburg; Johann Kahrs, Stade; Ewald Ottens, Cuxhaven; Friedrich & Manfred Preukschat, Danzig/Flensburg/Kiel; Reederei Richard Schrder, Rostock/Hamburg; Otto Wiggers, Rostock. Volume 5 Johann Haltermann, Hamburg; A. Kirsten, Hamburg; C. Mackprang, Flensburg; 'Nordstern'-Reederei, Hamburg; Reederei 'Nord' K.E. Oldendorff, Hamburg; F.G. Reinhold, Danzig/Hamburg. Volume 6 Baltisch-Amerikanische Petroleum-Import GmbH, Danzig; Helmut Bastian, Bremen; Esso Tankschiff-Reederei GmbH, Hamburg; M.A. Flint, Hamburg; A.F. Harmstorf & Co., Hamburg; Wilhelm A. Riedemann, Geestemnde/Hamburg; 'Trimar' Schiffahrts-Kontor GmbH, Hamburg. Volume 7 Johannes Ick, Danzig/Hamburg; Leonhardt & Blumberg, Hamburg; Matthies-Reederei, Hamburg; J.A. Reinecke, Hamburg; J.H.T. Schupp, Hamburg. Volume 8 H. Peters, Hamburg; JA Reinecke, Hamburg; Travemunde-Trelleborg Linie, Hamburg; Olau Line, Hamburg; Aquarius Seereederei Edgar Leicher, Hamburg; Reederei Hinrich Witt, Hamburg, Olhandels-& transport, Bremen. Volume 9 Leonhardt & Blimberg, Hamburg; Deutsche Shell Tanker GmbH, Hamburg; Washbay Line (Henry Stahl), Hamburg; Ernst Komrowski, Hamburg. Volume 10 B Richters, Rob Bornhofen, Deutsche Shell, Heinrich Schmidt, A Hansen, Heinrich Bischoff, Hermann Wulff, Volume 11 will include Union Partenreederei/Scipio & Co. (Reefers), Ernst Jacob, Flensburg, (cargo ships, bulkers, reefers and tankers), "Hedwigshutte", Heinrich Krohn of Travemunde, Rord Braren and H Reckmann. Each volume Hardback £42.00 Die Chronik der deutschen Kustenmotorschiffe 1945-1995 (German motor coasters) A full account of every motor coaster of up to 500gt owned in Germany from May 1945 to October 1995. In a three volume boxed set, the work includes detailed histories of two thousand ships and 684 photographs. There is an index of names under other flags and of German owners. This is a limited edition of 999 numbered copies. £125.00 for the set of three volumes. Deutschen Serienfrachter In two volumes describes the impressive number of 'series ships' built in Germany, from the famous wartime 'Hansa' A, B and C ships, through the post-war Liberty replacements and other standard designs. Volume 1 Hardback
£28.00 Hapag Lloyd Die Ersten 25 Jahe. by Arnold Kludas. (Hapag Lloyd, the last 25 years), A nostalgic photo album of 160 A4 pages including about 230 photographs. Hardback £28.00 Damals auf der Unterelbe by Arnold Kludas. Photographs taken between 1950 and 1970 on the River Elbe of the last 20 years of what we older ones think of as "conventional shipping". 128 A4 pages, 250 photographs. Hardback £25.00 Rochester Sailing Barges Rochester Sailing Barges of the Victorian Era, by Bob Childs. Covers year by year events in the local barging world with details of craft constructed, losses and tales of a variety of barges. It also details the important part Rochester barges played in the Thames and Medway barge matches and the output of the various barge building yards that once stood on the banks of the Medway. 212 A4 pages and over 100 photographs, lines drawings, sketches and maps. Softback £15.00 From Finland The Finnlines Fleet 1947-1997 by Matti Pietikainen. Excellent book in English. Brief history of the company, details of chartered ships and their owners and fleet list, over 200 pages. 252 pages 232 x 294mm, over 370 photographs, the majority in colour. Hardback: £39.00 |
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New from Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Register of German coasters, cargo and container ships 500/1600 GRT up to 5000 GRT from 1945 to 1999. The register, in german but easy to follow, gives complete data, including later histories of 1379 German ships with 2833 different German names.. The register comprises of two books, each about 200 pages complete with a slip in case. 545 of the ships are illustrated. Hardback with slip in case £62.50 - available early October. From H.M.Hauschild Verlag GmbH, A new series of books inspired by our own Classic Coasters and Paul Boot's Reflections on a River and A River in Retrospect. Schiffahrt im Bild/Shipping
in Pictures - Liners Hardback each: £14.50 From Victor H Young in New Zealand comes his first "in house" publication. Ships of Wellington - The Past Fifty Years comprises of 104 landscape pages of photographs, each with its own descriptive caption, of ships which have served Wellington and the Cook Strait over the last fifty years. Included are tugs, ferries, coasters, fishing craft and even a floating crane. We feel sure this book will be of interest to enthusiasts in the UK as many of the vessels were built here. Again similar in format to Classic Coasters. Hardback: £14.50 - due mid to late November. |
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A Great Fleet of Ships/The Canadian Forts and Parks by S.C.Heal, Canada, The author has given the subject the fullest attention yet given to Canada's wartime standard ships. While the extent of Canada's war production effort, 1939 - 1945 is fairly well known to Canadians, one aspect of it has largely, and inexplicably escaped notice. This is the construction in Canadian yards, from a standing start in 1941 of 402 merchant ships, including a number expressly developed for naval service. They were launched from seven yards on the West Coast, and eleven on the East Coast, St.Lawrence and Great Lakes. They came from three basic designs which had several variants. On a comparative scale, it was a feat rivalling that of the United States. Individual events such as the loss of the Fort Stirkine and a number of others are examined and analysed. Some of these are accompanied by spectacular photos. There is interesting anecdotal material including tows and runs up a South American river. Also an account of the workings of the fleet train as a part of Task Force 57 and the S E Asia Fleet. The complete fleet list includes an explanation/description of all the historical and geographic names that were drawn upon in choosing the names of the Forts and Parks. The 'Ocean' ships are dealt with also and there is a 30 x 40 inches general arrangement plan of the North Sands ship which lead to all the Oceans, Forts and Parks and was adapted for the famous American 'Liberty' ship. 321 pages, 165 photographs, line drawings and 30 x 40 inches plan, Hardback: £24.50 - due November. Smoke Ash and Steam - West Coast Steam Engines by Robin E Sheret. A fully illustrated historical account of the marine steam engine as developed on the West Coast of America by an acknowledged expert. What made steam engines work ? This was the question often put to the author and this book developed after some years of research. Many of the diagrams were previously used to explain the basics of steam to people without an engineering background. The types of engine used on the West Coast and elsewhere changed as technology improved and needs changed. The book covers Sidewheel engines, sternwheel engines, walking beam engines, engines for propeller driven ships. Boilers and steam driven deck machinery are also covered. This is truly a book for the marine engineer, steam buff, maritime historian and model maker. Also for those who can simply remember the smell of steam. Superbly illustrated with photos, plans and exploded views. Softback £14.00 and due November. |
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Black Diamonds by Sea, North East Sailing Colliers 1780-1880, The story of the brigs which took coal from the north east to London and other ports. Tells of the ships and their trade, storms and shipwreck through to the first steam coasters. 240 x 205mm landscape, 48 pages with over 30 photos and engravings. Softback: £5.99 Tyne to Titanic, The story of the rescue ship Carpathia, The story of the Tyne built Carpathia which rescued survivors from the Titanic. 28 pages, 240 x 205mm landscape. Softback:£4.99 Swans of the Tyne. A pictorial survey of ships built by Swan Hunter between 1861 and 1985. It includes over 40 photographs many of which are from the Swan Hunter archives. 48 pages. Softback: £3.95 Built with Pride, Tyne Ships 1969-1994. During this period on the Tyne the remaining yards on the river operated as a single company, with Swan Hunter leading. Again many of the 37 photographs are from the Swan Hunter archives but a few from the Haverton Hill yard on the Tees are included. 52 pages. Softback: £4.99 Down Elswick Slipways:Armstrong's ships and people 1884-1918. Features authentic accounts and contemporary photographs from Armstrong's famous yard on the Tyne. 48 pages. Softback: £4.99 From Walker to the World:Charles Mitchell's Low Walker Shipyard. Founded in 1852 the yard played an important role in establishing the Tyne's world-wide reputation for well built ships. Using rarely published photographs the book tells of some of the ships built in the yard, of some of the tragic accidents in the yard and of the hospital established at Walker to treat the injured. 48 pages, 33 photographs. Softback: £4.99 Mauretania: Pride of the Tyne. The story of the Mauretania's career, from her launch in 1906, to her final voyage in 1935. 44 pages, 33 photographs. Softback: £4.99 |
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All A4 hardback. Most maritime enthusiasts will already be aware of Charles Waine's books, those who have not encountered them before are heartily recommended to seek them out. British Steam Tugs, A full history covering early tugs, wood, iron and steel paddle tugs, harbour, seeking and coastal screw tugs and ocean going tugs. Thames craft tugs, tenders and passenger carrying tugs, naval and wartime tugs. Tug owners and builders. Tug construction, engines and deck gear. Over 1000 tugs and 400 owners covered. Tug plans ranging from 1833 to 1956 and 29 colour profiles will be of interest to modellers. 222 pages, over 90 photos, some colour sketches and colour diagrams of 88 funnel colours. Hardback £24.95 Steam Coasters and Short Sea Traders. The history of the British steam coaster covering building, repairing, machinery and early designs. Clyde puffers and the various engines aft types including the big east coast colliers. Engine amidships and coastal tankers are also covered. 182 pages, 76 plans, and 29 colour profiles selected with the model maker in mind plus 97 black and white sketches and photos. Hardback £23.95 The Steam Collier Fleets. A full history of the colliers and coasters in the coal trade of the British Isles and near Continent covering 800 owners, 1200 ships and the harbours built to serve them. 226 pages, 93 plans and coloured profiles, 55 photos, some in colour and 53 sketches, harbour maps and charts. Hardback £24.95 British Ocean Tramps, Volume 1, Builders and Cargoes. Defines the tramp steamer and looks at construction and builders. Includes short histories of the main builders. Looks shipbroking, chartering, the cargoes and how they were carried. Hardback £19.95 British Ocean Tramps, Volume 2, Owners and Their Ships. Histories of the major and minor owners, some 1300 companies in all, including the early 19th century companies, with notes on some 2400 ships and typical voyage patterns. 182 pages, 56 photos from the 1890's to the 1950's plus 22 colour profiles and 34 plans. Hardback £19.95 Old Time Steam Coasting. The operation of the coasting trade, vessels, crews and cargoes are fully described. 138 pages, 6 colour plates, 5 plans and numerous sketches, photos and voyage charts. Hardback £16.95 Estuary & River Ferries of South West England. The many creeks and rivers of the area had rowing and sailing ferries, which were later replaced by paddle or screw steamers, or chain ferries in some cases. Full histories of some 139 ferries and over 300 boats are supported by sketch maps, plans - some in colour, and photographs from the River Severn in the north around the coast to the River Stour, Christchurch and Poole in the south are covered in 148 pages. Hardback £16.95 British Figurehead and Ship Carvers. Books about figure heads and decorative work on ships usually state little is known about their carvers. Here Phil Thomas puts the record straight and after extensive research writes about over 200 merchant ship carvers and around 60 master carvers who worked in the naval Dockyards from about 1600 up to the present century. 116 pages illustrated with 75 photographs, some in colour, along with 47 drawings, some by the carvers them selves. Hardback £19.95 |
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Wagenborg 100 jaar, Transport over Water, Wadden en Wegen. (Volume 1) by Hans Beukema. (Transport over Water, Shallows and Roads) A history in the Dutch language of the Wagenborg and Vuursteen families including the company with their transport-activities on water and on land. This 240 page volume is illustrated with black and white and colour photos. An English summary is printed on the back page. Hardback £25.00 Wagenborg 100 jaar, de Schepen van 1898 tot 1998, (Volume 2) by Gerrit de Boer. (The Ships from 1898 to 1998) This volume describes Wagenborg's own fleet of coasters, tugs and ferries as well as all coasters in management, with detailed fleet lists. Almost every ship has been illustrated with one photo. The text is in Dutch but this should not be a problem to other users. Hardback £25.00 Scheepvaart 1999, by G J de Boer. The 23rd edition of this well known yearbook of Benelux shipping. In Dutch but always worth having. Hardback £16.00 125 jaar Holland Amerika Lijn, by G J de Boer. 125 years of the Holland America Line. A complete history of this famous Dutch company from 1873 to 1998, complete with detailed fleet lists and well illustrated with black and white photographs. Dutch text but fleet lists should be easy to follow. 276 pages, 540 photographs and 8 line drawings. Worth it for the photographs alone. Hardback £32.00 De Nederlandse Blauwpijpers, by G J de Boer. (The Dutch Blue Funnels) History and detailed fleetlist of the Dutch subsidiary of the Blue Funnel Line. Extremely well illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs and drawings. In the Dutch language throughout but the fleetlists are easily understood. Worth having just to enjoy the photos. Hardback £32.00. 150 jaar Van Uden, by G J de Boer. As the title says 150 years of Van Uden. A history of the Rotterman company along with fleetlists in Dutch text but with a comprehensive summary of the history in English. 176 pages, 340 photographs and 18 drawing. Hardback £24.50 |
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Different from what we normally list being naval rather than mercantile. The photographs have often been taken in shipbreaking yards;- To Sail No More
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Harry Cartlidge 1893 - 1987 80 pages of well reproduced photographs - mainly of Hull and surrounding area but includes some interesting shipping photos. Softback £7.95 Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. The fact that these books are still available, even if as reprints, so long after their original publication dates is testament to their quality. The China Clippers by Basil Lubbock, 1st.pub.1914. The history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades. Many of the incidents relating to the great tea races, typhoons, shipwrecks etc., and the fine performances of seamanship and daring navigation, have been gathered from the men who participated in them. There is an account of the Chinese opium trade and the clippers engaged in this risky, but lucrative traffic. Then the wonderful American clippers, which in the 1840s threatened the supremacy of Great Britain as the carrier of the world. Hardback: £22.00 The Colonial Clippers, by Basil Lubbock, 1st published 1914. This book describes the great wooden clippers of the Black Ball, White Star Eagle, and other lines which carried the emigrants from Liverpool to Australia in the time of the Gold Rush when all the world was taking ship to the Eldorado under the Southern Cross. Hardback: £22.00 The Log of the "Cutty Sark", by Basil Lubbock, 1st published 1924. A history of the famous teal and wool clipper, Cutty Sark, the most interesting sailing ship still afloat, considered to have been the fastest of all the clippers. The book is compiled from her log books, her captain's abstracts and information received from those who served aboard her, and from those who served aboard her rivals, or were connected with her in some way or other. Hardback: £24.00 The Last of the Windjammers, Volume 1, by Basil Lubbock, st published 1927. The book was planned to take in every sailing ship of any note from the years of the opening of the Suez Canal to the present day, but in practice vessels of a very much earlier date have often been included, especially when sketching the early history of the ship owners. Hardback: £30.00 The Last of the Windjammers, Volume 2, by Basil Lubbock, 1st published 1927. This volume embraces the period 1888 to 1928, forty hard years for the windjammer. Mr Lubbock's virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the last boom in sail - the Limejuicers of 1888/9 - the carriers of the of the nineties - the square riggers of the twentieth century, and so on. Hardback: £30.00 The Blackwall Frigates, by Basil Lubbock, 1st published 1924. The Blackwall Frigates form the connecting link between the lordly East Indiaman of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P & O and Orient liners of more recent years. They were first class well run happy ships and the sailor who started his sea life as a midshipman aboard a Blackwaller looked back ever afterwards to his cadet days as the happiest period of his career. The East still calls, yet its glamour was twice as alluring, its vista twice as romantic in the days of sail. Hardback £22.00 |
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