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2182 kHz : a novel. 1st US pr in dj

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House, New York, 2002, ISBN:0375506063

Seller ID: 80275

MASIEL, David. 2182 kHz : a novel. New York : Random House, (2002). First Printing. Pp (8),[1]-294,(2). 8 vo, white cloth spine with white paper covered boards, grey lettering to spine. "By all accounts, Henry Seine should have packed it in long ago, certainly before he started scanning marine distress channels for fun. But sixteen-hour days spent hauling heavy cargo aboard tugs and icebreakers along the frozen arctic offshore (not to mention smoking copious amounts of Cannabis indica) can warp a man's sense of reality. Desperate for real human contact, he tunes the sideband radio to 2182...
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American Neptune : A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History and Arts, Volume56, No. 3, Summer 1996

By: American Neptune URICK, William J. COLETTA, Paolo E. BROWNLEE, Edward G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Salem and Essex Institute, Salem, MA , 1996,

Seller ID: 95736

(American Neptune). The American Neptune : A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History and Arts, Volume 56, No. 3, Summer 1996. Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum, 1996. Pp (3),190-309,(1). Illustrated. Double Column. 4to, illustrated blue card covers. Contents : A Tugman's Story: Life and times of B. B. Inman (by Al Miller); The United States Navy Boarding Rattle: A Unique Itemof Nineteenth Century US Naval Ordnance (by William J. Urick III, pp 215-2 27); William A. Moffett and His "Disastrous Dirigibles" (bv Paolo E. Coletta, pp 227-234); A Home on the Sublime: Trans-Oceanic Perspectives (...
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Atlantic Monthly. Volume 202, Number 3, September 1958

By: MOWAT, Farley

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly, Concord, N.H., 1958,

Seller ID: 85042

(MOWAT, Farley). The Atlantic Monthly. Volume 202, Number 3, September 1958. Concord, N.H.: The Atlantic Monthly, 1958. Pp [1]-95,(1). Double Column. 4to, illustrated wrappers. Includes “Grey Seas Under : The Romance of a Rescue Tug” [to be continued] by Farley Mowat (pp 25-31, plus cover illustration); and much more. Rubbed, lightly browned, else very good. 30.00
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Behavior and Handling of Ships.

By: HOOYER, Henry H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, Maryland, 1983, ISBN:0870333062

Seller ID: 106636

HOOYER, Henry H. Behavior and Handling of Ships. Centreville, Maryland : Cornell Maritime Press, (1983). Pp (6), vii-x, (2), 3-139, (3). Illustrations. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Contents: Introduction ; 1. The Peripatetic Pivot Point ; 2. Rudder and Propellor ; 3. Wind ; 4. Bow Thruster, Tugs ; 5. Current ; 6. The Anchor ; 7. Narrow Channels ;8. Practical Applications ; Appendix A. Lateral Morion ; Appendix B. Rotat ional Motion ; Appendix C. Comparison Table. With errata slip laid in. Verygood. 25.00
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British Coastal Ships. pbk.

By: CHESTERTON, D. Ridley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ian Allan, London, 0,

Seller ID: 77042

CHESTERTON, D. Ridley. British Coastal Ships. London: Ian Allan, (1972). Pp. [1]-80. Illustrated. Small 8vo, illustrated purple and grey card covers with white spine. Covers rubbed, faint corner creasing, else vg. 20.00
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British Tugs. 3rd ed.

By: LE FLEMING, H.M. Ian Allan ABC series)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ian Allan, London, 1960,

Seller ID: 73562

LE FLEMING, H.M. British Tugs. London: Ian Allan, (1963). Third Edition. Pp. [1]-64,(1). Illustrated. Small 8vo, iillustrated stapled beige and blue card covers. A volume in the Ian Allan ABC series. Covers rubbed and lightlysoiled, else vg. 25.00
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Buy It From the Navy. Catalog No. 56-B, Sealed Proposal. Sale of Vessels bythe Navy. Bids will be Opened at 10:00 o'clock A.M., February 21, 1922.

By: United States Navy Surplus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Board of Survey, Appraisal and Sale, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 1922,

Seller ID: 92048

(United States Navy Surplus). Buy It From the Navy. Catalog No. 56-B, Sealed Proposal. Sale of Vessels by the Navy. Bids will be Opened at 10:00 o'clock A.M., February 21, 1922. Washington, D.C.: Board of Survey, Appraisal and Sale, Navy Yard, (1922). Pp (2),[1]-6 including covers. Large 8vo, stapled printed self-wraps. Vessels to be sold by sealed proposals : U.S.S. Long Beach (cargo vessel), U.S.S. Nero (fuel ship), U.S.S. Monterey (monitor), U.S.S. Vergana (yacht), U.S.S. Sea Rover (tug), U.S.S. Passaio (tug), U.S.S.Bessie H. Dantzler (tug), U.S.S. Dolphin (gunboat), U.S.S. Green Dragon (m ...
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Canadian Pacific : The Story of the Famous Shipping Line. 1st Cdn in dj.

By: MUSK, George

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Toronto, 1981, ISBN:0039202917 : 1981

Seller ID: 90608

ISBN-13: 9780039202910

MUSK, George. Canadian Pacific : The Story of the Famous Shipping Line. (Toronto) : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1981). First Canadian Printing. Pp. [1]-272. Illustrated. Double column. 4to, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contents: 1: Company History: The North Pacific, 1886-1915; The North Atlantic, 1884-1915; World War I and After; World War II and After; Cargo Services 1903-80; British Columbia Coastal Services; British Columbia Lake and River Services; Great Lakes Services; Bay of Fundy Services; Tugs. 2: Histories of Individual Ships: a. Pacific: Empress of Japan I, Empress of C...
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Catalogue No. 44-B. Sale of Vessels by the Navy for Cash and on Deferred Payment Basis. Bids will be Opened, 10:00 A.M., December 15, 1921.

By: United States Navy Surplus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Board of Survey, Appraisal and Sale, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 1921,

Seller ID: 92049

(United States Navy Surplus). Catalogue No. 44-B. Sale of Vessels by the Navy for Cash and on Deferred Payment Basis. Bids will be Opened, 10:00 A.M.,December 15, 1921. Washington, D.C.: Board of Survey, Appraisal and Sale, Navy Yard, (1921). Pp (1),[1]-8,(1) including covers. Large 8vo, stapled printed self-wraps. Vessels to be sold by sealed proposals : Galatea (yacht),Vega (steam yacht), U.S.S. Albert Brown (fish boat), Freight Lighter No. 1 60 (ex-Surprise) (barge), U.S.S. Intrepid (naval training ship), U.S.S. Brooklyn (cruiser), U.S.S. Columbia (cruiser), Target, U.S.S. Ozark (monitor),T...
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Crowsnest : The Royal Canadian Navy's Magazine. Vol. 13, No. 12, October, 1961

By: Crowsnest

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Roger Duhamel, Ottawa , 1961,

Seller ID: 89474

(Crowsnest). The Crowsnest : The Royal Canadian Navy's Magazine. Vol. 13, No. 12, October, 1961. (Ottawa : Roger Duhamel, 1961). Pp 1-28. Illustrated.Triple Column. 4to, illustrated white stapled wrappers. Contents : RCN New s Review; Relic or Misfire?; Diving Dentist; Officers and Men; Births and Weddings; The CBC and the RCN; Summer at Quadra; The Canadian War Museum; Omnibus Paratus; Afloat and Ashore; Here and There in the RCN; Science and the Navy; The Navy Plays; Retirements; Naval Lore Corner No. 98. Cover photo of five frigates abreast moving slowly astern under the urgings of harbour ...
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Crowsnest : The Royal Canadian Navy's Magazine. Vol. 13, No. 12, October, 1961

By: Crowsnest

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Roger Duhamel, Ottawa , 1961,

Seller ID: 92159

(Crowsnest). The Crowsnest : The Royal Canadian Navy's Magazine. Vol. 13, No. 12, October, 1961. (Ottawa : Roger Duhamel, 1961). Pp 1-28. Illustrated.Triple Column. 4to, illustrated white stapled wrappers. Contents : RCN New s Review; Relic or Misfire?; Diving Dentist; Officers and Men; Births and Weddings; The CBC and the RCN; Summer at Quadra; The Canadian War Museum; Omnibus Paratus; Afloat and Ashore; Here and There in the RCN; Science and the Navy; The Navy Plays; Retirements; Naval Lore Corner No. 98. Cover photo of five frigates abreast moving slowly astern under the urgings of harbour ...
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Cunard Story: Part 4"

By: Cunard Steam-Ship Co.). HUGHES, T.E. Sea Breezes 39:238 HUGHES, T.E. ISHERWOOD, J.H.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: 1965,

Seller ID: 22202

(Cunard Steam-Ship Co.). HUGHES, T.E. "The Cunard Story: Part IV The Second Century." An article in Sea Breezes: A Digest of Ships and the Sea, Vol.39, No.238, October 1965, pp.742-763. Also: J.G. Bruce's "The Newhaven Channel Crossing" (pp.719-727); J.H. Isherwood's "Union-Castle Liner Edinburgh Castle of 1910"; George Dickinson's "Tug Extraordinary" [on the Yorkshireman, pp.732-6]; others and usual columns & departments. Vg. For the number. 12.00
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Famous Paddle Steamers. 1st UK in dj

By: HAMBLETON, F.C.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Percival Marshall, 1948,

Seller ID: 18340

HAMBLETON, F.C. Famous Paddle Steamers. L.: Percival Marshall & Co., (1948). First Printing. Pp 97 + fldg.sheer plan of the Royal Eagle. Illustrated. 8vo, red cloth. Cohen, The Thames, 1580-1980: A General Bibliography, p.290. Chapters on the Cross-Channel Steamers Paris, Rouen, Brighton, Brittany, Normandy, and Alexandra; the Paddle Tug Aid; the Pleasure Steamers Cynthia and Brighton Queen; the Thames Steamers Koh-i-Noor and Royal Sovereign; theThames Tugs Iona and Cambria; Fairfield's La Marguerite; London's Belle St eamers; The Eagles of the Thames. Tears to spine, light spotting to endpape...
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Famous Paddle Steamers. 1st UK in dj

By: HAMBLETON, F.C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Percival Marshall, London, 1948,

Seller ID: 89512

HAMBLETON, F.C. Famous Paddle Steamers. London: Percival Marshall & Co., (1948). First Printing. Pp 97 + fldg.sheer plan of the Royal Eagle. Illustrated. 8vo, red cloth. Cohen, The Thames, 1580-1980: A General Bibliography, p.290. Chapters on the Cross-Channel Steamers Paris, Rouen, Brighton, Brittany, Normandy, and Alexandra; the Paddle Tug Aid; the Pleasure Steamers Cynthia and Brighton Queen; the Thames Steamers Koh-i-Noor and Royal Sovereign;the Thames Tugs Iona and Cambria; Fairfield's La Marguerite; London's Bell e Steamers; The Eagles of the Thames. Very good in rubbed, tape-repaired, u...
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First International Tug Conference organised by Ship & Boat International.

By: TROUP, Kenneth D. (ed.).

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Thomas Reed Publications Ltd, London, 1970,

Seller ID: 79989

TROUP, Kenneth D. (ed.). First International Tug Conference organised by Ship & Boat International. London : Thomas Reed Publications Ltd., (1970). Pp[1]-387,(1). Illustrated. Double column. 4to, blue cloth, white lettering to spine. Contents : Inaugural Paper (F.B. Bolton). Tugboats Sdafety and Education (Capt. J.A.H. Mactavish and Capt. C.J. Rhodes). A Tugman's 'Cri de Coeur' (Capt. W.F. Harris). Lighterage in the Port of London (A. Juett and I. W. Smith). Application of High-Efficiency Anchors (Comm. T. Stokes). Ship-Bourne Manoeuvring Devices (Dr. J.W. English and B.N. Steele). Performance...
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Forth Ports : A Journal of Commerce Publication

By: CADE, Keith (ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Journal of Commerce, Liverpool, 1983, : 1983

Seller ID: 104246

CADE, Keith, (ed.. Forth Ports : A Journal of Commerce Publication. (Liverpool : Journal of Commerce), n.d. [1983?]. Pp (2),3-35,(1) including covers. Illustrated. Double Column. Large 8vo, illustrated stapled wrappers. Contents : Our healthy port underpins Scotland's economy; Aims are good service, efficiency, relianbility and a competitive price (by Ian T. White); Spare land and deep water make Leith confident; Oil smooths way to Grangemouth success; Pioneer port in the box business; Fife ports offer good service, quick turnaround; Modified shed benefits all port users; One small step into...
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Giv'er a Cheer Boys : The Great Docks of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1830-1914

By: PATTERSON, B.H. Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society, Publication No. 5

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society, Portsmouth, 1989,

Seller ID: 97726

PATTERSON, B.H. "Giv'er a Cheer Boys" : The Great Docks of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1830-1914. Portsmouth: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society, [1989]. Pp. (4),1-60. With many black and white illustrations to text. 4to, illustrated stapled grey card covers with blue-lettered white title block to front. Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society, Publication No. 5. "When comparing No. 5 dock of 1698 with No. 2 dock of 1802 there seems to beno significant change in the dimensions and indeed there were none to look for. The reason being that the great Ship-of-the-Line had hardl...
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Hamburg South America Line. Reprint in dustjacket.

By: COOPER, James [et al] KLUDAS, Arnold PEIN, Joachim

Price: $100.00

Publisher: World Ship Society, 1990, ISBN:0905617509 : 1990

Seller ID: 64574

ISBN-13: 9780905617503

COOPER, James. Hamburg South America Line. By James Cooper, Arnold Kludas, Joachim Pein. Kendal, England : World Ship Society, (1990). Reprint. Pp 192, including frontispiece. Illustrated with colour maps [The Company's Routes] to endpapers, b&w photos of ships to text and [3¼] pp colour drawings [pictorial index] to rear; 1 page of flag and funnels of the line; double column. Large 8vo, red cloth, gilt to spine and upper board. "Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellshchaft" - from the cover. The World Ship Society published this history of the Hamburg South America Line on th...
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High Boats : A Century of Salmon Remembered. in dj.

By: NORRIS, Pat Wastell

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Harbour Pub., 2003, ISBN:1550172891

Seller ID: 60806

NORRIS, Pat Wastell. High Boats : A Century of Salmon Remembered. (Madeira Park, B.C.): Harbour Pub., (2003). Pp 232. Illustrated with numerous b/w photos to text. 8vo, blue cloth. This book is a celebration of the golden ageof the salmon fisheries in British Columbia. During the 20th century the f ish were plentiful, the work was dangerous but the money was good. There were shore jobs in the canneries and towns grew. This was the "boom," then itall ended. "Pat Wastell Norris wraps the history of coastal settlements ar ound the lives of two veteran fishermen taking one last trip ab...
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History of the Canadian Naval Auxiliary Fleet. First Edition.

By: KILGOUR, Robert W

Price: $75.00

Publisher: 1968,

Seller ID: 41970

KILGOUR, Robert W. A History of the Canadian Naval Auxiliary Fleet. No place [Halifax?] : The Author, n.d. [ca 1968]. Pp 34 leaves, [10] of appendix. Printed one side only. Large 8vo, (8½ x 11) , in yellow cardcovers, with metal duotang. Cover title is : history of Canadian Naval Auxiliary Vessels. A detailed (as far as surviving records permit) account in seven chapters of the development of auxiliary vessel services in the Canadian navy, concentrating chiefly on those in Halifax. The appendix has 15 b&w photos and a listing for the CNAV Sackville, the Flower-class corvette. Covers lightly ru...
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