Roster of valor : the Titanic Halifax legacy Riverside, Conn. : 7C's Press. 97 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 W337
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The White Star triple screw Atlantic liners Olympic and Titanic 2nd ed. Cambridge : Stephens, 1983. 184 pages : ill ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 W582
Facsim of: special issue of 'The shipbuilder'. 1911.
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Story of the Titanic as told by its surviviors New York : Dover Pub. 320 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 W74 1960
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Duncanson, John V. (John Victor), 1918-
Nova Scotian vessels shipwrecked or disabled in United States coastal waters 1875-1914 Windsor : West Hants Historical Society, 1997. 238 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1270 D912
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The two Atlantics / by Keith A. Hatchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1981. 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1276 A879 H361
Subtitle on cover: The shipwreck of the SS Atlantic at Prospect, N.S., April 1st, 1873.
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia — Prospect (Halifax)
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Shipwrecks, Seal Island Yarmouth : . 25 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1276 S438 H222
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If his sea chest could talk : a tribute to Captain Robert N. Crowell, 1840-1902 / by Fred D. Whitehouse. Yarmouth : The author, 1996. 193 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 C76 W45 1996
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia
Voyages and travels.
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Bluenose master : the memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling / as told to Jo Kranz. Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1989. 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 H331
Merchant seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life.
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Steady as She Goes : The Exploits of a Captain and his Seagoing Family / by Dolly G. Newcomb. Ontario : Paul Heron Publishing Limited, 1996. 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 P82 N48 1996
The story of Captain James Leander Publicover, owner and ship captain at J.L. Publicover Shipping Company, and chronicles how he and his family would work and travel the seas together.
J.L. Publicover Shipping Co. — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — History
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History
Publicover, James Leander, 1877-1960
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The Spicer of life : a Maritime marriage during the Age of Sail : Captain Dewis and Emma Spicer of Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia / David Stanley. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 2007. ix, 99 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 S754 2007
Addendum on last page. Includes bibliographical references.
Spicer family.; — Spicer, Dewis.; — Spicer, Emma Parsons.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Diaries.
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The captain & the queen / director, Chuck Stewart ; produced by Great North Atlantic Media Inc. for Great North Productions Inc. ; producer, F. Whitman Trecartin ; executive producers, Bill Skerrett, Patricia Phillips. Edmonton, AB. : Great North, 1998. 1 videocassette : 60 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W3 C37 1998 - Video
Title on container: The captain and the queen : Angus Walters & the schooner Bluenose.
Phillips, Patricia
Skerrett, Bill
Stewart, Chuck
Trecartin, F. Whitman.
Great North Productions
Great North Atlantic Media Inc.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia Biography.
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A Mariner's Memories : a Chronicle of the Life and Times of Earle S. Wagner, Master Mariner, 1929-1999 / Earle S. Wagner. Nova Scotia : Earle S. Wagner, 2017. 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W346 1999
At age 17, Earle Wagner joined Canada's marchant navy and served in it for four years during World War II. For nearly a quarter of a century he managed a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He was involved for a total of 48 years in the marine industry.
Merchant marine — Canada — Biography
Pilots and pilotage — Manitoba — Churchill — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation — Biography
West La Have (N.S.) — Biography
Autobiographies
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Schooner master : a portrait of David Stevens / Peter Carnahan. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. ix, 180 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140.5 S82 C37 1989
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Island keepers / Allison Mitcham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 D639 M679
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — Biography
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Scatarie Island — Biography
Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography
Scatarie Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Sable Island : journals 1801-1804 / James Rainstorpe Morris ; transcribed by Rosalee Stilwell. Halifax : Sable Island Preservation Trust, 2001. x, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 M876 M876 2001
Morris, James Rainstorpe, — 1750-1809 — Diaries.
Lifesaving stations — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — History — 19th century
Sable Island (N.S.) — History — 19th century.
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Canada. Royal Commission on Pilotage
Report Ottawa : Queen's Printer. 4 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1526 C21
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History of Nova Scotia Ports, 1731-1934 Halifax : 1964. 39 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1527 .N85 .H13
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Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour / edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1991. 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 J32 1991
Howell, Colin D., 1944-
Twomey, Richard J.
Seamen — History
Seafaring life — History.
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Between France and New France : life aboard the tall sailing ships / Gilles Proulx. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1984. 173 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 P7613 1984
Published by Dundurn Press Limited in co-operation with Parks Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Sailing — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 18th century
Ocean travel — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — Canada — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — France — History — 18th century
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The way of a ship : being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of her handling, her voyage-making, her personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end / by Alan Villiers ; illustrated with the author's photographs, and diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. xiv, 428 pages : illus., charts, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 V5 1953
Sailing ships
Shipping — History.
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Chasse-Marée No 292 : Des Bateaux Et Des Hommes / Pol Corvez. Chasse-Marée (Douarnenez Cedex, FR). 93 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.552 #2 - Vertical File
French magazine that has an article about the Halifax Explosion ; article titled "La Grande Explosion de Halifax" by Pol Corvez (pages 60-73). The remaining articles are nautical in theme and cover different geographic areas.
Halifax (N.S.)—History—Explosion, 1917
20th Century — History — Halifax (N.S.)
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Merchant's & shipmaster's manual and shipbuilder's and sailmaker's assistant Boston : I. R. Butts & Co, 1860. 132, 24 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK205 .B98
Bound with his Art of sailmaking … 1862
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Bosher, J. F. (John Francis), 1929-
Men and ships in the Canada trade, 1660-1760 : a biographical dictionary Ottawa : Supply & Services Canada, 1992. 251 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 B741 M534 1992
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Tidewrack : neglected facts and intriguing stories from the age of the wooden ships / by R.J. Cunningham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1994. 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 C85 1994
Ships, Wooden — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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Come quick, danger : a history of marine radio in Canada / Stephan Dubreuil. Ottawa : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Coast Guard, 1998. ix, 136 pages, [52] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK397 D82 1998
Issued also in French under title: CQD, toujours áa l'âecoute. Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Radio — Canada — Installation on ships — History
Radio operators — Canada — History.
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