Wallace, Frederick William, 1886-
Record of Canadian shipping, a list of square-rigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over Toronto : Musson Book Co. 302 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM.W15
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How to make clipper ship models, a practical manual Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1928. 215 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM.H65
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The great coal schooners of New England, 1870-1909 Mystic, Conn. 1948. 135 pages illus., ports. 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKP22
Coal-carrying vessels
Schooners
Coal trade — New England.
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All about ships and shipping, a handbook of popular nautical information London : Faber & Faber, 1949. 647 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKH22
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British merchant service, being a history of the British mercantile marine London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1898. 406 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC81
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Sailing ships, their history & development, as illustrated by the collection of ship-models in the Science museum London : H.M. Stationery Off. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC62
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Chatterton, Edward Keble, 1878-
Windjammers and shellbacks, strange true stories of the sea Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co. 254 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC39 W72
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Chatterton, Edward Keble, 1878-
Ships & ways of other days Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co. 308 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC39 Sh6
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Chatterton, Edward Keble, 1878-
Q - ships and their story London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922. 276 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC39 Q1
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Chatterton, Edward Keble, 1878-
Fore & aft craft and their story London : Seeley, Service & Co, 1922. 347 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC39 F76
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Chatterton, Edward Keble, 1878-
Auxiliary patrol London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1923. 332 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKC39 AU9
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Lookoutman New York : Harcourt, Brace & Co. 220 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKB64 L87
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Schooner Bluenose Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1948. 70 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKB62 M54
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Bennett, William Edward, 1898-
Atlantic highway London : George G. Harrap & Co. 239 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKB43
Warren Anderson [pseud.]
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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
New American practical navigator; being the epitome of navigation Washington : Hydrographic Office, Navy Dept., 1902. 643 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK555 B78 1902
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The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation ... and since his decease / continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 25th new stereotype ed. New York : E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855. xix, 319, 460 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK555 B78 1855
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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
New American practical navigator; being the epitome of navigation New York : E. & G. W. Blunt, 1841. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK555 B78 1841
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Complete epitome of practical navigation, containing all necessary instruction London : 1864. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK553 N85
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Progress of the development of the Law of Storms London : John Weale, 1849. 424 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK545 R35
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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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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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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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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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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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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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