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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Shipwrecks, Seal Island Yarmouth : . 25 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1276 S438 H222
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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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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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Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster ; a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls ; giving exciting escapes from death and act / edited by Marshall Everett ; special introduction, Women and children first, by Henry Van Dyke . Chicago : Homewood Press, 1912. 320 pages : illustrations, ports ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 W31 1912
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Secrets of the dead New York : Engel Brothers Media, 2002. 1 videocassette (53 min., 30 sec.) : sd, col. ; 1.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 T617 2002 - Video
Viewing copy. Includes promotional postcard.
Bucher, Amy, drt
Lipworth, Jared, pro.
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
Shipwreck victims — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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Titanic breaking new ground / written and directed by Doug McCallie. S.l : ZM Productions, 1998. 1 videocassette : 13 mm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 T58 1998 - Video
Format VHS
Cameron, James
McCallie, Doug
Marsh, Ed
ZM Productions
Fox Broadcasting Company
Shipwreck victims — Interviews
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The wreck of the Titan : or, Futility / Foreword by William H. Tantum, IV. Paranormal experiences connected with the sinking of the Titanic, by Ian Stevenson. Riverdale, CT : 7 C's Press, 1974. 152 pages : illus. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 R65 1974
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Night to remember New York : Henry Holt. 209 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 L891
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The night lives on / by Walter Lord. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, 1986. 272 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 L89 W687 1986
Some ill. on lining papers. Includes index.
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Loss of the SS. Titanic; its story and its lessons Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 301 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 B39 1912
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Titanic : triumph and tragedy / John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas ; foreword by John Maxtone-Graham. Wellingborough Northampton : P. Stephens, 1986. 319 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T5 E14
Includes index.
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The Titanic, the psychic and the sea / Rustie Brown ; foreword by Alan Vaughan. 1st ed. Lomita, Calif. : Blue Harbor Press, 1981. xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T5 B879
Includes index.
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Night of the Caribou Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 153 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 C3 H847 1992
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Night of the Caribou Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1988. 153 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 C3 H847
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