The days of sail, a story of the Maritimes great square-rigged ships presented by the CBC in a series of six hour-long radio documentaries broadcast in the fall of 1953 .. / produced by J. Frank Willis. Halifax, CBC, 1953. various pagings ; text typed. 36 cm.
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The practical ship-builder / published in original format with seven large folded plates, with biography of Lauchlan McKay Privately printed. New York : Richard C. McKay, 1940. 103 [3] pages, 7 fold. plates.
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Small yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice New York : Forest and stream publishing company, 1891. 15-473, [1] pages
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Chatterton, Edward Keeble, 1878-
Sailing ships; the story of their develpoment from the earliest times to the present day London : Sidgwick & Jackson. 361 pages
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The deadeye : how it was made in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and some notes on its history and rigging / by John M. Kochiss ; illustrated by John Lapresle. Mystic, Conn. : Marine Historical Association, 1970. 43 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM531 K76
Marine Historical Association.
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Bluenose II : saga of the great fishing schooners : measured drawings / by L.B. Jenson. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. 125 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 x 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 J46 1994
Schooners — Drawings
Fisheries — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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World War II adventures of Canada's Bluenose : the Americans / by Andrew Higgins and Jesse Spalding. 1st ed. Newport Beach, Calif. : West Indies Trading Co., 1998.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 H363 1998
Includes index.
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Bluenose : the ocean knows her name / Heather-Anne Getson. Halifax : 2006. Nimbus Pub. xii, 116 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 G394 2006
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Bluenose / Brian and Phil Backman. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1975, 1965. 112 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 B32 1988
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The sailboat classes of North America : more than two hundred racers, cruisers, and catamarans in stories and pictures / Expanded and updated by Theodore A. Jones. [1st rev. ed.] Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday, 1968. 381 pages : illus. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM351 B639 S132
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Small wooden boats of the Atlantic / photographs by Wayne Barrett ; text by David A. Walker ; introduction by Marven E. Moore. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1990. 94 pages : col. illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM321 B35 1990
Spine title: Small wooden boats.
Wooden boats — Atlantic Provinces.
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Halifax Shipyards, 1918-1978 : an historical perspective / by Victor L. Settle. Halifax : Saint Mary's University, 1994. iv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM301 H3 S47 1994
Includes abstract.
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Master's thesis.
Shipyards — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History.
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The Dome shipyard in Nova Scotia : benefit/cost and economic impact analysis / prepared by DPA Consulting Limited. Halifax : DPA Consulting Ltd., 1982. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM301 D6 D66 1983
Prepared for: Department of Development Province of Nova Scotia.
DPA Consulting Limited
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Development
Dome Petroleum Limited
Shipyards — Nova Scotia
Petroleum — Transportation
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Sails of Fundy : the schooners and square-riggers of the Parrsboro shore / by Stanley T. Spicer. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1984. 135 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 P266 S75
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Schooners — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Merchant ships — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia
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The ships, shipbuilders, and seamen of Pictou County / by James M. Cameron. New Glasgow : Pictou County Historical Society, 1990. 191, [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N935 C182
Pictou County Historical Society.
Shipbuilding industry — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County)
Ship registers — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County)
Shipping — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — H
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Masters of sail : the era of square-rigged vessels in the Maritime Provinces / by Stanley T. Spicer. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1982, 1968. 278 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M34 S75 1981
Includes index. Co-published by Nova Scotia Museum.
Shipbuilding — Maritime Provinces — History
Sailing — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Volumes not values : Canadian sailing ships and world trades : proceedings of the third conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, April 19-April 21 1979 / edited by David Alexander, Rosemary Ommer. St. John's : Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1979. 373 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 A881 V943
Alexander, David, 1939-
Ommer, Rosemary.
Atlantic Canada Shipping Project.
Shipping — Canada — History — Congresses
Shipping — Atlantic Ocean — History — Congresses
Commerce — History — Congresses.
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The ships of Canada's marine services / Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin. St. Catharines, ON. : Vanwell Publishing, 2001. 288 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM26 M33 2001
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Shipbuilding in colonial America Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia. 306 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM23 G64
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Merchant sailing ship : a photographic history Newton Abbot Devon : David & Charles. 112 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM144 G81
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Report on European dock-yards Washington : Gov't printing office, 1886. 96 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM.H52
(Mis. Doc. No.237, House of Representatives, 49th congress, 1st session
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Graving docks, floating docks and patent slips in the British empire 1922 London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1923. 116 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKG7
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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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