Blunt, Edmund March, 1770-1862
American coast pilot, containing directions for the principal harbours New York : E. & G. W. Blunt, 1833. 657 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK959 B65 1833
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Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Sailing directions for the south-east coast of Nova Scotia and Bay of Fundy / compiled from various Admiralty surveys by Staff Commander G. F. McDougall. 2d ed., with an appendix. 1875. 253 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK803 N93 1875
Navigation — Nova Scotia
Fundy, Bay of — Navigation
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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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Women under sail : letters and journals concerning eight women travelling or working in sailing vessels between 1829 and 1949 / compiled by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, 1970. 213 pages, 16 plates. : illus., facsims., ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK541 G813 W872
Women and the sea
Seafaring life
Sailing ships.
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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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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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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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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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Titanic : an illustrated history / text by Don Lynch ; paintings by Ken Marschall ; introduction by Robert D. Ballard. Toronto : Madison Press, 1992. 227 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 28 x 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 L987 1992
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
Underwater exploration — North Atlantic Ocean.
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Gracie, Colonel Archibald, 1858-1912
Truth about the Titanic Riverside, Conn. : 7C's Press. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 G73 1913
First published 1913; additional material 1973.
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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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To Find but a Grave : the Wreck of the Miracle / Byron Clark. Grosse Ile, Magdalen Islands, Québec : Byron Clark, 2015. 85 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 M57 C53 2015
Includes bibliographical references: pages 83-85.
Miracle (Ship)
Shipwrecks — Québec (Province) — Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Québec) — History — 19th century
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The sea road to Halifax : being an account of the lights and buoys of Halifax Harbour / Hugh F. Pullen ; drawings by L. B. Jenson. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 80 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1245 P982 S438
Lighthouses — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Buoys — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Harbors — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — Harbor.
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A description and list of the lighthouses of the world / by Alexander George Findlay. 11th ed. London : Richard Holmes Laurie, 1871. 166 pages: tables, illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1150 L49 L62 1871
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A description and list of the lighthouses of the world / by Alexander G. Findlay. 6th ed. London : Richard Holmes Laurie, 1866. 164 pages: tables, illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1150 L49 L62 1866
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Great Britain. Colonial Office
Memorandum concerning lighthouses and light vessels required by the colonies London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1855. 81 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1026 .A5 .G81
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