Chatterton, Edward Keeble, 1878-
Sailing ships; the story of their develpoment from the earliest times to the present day London : Sidgwick & Jackson. 361 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VMC39
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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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Rigger's guide and seaman's assistant Portsmouth : Griffin & Co., 1893. 254 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM531 .B96
7th ed
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Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Sundries supplied by A. Gibson & Co. Liverpool : 1877 ( : C. Ratcliffe, printer, 1877). 28 pages ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM470.5 G53 1877
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Bluenose / Monica Graham. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2010. 121 pages: illustrations (some col.), facsim., maps, ports.; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 G741 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 flying 400 : Canada's hydrofoil project / Thomas G. Lynch. Halifax : Nimbus, 1983. 128 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM362 L987
Includes index.
Hydrofoil boats — Design and construction — History
Shipbuilding — Canada — History.
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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 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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Windships of Advocate : vessels partly owned by Ward and Blenkhorn families / compiled by Keith D. Hage. Spruce Grove, AB. : The Author, 1995. 98 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N6 H34 1995
Includes index.
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Advocate
Advocate (N.S.)
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Saint John ships and their builders Saint John : Lingley Printing Co. 229 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N534 W948
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Sailing ships of the Maritimes; an illustrated history of shipping and shipbuilding Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 224 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M34 A73
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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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The elements of wood ship construction / by W. H. Curtis. Almonte, ON. : Algrove Publishing, 2009. vii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM145 C981 2009
Shipbuilding
Ships, Wooden — Design and construction.
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Pullen, Rear-Admiral Hugh Francis, 1905-
Atlantic schooners Brunswick Press, 1967. 63 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM143 .Sch6 .P96
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Age of Sail Heritage Centre (Port Greville, N.S.)
Newsletter Port Greville : The Centre, 1994-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM1 A44
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Day 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 Halifax : CBC, 1953.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S VM.Sc8 - Oversize
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List of ships built in Shelburne, Co., N.S unp.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM.M19 .3
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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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Disposition of bodies ex Titanic recovered up to May 13, 1912 : identified and unidentified Halifax : 1912. 23 l. ; 45 x 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S VKT53 D63 - Oversize
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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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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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