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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Sailing directions Nova Scotia (S. E. Coast) and Bay of Fundy Ottawa : Marine Sciences Directorate, Department of the Environment, 1974. 263 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK803 C212 M935 1974
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U.S. Dept. of the Navy. Hydrographic Office
Sailing directions for Nova Scotia including the Bay of Fundy and Cape Breton Island Washington : G.P.O., 1939. 447 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK597 U58 N935
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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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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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Lady boats : the life and times of Canada's West Indies merchant fleet Halifax : Canadian Marine Transportation Centre, Dalhousie University, 1980. 175 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK529 C212 H239
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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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Tidewrack : neglected facts and intriguing stories from the age of the wooden ships / by R.J. Cunningham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1994. 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 C85 1994
Ships, Wooden — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation — Atlantic Provinces — 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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Between France and New France : life aboard the tall sailing ships / Gilles Proulx. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1984. 173 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 P7613 1984
Published by Dundurn Press Limited in co-operation with Parks Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Sailing — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 18th century
Ocean travel — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — Canada — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — France — History — 18th century
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History of Nova Scotia Ports, 1731-1934 Halifax : 1964. 39 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1527 .N85 .H13
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Canada. Royal Commission on Pilotage
Report Ottawa : Queen's Printer. 4 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1526 C21
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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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Bluenose master : the memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling / as told to Jo Kranz. Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1989. 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 H331
Merchant seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life.
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U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on commerce
Titanic disaster. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on commerce, United States Senate Washington : Govt. print. Off., 1912. 1163 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 U58 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 : the real Jack Dawson Manchester, England : BBC, 2000. 1 videocassette : with b&w sequences.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 T583 2000 - Video
British Broadcasting Corporation
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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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Sinking of the Titanic and great sea disasters Philadelphia : John C. Winston Co. 350 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 M35 1912
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Titanic wake : Wallace Harley (Titanic bandmaster) : memoriam tribute Blackpool : The author, 1996. 157 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 M137
Library's copy signed by author
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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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Titanic / Archibald Gracie. Gloucester : Toronto : A. Sutton ; NC Press, 1986. 323 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 G73 1986
Shipwrecks — 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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