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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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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Duncanson, John V. (John Victor), 1918-
Nova Scotian vessels shipwrecked or disabled in United States coastal waters 1875-1914 Windsor : West Hants Historical Society, 1997. 238 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1270 D912
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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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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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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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Falling star : misadventures of White Star Line ships / John P. Eaton & Charles A. Haas. Wellingborough : Stephens, 1989. 256 pages : illustrations, maps, ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1250 E14
Steamboat lines — History
Shipwrecks
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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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Vanished fleets, ships and men of old Van Diemen's land New York : Henry Holt & Co. 297 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK.V71 .V31
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Sea dogs of to-day New York : Henry Holt & Co. 325 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK.V71 .Se1
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Last of the wind ships London : Routledge & Sons, 1934. 59 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK.V71 .L33
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Falmouth for orders, the story of a sailing race around Cape Horn New York : Garden City Pub. Co. 301 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK V71 .F18
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By way of Cape Horn New York : Henry Holt & Co. 336 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK V71 .B99
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Snider, Charles Henry Jeremiah, 1879-
Story of the Nancy and other eighteen-twelvers Toronto : McClelland & Stewart. 334 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK.Sn3
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Your navy as a fighting machine London : Frank & Cecil Palmer, 1914. 117 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VJ25
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Gunshield graffitti Halifax : Nimbus, 1984. 144 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VC345 L34 1984
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Badges of the Canadian Navy / J. Graeme Arbuckle. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1987. xii, 203 pages : col. illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VC345 A72 1987
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Practical treatise on naval book-keeping in all its branches Portsmouth : W. Woodward, 1840. 220 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VBT18
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Commissioned and warrant officers of the Royal Canadian Navy 1910-1939 / John M. MacFarlane. Victoria, B.C. : Maritime Museum of British Columbia, 1993. iii, 67 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VB309 C212
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The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships / Ken Macpherson, John Burgess ; forward by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Collins, 1981. 240 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S VA400 M172 - Oversize
Includes index.
Warships — Canada — History — 20th century.
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The Bonnie, HMCS Bonaventure / by J. Allan Snowie ; foreword by J.C. Scruffy O'Brien. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1987. 336 pages : illustrations (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V874.5 C3 S66 1987
Ports. on lining papers.
Aircraft carriers — Canada — History
Ship captains — Canada — Biography.
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Alongside the navy, 1910-1950 : an intimate account / Jean Donald Gow. Quyon, Quebec : Chelsey House Publications, 1999. viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V743 C3 G68 1999
Navy spouses — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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