Coolie ships and oil sailers Glasgow : J. Brown , Son & Ferguson. 180 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK57 L92 C77
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Colonial clippers Glasgow : J. Brown & Son, 1921. 433 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK57 L92 C71
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China clippers Glasgow : J. Brown & Son, 1922. 388 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK57 L92 C53
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Blackwell frigates Glasgow : J. Brown & Son, 1922. 332 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK57 L92 B63
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Complete epitome of practical navigation and nautical astronomy London : Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd., 1900. 583 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK563 N841
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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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Complete epitome of practical navigation, containing all necessary instruction London : 1864. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK553 N85
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New practical navigator London : 1795. 309, [180] pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK553 M82
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Progress of the development of the Law of Storms London : John Weale, 1849. 424 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK545 R35
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Manual of seamanship London : His Majesty's stationary office. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK541 M31
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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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Reed's seamanship, compiled for candidates preparing to pass the marine board examinations Sunderland : T. Reed & Co. 342 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK541 .R25
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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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Bosher, J. F. (John Francis), 1929-
Men and ships in the Canada trade, 1660-1760 : a biographical dictionary Ottawa : Supply & Services Canada, 1992. 251 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 B741 M534 1992
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Merchant's & shipmaster's manual and shipbuilder's and sailmaker's assistant Boston : I. R. Butts & Co, 1860. 132, 24 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK205 .B98
Bound with his Art of sailmaking … 1862
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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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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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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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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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