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Ships & Shipping

Your Noblest Shippe: Anatomy of a Tudor Warship
edited by Peter Marsden
This volume is concerned primarily with a detailed description of the Mary Rose and how she operated as a functional warship. Commencing with a discussion of the place of the Mary Rose in the development of warships; her recovery and recording are described and the method by which she has been reconstructed on paper. Evidence is presented for how the ship was designed and built and how the timbers were fashioned. The structure of ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

The First HMS Invincible (1747-58): Her Excavations (1980-1991)
by John M Bingeman
In 1980, following the discovery of a wreck off the south coast by a local fisherman, John Bingeman applied for a Government Protection Order and subsequently identified the ship as the Royal Navy's first Invincible (1747-58).

Invincible was a 74-gun warship that came to grief on Sunday the 19th February 1758 off Portsmouth. She was sailing as part of the expedition to besiege the French Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

Oceans Odyssey: Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar & Atlantic Ocean
edited by Greg Stemm and Sean Kingsley
In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £25.00

Sealed by Time: The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Rose
edited by Peter Marsden
Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been published in full. Now the Mary Rose Trust, with the Heritage Lottery Fund is publishing the complete history of the project and the research up to the present day in five highly illustrated volumes, revealing a wealth of information covering all aspects of the ship. Sealed by Time: The Loss and ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

For Future Generations: Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection, Mary Rose Volume Five
by Mark Jones
The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents and most of her crew to the bottom of the sea. The conservation of the hull of the Mary Rose, and more than 26,000 objects recovered during her excavation, has been a massive undertaking. The complex process of conservation was begun even before the hull was raised from the seabed in 1982, and continues today. For Future ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.95

The Ships of Christopher Columbus
by Franco Gay and Cesare Ciano, translated by L Bertolazzi and L Farina
Looks at recent developments in reconstructive naval archaeology to build up a picture of Columbus's ships, and voyages. This volume contains many useful drawings and figures. 309p, b/w pls, figs (+ fold-outs) (Nuova Raccolta Columbiana Vol VII, IPZDS ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £68.00, Our Price GB £14.95

Ships and Guns: The Sea Ordnance in Venice and in Europe between the 15th and the 17th Centuries
edited by Carlo Beltrame and Renato Gianni Ridella
Ships and Guns brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries, as exemplified by the maritime archaeological resource. Subjects include Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first war of ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Peter Clark
New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Connected by the Sea: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Denmark 2003
edited by Lucy Blue, Fred Hocker and Anton Englert
The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003. The theme of the meeting was "Connected by the Sea", and was designed to emphasise the role of the sea, seafaring and watercraft as bridges rather than barriers. Maritime archaeology tends to take place within national borders, with a national focus, yet the very premise of seafaring is the desire to travel beyond the horizon to establish contact ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £75.00, Our Price GB £15.00

The Men of the Mary Rose: Raising the Dead
by A J Stirland
The skeletal remains of the Mary Rose crew provide a unique picture of life aboard a Tudor ship as well as revealing valuable information about the Tudor population as a whole. This fascinating and compelling study is now available again in a well-presented paperback with a new title (previously it was called Raising the Dead: The Skeletal Crew of King Henry's Great Ship). Otherwise the same as before, the book is effectively ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £16.99