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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. Publisher's Price US$90.00, Our Price US$72.00

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 of England 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, ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00

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. Publisher's Price US$50.00, Our Price US$40.00

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 ...
Hardback. Price US$35.00

For Future Generations: Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection, Mary Rose Volume Five
by Mark Jones
This volume focuses on the conservation program devised for the Mary Rose. It describes the principles and objectives of marine archaeological conservation, explains the work undertaken to conserve the hull and contents of the Mary Rose, and discusses the requirements for the display and storage of treated materials in the Mary Rose museum. The conservation program for the Mary Rose began even before the excavation had commenced, and has ...
Paperback. Price US$45.00

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 US$125.00, Our Price US$19.98

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. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$48.00

Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
edited by Peter Clark
The discovery of the Dover Bronze Age boat sixteen years ago continues to inspire and stimulate debate about the nature of seafaring and cultural connections in prehistoric Europe; the twelve papers presented here reflect an increasing recognition of cross-channel similarities and a coming together of maritime ('wet') and terrestrial ('dry') archaeology.

Contents: Building new connections (Peter Clark); Encompassing the sea: 'maritories' ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00

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 US$150.00, Our Price US$29.98

A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
by Jonathan Adams
In the last fifty years, the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnectiong locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$50.00, Our Price US$38.00