Search Results: merchant steam from Naval Marine Archive

Chatham Publishing, London, 1999, 1st ed. : 160 p. ; 30 cm, illustrated bw plans, photos, and paintings, includes index, very good/very good. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a famous celebrated engineer and ship designer whose innovations lead the world of shipbuilding to create larger paddlewheelers and steam ships capable of trans Atlantic passages. The well known Great Eastern, Great Western, and the Great Britain set records The book is heavy.

Arco, New York, 1975, vi, 253 p. : ill. (some col.), charts, facsims., maps (2 col.), plans, includes index ; very good, dj stained on back, mylar. The story of Brunel's 'Great Britain,' first vessel to embody all the elements of the modern ship in one hull; metal construction, steam-driven screw propeller, and large size aimed at good economics. The restoration of the ship. She was brought back to her birthplace, Bristol 125 years later.

Doubleplay, 1983. 1st. vg/g. Molsons played vital roles in projects such as the first steamboat in Canada, first railway, bank, etc. The Molson name has long been connected with the montreal canadiens in the world of sports. Highlights triumphs and tragedies in each generation. 370pgs.

Bonanza Books, 1940. facsimile 1977. vg/vg mylar. A history of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company from 1840-1940. 176 pages including index.

Sono Nis Press, Vancouver, 1981, : ill. b/w, photos and line drawings, end paper chart of routes 290 p. Includes, maps, time tables, sea boat stations, and history of the ships journeys including the Empress of Australia, being in Yokohama at the time of the earthquake, escaping the fires and sheltering and assisting the residents of the city in 1923. Good plus - minor rubbing base of spine/ good minus slight chipping and discolouration of dust jacket. Heavy may require extra postage.

Musson Book Company Limited, Toronto, 1929. 1st. fine/fine. A list of square rigged vessels, mainly 500 tons and over, built in the eastern provinces of British North America from the year 1786 to 1920. Wallace's near definitive compendium, 302pp with photographs, paintings and drawings

Riverbank Traders, St. Catherines, ON, 1992, 192 p. ill. b/w photographs, very good tpb. Ships built at the yard for over one hundred years, many are pictured and documented, these included merchant and naval vessels - corvettes and minesweepers for Canada, Britain and the US, at the Collingwood Shipyards.

Riverbank Traders, St. Catherines, ON , 1992 , 90 p. ill. b/w photographs, map. very good tpb. At Port Weller, a division of Canadian Ship Building and Engineering, with dry docks, with a list of ships and their histories with photos.

Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC : 1984 ill. b/w, ship lines on end-papers, col. frontespiece, viii, 280 p., 29 cm.Very good plus /very good mylar. Include index. This is the dramatic story of the CPR's British Columbia sternwheelers and steam tugs through the races, boiling rapids, moonlit cruises, and gold rushes to their passing

Glenaden Press, Vineland, ON 2007, 186 p. ill. b/w, col. 28 cm. very good. on cover The Ships of Upper Lakes Shipping. Commemorating 75 years of shipping on the Lakes. The company starting in the depression and then by 1952 began to build their own ships.