Merchant Marine Books

Chesterton, D.R.: 1967 Ian Allan UK, hardcover with dustjacket 208 pages, with photos. This comprehensive reference book provides detailed registers and specifications of all coastal passenger ships, cargo vessels, and tankers over 200...

ESSO: 1957 USA, softcover, 14 pages, with photos and subtexts. This illustrated commemorative publication showcases the construction, design, and operational features of the historic Exxon/Esso Gettysburg supertanker built in 1957....

Boer, M.G. de: Rotterdam 1923, hardcover board 103 pages, with photos and illustrations. Holland-Amerika Lijn 1873-1923 by G.J. de Boer is a deluxe anniversary volume celebrating the first fifty years of the Holland America Line,...

Westphall, Povl: Copenhagen 1972, hardcover 215 pages. English language. Portrait of all, the activities in the world. With fleet list and photos. The East Asiatic Company Limited EAC 1972 by Westphall is an illustrated company booklet...

Farquhar, I.J.: 1975 The New Zealand Ship and Marine Society, Wellington New Zealand, softcover 59 pages, with photos. Historical fleetlist with details and history of the ships. Union Fleet 1875 1975 by I J Farquhar is a concise fleet...

Detlefsen, G.U.: Bad Segeberg, hardcover 200 pages, with many photos and details. Deutsche Reedereien Band 2 by Gert Uwe Detlefsen is a German language volume in the long running series on German shipping companies, this part covering...

Vamplew, W: 1975 Edinburgh, hardcover with dustjacket 311 pages, with photos and historical fleetlist. Salvesen of Leith by Wray Vamplew is a corporate history of the Christian Salvesen shipping and whaling company of Leith, tracing its...

Waine, C.V.: 1976 Wolverhampton, hardcover with dustjacket 152 pages., with many illustrations and plans of the ships. Steam Coasters and Short Sea Traders by Charles V Waine is a detailed study of British steam coasters and short sea...

Haws, Duncan: The Starling Press UK 1989, softcover 120 pages. Merchant Fleets 15; Thos. & Jas. Harrison by Duncan Haws provides a concise but comprehensive fleet history of the Liverpool firm Thomas & James Harrison, with individual...

Haws, Duncan: 1982 UK, softcover 128 pages. Merchant Fleets 5 by Duncan Haws offers a compact fleet history of a single shipping company, with for each vessel key information on construction, ownership, service and eventual fate. The...

Detlefsen, G.U: 1983 Koehlers Verlag, hardcover with dustjacket 144 pages, with photos and many lists with ships and index. “Vom Ewer zum Containerschiff” traces the development of German coastal shipping from around 1900 to the age of...

Haws, Duncan: 1993, softcover 219 pages, with 315 scaled profile Drawings and the specification and history of 572 ships from 27 companies. A comprehensive reference work covering Britain's railway-owned steamers, specifically focusing...

Janes: 1982 USA, hardcover 1046 pages. Sea-going ships worldwide. A comprehensive reference guide detailing the world’s active merchant vessels, providing standardized data such as technical specifications, side profile drawings, and...

McCall, B: 1990 UK, softcover, 80 pages. Coasters in Focus by Bernard McCall presents a wide selection of colour photographs of European coasters, focusing on their design, operation and the variety of small cargo vessels in service...

Haigh, K.R.: 1968 London, hardcover without dust jacket, 416 pages. Cableships and Submarine Cables by K. R. Haigh is a detailed history of the world’s submarine telegraph cables and the specialized ships that laid and repaired them. The...

Zuidhoek, Arne: 2001 Baarn, softcover 128 blz., met vele foto's en achtergronden. Een overzicht van alle standaard vrachtschepen, zoals de Liberty-, Victory- en C3-schepen, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog onder Nederlandse vlag...

Dunn, Laurence: 1956 London, hardcover without dust jacket 175 pages, with many photos and information of individual tankers. A comprehensive overview of the development, design, and operation of oil tankers worldwide. The book details...

Kolltveit, B: 1976 Oslo, hardcover with dustjacket 270 pages, with photos, historical fleetlist with detailed scale drawings and a short English summary. Over linjen. Den Norske Syd-Amerika linje 1913 –1973 by B ård Kolltveit is a...

Haws, Duncan: 1993 UK, softcover 230 pages, illustrated with side profiles of all ships. An overview of the steamships operated by British railway companies, focusing on the fleets of Western and Southern companies, as well as their...

Credland, A.G.: 2000 Tempus Publishing UK, softcover 128 pages. Photobook of The Wilson Line in different years, with text. The Wilson Line by Arthur G. Credland is an illustrated history of Hull’s Wilson Line, once the world’s largest...

Neubaur, Dr. Paul: 1907 Grunow Leipzig. Hardcover Cloth, Only Volume 3, the Folio sized Illustrations Volume, full of beautiful photo's and illustrations in very detailed halftone-helioprints (complicated and very expensive technique)....

Wessels, R. and G. Schepers: 2004 Haren, hardcover 652 pages. Zur Geschichte der Harener Binnen-, Küsten- und Seeschifffahrt. Damals und heute by Reinhard Wessels and Gerd Schepers is a large-format, 652-page standard work on the inland,...

Schepers, G. und R. Wessels: 2001 Haren Germany, hardcover 536 pages. All the ships with photos, history and specifications. In good condition. ISBN German Language

The Maritime Institute of Ireland: 1984 Dublin, softcover 60 pages. All the vessels, with photos and detailed information. Ships of Ireland 1984 is a compact register ‑ style booklet produced by the Maritime Institute of Ireland, listing...