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Alcraft, Rob. Shipping Disasters. World's Worst Series. Chicago: Heinemann, 2000, 32 pp. Juvenile literature; 3 disasters: Titanic, Derbyshire & Estonia.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); architecture; juvenile literature; liner; ship; wreck;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, juvenile literature, children's, junior, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , ship, boat, vessel, liner, passenger liner, steamship , architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect
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Allington, Peter & Greenhill, Basil. The First Atlantic Liners: Seamanship in the Age of Paddle Wheel, Sail and Screw. London: Conway; Washington: Brassey, 1997, 167 pp. Folio; problems of handling early steamships at sea; based on original logbooks.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); age of steam; architecture; liner; navigation; propulsion ; seamanship;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, age of steam, architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , propulsion , liner, passenger liner, steamship , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence
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Anderson, Roy. White Star. Prescot: Stephenson, 1964, xi, 236 pp. Foreword: N.R.P. Bonsor; "triumphant rise - and, alas, the tragic fall of a great shipping line."
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); company; liner; shipbuilding; Titanic; wreck;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, company, charter, shipping, commercial , liner, passenger liner, steamship , shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Angas, William Mack. Rivalry on the Atlantic, 1839-1939. New York: L. Furman, 1939, xv, 234 pp. Steamboats.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); age of steam; Atlantic World; liner;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , age of steam
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Archbold, Rick & McCauley, Dana. Last Dinner on the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Hyperion, 1997, 128 pp. Intro: Walter Lord; glossy, exquisite layout, colored illustrations; "Titanic Cook Book."
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); liner; logistics; Titanic; victualling; wreck;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, liner, passenger liner, steamship , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , victualling, food ration, diet for naval personnel, nutrition , logistics, supply, supplies
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Ardman, Harvey. Normandie, Her Life and Times. New York: Frank Watts, 1985, iv, 427 pp. 50 illustrations; French liner, disaster in New York.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Anglo-French; Atlantic World; liner; World War II; wreck;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Anglo-French, France , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , world war 2, second world war
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Armstrong, John & Williams, David M. "The Perception and Understanding of New Technology: A Failed Attempt to Establish Transatlantic Steamship Liner Services, 1824-1828." Nor Mar, 17 (2007): 41-56.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); age of steam; Atlantic World; company; liner; merchant marine; ship; technology;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, age of steam, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , company, charter, shipping, commercial , liner, passenger liner, steamship , merchant marine, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, ship, boat, vessel
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Armstrong, Warren. Atlantic Highway. London: Harrap; New York: John Day, 1961, 1962, 258 pp.
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Keywords:
age of sail, age of steam, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , ship, boat, vessel
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Armstrong, Warren. Atlantic Bridge: From Sail to Steam to Wings: A Diverse Record of 100 Years of North Atlantic Travel. London: Muller, 1956, 276 pp. Pseud: William Edward Bennett.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); 20th C. (1900-1999); age of sail; age of steam; Atlantic World; aviation; liner; maritime history;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, 20th century, twentieth, age of sail, age of steam, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, liner, passenger liner, steamship , maritime history, naval history
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Armstrong, John & Williams, David M. "The Perception and Understanding of New Technology: A Failed Attempt to Establish Transatlantic Steamship Liner Service, 1824-1828." Nor Mar, 17 (October 2007): 41-56.
Categories:
19th C. (1800-1899); age of steam; Atlantic World; liner; technology;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, age of steam, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Arnold, Anthony John. "The Great War, Government Policy and Financial Returns in the Liner Trade." J Trans Hist, 3 ser, 18 (March 1997): 16-30.
Categories:
Admiralty; age of steam; commerce; economics; liner; trade; World War I;
Keywords:
age of steam, commerce, trade, business, economics, economic policy, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, liner, passenger liner, steamship , world war 1, first world war, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing
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Arnott, Robert Harry & Smith, Ronald L. Captain of the Queen. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1982, 1983, 332 pp. Captain of Queen Elizabeth and, later, QE2.
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); Atlantic World; liner; memoir; officer; personality; seamanship;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , officer, quarterdeck, leader , personality, prominent leader, noted person , seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence
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Aspler, Tony. Titanic: A Novel. Toronto: Doubleday, 1989. Nautical fiction; focus on plots.
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nautical fiction, sea fiction , liner, passenger liner, steamship , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Aylmer, Gerald Edward. RMS Mauretania: The Ship and Her Record. London: Percival Marshall; Stroud: Tempus, 1934, 1935, 2000, 96 pp. Additional text: Janet McCutcheon.
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); company; liner; merchant marine; ship; voyage;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, liner, passenger liner, steamship , company, charter, shipping, commercial , ship, boat, vessel, merchant marine, voyage
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Babcock, Franklin Lawrence. Spanning the Atlantic. New York: Knopf, 1931, 227 pp.
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Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , liner, passenger liner, steamship , voyage
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Bailey, Chris Howard. Down the Burma Road: Work and Leisure for the Below Deck Crew of the Queen Mary (1947-1967). Southampton: Southampton Oral History Team, 1991, 104 pp. Folio.
Categories:
age of steam; condition; liner; seaman; ship;
Keywords:
age of steam, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , liner, passenger liner, steamship , ship, boat, vessel, seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor
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Bailey, Thomas Andrew. "The Sinking of the Lusitania." AHR, 41 (October 1935): 54-73.
Categories:
Anglo-German; liner; U-boat; wreck;
Keywords:
Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , liner, passenger liner, steamship
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Bainbridge, Beryl. Every Man for Himself. London: Duckworth; London: Abacus, 1996, 1997, x, 214 pp. Whitebread Award, 1996; fiction, Titanic.
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); liner; nautical fiction; Titanic; wreck;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , liner, passenger liner, steamship , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Baker, Joseph & Liggett, Michael. Titanic: The Untold Story. Belfast: Glenravel, 1996, 44 pp. Foreword: Denis Smyth; folio, magazine format; critical that so many from Third Class perished.
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20th century, twentieth, liner, passenger liner, steamship , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology
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Baker, Paul & Stanley, Jo. Hello Sailor!: The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea. New York: Longman, 2003, xiv, 257 pp. Britain's Merchant Navy, especially the passenger-carrying fleet of the 1950s & 1960s.
Categories:
20th C. (1900-1999); condition; homosexuality; liner; merchant marine; seaman;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , homosexuality, gay life, gay sailor, sodomy , liner, passenger liner, steamship , merchant marine, seaman, lower deck, enlisted status, seafarer, sailor
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |