Maritime History

[includes: Discovery & Exploration, Merchant Shipping, Navigation, Ports, Shipwrecks, Voyages etc.]
[see also: Naval History]

Books

BATESON, Charles. Australian Shipwrecks. Volume One: 1622-1850. Sydney: Reed, 1972.

BATESON, Charles. The Convict Ships 1787-1868. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1969 [2nd ed.]

BEAN, Susan S. Yankee India: American commercial and cultural encounters with India in the age of sail, 1784-1860. Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001.

BLAKE, Nicholas and LAWRENCE, Richard. The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy. London: Chatham Publishing, 1999.

BLAKE, Robert. Jardine Matheson: traders of the Far East. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.

BULLEY, Anne. The Bombay Country Ships: 1790-1833. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.

CORDINGLY, David. Heroines and Harlots: women at sea in the great age of sail. London: Macmillan, 2002.

CUMPSTON, J.S. Shipping Arrivals and Departures Sydney, 1788-1825. Canberra: Roebuck, 1977 [Roebuck Society Publication No.22].

CUMPSTON, J.S. Shipping Arrivals and Departures Sydney, 1826-1840. Canberra: Roebuck, 1977 [Roebuck Society Publication No.23].

The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands. The voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-1820 as recorded in contemporary documents and the journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter. (ed.) R.J. Campbell. London: Hakluyt Society, 2000.

EDWARDS, Philip. The Story of the Voyage: sea-narratives in eighteenth-century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

FARRINGTON, Anthony. Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834. London: The British Library, 1999.

GRAHAM, Gerald S. Great Britain in the Indian Ocean: a study of maritime enterprise 1810-1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

GROCOTT, Terence. Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic eras. London: Chatham, c1997.

HARDGRAVE, Robert L. Jnr. Boats of Bengal: eighteenth century portraits by Balthazar Solvyns. New Delhi: Manohar, 2001.

HAYTER, Alicia. The Wreck of the "Abergavenny" London: Pan Books, 2003.

HOOD, Jean. Marked For Misfortune: an epic tale of shipwreck, human endeavour and rescue in the age of sail. London: Conway Maritime, 2003.

HILL, Richard. The Prizes of War: the Napoleonic Prize System in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815. Portsmouth: Royal Naval Museum Publications, 1998.

HORDERN, Marsden. King of the Australian Coast: the work of Phillip Parker King in the 'Mermaid' and 'Bathurst' 1817-1822. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 1997.

JONES, A.G.E. Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775-1861. Canberra: Roebuck, 1986. [Parts I-III]. [Roebuck Society Publication No.36].

JONES, A.G.E. Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775-1859. Canberra: Roebuck, 1991. [Volume 2: Parts I-III]. [Roebuck Society Publication No.46].

McCREERY, Cindy. Ports of the World: prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, c1700-1870. London: Philip Wilson, 1999.

MARCUS, G. J. Heart of Oak: a survey of British sea power in the Georgian era. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

NICHOLSON, I. H. Gazetteer of Sydney Shipping 1788-1840. Canberra: Roebuck, 1981. [Roebuck Society Publication No. 26].

NICHOLSON, I. H. Shipping Arrivals and Departures Tasmania, 1803-1833. Canberra: Roebuck, 1983. [Roebuck Society Publication No. 30].

The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea. (ed.) Peter Kemp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 [4 vols].

STONE, Peter. Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks: and other maritime incidents, including vessels lost overseas, merchant ships lost at war, and those lost on inland waters, together with a bibliography of vessel entries. Yarram, Vic.: Oceans Enterprises, 2006.

SUTTON, Jean. Lords of the East: the East India Company and its ships (1600-1874). London: Conway Maritime Press, 2000.

TAYLOR, Stephen. The Caliban Shore : the fate of the "Grosvenor" castaways. London: Faber, 2004.

TAYLOR, Stephen. Storm & Conquest: the battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809. London: Faber, 2007.

WACE, Nigel and LOVETT, Bessie. Yankee Maritime Activities and the Early History of Australia. Canberra: Australian National University, 1973. [Research School of Pacific Studies Aids to Research Series: No. A/2]

WADIA, Ruttonjee Ardeshir. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay: Ruttonjee Ardeshir Wadia, 1955.

WILLIAMSON, A.R. Eastern Traders: some men and ships of Jardine, Matheson & Company and their contemporaries in the East India Company's maritime service: a collection of articles. Ipswich, England: Jardine Matheson, c1975.

WOODMAN, Richard. The Victory of Seapower: winning the Napoleonic War, 1806-1814. London: Chatham, 1998.

The Worlds of the East India Company. (ed.) H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2002.

Journal Articles

CONOLLY, Pauline. "HMSS Dromedary." History: Magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society. March 2011 [No.107] pp.22-23.

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