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Admiralty   Manual of Seamanship for Boy's Training Ships of the Royal Navy 1883 (reprinted 1886)
     
Admiralty   Pocket Tidal Stream Atlases, Portland, Solent, Bristol and English Channels
     
Admiralty   NORTH SEA PILOT PART 1
     
Admiralty   SAILMAKERS HANDBOOK (1966)
     
Ardley, R. A. B.   Harbour Pilotage and handling and mooring of ships.
     
Bowling, Tom   The Book of Knots [1870]
     
Bowyer; George W.   "LIVELY AHOY!": Reminiscences of 58 years in the Trinity House Pilotage Service
     
Bradford, Ernle   WALL OF ENGLAND: The Channel's 2000 years of history
     
Coles, K. Adlard   Creeks, Harbours and Anchorages of the Channel and the Solent .
     
Glasspool, John   SOLENT SHORES
     
Grigsby, Joan   "LONGSHORE AND DOWN CHANNEL": with illustrations by Stanley Rogers
     
Harland, John   Seamanship in the Age of Sail
     
Hobbs, J. S.   The British Channel Pilot: 1859 facimile reprint 1972
     
Jenkins, H. D. (ed)   The Pilot's Guide to the English Channel: 1908
     
Martin, E. G.   HELMSMANSHIP
     
Masters, David   Wonders of Salvage
     
Oldale. A. & P.   Navigating Britain's Coastline: Portland to Dover
     
Phillips-Birt, Douglas   Waters of Wight
     
Prince, W.   Seamanship as Applied to Towing
     
Radford; John   PILOT ABOARD
     
Scott Hughes, John   Harbours of the Solent
     
Willamson, J. A.   THE ENGLISH CHANNEL - A History
     
Wood, Captain H. M.   Ship Handling Simplified
 
An account of Joan Grigsby's own experiences as one of the crew of a small coasting vessel, and such diverse subjects as Figureheads, Dutch Fishing Craft, life in a Belgian sailor-town - and the wharves and docks of the Thames as well as her own childhood in the old town of Portsmouth.
The British Channel Pilot from The Downs to Bristol etc., 1859: Facimile reprint 1972
WALL OF ENGLAND: The Channel's 2000 years of history by Ernle Bradford - profusely illustrated
HARBOURS OF THE SOLENT by John Scott Hughes: John Scott Hughes is in home waters, when he writes of Harbours of the Solent. In his account of these, he combines the sailing directions that are indispensible to the yachtsman with a racy description of the lore of the creeks, inlets and rivers that debouch into the Solent and that are now the home of many thousand small boats, belonging to those who indulge in sailing—the most popular of all our relaxations.
SOLENT SHORES by John Glasspool -Illustrated by Jane Michaelis: This book is written for those with an interest in the environment, history and personality of the Solent's shores from Bembridge to the Needles on the Isle of Wight and from Hurst Castle to Chichester on the mainland coast. John Glasspool has sailed and explored the Solent mainly in the smaller shallow draught boats he loves so much.
WATERS of WIGHT by Douglas Phillips-Birt (1967): The history of the Solent is interestingly told including sections on the fortifications, Napoleon, Portsmouth and Miss Austen, boats and men.
Mr. Ardley had been a Port Officer and Pilot at Haifa handling day by day into and out of the constricted and often conjested waters of this harbour a multiplicity of ships varying from 30,000 ton passenger liners to coastal tramps of a few hundred tons.
THE PILOT'S GUIDE FOR THE ENGLISH CHANNEL: Edited by H. D. Jenkins, F.R.G.S. Third Edition 1908 published by J. D. Potter
This book, Navigating Britain's Coastline: Portland to Dover by Adrienne and Peter Oldale, consists of a series of views of the coastline drawn from a distance varying between half a mile and four miles out to sea. Beneath each view is a simplified chart of the corresponding area, and guidelines between view and chart pinpoint all the useful identification features.
W. Prince, an Admiralty Tugmaster and Pilot for more than twenty years based at H.M. Dockyard Rosyth, in his book SEAMANSHIP AS APPLIED TO TOWING compiled from his notes describes the techniques and skills used to tow and handle every type of vessel using screw and paddle tugs.
The North Sea Pilot, Part I, contains a description of the Færöes islands, Shetland isles, and Orkney Islands (Scapa Flow etc.).
Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland and beautifully illustrated by Mark Myers is a modern, objective appraisal of the evidence, concerned with the actualities as much as the theory. The author's range of languages has enabled him to study virtually every manual published over a period of nearly four centuries. In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly and concisely, over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned from Mark Myers
In the sailing craft the man at the helm is occupied in maintaining a balance between the forces acting upon her hull, and as soon as he realizes this he becomes a helmsman who is guided by feeling and intuition as well as by sight. E. G. Martin in HELMSMANSHIP explains!
MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP FOR BOYS TRAING SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY 1883 Revised 1886 - all the nautical information required by a young seaman in the late Victorian Navy including explaining that iron bowsprits were seldom or never used in the Royal Navy and that ships supplied with iron masts, such as rams, had wooden bowsprits for running in. Text and diagrams then go on to show how to rig a lower mast and send a whole main top aloft! Contains text and diagrams that show and explain the use of rope and iron nippers; the working of the controller; a view of the Patent Capstan at work and catting and fishing of an anchor and all aspects of seamanship.
The Book of Knots - BEING A COMPLETE TREATISE ON THE ART OF CORDAGE by ' Tom Bowling ' Published 1870 by ROBERT HARDWICKE, PICCADILLY LONDON: illustrates and describes Simple or Elementary Knots, Knots for Uniting Ropes , Ties and Lashings, Anchor and Mooring Fastenings and shortenings Fastenings to Piers or Posts, Fastenings of Small Lines, The Ends of Ropes, splices and Bands or Ligatures. There are two tables; Round Wire Ropes for inclined planes, mines, collieries, ship's standing rigging, etc. and Flat Wire Ropes for pit's hoists, etc.
     
David Masters classic Wonders of Salvage; Lutine, Submarine K13, U-boat, Liner St. Paul, Silurus Araby. Diving and salvage in first half of the Twentieth century.
SHIP HANDLING SIMPLIFIED by H. M. Wood: The handling of the steam vessel in view of the size of modern vessels is a problem requiring much thought and consideration, especially by the young officer of the Merchant Navy, who in time, will reach command. He has very little chance of learning to handle a vessel as he will be anywhere but on the bridge of his ship when she is manoeuvring.
At the time of this book's issue the Admiralty had allowed the sail making branch to die out but wanted the making and repair of covers, screens and canopies to be undertaken by the seaman’s branch . To this aim this book is illustrated throughout with useful and informative line drawings and a wealth of information which would be useful to any owner interested in making very useful canvas or P.V.C. items for their boat.
     
Pocket Tidal Stream Atlases were published by the Admiralty during the second World War and after and were water and wear resistant for use by warships, mariners and small boats. For sale at camberpete’s are APPROACHES TO PORTLAND, THE SOLENT AND ADJACENT WATERS and THE ENGLISH AND BRISTOL CHANNELS. Click this icon for more details.
Pilot Aboard by John Radford, who served in the Royal Navy as a cadet until end of WW1. Merchant Navy between wars, Royal Navy 1939-1946 When he joined Trinity House Isle of Wight District becoming a Senior Pilot.
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL - A History by J. A. Williamson. The history of the English shore from pre-historic times to WW2 is covered in an imformative and entertaining way in this 1959 book.