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Publication ... of the Marine Research Society volume no. 15
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Extraordinary collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains, as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts relate horrifying events and conditions: the holding pens or "factories," living conditions aboard ships, mutinies and their suppression, and more. 54 period engravings and other illustrations accompany the grim record.
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Meticulously researched study based on authentic documents recounts lurid exploits, punishments of such hardened maritime brigands as William Kidd, Charles Harris, Thomas Tew, John Phillips, other marauders. Enhanced with almost 50 contemporary engravings and rare maps. Introduction by Captain Ernest H. Pentecost.
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A highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introducing serious model builders to the hand-crafting of ship models from the bottom up, exactly as real ships were built in shipyards. The model is the 16-gun United States brig Lexington, in active service during the Revolution. Not for beginners. 133 illustrations.
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Publication ... of the Marine Research Society volume no. 13
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Marine Research Society
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1926-27
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English
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Publication ... of the Marine Research Society volume no. 3
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Marine research Society
Pub. Date
1923
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English
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Publication ... of the Marine Research Society volume no. 21
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Marine research Society
Pub. Date
1930
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English
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