A SHIPYARD IN MAINE BY SNOW & LEE
A history of Bath, Maine’s Percy & Small shipyard, responsible for building some of the largest wooden sailing vessels the world has ever seen. Nowhere is the story of building wooden ships better described. This book offers a wealth of information to maritime enthusiasts, historians, schooner builders, and modelmakers. (391 pages)
Item #B6162

THE ARCTIC SCHOONER BOWDOIN
by Virginia Thorndike.
The story of Maine’s Official Sailing Vessel, BOWDOIN. This book is a tribute to her, to the people who have sailed her, loved her, and called her home. (259 pages, paper)
Item #B6211

SS JEREMIAH O’BRIEN
by Capt. Walter W. Jaffee
This is the history of a ship, one of 2,710 built in haste during a great war, and sent forth with the belief that if she completed even one voyage, she would have fulfilled her mission. Fate and history had a different plan for her. The JEREMIAH has the distinction of being the only ship from the D-Day armada to return for the 50th Anniversary of the liberation of Europe. (400 pages)
Item #B6014

SNOW SQUALL
by Nicolas Dean
The last American clipper ship. A fascinating account of this historic vessel, and the rescue of her bow section, in the 1980’s, in the aftermath of the Falkland War.
Item #B6152

REIGN of IRON
by James L. Nelson
The four-hour long battle between the MONITOR and the MERRIMACK ushered in the “reign of iron”, ending the 3 thousand year tradition of wooden men-of-war. Nelson recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legends. (paper)
Item #B6219