Title: Ships, seafaring, and society : essays in maritime history /
Authors: Runyan, Timothy J.; Great Lakes Historical Society.
Publisher: Published for the Great Lakes Historical Society by Wayne State University Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Navigation History; Naval history.
Contents: The reconstruction of the eleventh century Serçe Liman vessel : a preliminary report / J. Richard Steffy -- The organization of royal fleets in medieval England / Timothy J. Runyan -- The laguna madre scow sloop / Edwin Doran, Jr. -- Specifications of a barque / Eric J. Ruff -- Live oaking for ships' timber / Virginia Steele Wood -- Underway replenishment, 1799-1800 / Tyrone G. Martin -- Marine salvage and sea mine technology in the 1840's : the Taylor connection / Philip K. Lundeberg -- Science, diplomacy, and rum : the Halifax Fisheries Commission of 1877 / Dean C. Allard -- Canada and China : early trading links by sea / Barry M. Gough -- "I don't think much of a life on the ocean wave" : homeward bound from China, 1855 / Hugh F. Bell -- Naval stores and Anglo-Russian encounters in the Baltic : the English expedition of 1715 / Mary Emily Miller -- The lime coast : a maritime nexus of community / Lawrence C. Allin -- Doxies at dockside : prostitution and American maritime society, 1800-1900 / Linda M. Maloney -- "All hands drunk and rioting" : disobedience in the old merchant marine / Allan A. Arnold -- America's first floating school / Fred Hopkins -- Characteristics of privateers operating from the British Isles against America, 1777-1783 / Walter E. Minchinton and David J. Starkey -- John Paul Jones : new perspectives revealed by his papers / James C. Bradford -- American maritime prisoners of war, 1812-1815 / Ira Dye -- Black seamen and the federal courts, 1789-1860 / Gaddis Smith -- The United States Navy in the Adriatic in World War I / Paolo E. Coletta.