A detailed index to all historic documents relating to maritime activities held by the Cornwall Record Office ranging from fishery regulations, through navigation charts and correspondence relating to customs houses or dockyards, to the more esoteric subjects such as bathing machines and mermaids

Definitive academic monograph and exhibition catalogue of trade ceramics recovered from waterlogged boat sites on the island of Mindanao, the oldest of which dates to AD 320.

A short guide to the many shipwrecks around the Welsh coastline divided into four period chapter: Before 1800; 1800-1850; 1850-1900; post-1900.  An appendix lists all known wrecks arranged chronologically from 1668 and divided by type of vessel - barque, ketch, steamship etc.

Summary reports on three prehistoric boat sites reporting on their discovery, their recovery, their construction, their conservation, dating and post-excavation analysis of finds - the Bronze age Ferriby boats, the Anglo-Saxon boat from Graveney, and the famous Sutton Hoo boat burial.

An historical survey examining the variety of sea-going canoes used by various sea-board indigenous tribes of North America and their contact with European expansionism in the 1500's 1600's which may have initially involved trade but invariably resulted in conflict and the occasional capture of t

A description of the search to establish sir Francis Drakes anchorage after sailing southwards along the length of the North American west coast recorded by him as 'Portus Nova Albionis' and subsequently known as Drake's Cove and verified in the 1970's as Point Reyes in California using historic

The Blackfriars ship was a Romano-British sailing barge of the second century AD which was accidentally sunk in the Thames while carrying a cargo of building stone.

A thorough guide to Isle of Wight shipwrecks focussing not only on several notable wrecks from C18th to early C20th but also covering the history of lighthouses, lifeboats and coastguards on the island.

For 30 years, the archaeology-loving divers of Anao on the Côte d’Azur have been salvaging sunken treasures in the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer. These items tell of the life of sailors on the trade routes of the Western Mediterranean during the C16th to C18th.

A bumper volume whose contents include: Underwater Archaeology in Turkey; Excavations in Philippine Cave Sites; Helge Ingstad on the Newfoundland L’Anse aux Meadows Viking Site; Kathleen Kenyon on Jerusalem Archaeology; Louis Leakey on Palaeontology in East Africa; the Wyoming Mummy Cave; C1th Sh