Nautical

The Isle of Wight has a long and fascinating association with the seas that surround its shores. We are sustained by our ferry connections and on our doorstep have Southampton, one of the world's great ports, and Portsmouth the home of the Royal Navy. We have a selection of titles to choose from.

Ships and Shipping

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Click for details HMS Endurance The Red Plum (Coach House Publications)
by Graham Smith

HMS Endurance is the sole Ice Patrol Vessel of the Royal Navy. She spends over half of each year in the stormy seas and in the lonely places of Antarctica and the South Atlantic, and although she is a naval unit, she is unarmed and her mission is peaceful - to patrol, to survey, and to support scientific research and the global community in Antarctica. This beautifully illustrated book shows Endurance and her crew in action, and pays tribute to their vital role in helping preserve our planet's last great untouched wilderness.

£12.95

Click for details Coastguards of the Isle of Wight (Coach House Publications)
by Tony Gale

The waters around the Isle of Wight in the 18th and 19th centuries were full of boats, some lawfully plying their trade but many owned by 'Free Traders' intent on landing their smuggled goods ashore.
This book tells the intriguing story of the Island's Coastguard Stations from the formation of the service in 1822 to its run down in the early 1900s. Many of the former stations can still be seen to this day and Tony Gale gives us a fascinating insight into the daily life of those heroic Coastguard officers.

£4.95

Click for details Empire Food Ships 1934-1948 (Coach House Publications)
by Richard P de Kerbrech

Empire Food Ships 1934-1948 - A Link with Southern Dominions describes, in all its aspects, a special era in the shipment of refrigerated produce from the Commonwealth countries of the southern hemisphere to the United Kingdom.

£8.95

Click for details Shipwrecks of the Wight (Coach House Publications)
by John Medland

A comprehensive illustrated history of ships of all types which have been wrecked on the shores of the Isle of Wight, or in the surrounding sea, from Roman times to the late 1970s. Includes accounts of famous disasters such as the Mary Rose, Royal George, Eurydice, Eider, Gladiator and the Pacific Glory, plus the scuttling of the royal cutter Britannia. Sailing ships, paddle steamers, submarines, and cargo vessels - they are all here.

£9.95

Click for details Shipwrecks of the Wight - Map (Coach House Publications)
by Mark Southwell

This beautifully drawn map complements John C. Medland’s book Shipwrecks of the Wight, but is also a fascinating artefact in itself.

£3.99

Click for details Shipwrecks of the Wight - Book with Map (Coach House Publications)
by John Medland and Mark Southwell

An ideal combination of John Medland's Shipwrecks of the Wight and M. Southwell's map charting the wrecks in the book.

£12.50