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Round the Horn Before the Mast (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Basil Lubbock
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The ship's company and other sea people (Harper & brothers, 1897), by J. D. Jerrold Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast (H. Altemus, 1895), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Norwegian sailors in American waters; a study in the history of maritime activity on the eastern seaboard. (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1933), by Knut Gjerset (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea (The Macmillan company, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
International seamen's union of America; a study of its history and problems (Washington, 1923), by Arthur Emil Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
The Sailors' union of the Pacific (The Ronald press company, 1923), by Paul S. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Foc's'le and glory-hole: (Merchant marine publishers association, 1936), by James Christopher Healey (page images at HathiTrust)
Enquiry concerning the application of the Eight-hour act in the French mercantile marine. (Geneva, 1921), by International Labour Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Marine and dock labor. Work, wages, and industrial relations during the period of the war. (Govt. print. off., 1919), by United States. Shipping Board. Marine and Dock Industrial Relations Division, Horace Bookwalter Drury, and Robert Perkins Bass (page images at HathiTrust)
... Notice to shipowners, supervising and local inspectors, shipping commissioners, collectors of customs, masters, and seamen and Rules and regulations for issuance of the certificates of service and efficiency and of continuous discharge books. December 26, 1936. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1936), by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
The seamen's act of 1915. (Govt. print. off., 1916), by Henry W. Farnam (page images at HathiTrust)
Our seamen. An appeal (Virtue & Co., 1873), by Samuel Plimsoll (page images at HathiTrust)
Abstracts of reports of the Immigration Commission : with conclusions and recommendations and views of the minority. (Govt. print. Off.,1911., 1911), by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910), William Stiles Bennet, and William Paul Dillingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Digest of consular regulations relating to vessels and seamen. December 1, 1920. (Govt. Print. Off., 1921), by United States Department of State, Lowell C. Pinkerton, and Lowell Call Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
A gipsy of the Horn (Houghton Mifflin company, 1925), by Rex Clements (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean: (Waite, Peirce, and company, 1845), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Cattle ships; being the fifth chapter of Mr. Plimsoll's second appeal for our seaman ... (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & co., ltd., 1890), by Samuel Plimsoll (page images at HathiTrust)
The sailor in English fiction and drama, 1550-1800 (Columbia University Press, 1931), by Harold Francis Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Wiley and Putnam ; London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846., 1846), by Herman Melville, Thomas B. Smith, R. Craighead's Power Press, John Murray (Firm), and Wiley & Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
Supplemental report to the President and to the Congress. March 1, 1942 ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by United States. Maritime Labor Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Salts of the sound (Stephen Daye press, 1939), by Roger Williams McAdam (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Marblehead sea captains and the ships in which they sailed ... ([Marblehead, Mass.], 1915), by Marblehead historical society and Benjamin J. Lindsey (page images at HathiTrust)
The men of the merchant service (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1900), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
The men on deck; master, mates and crew, their duties and responsibilities; a manual for the American merchant service (D. Van Nostrand company, 1918), by Felix Riesenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Sea life in Nelson's time (The Macmillan company, 1925), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings. (United Seamen's Service, 1943), by New York Conference on Traumatic War Neuroses in Merchant Seamen (page images at HathiTrust)
Questionnaire I [-II] International labour conference. Ninth session. Geneva, 1926 ... (Geneva, 1925), by International Labour Organization and International Labour Conference (9th : 1926 : Geneva) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report I [-II] International labour conference. Ninth session. Geneva, June 1926 ... (Geneva, 1926), by International Labour Organization and International Labour Conference (9th : 1926 : Geneva) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Der Seemann und sein Beruf. (H. Rohr, 1904), by W. Döring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Saving life at sea (W. Clowes and sons, limited, 1893), by Richard Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
Life saving measures for merchant seamen in time of war; statement prepared at the request of the Joint maritime commission. (Montreal, 1942), by International Labour Organization, Great Britain. Ministry of War Transport, and Joint maritime commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Magnus Andersen 70 aar tilbakeblikk. (Trykt hos Eck-Jansen & Nilsen, 1927), by Magnus Andersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
International Seamen's Union of America; a study of its history and problems. June, 1923. (Govt Print. Off., 1923), by Arthur Emil Albrecht and United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
Whaling and fishing (Dodd, Mead & co., 1855), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Four years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9. (J. B. Lippincott & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1860), by William B. Whitecar and J.B. Lippincott & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages to see the world (Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1856), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Questionnaire I-II. International Labour Conference. Ninth session. Geneva, 1926 ... First-[Second] item of the agenda. (International Labour Office, 1925), by International Labour Office and : Geneva International Labour Conference (9th (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The story of the American sailor in active service on merchant vessel and man-of-war (D. Lothrop, 1888), by Elbridge S. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
Opportunities in merchant ships (Harper & brothers, 1919), by Nelson Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Life in the mercantile marine (John Lane, 1903), by Charles Protheroe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ship alley : more sailor town days (Methuen & Co., 1925), by C. Fox Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ocean echoes; an autobiography. (Holt, 1922), by Arthur Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The romance of the sea rovers, an account of the stirring adventures of sea rovers from the times of the Phoenicians, Egyptians & vikings, through the Elizabethan & all other eras of maritime roving down to the present day (Seeley, Service & co., limited, 1924), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy ... (Navy Blue Company, 1910), by Edgar Stanton Maclay (page images at HathiTrust)
In the wake of the wind-ships; notes, records and biographies pertaining to the square-rigged merchant marine of British North America (G. Sully & company, 1927), by Frederick William Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
Descriptions of occupations. Water transportation. (Govt. print. off., 1918), by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
Ancient mariners; some salt water yesterdays (Methuen & Co., ltd., 1928), by C. Fox Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Master mariners (Williams and Norgate, 1912), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust)
Master mariners (H. Holt and company; [etc., etc., 1912), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report I[-VIII] ... (International Labour Office, 1945), by International Labour Office, International Labour Organisation, Joint Maritime Commission, and Maritime preparatory technical conference (1946 : Copenhagen) (page images at HathiTrust)
Gens de mer (A. Colin & cie., 1897), by Charles Le Goffic (page images at HathiTrust)
A voice from the deep. (A. Williams & company, 1873), by P. Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
Brewster ship masters (C.W. Swift, 1906), by J. Henry Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on the rights and duties of merchant seamen, according to the general maritime law, and the statutes of the United States. (C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841), by George Ticknor Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
The merchant vessel (Dodd, Mead & company, 1895), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety for seamen (Carey press corporation, 1943), by United States. War Shipping Administration. Medical Division and United Seamen's Service (page images at HathiTrust)
The American sailor (Lothrop publishing company, 1899), by Elbridge Streeter Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
British seamen : as described in recent Parliamentary and official documents (Longmans, Green, 1877), by Thomas Brassey Brassey (page images at HathiTrust)
Dictionary of service slang (M.S. Mill Co., inc., 1944), by Park Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
Sea life in Nelson's time (Methuen & Co., 1905), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Life in a man-of-war, or Scenes in "Old Ironsides" during her cruise in the Pacific. (L. R. Bailey, printer, 1841), by Henry James Mercier and William Gallop (page images at HathiTrust)
Etchings of a whaling cruise, with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar. To which is appended a brief history of the whale fishery ... (Harper & Brothers, 1846), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. (Harper & brothers, 1844), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. (Harper & Brothers, 1846), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Round the Horn before the mast (John Murray, 1902), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
Man-of-war life: a boy's experience in the United States Navy, during a voyage around the world, in a ship of the line. (Moore, Wilstach, Keys;, 1856), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Nine years a sailor: being sketches of personal experience in the United States Naval Service, the American and British Merchant Marine and the whaling service. (Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1866), by Charles Nordhoff and Wilstach & Baldwin Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
Five years before the mast, or Life in the forecastle aboard of a whaler and man-of-war (W.P. Hazard, 1859), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean : or Twenty years at sea: being the personal adventures of the author (Waite, Peirce, 1846), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Etchings of a whaling cruise, with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar. To which is appended a brief history of the whale fishery ... (Harper & brothers, 1850), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative (Houghton Miffin company, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Dog-watches at sea (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1901), by Stanton Henry King (page images at HathiTrust)
The crew of the Dolphin (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean : or Twenty years at sea : being the personal adventures of the author (R. Marsh, 1856), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Ocean tramps : by themselves (The Norman, Remington co., 1926), by Edgar Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
El mar ... (Seix & Barral, 1924), by Capitan Argüello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Manuel du marin chrétien ... (Bureau général des conférences, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
Navigation laws of the United States. ([James Harry Barry Co.], 1918), by Walter Macarthur and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years abast the mast; or, Life as a sea apprentice. (William Blackwood and Sons, 1876), by F. W. H. Symondson (page images at HathiTrust)
Compulsory medical examination. (International Labour Office, 1921), by International Labour Office and Switzerland) International Labour Conference (3rd : 1921 : Geneva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report on marine and dock industrial relations ([Washington?, 1922), by United States. Shipping Board and Thomas V. O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
Dog-watches at sea (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1901), by Stanton Henry King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sailor life on man of war and merchant vessel. (Dodd, 1884), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Brewster ship masters (C. W. Swift, 1906), by J Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
Impressment of seaman, and a few remarks on corporal punishment : taken from the private memoranda of a naval officer. (Roake and Varty, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty-six years of a seafaring life. (W. Woodward, 1839), by John Béchervaise (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty years from home, or A voice from the main deck; being the experience of Samuel Leech, who was for six years in the British and American navies: was captured in the British frigate Macedonian: afterwards entered the American navy, and was taken in the United States brig Syren, by the British ship Medway ... (C. Tappan, 1844), by Samuel Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
Thirty years from home; or A voice from the main deck being the experience of Samuel Leech, who was for six years in the British and American navies; was captured in the British frigate Macedonian; afterwards entered the American navy, and was taken in the United States brig Syren, by the British ship Medway. (Tappan & Dennet, 1843), by Samuel Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
Proposed constitution for one national industrial union of all American seamen, respectfully submitted for the consideration of the membership of the following organizations: Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders & Wipers Association; Sailors'Union of the Pacific; Marine Cooks & Stewards' Association of the Pacific Coast; Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific; and, National Maritime Union of America. (San Francisco, 1937), by Oilers Pacific Coast Marine Firemen and United Seamen of America (proposed title) (page images at HathiTrust)
The romance of Jenny Harlowe, and sketches of maritime life (Chatto and Windus, 1889), by William Clark Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast (Scott, Foresman and company, 1914), by Richard Henry Dana and Alllan Ferguson Westcott (page images at HathiTrust)
The British tar in fact and fiction (Harper and brothers, 1909), by Charles N. Robinson and John Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after : a personal narrative (Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1869), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Man-of-war life; a boy's experience in the United States Navy. (Dodd, Mead, 1895), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. (E. Moxon, 1841), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Shipowners' liability (sick and injured seamen) convention, 1936--disability compensation. Hearings before the Committee on merchant marine and fisheries, House of representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, on H. R. 6726, a bill relating to disability compensation for seamen; and H. R. 6881, a bill implementing draft convention no. 55. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1939), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after (P.F. Collier & Son, 1937), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Marine labor union leadership (San Francisco, 1925), by Walter J. Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
The British tar in fact and fiction (Harper and brothers, 1911), by Charles N. Robinson and John Leyland (page images at HathiTrust)
Rights and duties of merchant seamen (Rights and duties of seamen publishing co., 1920), by Silas Blake Axtell (page images at HathiTrust)
Servage des gens de mer : lettres a S.E. le cardinal Mathieu (E. Dentu, 1862), by Théodore-Napoléon Benard (page images at HathiTrust)
El derecho marítimo obrero en la Conferencia internacional del trabajo, celebrada en Génova en 1920 (Talleres gráficos del Ministerio de agricultura de la nación, 1922), by Argentina. Delegación a la segunda Conferencia international del trabajo, Alfredo Colmo, Argentina. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, and Italy) International Labour Conference (2nd : 1920 : Genoa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Del contrato de trabajo de los hombres de mar : memoria de prueba para optar el grado de licenciado en la Facultad de Leyes y Ciencias Politicas de la Universidad de Chile (Lathrop hnos., 1922), by Carlos Sánchez Contreras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Admiralty decisions in the District Court of the United States for the Pennsylvania District (P. Byrne, 1807), by Richard Peters, Samuel Wilcocks, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Peters, France, Hanseatic League, Visby (Sweden), and United States. District Court (Pennsylvania) (page images at HathiTrust)
System of workmen's compensation for seamen. Letter from under secretary of commerce transmitting in response to S. Res. no. 299 (76th Congress) a report of the Interdepartmental Committee to Study Workmen's Compensation for Seamen (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941), by United States. Interdepartmental Committee to Study Workmen's Compensation for Seamen and George Kennedy Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
Better protection of lives of passengers and seamen. (Govt. Print. Off., 1910), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean: (Waite, Peirce, and company, 1845), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean, or Twenty years at sea: being the personal adventures of the author. (Armstrong & Berry, 1843), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. (Edward Moxon, 1845), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Whaling and fishing. (Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1856), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
English seamen and divers. (Chapman, 1868), by Alphonse Esquiros (page images at HathiTrust)
An appeal to merchants and ship owners, on the subject of seamen. A lecture delivered at the request of the Boston marine society, March 7, 1854 (Sleeper & Rogers, 1854), by R. B. Forbes and Boston Marine Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Poor Jack (H.G. Bohn, 1850), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; being the personal adventures of the author. (Clark, Austin & Smith, 1852), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast. A personal narrative (Fields, Osgood & co., 1869), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in the forecastle, aboard of a whaler and man-of-war. (Belford, Clarke, 1858), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
The story of the sea (Cassell and co., 1895), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
Emergency regulations governing the appointment and training of cadet officers in the United States Maritime Commission Cadet Corps : revised January 8, 1942. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by United States. Maritime Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Daniel C. Roper, secretary. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Joseph B. Weaver, director (U.S. G.P.O., 1936), by United States. Department of Commerce and United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1900), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
Projets de conventions et recommandations adoptés par la conférence au cours de sa deuxième session, 15 juin-10 juillet 1920. Draft conventions and recommendations adopted by the conference during its second meeting, 15 June-10 July, 1920. (Textes authentiques) (Authentic texts) (Printed by H.M. Stationery off. press, 1920), by Italy) International Labour Conference (2nd : 1920 : Genoa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The sailor's return : being an account of Charles Grafton. (Printed by M. Goodwin, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
A message to seamen; a call to the sea and to seamanship. (International Seamen's Union of America, 1918), by International Seamen's Union of America (page images at HathiTrust)
The American battleship and life in the navy, also humorous yarns as told by a bluejacket (the American battleship in commission) (Laird & Lee, 1908), by Thomas Beyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Sjømandssprog, Norsk, Nogen fremmedord i (H. Aschehour & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1913), by Ragnvald Iversen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Five years before the mast; or, Life in the forecastle, aboard of a whaler and man-of-war (Davis-Porter, 1865), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
Erläuterungen zu den Satzungen der Invaliden-, Witwen- und Waisen-Versicherungskasse der See-Berufsgenossenschaft, unter Benutzung amtlicher Quellen (Behrend & Co. (Vorm. A. Asher & Co.), 1907), by Hugo Hanow and Hamburg Seeberufsgenossenschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Deputation to the First Lord of the Admiralty, on Wednesday, July 27th, 1898 in reference to the question of the desirability of colonial seamen being enrolled in the Royal Navy Reserve ([s.n.], 1898), by British Empire League (page images at HathiTrust)
A sermon on the dangers and duties of the seafaring life preached before the Protestant dissenting congregation at Halifax and published at the desire of the Marine Society in that place (Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Belknap and Hall ..., 1793), by Andrew Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Life on the ocean; being sketches of personal experience in the United States naval service, the American and British merchant marine, and the whaling service (Wilstach, Baldwin & co., 1874), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Watch-and-watch at sea: a protest from the International seamen's union and a warning to shipowners (Govt. print. off., 1917), by Andrew Furuseth (page images at HathiTrust)
The new practice and procedure in the Municipal court of the city of New York under the Municipal court code (Laws of 1915, chap. 279) with a treatise on the practice in summary proceedings and a history of the Municipal court, also tables, forms and index (Baker, Voorhis & co., 1916), by Edgar Jacob Lauer (page images at HathiTrust)
The seaman's contract, 1790-1918; a complete reprint of the laws relating to American seamen, enacted, amended, and repealed by the Congress of the United States, as originally published in the U. S. statutes at large. Compiled and arranged for purposes of comparison, including the present law ... ([The James H. Barry Co.,], 1919), by Walter Macarthur (page images at HathiTrust)
Whaling and fishing (Dodd, Mead, 1895), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Des mesures de protection qui garantissent les intérêts pécuniaires des gens de mer. (1897), by Joseph de Lavigne Sainte-Suzanne (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea (Doubleday, Page, 1922), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report. (New York, in the 19th century), by American Seamen's Friend Society, Boston Seaman's Friend Society, Western Seamen's Friend Society, and American Bethel Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Étude sur le contrat d'engagement des gens de mer. (Paris, 1894), by Henri Terquem (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast. (D. Appleton, 1912), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Man-of-war life : a boy's experience in the United States navy, during a voyage around the world, in a ship of the line (Dodd, Mead, 1883), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of maritime life (Chatto & Windus, 1890), by William Clark Russell, Chester W. Topp, Chester W. Topp collection of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks (Emory University. MARBL), William Clowes and Sons, and Chatto & Windus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea (T.Y. Crowell & co., 1907), by Richard Henry Dana and Charles Welsh (page images at HathiTrust)
Marins pêcheurs; pêcheurs côtiers et pêcheurs de morue à Terre-Neuve et Islande. (A. Rousseau [etc.], 1899), by Léon de Seilhac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Round the Horn before the mast (E. P. Dutton, 1903), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
Les conditions du travail dans la Marine marchande (Bonvalot-Jouve, 1907), by André Moufflet and Université de Paris. Faculté de droit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Thirty years from home, or, A voice from the main deck: (J. M. Whittemore, 1847), by Samuel Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
Investigation by the commissioner of the Bureau of labor statistics into the condition of men working on the waterfront and on board of Pacific coast vessels. Held in the city of San Francisco, June 29 to July 10, 1887. (J. D. Young, supt. state printing, 1887), by California. Bureau of Labor Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
[Publications]. (London, 1921), by Seafarers' Education Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Draft conventions and recommendations adopted by the International labour conference during its second session held at Genoa. ([International labour office], 1920), by Italy) International Labour Conference (2nd : 1920 : Genoa and International Labour Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Deportaton of certain alien seamen. : Hearings before the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, on S. 379, a bill to provide for the deportation of certain alien seamen, and for other purposes. April 9 and 10, 1935. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1935), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration (page images at HathiTrust)
Two years before the mast (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Svenska sjöhjältar. (P. A. Norstedt, 1899), by Arnold Munthe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast; or, A sailor's life at sea (Hutchinson & co., ltd, 1910), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Hydrographie : contenant la theorie et la pratiqve de tovtes les parties de la navigation (Chez Iean Dv Pvis ... , 1667), by Georges Fournier and Alexander Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
Protokoll über die Verhandlungen der Reichskonferenz der in der Binnenschiffahrt beschäftigten Maschinisten und Heizer : abgehalten zu Hamburg am 22. Dezember, 1912. ([Singer], 1913), by Germany) Zentralverband der Maschinisten und Meizer sowie Berufsgenossen Deutschlands. Reichskonferenz (1912 : Hamburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ship alley, more Sailor town days. (Houghton company, 1925), by C. Fox Smith and Philip W. Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abgeänderte satzung der invaliden-, witwen- und waisen-versicherungskasse der See- berufsgenossenschaft. (Seekasse) (H.O. Persiehl, 1911), by See-Berufsgenossenschaft (Germany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The seamen's bill. (Life boat equipment) Hearings held before the Committee on the merchant marine and fisheries, House of Representatives, on S. 136, an act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto: and to promote safety at sea. Hearings of December 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1913. (Govt. Print. Off., 1913), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
A midshipman in the Pacific : his adventures on whaler, trader and frigate (Grosset & Dunlap, 1904), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, G. A. Williams, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
Anchorage lights on small vessels and able seamen on sailing vessels. Hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, on H.R. 7420, a bill relating to anchorage lights; and H.R. 7339, a bill relating to the requirement for able seamen on certain sailing vessels. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1940), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
Repatriation of American seamen. Executive hearing before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, second session, pursuant to authority of H. Res. 281, a resolution authorizing investigation of the national defense program as it relates to the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. October 8, 1942 ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
Merchant marine omnibus bill. Hearings before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 7424, a bill to amend and clarify certain provisions of law relating to functions of the War Shipping Administration, and for other purposes. September 2, 1942. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
Rights and benefits to American Merchant Seamen : hearings before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1361, a bill to confer the same rights, privileges, and benefits upon members of the merchant marine who serve after September 26, 1941, and during the present war as are conferred upon members of the armed forces of the United States who serve during the present war. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
I seek thee (117 Randolph St., Chicago : Molter & Wurlitzer, [1868], 1868), by C. L. Seaverns and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
From the bosom of ocean I seek thee : sentimental song (Cleveland : S. Brainard's Sons, [1868], 1868), by C. L. Seaverns and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Christ for the sailor - the sailor for Christ : a discourse before The American Seamen's Friend Society, at its fifty-sixth anniversary, Sabbath evening, May 4th, 1884 (American Seamen's Friend Society, 1884), by Samuel E. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
Sailing the seas; the log of Tom Drake (American Book Co., 1920), by James Baldwin and William Winfred Livengood (page images at HathiTrust)
Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and the enchanted isles (Press of the Readers Club, 1942), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast; a personal narrative. (Houghton Mifflin, 1929), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
"Ships logs and captains' diaries of old Cape Cod" (The Berkeley press], 1937), by Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and Harry V. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast. : A personal narrative of life at sea (A. L. Burt, 1840), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
The charter for incorporating the Hibernian Society, in Dublin, for maintaining, educating, and apprenticing, the orphans and children of soldiers in Ireland, for ever. (1808), by Ireland) Hibernian Marine Society (Dublin (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of army and navy slang (M. S. Mill, 1941), by Park Kendall and Johnny Viney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Handy-billy book of new century pamphlets for seamen ... (International Seamen's Union of America, 1901), by International Seamen's Union of America (page images at HathiTrust)
Spanish seamen in the New World during the colonial period ([Baltimore, Md., 1922), by Paul S. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
Neptune's heroes; or, The sea-kings of England, from Sir John Howkins to Sir John Franklin (Griffith and Farran, 1861), by W. H. Davenport Adams, John Leighton, John Gilbert, and Matthew Somerville Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on international codification of the rules relating to seamen's articles of agreement. (International labour office, 1926), by International Labour Office and International Labour Conference (9th : 1926 : Geneva) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast. : A personal narrative (James R. Osgood & Co., 1871), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
Les petits parias de notre marine marchande & des pêches... (F.Alcan, 1906), by Léon Vignols (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Nefndarálit [útgerðarmanna við Faxaflóa. (Ísafoldarprentsmiðja, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Two years before the mast (David McKay, 1915), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
An act to authorize the appointment of shipping commissioners by the judges of the several district courts of the United States of America,to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant ships belonging to the United States,and for the further protection of seamen. (Spaulding & Barto,printers, in the 1870s), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
Emergency regulations governing the appointment and training of cadets in the U.S. Maritime Commission Cadet Corps. (Washington, 1942), by United States. Maritime Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Merchant seamen and the law. (National maritime union, 1945), by William L. Standard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Notice to shipowners, supervising and local inspectors, shipping commissioners, collectors of customs, masters, and seamen and Rules and regulations for issuance of the certificates of service and efficiency and of continuous discharge books. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1936), by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
Flogging and its substitute. A voice from the ranks: or, a letter to Sir Francis Burdett, on the barbarous and degrading system of flogging soldiers and sailors (Published by Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1831), by John Shipp (page images at HathiTrust)
Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers ; London : John Murray, 1849., 1849), by Herman Melville, John Murray (Firm), and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
Typee, a narrative of the Marquesas Islands (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1921), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
International codification of the rules relating to seamen's articles of agreement. First item on the agenda. (International labour office, 1925), by International Labour Office and International Labour Conference (9th : 1926 : Geneva) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The head-hunters of Christabel : a tale of adventure in the South Seas (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1903), by Alfred Penny, Harold Piffard, Richard Clay and Sons, E. & J.B. Young & Co, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sailor life on a man of war. (Dodd, Mead, 1881), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
Afloat and ashore : the reminiscences of a marine engineer (Munro, 1920), by Patrick Lawrence Waldron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
[International Labour Conference. Second session. Report 1-4] ... Seamen's Conference, Genoa, June, 1920 ... Item 1-4 of the agenda. (Harrison and Sons, 1920), by International Labour Organization and Italy) International Labour Conference (2nd : 1920 : Genoa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A bunch of rope yarns, by Stanton H. King (Gutenberg ebook)
Four years aboard the whaleship: Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9, by William B. Whitecar (Gutenberg ebook)
The Men of the Merchant Service: Being the polity of the mercantile marine for 'longshore readers, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg ebook)
Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck: Being the Experience of Samuel Leech, by Samuel Leech (Gutenberg ebook)
A Book for the Hammock, by William Clark Russell (Gutenberg ebook)
The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities, by Felix Riesenberg (Gutenberg ebook)

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