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• The Stone-Lloyd System of Hydraulically-Controlled Marine Safety Bulkhead Doors, Rendering Ships Practically Unsinkable (London: Adams Bros., 1906), by J. Stone and Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thrice Armed (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1908), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Thrice Armed (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1908), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Lake Erie Sidewheel Steamers of Frank E. Kirby (Detroit: Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, 1955), by Gordon Pritchard Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Life on the Mississippi (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Lansing, MI: D.D. Thorp, 1892), by Chester D. Berry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early American Steamers (2 public domain volumes (later copyrighted volumes searchable but not readable online); Buffalo: E. Heyl, 1953-1956), by Erik Heyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Record of American and Foreign Shipping (partial serial archives)

• Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1939 (2 typescript volumes, second titled "Ship Licenses Issued to Vessels Under Twenty Tons and Ship Licenses on Enrollments Issued Out of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island"; Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-1941), by Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rollo on the Atlantic (Boston: Taggard and Thompson, 1864), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats (American Society of Civil Engineers Transactions #15, 1873), by Theodore F. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ancient Port of Whitby and its Shipping, With Some Subjects of Interest Connected Therewith (Whitby: Horne and Son, 1908), by Richard Weatherill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Foreign Ships in Micronesia, by Francis X. Hezel (HTML at micsem.org)

• Proceedings of a Meeting, and Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Cleveland, in Relation to Steamboat Disasters on the Western Lakes, by Cleveland Committee on Steam Navigation on the western lakes (page images at MOA)
• Report on Steam-Vessel Accidents (1839), by Great Britain Board of Trade, contrib. by Charles Edward Poulett Thomson Sydenham (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat (Maryland Historical Society Fund Publication #5; Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy, 1871), by John H. B. Latrobe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steam-Boat (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1857), by Thompson Westcott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)

• Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River (New York: Grafton Press, c1907), by David Lear Buckman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Marine and Naval Boilers (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1912), by Frank Lyon and A. W. Hinds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1903), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (second edition, revised; Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1906), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Canoeing, Sailing and Motor Boating (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Warren H. Miller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Man on the Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by R. Richardson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mosquitoes: A Novel (New York: Liveright Publishing, c1927), by William Faulkner (multiple formats with commentary at fadedpage.com)
• Little by Little: or, The Cruise of the Flyaway (Chicago: Union School Furnishing Co., ca. 1860), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Bristol, UK: J. W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1889), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics (illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures)

• Water Wagon: Through Florida Waterways by Scow and Outboard Motor (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, c1952), by Rube Allyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cruise of the Firefly (Chicago et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1906), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and William P. Chipman, illust. by Edwin John Prittie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Down the River with the Teenie Weenies (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1921), by William Donahey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rover Boys in Southern Waters: or, The Deserted Steam Yacht (New York: Chatterton-Peck Co., c1907), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Rover Boys in Southern Waters: or, The Deserted Steam Yacht (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1907), by Edward Stratemeyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Uncle Wiggily's Wash Tub Ship, or, The Battle of Duck Poing Ocean; and Uncle Wiggily's Game of Tennis; also, Uncle Wiggily's Steam Boat Couch (Newark and New York: C. E. Graham and Co., c1929), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Lansing Campbell (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat: or, The Secret of Cedar Island (1913), by George A. Warren (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol, by Howard Payson (Gutenberg text)
• Frontier Boys on the Coast: or, In the Pirate's Power (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1912), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by Burton Donnel Hughes (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat: or, The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover (1913), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Boys in Strange Waters: or, Lost in a Floating Forest (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1909), by Clarence Young, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay: or, The Secret of the Red Oar (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1914), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake: or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem, by Laura Lee Hope (Gutenberg text)
• The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake: or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat gem (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Laura Lee Hope
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• All Aboard: or, Life on the Lake, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.