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• Competition in Coastal Seas: An Evaluation of Foreign Maritime Activities in the 200-Mile EEZ (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• R&D in the Maritime Industry: A Supplement to An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (OTA-BP-O-35; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• What Shall We Do With Our Merchant Fleet? (1946), by Thomas C. Cochran and William Miller (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage and the Decline of Navigation Interests, by United States House of Representatives (page images at MOA)
• Maritime: A Historical Sketch and a Workers' Program (second edition; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945), by Frederick J. Lang, ed. by Terence Phelan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Scarcity of Seamen (second edition; Boston: Press of J. Howe, ca. 1854), by Thomas V. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors, by Ralph Delahaye Paine (Gutenberg text)

• History of American Merchant Seamen (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1956), by Elmo Paul Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Some Follow the Sea (with supplement of merchane marine photographs; New York: Dutton, 1947), by Henry Gregor Felsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effective Manning of the U.S. Merchant Fleet, by National Research Council Marine Board Committee on Effective Manning (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Annual Report of the Federal Maritime Commission, by United States Federal Maritime Commission (full serial archives)
• Annual Report of the Federal Maritime Board and Maritime Administration, by United States Federal Maritime Board and United States Maritime Administration (full serial archives)

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

• Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage and the Decline of Navigation Interests, by United States House of Representatives (page images at MOA)

• American Maritime Cases (partial serial archives)
• Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law (partial serial archives)

• The Law of Salvage (Mount Kisco, NY: Baker, Voorhis and Co., 1958), by Martin J. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Reassessment of the Marine Salvage Posture of the United States (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson, Esq. (3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, 1792), by Francis Hopkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime: A Historical Sketch and a Workers' Program (second edition; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945), by Frederick J. Lang, ed. by Terence Phelan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Point Gorda Strike (New York: Marine Workers Industrial Union, ca. 1932), by George Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• 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)

• 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; US access only)

• Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Point Gorda Strike (New York: Marine Workers Industrial Union, ca. 1932), by George Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Naše More (in Croatian and English) (partial serial archives)

• On Great Waters (London et al.: Cassell, c1919), by Frank H. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Complete Collection of All the Marine Treaties Subsisting Between Great-Britain and France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Savoy, Holland, Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, &c., Commencing in the Year 1546, and Including the Definitive Treaty of 1763 (London: Printed for D. Steel and J. Millan, 1779) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1915), ed. by Reginald G. Marsden
  • Volume I (1205-1648): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1649-1767): multiple formats at archive.org
• Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty's Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade (2 volumes; London: Printed for HMSO by Harrison and Sons, 1892), by Great Britain Admiralty
  • Volume I: page images at Florida
  • Volume II: page images at Florida
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• A System of Marine Signals (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876), by S. P. Griffin (multiple formats at Google)

• Ocean Sciences, Technology, and the Future International Law of the Sea (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966), by William T. Burke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)
• Lecciones de Derecho Maritimo Internacional (in Spanish; Mexico: I. Cumplido, 1854), ed. by Justo Sierra O'Reilly
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Law of the Sea: Offshore Boundaries and Zones (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1967), ed. by Lewis M. Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Freedom of the Seas: The Sinking of the William P. Frye (prepared for Col. E. M. House; 1918), ed. by Sidney Edward Mezes, contrib. by Horace S. Oakley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Compleat Guide to All Men in Business (Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1754), by Wyndham Beawes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business (6th edition; Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1773), by Wyndham Beawes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson, Esq. (3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, 1792), by Francis Hopkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greater Safety at Sea, and International Tribunals for Questions of Collision: Paper Presented to the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (New York: J. Polhemus, 1875), by David Dudley Field (page images at Gallica)

• An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nations, and the Rights of Soveraigns (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1694), by Matthew Tindal (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amalgamated International and U.S. Inland Navigation Rules (current online edition, reflecting laws up to at least 2019), by United States Coast Guard (HTML with commentary at uscg.gov)
• The Rules of the Road at Sea: Comprising The International Rules for Prevention of Collision at Sea; The Inland Rules Applicable on the Inland Waters of the United States on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico; The Pilot Rules Applicable on the Inland Coast Waters of the United States (New York: Baker, Voorhis and Co., 1920), by W. H. LaBoyteaux (multiple formats at Google)

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