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• Colonial vessels : some seventeenth-century sailing craft (Barre Pub. Co., 1962), by William A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sailing ships of New England, 1607-1907 (J. W. Eckenrode, 1953), by John Robinson and George Francis Dow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sail and steam along the Maine coast (Bond Wheelwright Co., 1955), by Vincent Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some famous sailing ships and their builder, Donald McKay (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928), by Richard C. McKay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wind Propulsion for ships of the American merchant marine (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Maritime Administration, Office of Maritime Technology :, 1981), by Wind Ship Development Corporation, Lloyd Bergeson, and United States. Office of Maritime Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nederlandsche jachten, binnenschepen, visachersvaartuigen en daarmee verwante kleine zeeschepen 1650-1900. Met eene verkorte vertaling in het Engelsch. (Swets & Zeitlinger, 1926), by G C E Crone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fore & aft craft and their story; an account of the fore & aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. (Seeley, Service & Co., 1927), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Omnibus territorial legislation--1980 hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on S. 2735 ... S. 2992 ... H.R. 7330 ... August 26, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O., 1980), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crociera del Corsaro alle Azzorre (Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1888), by E. A. D'Albertis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sailing-ship : six thousand years of history (Robert M. McBride & co., 1926), by Romola Anderson and R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nominating historic vessels and shipwrecks to the National Register of Historic Places (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency Resources Division, 1987), by James P. Delgado and United States. National Park Service. Interagency Resources Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory and science of naval architecture familiarly explained and intimately blended with the art. Together with observations and practical conclusions, tending to the further improvement of ship-building ... (Printed by J. Bartlett, 1836), by Isaac Blackburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Thames to the Netherlands; a voyage in the waterways of Zealand & down the Belgian coast (MacMillan, 1914), by Charles Pears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sailing ships the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day (Sidgwick, 1914), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ships of the seven seas (Garden City, New York : Doubleday Page & Company, 1925., 1925), by Hawthorne Daniel, Francis J. Rigney, and Franklin D. Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing ships : the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day, by E. Keble Chatterton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Recherches sur la manière de suppléer a l'action du vent sur les grands vaisseaux : soit en y appliquant les rames, soit en y employant quelqu'autre moyen que ce puisse être : fondées sur une nouvelle théorie de l'économie, des forces et des effets (Bachelier, 1810), by Daniel Bernoulli, Mathon de la Cour (Jacques), Leonhard Euler, and Académie des Sciences (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Generall sailing-orders according to which masters as have a mind to saile are to ruled by. (Rotterdam, : by Isaac van Lochem, bookseller in the Milstreete, by order of Their Lordships, the Lords of the Admirality upon the Maze., [1692?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Marjorie, by Justin H. McCarthy (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fore and aft : the story of the fore & aft rig from the earliest times to the present day (Seeley, Service & co., 1912), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vzgli a d na morekhodstvo i morski i a sily u vsi e kh narodov v mi ri e : vybrano iz raznykh avtorov, s risunkami korablei po e pokham, s prisovokupleni em opisani i a morekhodstva ukrainskikh kazakov, proslavivshikhsi a na Chernom more v XVI vi e ki e , risunka ikh chelnov [sic], i risunkov vsi e kh nyni e upotrebli a emykh sudov po vnutrennei navigat s i i v Rossii, po vysochai shemu poveli e ni i u . (V tipografi i Konrada Vingebera, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing ships : the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day, by E. Keble Chatterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships, by George Charles Vincent Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer With Captain Hawes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by E. Boyd Smith (page images with commentary at Brooklyn Public Library)
• Nautilus (Estes and Lauriat, 1895), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the Essex, or, Making the stars and stripes respected (David McKay, 1898), by Frank Sheridan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shamrock and thistle : or, Young America in Ireland and Scotland. A story of travel and adventure (Lee and Shepard, 1895), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Cross, or, Young America in England and Wales : a story of travel and adventure (Lee and Shepard, 1895), by Oliver Optic and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young America in France and Switzerland (Lee and Shepard, 1896), by Oliver Optic and John Andrew & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Rhine : or, Young America in Germany. A story of travel and adventure (Lee and Shepard, 1897), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy captain (The Werner Co., 1899), by Clement Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• King of the clippers : adventure on the high seas (Aladdin Books, 1955), by Edmund Collier and Frederick T. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charlie Codman's cruise : a story for boys (John C. Winston Co., 1894), by Horatio Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Year in a Yawl: A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl, by Russell Doubleday (Gutenberg ebook)
• De vliegende Hollander (in Dutch), by Piet Visser (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Cape Horner (partial serial archives)
• Ticklish times. (Wilson and Mackinnon, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Verzameling van vier en tachtig stuks Hollandsche schepen (s.n., 1969), by G. Groenewegen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Nao Santa María : memória de la Comisión Arqueológica Ejecutiva, 1892 (El Progreso editorial?, 1892), by Spain. Comisión Arqueológica Ejecutiva (page images at HathiTrust)

• La nao Santa María: memória de la Comisión arqueológica ejecutiva, 1892 (in Spanish), by Spain. Comisión arqueológica ejecutiva, contrib. by Cesáreo Fernández Duro, illust. by Rafael Monleón y Torres (Gutenberg ebook)

• Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer, an old-time sailor of the sea (The Macmillan company, 1922), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869 (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1910), by Arthur H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial clippers (J. Brown & son (Glasgow) ltd., 1921), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• American clipper ships, 1833-1858 (Marine research society, 1926), by Octavius T. Howe and Frederick C. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sailing-ship : six thousand years of history (R. M. McBride, 1947), by Romola Anderson and R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clipper ship era; an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869 (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1911), by Arthur H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sailing-ship : six thousand years of history (G. G. Harrap & company, ltd., 1926), by Romola Anderson and R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great days of sail : some reminiscences of a tea-clipper captain (Heath Cranton, 1927), by Andrew Shewan and Rex Clements (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sailing-ship : six thousand years of history (Robert M. McBride & co., 1926), by Romola Anderson and R. C. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some recollections by Captain Charles P. Low, commending the clipper ships "Houqua," "Jacob Bell," "Samuel Russell," and "N.B. Palmer," in the China trade, 1847-1873. (Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1906), by Charles Porter Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains (Printed for the State Street Trust Company, 1913), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston and Walton Advertising and Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old shipping days in Boston. (Printed for the State Street Trust Company, 1918), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston and Walton Advertising and Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some recollections by Captain Charles P. Low ... in the China trade, 1847-1873. (Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1906), by Charles Porter Low (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The moonrakers; the story of the clipper ship men. (Harper, 1961), by Robert Carse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The China clippers (J. Brown & son, 1914), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial clippers (C.E. Lauriat, 1921), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• On a summer's day, when the wave was rippled (Cleveland, Chicago : S. Brainard's Sons ; Bloomington, Ill. : Howes & Adams ; Philadelphia : Lee & Walker ; Detroit, Mich. : C.J. Whitney ; St. Paul, Minn. : Dyer & Howard ; San Francisco : A. Waldteufel ; Atlanta, GA : Phillips & Crew ; Nashville : H.A. French, [1884], 1884), by Henry C. Work and W.J. Morgan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clipper ship (Dobb, Mead, 1928), by Hawthorne Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some recollections (George H Ellis, 1905), by Charles P. Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clipper ship "Sheila," Angel--master (H. Cranton, Ltd., 1919), by W. H. Angel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Colonial Clippers, by Basil Lubbock (Gutenberg ebook)

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