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• White jacket (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dan Merrithew, by Lawrence Perry, illust. by J. V. McFall (Gutenberg ebook)

• Midshipman Stanford; a story of midshipman life at Annapolis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard co., 1916), by Henry Howard Clark and W. O. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Scarcity of Seamen (second edition; Boston: Press of J. Howe, ca. 1854), by Thomas V. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief act of 1940. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1940), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shipboard observation of electronics personnel : detailed descriptions of observational techniques (Dept of Psychology, University of Southern California, 1953), by William W. Grings and University of Southern California. Dept. of Pyschology (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last word on life insurance for men discharged from the Navy ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1945), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil procedure under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, with annotations and forms (the Steck Company, 1941), by J. S. Kendall and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigation laws of the United States (James H. Barry Co., 1915), by Walter Macarthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view from the prison : being articles addressed to the editor of the New-Bedford Mercury : and a letter to G.B. Weston, esq., and other directors of the Duxbury Bank. To which are added leaves from a journal (Printed by B. Lindsey, 1840), by B. Rodman and Benjamin Lindsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copies and extracts of documents [on the subject of] British impressments of American seamen (Printed for and published by the booksellers, 1813), by United States. Dept. of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copies and extracts of documents on the subject of British impressments of American seamen (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown ..., 1812), by United States. Dept. of State (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• The seaman's contract, 1790-1918; a complete reprint of the laws relating to American seamen, enacted, amended, and repealed by the Congress of the United States, as originally published in the U. S. statutes at large.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)
• Memorandum of questions and answers relating to rights, privileges, and benefits of merchant seamen : as compiled by Capt. Edward J. Macauley, chairman, Maritime War Emergency Board. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1943), by United States. War Shipping Administration and United States. Maritime War Emergency Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Special Subcommittee on Commercial Air Transportation for Service Personnel While on Authorized Leave (U.S. G.P.O., 1966), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Commercial Air Transportation for Service Personnel While on Authorized Leave (page images at HathiTrust)
• The serviceman's legal guide. (Capitol publishing co., 1943), by William Schwartz and Abraham Sperling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Adaptability screening for the armed forces (Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management and Personnel), 1993), by Janice H. Laurence, Thomas Trent, and United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Force Management and Personnel (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 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1855), by Charles Nordhoff
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• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Truxtun of the Constellation; the life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S. Navy, 1755-1822. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1956), by Eugene S. Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea raiders of the American Revolution : the Continental Navy in European waters (Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :, 2003), by E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell, Mark L. Hayes, Dennis Michael Conrad, and Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• US sailors in the War of 1812 (Naval Historical Center :, 2004), by Charles E. Brodine, Christine F. Hughes, Michael J. Crawford, and Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gallant deeds of our naval heroes : told for boys and girls : including the adventures of Captain Paul Jones, Commodore Perry, commodore Decatur, Admiral Farragut, Admiral Dewey, and many others of America's brave sailors who won glory in battles at home and abroad; also the story of the ships made famous by great battles and great captains (s.n.], 1902), by Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cruise of the frigate Columbia around the world, under the command of Commodore George C. Read, in 1838, 1839, and 1840. (B. B. Mussey, 1840), by William Meacham Murrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years before the mast, or, life in the forecastle, being the experiences and voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs. Containing an account of his escapes from wild beasts; from the dangers of war; from British pressgangs; from frequent shipwrecks; together with several remarkable dreams, and a mass of other interesting facts, and including an account of his conversion to God. (J. P. Beckwith, 1845), by Nicholas Peter Isaacs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Robert Voorhis, the hermit of Massachusetts, who has lived 14 years in a cave, secluded from human society : comprising, an account of his birth, parentage, sufferings, and providential escape from unjust and cruel bondage in early life, and his reasons for becoming a recluse (Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull, Robert Voorhis, and Sylvester S. Southworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in a whaler (Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1860), by pseud Sailor Charley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A relic of the Revolution, containing a full and particular account of the sufferings and privations of all the American prisoners captured on the high seas, and carried into Plymouth, England, during the Revolution of 1776; with the names of the vessels taken--the names and residence of the several crews, and time of their commitment--the names of such as died in prison, and such as made their escape, or entered on board English men-of-war; until the exchange of prisoners, March 15, 1779. Also, an account of the several cruises of the squadron under the command of Commodore John Paul Jones, prizes taken, etc., etc. (Pub. for the proprietor, by C. H. Pierce, 1847), by Charles Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• A sailor's log : recollections of forty years of naval life (D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Robley D. Evans, Rudyard Kipling, Chandler Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822-1863) United States Navy (Smithsonian Institution, 1959), by Daniel Noble Johnson and Mendel Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sailor's log; recollections of forty years of naval life (D. Appleton and Company, 1901), by Robley D. Evans and Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)

• A review of the GAO report on the sale of financial products to military personnel : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on examination of a Government Accountability Office report on the sale of financial products to military personnel, focusing on actions needed to protect military member, November 17, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by Housing United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and United States Government Accountability Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heroic deeds of American sailors (Little, Brown, and Co., 1918), by Albert F. Blaisdell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Management of endurance risk factors : a guide for deep draft vessels (U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center ;, 2001), by Carlos A. Comperatore, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center, and United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiscal year 2007 Coast Guard authorizing legislation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 20, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• No need for the Congress to reverse 1981 decision to deny U.S. merchant seamen a government-financed health care program (GAO/HRD-85-2) (United States General Accounting Office, Human Resources Division, 1984), by Richard L. Fogel, Joseph P. Addabbo, Daniel K. Inouye, and United States. General Accounting Office. Human Resources Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• The integration of the Negro into the United States Navy, 1776-1947, with a brief historical introduction. ([Washington], 1948), by Dennis Denmark Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pedro Gorino; the adventures of a Negro sea-captain in Africa and on the seven seas in his attempts to found an Ethiopian empire (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), by Harry Dean and Sterling North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war's greatest scandal! The story of Jim Crow in uniform. (The March on Washington movement, 1943), by Dwight Macdonald, Nancy Macdonald, and March on Washington Movement (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Long passage to Korea : Black sailors and the integration of the U.S. Navy (Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :, 2003), by Bernard C. Nalty and Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black Americans in the Navy. (Dept. of Defense, Navy Dept., Bureau of Naval Personnel : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroliniensis. (A.E. Miller, 1823), by Robert J. Turnbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro soldiers' and sailors' memorial : hearing before the Committee on the Library, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5131. October 14, 1919. (G.P.O., 1919), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia negro soldiers and seamen in the Revolutionary war (Guide Quality Press, 1944), by Luther Porter Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Enlistment for duty at lifeboat stations (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1946), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (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)
• Summary of merchant marine personnel casualties, World War II. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maritime industry : federal regulation in establishing labor and safety standards (Cornell Maritime Press, 1942), by Rudolf Walter Wissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for lifeboatmen and able seamen, qualified members of engine department, and tankermen. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1936), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wage bargaining on the vessels of the Great Lakes (University of Illinois, 1917), by Henry Elmer Hoagland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The river rat murder case : the NMU post-war program (Education Dept., National Maritime Union, 1945), by Aleine Austin and National Maritime Union of America. Education Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Challenges facing the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, August 2, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agreement between various steamship companies and the National maritime union of America, an affiliate of the C.I.O. in its own behalf and in behalf of the unlicensed personnel for whom the National maritime union has been certified by the National labor relations board as the agent for collective bargaining, employed on the various companies' vessels registered under the American flag. Expiration date: September 30, 1941. ([New York?, 1941), by National Maritime Union of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime manpower shortage. Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1966), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Special Subcommittee on Maritime Education and Training (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Merchant seamen and the law. (Advance Printing Co., 1954), by William L. Standard and National Maritime Union of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wages of interned merchant seamen, disability and other benefits to merchant seamen. Hearings before the Committee on the merchant marine and fisheries, House of representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H. R. 3262, a bill to amend section 2 (B) of Public law 17, Seventy-eighth Congress, relating to functions of War shipping administration, and for other purposes; and H. R. 2652, a bill to amend section 222 (E) of subtitle--Insurance of title II of the Merchant marine act, 1936, as amended. December 9, 1943, and February 10, 1944 (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1944), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unemployment protection for seamen; a record of administrative planning and legislation. (Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, 1946), by New York (State). Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual for lifeboatmen, able seamen, and qualified members of engine department (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off, in the 20th century), by United States Coast Guard and United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Continuous discharge book for American seamen : hearings ... Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 1079 ... (Govt. print. off., 1926), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• To amend certain laws relating to American seamen : hearings ... Seventy-first Congress, second session, on S. 306 ... and S. 314 ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal responsibility for medical care of seamen. (Printed by Trade Printery, 1955), by C. J. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method for developing mariner assessments (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, United States Coast Guard ;, 2000), by Marvin Charles McCallum, Battelle Seattle Research Center, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center, and National Maritime Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing performance-based assessments of mariner proficiency (U.S. Coast Guard ;, 2001), by Marvin Charles McCallum, Battelle Seattle Research Center, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center, and National Maritime Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maritime industry and unemployment compensation (Social Security Board, Divisions of Research and Statistics, Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, 1939), by Constance Amelia Kiehel, United States. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, and United States. Social Security Board. Bureau of Research and Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor-management relations in the east coast oil tanker industry. Report ... pursuant to S. Res. 140 (81st Cong.) ... ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (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)
• A study of human resources in ship operations : phase 2 (Office of Research and Development, Maritime Administration, 1982), by United States. Maritime Administration. Office of Research and Development and Lundeberg Maryland Seamanship School (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 sailor's log. (New York, 1905), by N.Y.) Legal Aid Society (New York and Richard Dudley Currier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workmen's Compensation for Seamen, and Shipowners' Liability : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Merchant Marine, Seventy-Sixth Congress, third session, on July 23-25, 1940. (U.S. G.P.O., 1940), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Merchant Marine Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amending section 4527, revised statutes : hearing before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, second session, on H.R. 3800, a bill to amend section 4527, revised statutes, June 15, 1954. (U.S. G.P.O., 1954), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoranda on transfers' foreign : War Shipping Administration, United States Maritime Commission ... [to the] Hon. S.O. Bland, chairman, Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. (U.S. Govt. print. off, 1943), by United States. Maritime Commission, Schuyler Otis Bland, United States. War Shipping Administration, and United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of the Railroad Retirement Board and the Department of Labor on committee prints no. 1 and no. 3, relating to unemployment compensation for seamen. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, United States Department of Labor, United States. War Shipping Administration, and United States Railroad Retirement Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Department of Justice on committee documents nos. 1 and 3, relative to unemployment compensation for seamen (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and United States Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of departments on committee prints no. 1 and no. 3, relating to unemployment compensation for seamen. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, United States Railroad Retirement Board, United States. Federal Security Agency, and United States. War Shipping Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. merchant marine workforce supply and demand analysis, 1979-88, for unlimited license deck and engine officers (The Office, 1980), by United States. Office of Maritime Labor & Training (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relief for American seamen in foreign ports : hearings before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, third session, on H. R. 3827, H. R. 3828, H. R. 3829. January 15, 1931. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the causes of labor disputes. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1946), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime academy act amendments. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first session, on H.R. 8328, H.R. 9174, H.R.9826, H.R. 10188, H.R. 10430, H.R. 14367 ... H.R. 8785, H.R. 11325 ... October 21, 22, 23, 1969. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Special Subcommittee on Maritime Education and Training (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unemployment insurance for merchant seamen : hearings before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session, on Committee prints nos. 1 and 3, to establish a system of unemployment insurance in the maritime industry, and for other purposes, June 24, 25, 28, and 29, 1943. (U.S. G.P.O., 1943), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seamen's insurance (return of unused premiums) : hearings ... Seventy-first Congress, second session ... (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of labor-management relationships in the maritime industry and the subsidization of seamen wages (Washington], 1955), by United States Maritime Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conditions in the American merchant marine. Hearings before a Special committee to investigate conditions in the American merchant marine, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 231 (75th Congress) a resolution creating a Special committee to investigate conditions in the American merchant marine. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1939), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Conditions in the American Merchant Marine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amending section 4527, revised statutes. Hearing ... Eighty-third Congress, second session, on H.R. 3800. June 15, 1954. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1954), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Rules and regulations for licensing and certificating of merchant marine personnel (Title 46, C. F. R., excerpts from parts 25 to 155, inclusive) (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labor-management relations in the east coast oil tanker industry. : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session, pursuant to S. Res. 140. Cities Service Oil Co. of Pennsylvania (Marine Division) September 25 and 26, 1950 (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1950), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seamen's bill of rights. : Hearings before the Ship Construction and Operation and Maritime Labor Subcommittee of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, eightieth Congress, first session, On H. R. 476, a bill to provide aid for the readjustment in civilian life of those persons who rendered wartime service in the United States merchant marine, and to provide aid for their families (U.S. G.P.O., 1947), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime; a historical sketch and a workers' program. (Pub. for the Socialist workers party by Pioneer publishers, 1943), by Frederick J. Lang, Terence Phelan, and Socialist Workers Party (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comparative analysis of the rates of earnings and conditions of work of the merchant marine personnel on foreign flag and United States vessels . (Labor Agreements Division, War Shipping Administration, 1944), by United States. War Shipping Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Agents of war shipping administration & their union agreements as of February 1, 1946 ... (Labor agreements division, War shipping administration, 1946), by United States. War Shipping Administration. Labor Agreement Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine safety manual. (Dept. of Transportation, Coast Guard :, 1981), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merchant marine legislation. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., in the 20th century), by United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

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