Books, articles, papers and videos on anything and everything marine, with notes on each.
Book
David Jones · 2023
A hundred stories from two centuries of the Brisbane River, compiled for the bicentenary of John Oxley's 1823 survey - early days, the colonial port, wrecks and wartime.
Richard Woodman · 2005
Four centuries of rebellion at sea, from Henry Hudson cast adrift to the Bounty, the Nore, the Potemkin and Invergordon, by a master mariner turned historian.
David Gibbins · 2024
Twelve wrecks from the Bronze Age to the Second World War, each a window onto its age, by a marine archaeologist who has dived on most of them.
Video
Gateway To The Bay
An overnight stop at Peel Island in Moreton Bay, filmed for the channel back when Salt Charts was still Gateway to the Bay.
Colin Martin & Geoffrey Parker · 2022
The standard history of the Spanish Armada, rewritten for its 2022 edition with the archaeology of the wrecks and newly found documents from the Spanish and English archives.
Piia Wirsu with Mick Doleman · 2025
The coastal freighter Blythe Star capsized off Tasmania in 1973 and her ten crew spent nine days in a life raft, given up for dead - told with the youngest of them.
Peter FitzSimons · 2011
The Dutch East Indiaman Batavia wrecked on the Abrolhos in 1629, and the mutiny and massacre among the survivors while the commander sailed for help.
Maritime Safety Queensland
The free Queensland Government chart booklet for Moreton Bay - beacon-by-beacon routes, boat ramps, speed limits and hazards from the Brisbane River to Cape Moreton.
Greg Luck
Greg Luck's cruising guide from the Gold Coast to Lizard Island: anchorages, marinas, passages, wind and wave averages, chartlets and aerial photographs, coast by coast.
Michael Veitch · 2018
The emigrant ship Ticonderoga sails from Liverpool for Port Phillip in 1852 with typhus aboard; a hundred die at sea and the survivors are quarantined at Point Nepean.
Nathaniel Philbrick · 2000
The Nantucket whaleship Essex, rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820, and the three months her crew spent adrift in open boats - the true story behind Moby-Dick.
Australian Maritime College · 2024
The Australian textbook for the marine radio operator certificates: VHF, HF and DSC procedures, distress, urgency and safety calls, GMDSS, EPIRBs and the rules.
Shaun Micallef · 2026
Shaun Micallef's comic but carefully researched life of the man who circumnavigated and named Australia, spent six years a prisoner on Mauritius and named nothing after himself.
Sara Hopkinson · 2011
The companion to the RYA Day Skipper practical sail course: handling a cruising yacht under sail and power, mooring, anchoring, pilotage and the skipper's responsibilities.
Andrew Simpson · 2005
The RYA's course book for the marine diesel: how it works, the fuel, cooling, lubrication and electrical systems, routine maintenance and finding faults at sea.
Melanie Bartlett
The RYA's navigation textbook, supporting its shorebased courses from Day Skipper to Yachtmaster: charts, position fixing, tides, pilotage and electronic navigation.
Paul Glatzel · 2005
The RYA's complete guide to powerboating, supporting its Level 1 and 2 courses: boat handling, launching and recovery, close-quarters manoeuvring and safety.
Richard J. King · 2023
A history of single-handed ocean sailing, from Joshua Slocum's circumnavigation in the 1890s to today's racers and wanderers, by a maritime historian who has done it himself.
An antiquarian paper-covered pilot book from the London chart publishers Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, written to be read alongside their chart of the North Sea.
Steve Sleight · 2021
DK's heavily illustrated reference to sailing, from dinghies to cruising yachts - handling, seamanship, navigation, weather and maintenance - in its fifth edition.
Tom Cunliffe · 2021
Tom Cunliffe's standard text for the RYA Yachtmaster syllabus - sailing, seamanship and navigation for the modern cruising skipper - in its tenth edition.
Laura Trethewey · 2023
The race to map the whole ocean floor by 2030, told through the Five Deeps expedition and the people, ships and politics behind Seabed 2030.
Rob Mundle · 2014
Eleven ships, some 1,400 people and 252 days at sea from Portsmouth to Botany Bay in 1787-88, told as a voyage rather than as the founding of a colony.
David Hill · 2012
Flinders and Baudin, English and French, racing to chart the last unknown coast of Australia in 1801-03 - and their chance meeting at Encounter Bay.
Tony Tanner (editor) · 1994
An anthology of short fiction about the sea - Poe, Melville, Conrad, Crane, London, Kipling and others - chosen and introduced by the Cambridge critic Tony Tanner.
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · 2018
The companion to the Foxtel series in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's three voyages, setting the explorer's story beside those of the Pacific peoples he met.
Rebecca Simon · 2023
How pirate crews of the Golden Age actually ran their ships - the written articles that divided plunder, compensated injury, settled disputes and kept order.
Larry Writer · 2022
The clipper Dunbar driven onto the cliffs below South Head in August 1857 with the loss of 121 lives and a single survivor - Sydney's worst maritime disaster.
Hampton Sides · 2024
Cook's third and last voyage, 1776-79: the search for a Northwest Passage, the return of Mai to Tahiti, the arrival in Hawaii and his death at Kealakekua Bay.
Michael Bright · 1989
Monsters and mysteries of the deep examined: giant squid, sea-serpent sightings, the great whales and sharks, and what was known of them at the end of the 1980s.
Sara Caputo · 2024
A history of the ship's track - the line a voyage leaves on a map - from early modern charts to the GPS trace, and of what drawing it has meant.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. · 1840
A Harvard student ships out as a common sailor in 1834, round Cape Horn to the hide ports of Spanish California and back - the classic account of life before the mast.
Mensun Bound & Mark Frary · 2024
A maritime history of the world told through objects recovered from shipwrecks, by the marine archaeologist who led the search that found Shackleton's Endurance.
Simon Park · 2024
The shipwrecks of the Portuguese and Spanish age of expansion, and how the stories told about them shaped Europe's idea of the sea and of empire.
Jack Loney · 1987
Jack Loney's register of Queensland shipwrecks from 1901 to 1986, taking in the Great Barrier Reef, the Coral Sea, Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
