Author: Jacques Marc,
Publication No.: v050 ISBN: 0-9695010-5-6 Publication Date: 1999
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM OUT SOCIETY. Published by the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, 1905 Ogden Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 1A3 Canada

The sixth in the series of Underwater Archaeological Society's publications. A non-profit volunteer organisation founded in 1975, it is dedicated to promoting the science of underwater archaeology and to conserving, preserving, and protecting the maritime heritage lying beneath our coastal and inland waters. 8½ inches x 11 inches. 70 pages. Soft cover.

Author: UASBC,
Publication No.: v015 ISBN: 0-9695010-0-5 Publication Date: 1990
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Copies can be purchased from the Vancouver Maritime Museum Gift Shop, 1905 Ogden Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 1A3 or from the UASBC c/o the Museum.

Another in a series of publications from the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, this one covering shipwrecks of Southern Vancouver Island. 57 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Softcover.

Author: Rick James, Jacques Marc
Publication No.: v029 ISBN: 0-9695010-8-0 Publication Date: 2002
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Available from the Vancouver Maritime Museum Gift Shop, 1905 Ogden Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 1A3 Canada.

The Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia is a non-profit volunteer organisation founded in 1975. It is dedicated to promoting the science of underwater archaeology and to conserving, preserving, and protecting the maritime heritage lying beneath our coastal and inland waters.
This is the eight in a series of regional status reports prepared by the UASBC with support from the British Columbia Heritage Trust. 66 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Softcover.

Author: UASBC,
Publication No.: v017 ISBN: 0-9695010-6-4 Publication Date: c.2001
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. For more indormation contact the UASBC c/o Vancouver Maritime Museum, 1905 Ogden Street, Vancouver V6J 1A3 / e-mail: http://www.uasbc.com Available for sale in the Vanco

One of series of publications by the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia. This edition covers mostly the Kootenay region. 78 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Softcover.

Author: John McKay, Leonard McCann, James Delgado
Publication No.: v030 ISBN: 1-55125-066-7 Publication Date: 2001
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Published by Vanwell Publishing Limited, 1 Northrup Cresc., PO Box 2131, St. Catarines, ON L2R 7S2 Canada E-mail: Vanwell.

Many books have been written on this famous steamship, but this is considered THE definitive work of the subject. This book is John McKay's most ambitious work to date. An architectural draughtsman with an overriding love of ships and ship modelling, he has published studies of BOUNTY, VICTORY, PANDORA, and of the WWII corvette AGASSIZ, and has provided illustrations for the works of other authors. You can contact the author by e-mail at: johnwmckay@telus.net. Leonard McCann is Curator Emeritus for the Vancouver Maritime Museum. James P. Delgado is the Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum. 192 pages. Includes 42 large-size plans in a deluxe cloth-covered box, with the book. 10½ inches x 10 inches. Hard cover book, in heavy card box.

Author: Skip Gillham,
Publication No.: 8011 ISBN: 0-9684341-2-6 Publication Date: 2000
THIS BOOK IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION, AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. For prices and availability contact the publishers, Glenaden Press, Box 443, Vineland, ON L0R 2C0, Canada

The publication of this booklet in the year 2000 is intended to commemorate the one hundreth anniversay of the beginning of the Imperial Oil fleet of Great Lakes tankers. Company ships no longer sail the Great Lakes although their carriers remain active at the ports of Halifax and Montréal. Ships selected for this book were powered tankers in the Great Lakes fleet of Imperial Oil. It does not include tugs, barges, chartered or operted tonnage or members of its deep-sea fleet. 44 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Numerous black & white photographs, plus colour photographs on cover.

Author: Hisashi Noma,
Publication No.: 8001 ISBN: none listed Publication Date: Apr 2002
THIS BOOK IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. It can be purchased directly from the author, Mr H.. Noma at 3-5-7 Kitanodai, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. Payment is to be made by way of a US$ money order or draft (pa

This is a supreme book, a most prestigious piece and great credit to the brilliant, tireless, ever-resourceful WSS member Hisashi Noma. It is a work that deserves an honored place on the bookshelves of not only maritime historians and enthusiasts, but those interested in the military, in World War II and in the history of Japan. It has an extensive Japanese and English text. (review by Bill Miller). Hardcover, 620 pages. 7½ inches x 10½ inches. Many photographs, some in colour.

Author: Stephen J. Russell,
Publication No.: 8298 ISBN: 0-966009-24-X Publication Date: 2002
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM OUR SOCIETY. Published by Puget Sound Press. List price US$39.95.

The title of the book could have been "History of the Peabody Family" with a sub-title "KALAKALA". The author covers the social aspects of the depression which led to the decision to create a very unusual and, arguably, beautiful ferry. In an effort to achieve this goal, which turned out to be a political and financial success, Puget Sound Navigation Co. bought the remains of the burned-out PERALTA and in 1933 had her hulk towed from Oakland to Puget Sound.
The real purpose of the vessel was to serve the travelling public who had a need to cross Puget Sound, as well as to transport workers from Seattle to the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton. As it turned out, from 1940 on, she fulfilled the great challenge of hauling shipyard workers, sailors and soldiers by the hundreds and thousands! They crowded the entire boat, including the car deck where they were seated on folding campstools. .....
The massive task of bringing KALAKALA back from Alaska a few years ago is covered in the latter part of the book. She is still making history, and it is hoped that tentative ideas for preservation / restoration will enable her to continue. .....
It has been said that most of us either lover or hate the ferry KALAKALA, but this book is not over-priced, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone who claims to be a ferry buff. 208 pages. [review by Arthur E. Knutsen, excerpted from a book review in the PSMHS's December 2002 issue of The Sea Chest].

Author: Donald Graham,
Publication No.: v069 ISBN: 0-920080-65-0 Publication Date: 1985
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Published by Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., Madeira Park, B.C. Canada

This book, writtenduring long night watches by a keeper of Vancouver's famous Point Atkinson Light, is a definitive answer to the lighthouse question. 270 pages. 6½ inches x 9¾ inches. Hard cover. Dust cover.

Author: Frank Clapp,
Publication No.: 8116 ISBN: 0-7726-1364-8 Publication Date: 1991
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Out of Print

WSS member Frank Clapp has put together this 80-page publication for the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Transportation and Highways which covers the rich history of inland lake and river ferries. 7½ inches x 10½ inches. Soft cover.

Author: Francis Mansbridge,
Publication No.: v043 ISBN: 1-55017-260-8 Publication Date: Oct 2002
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION ANSD IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Published by Harbour Publishing. Contact them through their website at Harbour Publishing

when talk turns to BC's swing from resource extraction to an information economy, few seem to recall that for most of the past century tens of thousands of men and women here actuallly built things -- ships, and plenty of them. West Coast shipyards, turned out an astounding variety of vessels, and nobody made more or bigger boats than Burrard Dry Dock. In this book's authoritative prose and dramatic pictures, Francis Mansbridge chronicles the absorbing saga of a bold enterprise's rise and fall.

Author: Anthony Cooke,
Publication No.: 8240 ISBN: 0-9534291-5-6 Publication Date: 2000
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY.

Published by Carmania Press. Following the success of the first volume of Liners & Cruise Ships, Anthony Cooke has produced a sequel telling the stories of a further 32 fascinating passenger ships. They range from the famous Australian Bulolo of 1938 to the Norwegian Coastal Express Polarlys of 1996. Along the way, the book includes such vessels as American Export’s Excalibur, Holland America’s Westerdam (1946), the Canadian Prince George, British India’s Karanja, Bibby’s Leicestershire, the Viet-Nam of Messageries Maritimes, the first St. Helena and 23 more – all with interesting stories to tell. Profusely illustrated with beautifully reproduced photographs, this book is an absorbing ramble round some of the more fascinating byways of modern passenger shipping history.
Softback. 113 pages. 137 black and white illustrations, plus 2 full colour reproductions of paintings on the cover (one by WSS member Donald Stoltenberg). Cover price £13-95.

Author: James P. Delgado,
Publication No.: 8223 ISBN: 0-85177-904-2 Publication Date: 2001
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Published by Conway Maritime Press.

James Delgado is the Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Lost warships is a 3000 year visit to the great, yet under-studied, graveyard, memorial and museum on the ocean's floor, and the warships that lie there. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, half in colour, Lost Warships utilises the underwater tools of archaeology to reveal epic stories of naval warfare. The last desperate sea battle of Antony and Cleopatra; Kulai Khan's seaborne invasion of Medieval Japan; a Viking ship sent to the bottom in a fiery death; the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's warship which sank suddenly in the Solent in 1545; the Swan and the Dartmouth, which served both King and Parliament during the seventeenth century; British ships of the line lost in Colonial wars; the ironclad USS Monitor, lost during the US Civil War; the scuttled German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow; and the ships sunk by nuclear explosions in 1946 in the first naval tests of atomic weapons.
The text places these lost warships in the wider context of the history of war at sea, of valour and cowardice, sacrifice and survival in the face of battle. From famous battles to those long forgotten, the lost warships at the bottom of the sea have a dramatic and significant story to tell.

Author: James P. Delgado,
Publication No.: v059 ISBN: 0-9695010-4-8 Publication Date: 1997
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Published jointly by the Vancouver Maritime Museum and the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia. Copies available from the Maritime Store at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Roald Amundsen's Polarskibet MAUD .... later a Hudson's Bay Company ship, now lies in the waters off Cambridge Bay in Canada's Northwest Territories. In August 1996 an expedition was formed to examine the wreck. This report describes the ship's history and current condition, and makes recommendations for its preservation.
32 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Paper cover.

Author: S C Heal,
Publication No.: 8004 ISBN: 1-895590-02-7 Publication Date: 1992
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION, AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Copies can be purchased from maritime-oriented booksellers or direct from Richmond Book Service, Box 46, 8415 Granville St., Vancouver, BC V6P 4Z9 Canada.

Author: S C Heal,
Publication No.: 8005 ISBN: 1-895590-04-3 Publication Date: 1993
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION, AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Copies can be purchased from maritime-oriented booksellers or direct from Richmond Book Service, Box 46, 8415 Granville St., Vancouver, BC V6P 4Z9 Canada.

This second volume in the "Maple Leaf Afloat" series broadens the scope of the original nautical miscellany and now takes the reader to points further afield. The main stories deal with B.C. Ferries, FESCO Line the Russian flag carrier on the North Pacific, and the evolution of the lumber carrier with particular reference to the shipping needs of the North West forest industries. The author has been successfully published in a variety of shipping and shiplover's magazines over the years. After serving in the Royal Navy from 1943, he chose a career in marine insurance which put him into contact with the shipping industry. Later after coming to Canada he had involvements in several tug and barge businesses, including being a founder of Georgia Shipping Ltd. in 1963, whose interesting history is one of his subjects. 204 pages. 6 inches x 9 inches. Soft cover. Very well illustrated with black & white images.

Author: Hill Willson,
Publication No.: 8509 ISBN: 9-9737853-0-6 Publication Date: 2005
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Self-published by Hill Wilson, 2011 Frederick Norris Pl., Victoria, BC V8P 2B1, Canada.

British Columbia has a very large pilotage district, and is considered to be the largest pilotage district in the world. From British Columbia's most southern port, Victoria, to its most northern port, Stewart, it is 512 nautical miles as the crow flies. However, to traverse this course by ship requires about 100 miles more steaming distance, through some of the most treacherous coastal waters in the world. Besides, there are so many fiord-like inlets on the mainland, the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands which require to be included, so that the total pilotage district has been calculated to be closer to 11,000 miles of coastline.

I. A register of the Pilots, their history, the Legislation which affected them, and some of their tales.
II. A Register of the Pilot Boats engaged in the Pilotage of Canada's west coast.
III. Accounts of Maritime Conditions and circumstances of Canada's West Coast Waters.

Author: Arthur E. Knutson,
Publication No.: v010 ISBN: n/a Publication Date: 1997
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. Copies can be purchased from the author by writing to Arthur E. Knudson (Knutson Enterprises), 430 11th Avenue West, Kirkland, WA 98033, USA / Tel: (425) 822-8088

The Moran Bros. Shipyards built many vessels, including many sternwheelers, but few of them ring a bell until the Moran Fleet is mentioned. Their 1898 trip from Seattle, Washington to St. Michael, Alaska under their own power has an intrigue that a reader cannot forget. Of the twelve which left Seattle, eleven completed the journey. This book contains the history, with photogrpahs, of those eleven which saw service on the Yukon River. In later years, Robert Moran was inclined not to mention at all the experiences covered within this book when tracing his own history. The reader will find out why. 105 pages. 8½ inches x 11 inches. Softcover.

Author: Robert E. Demar, Robin Atkins
Publication No.: v051 ISBN: 0-975538-3-8 Publication Date: 2002
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FORM THE SOCIETY. IT IS PRESENTED HERE FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF OUR MEMBERS, AND HAS NO CONNECTION WITH THE WORLD SHIP SOCIETY. Available exclusively from "Ferry Boat Shop Online" at http://www.ferryboatshop.com/products.html for US$19.95 + postage. Contact them for prices to addresses outside the United States. E-mail: cs@softracamerica.com

Take a delightful voyage with award winning photographer Robert Demar...
meet the ferry boat captains, see the engine room of the ILLAHEE, enjoy aerial perspectives, feel the nip of winter & heat of summer!
Robert Demar, a Widby Island resident since 1989 and frequent ferry traveler, captures it all in his extensive photographic study of this fleet of impressive vessels, their passengers, their crews, and their destinations. 8½" x 7" landscape format. 72 pages. Softcover.

Author: Ruth Greene,
Publication No.: v035 ISBN: n/a Publication Date: 1969
THIS IS NOT A WORLD SHIP SOCIETY PUBLICATION AND IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SOCIETY. It is listed as a book of interest only. Out of Print. But an excellent book for your collection if you can find a copy.

Thirty-seven illustrated sea tales of Canada's western ships, carefully researched for historical accuracy. Book incorporates a short and compact history of The Union Steamship Company of British Columbia by WSS member (now deceased), Gerald Rushton. Total of 341 pages. 6½ inches x 9 inches. Hardcover.