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Ships of the world : an historical encyclopedia

Author: Lincoln P Paine
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997.
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Covers over one thousand of the worlds best-known ships with descriptions of physical characteristics, construction, and history; illustrations detailing the grandeur of oceangoing vessels; and chronologies providing a perspective on underwater archaeological sites, disasters at sea, and more.
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Genre/Form: Encyclopedias
Encyclopédies
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Paine, Lincoln P.
Ships of the world.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997
(OCoLC)605362825
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lincoln P Paine
ISBN: 0585109486 9780585109480 0395715563 9780395715567
OCLC Number: 36621950
Description: xiv, 680 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Responsibility: Lincoln P. Paine ; with contributions by James H. Terry and Hal Fessenden.
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Covers over one thousand of the worlds best-known ships with descriptions of physical characteristics, construction, and history; illustrations detailing the grandeur of oceangoing vessels; and chronologies providing a perspective on underwater archaeological sites, disasters at sea, and more.

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Ships mentioned in this book are listed at ShipIndex.org

by ShipIndex (WorldCat user published 2009-09-02) Very Good Permalink

Note to researchers: The vessels mentioned in this book's index are included in the freely-accessible online database at http://ShipIndex.org. Use that site to explore more than 100,000 ship references from this and dozens of other books, journals, databases, and more. You'll find useful links back...
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