Ship History

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    • A Human History
    • By: Marcus Rediker
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Slave ships carried millions of people from Africa to the New World. Historian Marcus Rediker draws on 30 years of research to create an unprecedented history of these vessels....

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    • America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect....

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    • Moore Hall and Four Generations of Ireland's Aristocratic Moore Family
    • By: Michael Gerard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historical novel based in Ireland and Spain during the period from 1640 to 1923. It tells the story of the Moore family who are part of the landed ...

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    • The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
    • By: Norman Polmar
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • When she first went to sea in 1961, the US nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines....

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    • A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
    • By: Will Sofrin
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A maritime adventure memoir, All Hands on Deck follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood.

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    • By: Walter Lord
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • The "unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French “sidewalk café,” private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices....

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    • The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Taylor Mali
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • In 1819, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk....

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    • The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
    • By: Spike Walker
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 320 ratings
    • When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in 100-mile-per-hour winds and record 90-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can....

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    • The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
    • By: Mr. Gareth Russell
    • Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the “stunning” (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift....

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    • New York and the End of the Middle Passage
    • By: John Harris
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States....

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    • Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
    • The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever....

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    • Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • A propulsive human drama, The Last Ships from Hamburg chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible....

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    • The War of 1812 and the Forging of the American Navy
    • By: Ronald Utt
    • Narrated by: Stephen W. Davis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • From the cunning Stephen Decatur to the fierce David Porter, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron relates how thousands of American men and boys gave better than they got against the British Navy....

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    • The Lost History of the Mayflower's Sister Ship and Its Rival Puritan Colony
    • By: Tom Feiling
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
    • By: Ben Raines
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution....

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    • The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of of Her Survivors
    • By: James D. Hornfischer
    • Narrated by: Mark Cashman
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor....

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    • History's Mysteries
    • By: Anita Nahta Amin
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 1872, the Mary Celeste merchant ship set sail from New York, bound for Italy. About a month later, it was spotted adrift in the ocean. The crew had vanished.

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    • A Time Travel Sea Adventure with a Western Twist
    • By: Bryan Cantrell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 1718 the infamous pirates of the Caribbean meet secretly in Nassau harbor on Blackbeard’s prized ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Caught in the ...

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    • The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
    • By: Edward T. O'Donnell
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered....

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