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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    • 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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    • Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Linda Colley
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the 20th century....

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    • The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
    • By: Tim McGrath
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy....

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    • An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922-1945
    • By: Thomas Heinrich
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the US naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe....

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    • From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck
    • By: John D. Whidden
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days records a series of real events from his childhood impressions of rough and ready seamen to his thrilling and brutal experiences of war....

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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 82 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 416 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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    • A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
    • By: Pete Nelson, Hunter Scott - preface
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Hunter Scott first learned about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by watching the movie Jaws when he was 11. This was 50 years after the ship had sunk, throwing more than 1,000 men into shark-infested waters - a long 50 years in which justice still had not been served....

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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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    • Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
    • By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the 20th century....

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    • One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage....

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    • Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
    • By: Samuel Leech
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Samuel Leech provides a fascinating account of life as a sailor in the War of 1812 and through early 19th century....

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    • The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
    • By: Mensun Bound
    • Narrated by: Mensun Bound - preface, Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Antarctic Ocean, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice.

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    • How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation. There were two big problems....

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    • The Saga of the USS Neosho - A World War II Story of Courage and Survival at Sea
    • By: Don Keith
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Ship That Wouldn't Die captures the indomitable spirit of the American sailor - and finally brings to the surface one of the great untold sagas of the Pacific War....

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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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    • 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 258 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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