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New British Columbia Nautical Books

Featured Nautical Books:

Craigflower Country A history of View Royal 1850–1950Craigflower Country

12/12/2011 Craigflower Country A history of View Royal, was released by Town and Gown Press in December 2011. For those wishing to order this book by prolific author Maureen Duffus, the ISBN is 978–0–9733809–2–7 The 200–page book is now definitely available at Munro’s Bookstore in Victoria BC for $27.95, or online at orders@redtuquebooks.ca , for national and library distribution. (Also in View Royal BC at Penelope's Book Stop.)


West Coast WrecksWest Coast Wrecks

14/10/2011 West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales, was released by Harbour Publishing in September 2011. For those wishing to order this book by Rick James, the ISBN is 13:978–1–55017–545–5 ISBN 10: 1–55017–545–9 Price: $24.95 CAD; Paperback 75 black and white photographs 128 pages. It is available through Amazon and better book sellers (the ones who carry marine history).


British Columbia Nautical Books Worth Owning (The Classics)

If you were going to assemble a nautical reference library these are some books that would be well worthwhile to include. Many of them are now out of print but can be obtained on the many used-book websites that proliferate on the internet.


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Site News: April 19, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 92,229 vessel histories (with 15,629 images and 13,195 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,616 entries (with 4,013 images).

In 2023 the Nauticapedia celebrated the 50th Anniversary of it’s original inception in 1973 (initially it was on 3" x 5" file cards). It has developed, expanded, digitized and enlarged in those ensuing years to what it is now online. If it was printed out it would fill more than 300,000 pages!

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