Review in Maritime Magazine, Vol. 75
Review by Fraser McKee in Starshell Magazine
Starshell is the national magazine of The Naval Association of Canada. This review of The Canadian Coast Guard Fleet, 1962-2012 appeared in the Autumn 2014 edition. Return to book: The Canadian Coast Guard Fleet, 1962-2012
Continue reading →The Canadian Coast Guard Fleet 1962-2012
Available in hardcover and paperback from Amazon. Created in 1962 as a successor to the civilian Canadian Government Fleets that had existed since Confederation, the Coast Guard has included a wide variety of ships and smaller craft from large icebreakers … Continue reading →
Book Review: French Cruisers 1922-1956
This impressive book by John Jordon and Jean Moulin provides a detailed technical description of all the cruisers of the Marine National that were built between the two world wars together with a brief account of their operational history. The … Continue reading →
Book Review: Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd
The book tells two stories. One is about undersea explorer Barry Clifford’s expeditions to Ile Sante-Marie off the eastern coast of Madagascar searching for the remains of Captain William Kidd’s ship, the Adventure Galley (Clifford was backed by TV’s Discovery … Continue reading →
Book Review: Glorious Misadventures: Nicolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America.
Nicolai Rezanov was a minor Russian aristocrat in the time of Catherine the Great and the Tsars Paul and Alexander I. (He was born in 1764). Like others of his class, he competed for honours and preferment at the court … Continue reading →
Book Review: The Discovery of Weather
This book by Halifax meteorologist Jerry Lockett combines scientific history with graphic descriptions of catastrophic events and a warning of what may happen in the future. It is in two parts. The first tells the history of the first tentative … Continue reading →
The S. S. St. Pierre: Portrait of a forgotten coastal steamer
At an Antique Dealers’ Fair in a small Nova Scotia town I came across a rather dark picture of a nineteenth century coastal passenger steamer with auxiliary rig. The dealer said it had been found in an attic at Osborne … Continue reading →
Book Review: Figureheads of the Royal Navy
Since the early years of the seventeenth century, figureheads have been a nearly universal feature of all except the smallest sailing warships and merchant ships. That includes ships built of iron and steel: any Tall Ship built today can be … Continue reading →