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Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

Mariner, Naval Officer, Nautical Historian, Author, Teacher

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Review by Robert Shoop in The Northern Mariner

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Review in Maritime Magazine, Vol. 75

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Review by Fraser McKee in Starshell Magazine

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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

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The Canadian Coast Guard Fleet 1962-2012

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020
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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 →

Posted in Books, Canadian Coast Guard | Tagged Canadian Coast Guard, CCG

Book Review: French Cruisers 1922-1956

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, Naval History | Tagged cruisers, French Navy, Jean Moulin, John Jordon, warships

Book Review: Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, Pirates & Privateers, The Age of Sail | Tagged Barry Clifford, Captain Kidd, pirates, Treasure Island

Book Review: Glorious Misadventures: Nicolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America.

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, The Age of Sail | Tagged Junona i Avos, Krusenstern, Nicolai Rezanov, Russia

Book Review: The Discovery of Weather

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, The Elements | Tagged meteorology, Saxby Gale, Stephen Saxby, weather

The S. S. St. Pierre: Portrait of a forgotten coastal steamer

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020

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 →

Posted in 19th Century Steamers, Marine Art | Tagged Anglo-French Steamship Company, folk art, Lockeport, S.S. St. Pierre, ship paintings, steamer, steamship, The British Colonist, Yarmouth

Book Review: Figureheads of the Royal Navy

Charles Douglas Maginley, 1929-2020
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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 →

Posted in Book Reviews, Naval History, The Age of Sail | Tagged David Pulvertaft, figureheads, Royal Navy

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