12th edition 1995, revised January 2006. Both volumes I & II are officially recommended by the Merchant Navy Training Board, and form the most up-to-date survey of the Science of Navigation in print.

10th edition revised and rewritten December 1987; Reprinted 2010. Both volumes I & II are officially recommended by the Merchant Navy Training Board, and form the most up-to-date survey of the Science of Navigation in print.

7th edition - revised 2011, author H. J. Pursey

For students, merchant navy officers and all those charged with the operation of maritime assets

4th edition published October 2019 is for trainee pilots and ships' officers who aspire to be pilots.

The main subject matter covered relates to the use of charts and other Admiralty navigational publications, chart constructions, visual and radar terrestrial navigation, including the use of celestial bodies for the calculation of compass errors and position fixing.

A well-known textbook for students preparing for Officer of the Watch qualifications and maritime degrees.

This latest edition has been revised by Captain Cormac MacSweeney. Captain MacSweeney was very keen to keep close to the original style of William A.McLeod’s The Boatswain’s Manual when first published, and later maintained in the revisions of Captain A.G.W.Miller.

Of all the sea trades engaged in by man from the times of the Phoenicians right down to the present day, that of the opium traffic into China was one of the most risky and adventurous.

A history of the Sailing ships would be far from complete without some account of the trade to the West Coast of South America.

Through the reading of over six hundred journals of surgeons employed in the convict ships to Australia, Charles Bateson has been able to add much additional detail to his authoritative and fascinating story of this little-known field of maritime history.

The glamorous Arctic whaling and the amazing life of the whale hunters in their fight to wrest a fortune from the pitiless Northern sea and treacherous ice flow made the quarterdeck of a whaler the acme of their ambition to the boys of Hull, Whitby and Dundee, of Peterhead and Aberdeen.