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Stonehouse, Frederick.

Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 920.72 STO
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STO

Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2002

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373 BOC

Boles, Frank

Summary: "The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.54 BOL

Floyd, John Lewis

Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Floyd

Summary: The true story of skipper Tracy Edwards and the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World race.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAI

Ashcraft, Tami Oldham

Summary: Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti, both excellent sailors, with a bright future ahead of them. Twenty days into their journey, they ran into a monumental hurricane, in which Richard was blown overboard. With the masts gone, the engine shot, and Richard dead, Tami overcame tremendous odds to navigate herself to safety. It took her 41 days. This is her story.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.9164 ASH

Petersen, Neal

Contents: 1973 -- The dream tree -- Building boats -- California -- Mining diamonds -- The gifts -- First solo crossing -- Ireland -- Back to Ireland -- A family Christmas -- The BOC Atlantic alone -- Charleston, South Carolina -- Racing to the Southern Ocean -- The Earth is flat -- Sailing with Gwen -- Choosing Charleston -- Another OSTAR -- Back to Charleston -- Leg one -- Leg two -- Leg three -- Leg...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.124 PET

Weintraub, Robert

Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Thermes, Jennifer

Summary: "The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CRE

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker sets out, camera in hand, on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAI

Summary: 1940-1943: Covers the commissioning of HMS Howe, naval combat 1941-2, Flower-class Corvettes, naval service worldwide. Fleet air arm: Covers carrier operations and landing techniques, fighter school, catapult shops, U-boat recognition from the air. Naval instructional films: Covers the duties of helmsmen and lookouts, raising steam on a destroyer, on-board safety routines, internal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROY

Gjerset, Knut

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norwegian-American Historical Association 1928

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Jama-Everett, Ayize

Summary: "The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JAM

Scherer, Migael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCH

Summary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOR

Goudschaal, Claudia D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. D. Goudschaal] 2009

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.4635 GOU

Hill, Richard N.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Force Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 HILL, RICHARD HIL

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime Hill

Jones, Brent E.

Summary: "An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named after her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JON

Lobdell, Scott.

Summary: Frank and Joe go undercover to discover why teen seamen on an old fishing boat keep going missing. Is one of the crew responsible?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2006

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOB

Melville, Herman

Summary: Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, is admired by all except for the jealous master-at-arms who plots to frame the young man for treason with tragic results.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEL

Müllenheim-Rechberg, Burkard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 MUL

Fern, Tracey E.

Summary: Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Fern 2014

Fisher-Alaniz, Karen.

Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54867 FISHER, MURRAY WILLIAM ALA

Freeman, Gregory A.

Summary: In the vein of Crimson Tide, with action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, this is the exciting story of a mutiny that the U.S. Navy denies to this day. In 1972, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when many of the five thousand men cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the unpopular war rioted -- or, as Freeman claims, mutinied. Most disturbingly,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 FRE

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