Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia

by Lincoln P. Paine

Book Overview

Ships have always played an important role in shaping human destiny, and this comprehensive and very readable encyclopedia covers more than one thousand of the world's best-known and most significant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395715563
• ISBN13: 9780395715567
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Ships Of The World

This is an excellent, comprehensive and detailed compendium of the "biographies" of hundreds of the notable ships, boats and other water craft of many nations throughout history. The book is amply illustrated and it also contains very useful appendixes. It is a first-rate reference work and should be in the library of anyone who is interested in the diverse vessels that have sailed, cruised and rowed on and under the sea.

Neat book!

Please buy this book. Lincoln is my brother-in-law and he's an all around good guy. If you want to know anything about ships, ask Lincoln.

An Outstanding Book

This book that goes from Titanic to Noah's Ark is a wonderful reference book for all reader's. It is well written and has fabulous pictures. Two thumbs up for Lincoln Paine!

A must for your library

This book is a must-have item for the bookshelf of anyone interested in ships. Every ship of consequence has been listed and described, and often pictured as well.

Outstanding maritime reference...a ship-lover's dream

This is the best addition to my collection of nautical/maritime books since my purchase of the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. I've already spent many hours reading the different ship histories and learning more about ships I've read about since I was a young boy. From Nelson's Victory to Luckner's Seeadler and Dewey's Olympia, Paine's books has them all. Concise, well-written histories that dwell on the human as well as the technical, make this a must-have for any naval or maritime history buff's shelf. Just a few quibbles. The Essex class carrier U.S.S. Franklin was probaby named after the Benjamin Franklin and not the Battle of Franklin. Every other Essex class is name after something from the Revolutionary War, so I would assume that the Franklin is too. Also, I wished Paine had included the U.S.S. Pensylvania, the 120-gun wooden warship built for the Navy that was burned at Norfolk during the Civil War. I also was surprised to see H.M.S Kelly left out. But these are minor quibbles with a splendid book that has earned a place of honor in my collection