📚 Ships & Shipping

The world’s cargo carried: fleets and routes and ports, and the economics of the container.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ships and shipping in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Bounty	Caroline Alexander	2003	20
	A treatise of the law relative to merchant ships and seamen	Abbott, Charles Baron Tenterden	1804	17
	British shipping	Adam Willis Kirkaldy	1914	15
	Shipping practice	Edward Frank Stevens	1931	9
	History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce	W. S. Lindsay	1874	6
	Transportation on the Great Lakes of North America	George Gerard Tunell	1898	5
	The ships and sailors of old Salem	Ralph Delahaye Paine	1909	5
	The spirit of Rose-Noëlle	John Glennie	1990	5
	Séville et l'Atlantique, 1504-1650	Huguette Chaunu	1955	4
	船舶六法. ...	Japan	1967	4
	Ocean shipping	Annin, Robert Edwards.	1920	3
	船舶設備関係法令. ...	Japan	1968	3
	The boating bible	Jim Murrant	1991	3
	Collins Class Submarine Story	Peter Yule	2008	3
	Kiwitown's port	Gavin McLean	2008	3
	The port of Hamburg	Edwin Jones Clapp	1911	2
	Hafenabgaben und Schiffsvermessung	Heinrich Herner	1913	2
	Ocean trade and shipping	Owen, Douglas Sir	1914	2
	The port of Boston	Edwin Jones Clapp	1916	2
	Ocean traffic and trade	Benjamin Olney Hough	1921	2
	The Hague rules, 1921, explained	Sanford Darley Cole	1921	2
	Pacific steamers	Will Lawson	1927	2
	Some famous sailing ships and their builder, Donald McKay	Richard Cornelius McKay	1928	2
	Die Weichsel	Richard Winkel	1939	2
	Handel en scheepvaart van Amsterdam in de vijftiende eeuw	F. Ketner	1946	2
	Trans-Atlantic passenger ships	Eugene Waldo Smith	1947	2
	Der Hafen	Friedrich Böer	1950	2
	Navires et marchandises à l'entrée du port de Livourne (1547-1611)	Fernand Braudel	1951	2
	Unternehmerkräfte im Hamburger Portugal- und Spanienhandel 1590-1625	Hermann Kellenbenz	1954	2
	Atlantic sail	Morris, Roger	1992	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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