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Here's a list of naval related books available from Project Gutenburg all are without copywrights and maybe downloaded for your interest.

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sail+ship
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=wood+ship
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=building+ships
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=british+war-ships
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46094
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48179
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25749
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29285
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25544 The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model by Howard Irving Chapelle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31179  Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard Irving Chapelle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23861  The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) by Churchill, Miller, and Reynolds
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46215  The Battles in Flanders From Ypres to Neuve Chapelle by Edmund Dane
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6721  The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26509  Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Parry
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4673  Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life by Arthur E. Knights
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31910  Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp by John Shipp
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10542  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24880  The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13830  The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21531  Woodwork Joints: How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22107  Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12299  The Mechanical Properties of Wood by Samuel J. Record
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20846  Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27238  Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43604  Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs by Charles G. Wheeler
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43574  Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42650  The Boy Craftsman by A. Neely Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26598  Seasoning of Wood by J. B. Wagner
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52902  A Naval Expositior by Thomas Riley Blanckley
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36776  Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/725      Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11368  Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50475  The Young Ship-Builders of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7947  The Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44228   Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23601  The U-boat hunters by James B. Connolly
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53900  Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20483  Artillery Through the Ages by Albert C. Manucy
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43799  Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms by Greener
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38961  Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18941  The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 by Ralph Delahaye Paine
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52942  The Year after the Armada by Martin A. S. Hume
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52472  Captain Cuellar's adventures in Connaught & Ulster A.D. 1588. by Hugh Allingham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22942  Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3334  Drake's Great Armada by Walter Bigges
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42604   Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. Freeman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32166  Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder by Shan F. Bullock       
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29685  Submarine Warfare of To-day by Charles W. Domville-Fife
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26641  The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33438  Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26040  Log-book of Timothy Boardman by Timothy Boardman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45583  Scapa and a Camera by C. W. Burrows
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21404  From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36136  Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45011  The Logs of the Serapis--Allance--Ariel, Under the Command of John Paul Jones,
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46788  The Story of the "Britannia" by Edward Phillips Statham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40847  A Short History of H.M.S. Victory by W. J. L. Wharton
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21389  Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34489  Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40689   Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame by Kingston


Enjoy Ed

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Thank you very much! But unfortunately, most of the links do not work with me ?

 

Was there a problem with copy-paste in the link or is it me?

 

XXXDAn

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Thank you very much! But unfortunately, most of the links do not work with me ?

 

Was there a problem with copy-paste in the link or is it me?

 

XXXDAn

 

There are extra spaces included in each hyperlink - when you click them, you get something which looks like this (not I have cut off the www so the full URL shows as text not a URL):

 

.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21389%C2%A0%C2%A0

 

Everything after the 21389 is superfluous - the work around I found was to click the link, then click in the address bar and backspace to remove the %C2%A0%C2%A0

 

So to get to Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, the actual link is http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38961

 

(NOTE - this is Volume 1 of 3 published 1838)

Wayne

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Epictetus

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Wayne,

 

I, too, appreciate Ed's putting together this list.

 

When I try to open any of the links in Chrome, I get the error message "404 Not Found". When I look at the url, I don't have any additional characters after the 5 digit ID. I hope you might be able to help, some of those titles look intriguing. Thanks.

 

Best,

John

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Posted

Wayne,

 

I, too, appreciate Ed's putting together this list.

 

When I try to open any of the links in Chrome, I get the error message "404 Not Found". When I look at the url, I don't have any additional characters after the 5 digit ID. I hope you might be able to help, some of those titles look intriguing. Thanks.

 

Best,

John

 

 

Unfortunately, can't help with Chrome.  I know in Firefox the extra characters show, and I suspect that they are there in Chrome as well but not showing.  They are a couple of spaces after the text which appear to be included in the link.  Try putting your cursor at the end of the address when you get the 404 error and then hitting back space until you get to the last number of the actual link and see if that helps.

Wayne

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus

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