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Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for which it became renowned. Some one hundred of her photographs accompany her account of the boats and the people who made up a distinctive and now disappearing maritime culture.

In "Good Little Ship" Peter Willis analyses a classic of maritime literature - Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" - and tells the story of the "Nancy Blackett", Ransome's own boat which appears as the "Goblin" in his story, and survives today as an ambassador for Ransome and his tales.

The improbable, yet true, and highly readable story of a Hull steam trawler, her industry, and her people, from her launch in 1906, through fishing, wars, sealing, whaling and exploration, to her final resting place on the edge of the Antarctic.

Martin O'Scannall's engaging account of his forty-year affair with a modest but beautiful Edwardian gaffer, from her acquisition, through her restoration, and on to voyages throughout the British Isles and mainland Europe.