Ship History

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    • From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck
    • Written by: John D. Whidden
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days records a series of real events from his childhood impressions of rough and ready seamen to his thrilling and brutal experiences of war....

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    • America’s Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II
    • Written by: Barrett Tillman
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise....

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    • The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
    • Written by: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2006-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....

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    • The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
    • Written by: Norman Polmar
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When she first went to sea in 1961, the US nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines....

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    • The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
    • Written by: Robert P. Watson
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport....

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    • Written by: Walter Lord
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2010-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The "unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French “sidewalk café,” private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices....

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    • New York and the End of the Middle Passage
    • Written by: John Harris
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States....

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    • Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
    • Written by: Jack Cheevers
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2013-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea....

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    • The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    • Written by: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Taylor Mali
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1819, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk....

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    • The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
    • Written by: Mensun Bound
    • Narrated by: Mensun Bound - preface, Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-28
    • Language: English
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    • On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Antarctic Ocean, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice.

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    • The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
    • Written by: Mr. Gareth Russell
    • Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the “stunning” (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift....

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    • Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
    • Written by: Samuel Leech
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • Samuel Leech provides a fascinating account of life as a sailor in the War of 1812 and through early 19th century....

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    • One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
    • Written by: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe....

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    • Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
    • Written by: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2015-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister....

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    • The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
    • Written by: A.E. Rooks
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A ground-breaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade....

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    • History's Mysteries
    • Written by: Anita Nahta Amin
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-26
    • Language: English
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    • In 1872, the Mary Celeste merchant ship set sail from New York, bound for Italy. About a month later, it was spotted adrift in the ocean. The crew had vanished.

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