Emigration

Haines, R et al Bound for South Australia - Births & Deaths on Government Assisted Immigrant Ships 1848-1885 2004.

Lancour, Harold Passenger lists of ships coming to North America, 1607-1825; a bibliography 1937.

Willox, John Practical Hints to Intending Emigrants to the Australian Colonies 1858.

Young, B Journal of Brigham Young 1841
Includes a description of a voyage from Liverpool to New York in April 1841.


Maritime History

Finden, William The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2.

Coggeshall, George History of the American Privateers & Letters of Marque 1812-1814 1861.

Flayhart lll, William Henry The Inman Steamship Company Limited: Innovation and Competition on the North Atlantic, 1850-1886. The Northern Mariner 2002.  

Proceedings of the investigation into the circumstances into the torpedoing of Lusitania.

Robb, Johnston Fraser Scotts of Greenock: shipbuilders and engineers, 1820-1920; a family enterprise. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow 1993.

Skidmore, Peter Fletcher The maritime economy of north west England in the later eighteenth century. PhD thesis, University of Greenwich 2009.

Navigation

Baines, Thomas Liverpool in 1859 1859.

Denham, Capt Denham's Mersey & Dee Navigation 1840.

Findlay, Alexander J Lighthouses of the World 1861.

Findlay, Alexander J A directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean 1866.

Findlay, Alexander J A directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean 1851.
 
Hills, Graham H Navigation of the Irish Sea 1859.

New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion 1809.

Norie, J.W. New & Complete Sailing Directions 1854.

Seamanship

Bovill, Donald Guy Education of Mercantile Mariners in North-East Ports (1840-1902) Thesis University of Durham 1987.

Liardet, Capt Francis Professional Recollections on Points of Seamanship 1849.

The Journal of Edwin Mitchell, a 16-year-old boy who sailed from Belfast to California and back in 1866.

Slavery

Bristol Record Society Bristol, Africa and the 18th Century Slave Trade to America Volume 1: The Years of Expansion 1698-1729

Bristol Record Society Bristol, Africa and the 18th Century Slave Trade to America Volume 2: The Years of Ascendancy 1730-1745

Clarkson, Thomas Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade 1788.

Craft, William & Ellen Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 1860.

Crow, Hugh Memoirs of the Late Captain Hugh Crow 1830.

Equiano, Olaudah  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Written By Himself 1789.

Falconbridge, Alexander An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa 1788.

Radburn, Nicholas James William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool 2010.

Stuart, Charles A memoir of Granville Sharp, to which is added Sharp's Law of passive obedience, and an extract from his "Law of retribution" 1836.

Wilberforce, William Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807.

Reference
Naval Records at the National Archives
300 page guide to documents held at the National Archive, Kew.