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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.