United States Merchant Marine History Bibliography
This bibliography provides a list of published materials on the history of the United States merchant marine from 1900 to today. It is meant to serve as a guide for further reading and research for those interested in the history of: MARAD (and predecessor agencies), the United States merchant marine, merchant mariners, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy, in the 20th century.
The list is organized by subjects, and in alphabetical order by author's last name, or title, when no author is listed.
_____. America Builds Ships: The Program of the United States Maritime Commission. Washington, DC: United States Maritime Commission, 1940.
_____. Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, Published Annually since 1895.
_____. Annual Report of the Federal Maritime Board and Maritime Administration. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Commerce, Government Printing Office, Published Annually, 1950 to 1961.
_____. Annual Report of the Maritime Administration. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Commerce, Government Printing Office, Published Annually, 1962 to 1980.
_____. Annual Report of the Maritime Administration. Washington, DC: U. S. Department Transportation, Government Printing Office, Published Annually, 1981 to 2019.
_____. Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, Published Annually, 1917 to 1933.
_____. “Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board.” Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1934. 178-92 pp.
_____. “Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board.” Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1935. 185-203 pp.
_____. “Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board.” Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1936. 173-196 pp.
Lane, Frederic C. Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding under the U. S. Maritime Commission in World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 944 pp.
Marx, Daniel. “The United States Maritime Commission, 1936-1940.” PhD diss. University of California, 1946.
_____. New Ships for the Merchant Marine. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1940.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. From America to United States: The History of the long-range Merchant shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission (1937-1952): Part 1: C-1, C1-M, P (passenger) types. London: World Ship Society, 1978, 1986. 120 pp.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. From America to United States: The History of the long-range Merchant shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission (1937-1952): Part 2: C-2, C-4, C-5, R (Refrigerated). London: World Ship Society, 1978, 1986. 104 pp.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. From America to United States: The History of the long-range Merchant shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission (1937-1952): Part 3: C-3, V-Tugs, L-6 Lakers, Wood and Concrete Types, Derrick Barges and Rail-Car Floats. London: World Ship Society, 1978, 1986.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. From America to United States: The History of the long-range Merchant shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission (1937-1952): Part 4: N-3 (Coastal) S (special types), Post-War Liners. Great Lakes Ships.C3-S-DX1 prototypes. Index of ships and shipyards. London: World Ship Society, 1978, 1986.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. Merchant Ships of the World: Tankers. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1967.
Sawyer, L.A., & W.H. Mitchell. Victory Ships and Tankers; the history of the "Victory" type cargo ships and of the tankers built in the United States of America during World War II. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1974. 230 pp.
_____. United States Maritime Commission Report to Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, Published Annually, 1937 to 1949.
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. & Chloe G. Kline. In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. 550 pp.
Douglas, John Scott & Albert Salz. He's In the Merchant Marine Now. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1943.
_____. Insignia and Honor Awards of the Unites States Merchant Marine: The United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. Washington, DC: War Shipping Administration, 1945.
Mitchell, C. Bradford. We'll Deliver: Early History of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1938-1956. Kings Point, NY: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association, 1977. 253 pp.
Morse, Ray. Cadets at Kings Point. New York: Aladdin Books, 1949.
_____. The American Maritime History Project. Braving the Wartime Seas: A Tribute to the Cadets and Graduates of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Cadet Corps Who Died during World War II. XILIBRIS, 2014. 662 pp.
Albion, Robert Greenhalgh & Jennie Barnes Pope. Sea Lanes in Wartime - The American Experience 1775-1945, 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton, Archon Books, 1968.
_____. American Ship Casualties of the World War. Navy Department History Section. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1923.
Bartholomew, C. A. Mud, Muscle, and Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy. Washington, DC: Navy Department, Government Printing Office, 1990. 634 pp.
Bauer, K. Jack. A Maritime History of the United States: The Role of America’s Seas and Waterways. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 359 pp.
Benson, Richard M. Steamships and Motorships of the West Coast. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968.
Breskin, Ira. The Business of Shipping, 9th Edition. Centerville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 2018. 448 pp.
Butler, John A. Sailing on Friday: The Perilous Voyage of America’s Merchant Marine. Sterling, VA: Potomac Books, 2000. 290 pp.
De La Pedraja, Rene. Rise and Decline of U.S. Merchant Shipping in the Twentieth Century: Twayne's Evolution of Modern Business Series. Farmington Hills, MI: Twayne Pub, 1993. 345 pp.
De La Pedraja, Rene. A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam. Troy, MO: Greenwood Pub Group, 1994. 754pp.
Felknor, Bruce L., ed. The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. 362 pp.
Gardiner, Robert, Series ed. Conways’s History of the Ship: The Shipping Revolution: The Modern Merchant Ship. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Gardiner, Robert, Series ed. Conway’s History of the Ship, The Golden Age of Shipping: The Classic Merchant Ship 1900-1960. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994. 192 pp.
Gibson, Andrew & Arthur Donovan. The Abandoned Ocean: A History of the United States Maritime Policy. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 376 pp.
Grove, David H. American Merchant Ships on the Yangtze, 1920-1941. London: Praeger, 1992. 256 pp.
Hocking, Charles. Dictionary of Disasters At Sea during the Age of Steam, Including sailing ships and ships of War lost in action, 1824-1962. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969. 779 pp.
Labaree, Benjamin, et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998. 686 pp.
Lonsdale, Adrian L. A Guide to Sunken Ships in American Waters. San Diego, CA: Compass Publications, 1964. 189 pp
Roland, Alex. The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Re-Envisioned, 1600-2000. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. 565 pp.
Spector, Ronald H. At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century. New York: Viking, 2001. 436 pp.
Whalen, Jim. Last of the Boom Ships: Oral Histories of the U.S. Merchant Marine 1927-2000. Bloomington, IN: Author Solutions, 2000. 196 pp.
Wildenberg, Thomas. Gray, Steel, and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1992. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. 342 pp.
Winton, John. Convoy: the Defense of Sea Trade 1890-1990. London: M. Joseph, 1983. 378 pp.
Billy, Christine M. & George J Billy, ed. Merchant Mariners at War: An oral History of World War II (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology). Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2008. 337 pp.
Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted. 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1998. 909 pp.
Blair, Clay. Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942. New York: Random House, 1996. 864 pp.
Bourneuf, Gus. Workhorse of the Fleet: Being a short history of the origin of the design of the 2710 Liberty Ships built by American Shipbuilders during WWII. American Bureau of Shipping, 1990.
Browning, Robert M. The Coast Guard and the Pacific War. Washington, DC: Coast Guard Historian's Office, Government Printing Office, 1995.
Browning, Robert M. U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996. 575 pp.
Bunker, John. Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. 392 pp.
Bunker, John G. Liberty Ships, The Ugly Ducklings of World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1972. 287 pp.
Burn, Alan. The Fighting Commodores: The Convoy Commanders in the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 256 pp.
Bykofsky, Joseph, and Harold Larson. United States Army in World War II: The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office, 1957.
Carse, Robert. Cold Corner of Hell: The Story of the Murmansk Convoys, 1941-1945. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
Charles, Roland W. Troopships of World War II. Washington, DC: The Army Transportation Association, 1947. 374 pp.
Cooper, Sherod. Liberty Ship: The Voyages of the John W. Brown, 1942-1946. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. 244 pp.
Cressman, Robert J. The Official Chronology of the U. S. Navy in World War II. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. 400 pp.
Deschamps, Robert. Liberty Ships: The People Behind the Names. Baltimore, MD: Project Liberty Ship, 1997.
Diamond, Walker DeWitt. Memoirs of Ships and Men. New York: Vantage Press, 1964 .
Elliott, Peter. Allied Escort Ships of World War II: A Complete Survey. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1978. 575 pp.
Elphick, Peter. Liberty: The Ships That Won the War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. 512 pp.
Flynn, Bernard F. Bargain Basement War Heroes: What Did You Do in WWII, Grandpa? Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2014. 368 pp.
Foxvog, Donald R. and Alotta, Robert I. The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2001. 288 pp.
Gannon, Michael. Operation Drumbeat: The dramatic true story of Germany's first U-Boat attacks along the American Coast in World War II. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 490 pp.
Geroux, William. The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War against Hitler's U-boats. London: Penguin Books, 2016. 393 pp.
Gillen, Michael. Merchant Marine Survivors of World War II: Oral Histories of Cargo carrying Under Fire. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland, 2014. 216 pp.
Gleichauf, Justin F. Unsung Sailors: The Naval Armed Guard in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990. 432 pp.
Grover, David H. U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987. 280 pp.
Hahn, Herbert Paul. American Mariner: A Documentary Biography of Her Role as: Liberty Ship, Training Ship, Missile Instrumentation Ships, Mystery Ship, Test Target, Kings Point. New York: American Merchant Marine Museum Foundation, 1990. 270 pp.
Hague Arnold. The Allied Convoy System 1939-1945: Its Organization, Defense and Operation. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000. 208 pp.
Henshaw, John. Liberty’s Provenance: The Evolution of the Liberty Ships from its Sunderland Origins. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019. 112 pp.
Hillman, William B. A History of the Armed Guard Veterans of World War II. United States Navy Armed Guard Veterans of World War II, Vol. 1. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Hillman, William B. A History of the Armed Guard Veterans of World War II. United States Navy Armed Guard Veterans of World War II, Vol. 2. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987. 208 pp.
Hough, Richard. The Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Naval Wars: The Maritime Aspects of Both World Wars as Personified in the Friendship of Two Men. New York: William Morrow, 1986. 274 pp.
Hough, Richard. The Longest Battle: The War at Sea, 1939-45. New York: William Morrow, 1986. 384 pp.
Imhoff, Ernest F. Good Shipmates (Vol. 1: 1942 to 1994) The Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W. Brown. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 2006. 416 pp.
Infield, Glenn B. Disaster at Bari. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Inoguchi, Rikihei, Tadashi Nakajima & Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force In World War II. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1958. 264 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. Appointment in Normandy. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 1995. 590 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. SS Jeremiah O’Brien: The History of a Liberty Ship from the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century. Palo Alto, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2004. 416 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. The Freighters From A (Adabelle Lykes) to Z (Zoella Lykes). El Cerrito, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2010. 672 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. The Last Liberty: The Biography of the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. San Pedro, CA: United States Merchant Marine Veterans World War II, 1993. 490 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. The Last Mission Tanker. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 1993. 80 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W. The Last Victory. San Pedro, CA: United States Merchant Marine Veterans World War II, 1991. 448 pp.
Jaffee, Capt. Walter W. The Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale). Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 2004. 668 pp.
Jaffee, Walter W., & Bill Harris. The Tugboats From A (A.G. Wells) to Z (USS Zuni). El Cerrito, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2014. 672 pp.
Jaffee, Capt. Walter W. The Victory Ships from A (Aberdeen Victory) to Z (Zanesville Victory). Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 2006. 424 pp.
Jordan, Roger. The World's Merchant Fleets 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 624 pp.
Mason Jr., John T. ed. The Atlantic War Remembered: An Oral History Collection. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990. 512 pp.
McGee, William L. Bluejacket Odyssey: Guadacanal to Bikini, 1942-1946, Naval Armed Guard in the Pacific. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press, 1997. 518 pp.
Melton, Herman E.; Melton, Will, ed. Liberty’s War: An Engineer’s Memoir of the Merchant Marine, 1942-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2017. 256 pp.
Moore, Capt. Aurthur. “A Careless Word… A Needless Sinking:” A History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the US Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel, During World War II. New York: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1990. 552 pp.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. I, Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. 440 pp.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. X, The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. 399 pp.
Oachim, George J. Iron Fleet: The Great Lakes in WWII. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. 160 pp.
Reminick, Gerald. Action In The South Atlantic; the Sinking of the German Raider Stier by the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2006. 320 pp.
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes: True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2000. 298 pp.
Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes: True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Volume 2. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2004. 352 pp.
Reminick, Gerald. No Surrender: True Stories of the U.S. Navy Armed Guard in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2004. 416 pp.
Rohwer, Jurgen. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. 366 pp.
Runyan, Timothy J. & Jan M. Copes, eds. To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. 347 pp.
Sawyer, L. A. The Liberty Ships, The History of the "Emergency" type Cargo ships constructed in the United States during the Second World War. London: Lloyd's of London Press, Ltd., 1985.
Schofield, William G. Eastward the Convoys. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1965. 239 pp.
Scott, Mark, ed. Eyewitness Accounts of the World War II Murmansk Run, 1941-1945. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. 212 pp.
Shankland, Peter and Hunter, Anthony. Malta Convoy. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1961.
Simmons, Thomas E. Escape from Archangel: An American Seaman at War. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. 168 pp.
Simpson, William P. Getting Loaded. Pittsburg, PA: Dorrance Publishing Co., 1986.
Stanford, Alfred. Force Mulberry: The Planning and Installation of the Artificial Harbor Off the U.S. Normandy Beaches in World War II. New York: Morrow, 1951. 245 pp.
Stettinius, Edward R. Jr. Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. 358 pp.
Stewart, I.G. Liberty Ships in Peacetime and Their Contribution to World Shipping History. Western Australia, Ian Stewart Marine Publications, 1992.
Terraine, John. Business in Great Waters: The U-boat Wars, 1916-1945. London: Pen & Sword, 1989. 864 pp.
_____. The American Merchant Marine in the War. New York: American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc., 1943
Thornton, Francis Beauchesne. Sea of Glory: The Magnificent Story of the Four Chaplains. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1953. 243 pp.
Wardlow, Chester. The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office, 1956, 1978, 1990.
Wardlow, Chester. The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Government Printing Office, 1951, 1980.
Williams, Greg H. The Liberty Ships of World War II: A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 372 pp.
Williford, Glen. Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America’s Pacific Outposts, 1941-1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. 394 pp.
Willoughby, Malcolm F. The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. New York: Arno Press, 1980. 422 pp.
Worth, John. The American Merchant Marine at the Normandy Landings. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1994. 114 pp.
_____. Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant Marine. Educational Unit U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. Kings Point, NY: U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, 1943.
_____. Axis submarines and tactics for the "masters and seaman of our merchant marine and for armed guard crews." ONI 220-M. Washington, DC: U.S. Navy Division of Naval Intelligence, 1942.
_____. Compilation of Standard Contract Forms of the War Shipping Administration. Washington, DC: Government Printing Officer, 1945.
Cornell, Felix M. and Allan C. Hoffman, eds. American Merchant Seaman's Manual: For Seamen by Seamen. Centerville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1942.
_____. General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships. 1943. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943.
Howard, Mrs. Henry. The Seamen's Handbook For Shore Leave. New York: American Merchant Marine Library Association, 1944.
_____. How to Keep Food Records on Shipboard. Washington DC: War Shipping Administration, Food Control Division, Government Printing Office, 1945.
_____. How to Stow and Take Care of Food on Shipboard. Washington DC: War Shipping Administration, Food Control Division, Government Printing Office, 1945.
Lane, Carl D. What the Citizen Should Know About The Merchant Marine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1941.
_____. Ordnance And Gunnery Instructions For Naval Armed Guards On Merchant Ships, 1944, OPNAV-23L-1. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1944.
_____. Regulations Applicable to Certain Vessels and Shipping During Emergency (Merchant Marine) Subchapter O. NAVCG 112. United States Coast Guard. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, December 1944.
_____. Safety for Seamen. United States War Shipping Administration, Medical Division. New York: Carey Press Corporation, 1943.
_____. Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea. Washington, DC: United States Public Health Service, Government Printing Office, 1947. 498 pp.
_____. The Marine Cooks and Bakers Manual. Vol. 1. Portland, OR: Portland Public Schools, Division of Vocational Education, 1943.
_____. The Marine Cooks and Bakers Manual. Vol. 2. Portland, OR: Portland Public Schools, Division of Vocational Education, 1945.
_____. The Plane Shooter: Armed Guard School. Shelton, VA: United States Navy, Government Printing Office, 1943.
_____. The United States Maritime Service: Information Booklet, War Shipping Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944.
Turpin, Edward A. & MacEwen, William A. Merchant Marine Officers' Handbook. Centerville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1942.
_____. United States Maritime Service Hospital Corps School Manual. United States War Shipping Administration. Training Organization, Washington: U. S. Govt. print. off., 1945
_____. United States Maritime Service Training Manual. War Shipping Administration Training Organization, published for United States Maritime Service. Centerville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1944.
_____. Wartime Safety Measures for Merchant Marine. Regulations... Recommendations. Educational Series No. 2. Washington DC: United States Coast Guard, Government Printing Office, April 1944.
Wheeler, W. L. Jr. Medical Care of Merchant Seamen. Centerville, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1945.
_____. A Study of the U.S. Merchant Marine Training Program and Related Activities of the Maritime Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Government Printing Office, 1950.
_____. Final Report of a Board of Investigation to Inquire into the Design and Methods of Construction of Welded Steel Merchant Ships. 15 July, 1946. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947.
_____. Merchant Vessel Inspection Division. War Action Casualties involving Merchant Tank Vessels. Washington: Merchant Vessel Inspection Division, U.S. Coast Guard, undated.
_____. Plan for Repatriation of the Dead of World War II and Establishment of Permanent United States Military Cemeteries at Home and Abroad. War Department. Washington, DC: Army Service Forces, Government Printing Office, September 1945
_____. Statistical Analysis of 167 Torpedo Hits on 104 U.S. Tankers (Including Tables on British Tanker Casualties) (Does Not Include U.S. Navy or British Admiralty Oilers) Based on Records of the U.S. Coast Guard from 12-20-41 to 7-22-43. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, Government Printing Office, January, 1944.
_____. Submarine menace, Executive hearing before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1942. Washington, DC: United States Congress, House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Government Printing Office, 1942. 131 pp.
_____. Suggestions concerning Tank Vessel Operations During Wartime. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
_____. Summary of Merchant Marine Personnel Casualties in World War II. Washington DC: United States Coast Guard, Government Printing Office, 1950. 226 pp.
_____. The United States Merchant Marine at War, Report of the War Shipping Administrator to the President. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 15, 1946.
_____. U.S. House: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, 79th Congress, First Session. Benefits To Merchant Seaman, Hearings Before the Committee on HR 2346: A Bill to Provide Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of those Persons Who Rendered War Service in the United States Merchant Marine During World War II, and to Provide Aid for the Families of Deceased War-Service Merchant Seaman (Commonly referred to as Merchant Seaman's War Service Act); HR 2180: A Bill to Provide Federal Government Aid for the Readjustment in Civilian Life of World War I and World War II Merchant Marine Veterans; HR 2449: A Bill to Amend Title III of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, To Provide Certain Rights for Members of the Merchant Marine Serving During World War I; HR 3500: A Bill to Extend the War-Risk Insurance on Seaman to Cover Death from any Marine Risk, and for other purposes. February 18; May 12-23; June 2-9. 1947. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
_____. U.S. Merchant Ship Losses, December 7, 1941 to August 14, 1945. Washington DC: United States Coast Guard, Government Printing Office, 1948.
Cagle, Malcolm W. & Frank A. Manson. The Sea War in Korea. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1957. 640 pp.
Field, James A. History of United States Naval Operations: Korea. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1962. 520 pp.
Huston, James Alvin. Guns and Butter, Powder and Rice: U.S. Army Logistics in the Korean War. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1989. 492 pp.
Utz, Curtis A. Assault from the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon. The U.S. Navy in the Modern World. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1994. 55 pp.
Gilbert, Bill. Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2000. 224 pp.
Bolger, Daniel P. Americans at War: 1975 -1986, Era of Violent Peace. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1988. 466 pp.
Hooper, Edwin Bickford. Mobility, Support, Endurance: A Story of Naval Operational Logistics in the Vietnam War, 1965-1968. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1972. 278 pp.
Mansfield, Robert S. & William L. Worden. Towboats to the Orient: A History of Alaska Barge and Transport in the South China Sea. Seattle: PAC, 1970.
Rowan, Roy. The Four Days of Mayaguez. New York: Norton. 1975. 224 pp.
_____. The American Merchant Marine: Hero in War - Stepchild in Peace. Washington, DC: Committee of American Steamship Lines, May 1966. 55 pp.
Uhlig, Frank Jr. ed. Vietnam: The Naval Story. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986. 515 pp.
Rawlins, Michael. The Last American Sailors: A Wild Ride in the Modern Merchant Marine. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse Incorporated, 2003. 244 pp.
Radlauer, Edward; Radlauer, Ruth Shaw, ed. Atoms Afloat: The Nuclear Ship Savannah. Glasgow: Abelard-Schuman Ltd., 1963. 123 pp.
Kuechle, David. The Story of the Savannah: An Episode in Maritime Labor-Management Relations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 313 pp.
Connor, Thomas M. Once Upon a Nuclear Ship. TCL Communications Inc. NTSC, DVD, AC-3.
Braynard, Frank O. & William H Miller. Fifty Famous Liners. Cambridge, UK: Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1982.
Braynard, Frank O. & William H Miller. Fifty Famous Liners 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 1985.
Braynard, Frank O. & William H Miller. Fifty Famous Liners 3. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.
Carlisle, Rodney P. Sovereignty for Sale: The Origins and Evolution of the Panamanian and Liberian Flags of Convenience. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981. 278 pp.
Coman, Edwin T. Jr. & Helen M. Gibbs. Time, Tide and Timber: A Century of Pope & Talbot. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. 480 pp.
Crump, Irving. Our Tanker Fleet. New York: Dodd, Mead & Compant, 1952. 224 pp.
Culver, John A. Ships of the U.S. Merchant Fleet. Weymouth, MA: Denison Press, 1965.
Dant, Jack R. & Roger McGovern. The Way of the Seahorse. Rancho Mirage, CA: Harbor House (West), 1991. 151 pp.
Driscoll, Lawrence. S.S. America - U.S.S. West Point - S. S. Australis: The Many Lives of a Great Ship. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press Maritime Books, 2003. 272 pp.
Dunn, Laurence. Passenger Liners. London: Adlard Coles Limited, 1965. 474 pp.
Emmons, Frederick. American Passenger Ships; The Ocean Lines and Liners, 1873-1983. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985. 184 pp.
Emmons, Frederick. The Atlantic Liners. New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. 160 pp.
Farrington Jr., S. Kip. Ships of the U.S. Merchant Marine. New York: E. P. Dutton Inc. 1947. 92 pp.
Goldberg, Mark H. Caviar & Cargo, The C3 Passenger Ships. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1992.
Goldberg, Mark H. Going Bananas - 100 years of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1993. 606 pp.
Goldberg, Mark H. The Hog Islanders - The Story of 122 American Ships. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1991.
Goldberg, Mark H. The Shipping Board's Agency Ships - The Sub Boats. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1995. 399 pp.
Goldberg, Mark H. The Stately President Liners - American Passenger Liners of the Interwar Years. Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1996. 646 pp.
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