Nautilus Bookshop
Welcome to the Nautilus Bookshop – a collection of great reads to enjoy at sea and ashore. A partnership between Marine Society and Nautilus International, the bookshop stocks recent releases on a range of maritime topics, including ship histories, seafarer memoirs, studies of the Merchant Navy in wartime and even the occasional nautical novel.
The Book of the Month will feature a special discount during its respective month. All the books here have been reviewed in the Nautilus Telegraph, and new titles are added each month.
If you have a recently-published maritime book that you would like the Nautilus Telegraph to consider for review, please email: [email protected]
Featured products
Hello Sailor! The hidden history of gay life at sea
£38.00
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans.
Pulling Together: The Making of a Global Maritime Trade Union
£19.99
The Book of the Month January 2024. This in-depth history will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in maritime or trade union history. The history of Nautilus is also of relevance to all unions organising in an increasingly globalised and unstable labour market. Ilustrated with 50b/w and 20 colour photos.
Tugs and Towing Around Britain
£15.99
The book features previously unpublished photographs from the author’s collection accompanied by informative captions.
Ocean Liners: A New History
£25.00
Nautilus Telegraph's book of the month for January 2025
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2025
£27.00 £30.00
10% OFF. This is the established book of annual astro-navigation tables compiled specifically for the needs of boaters.
Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia
£25.00
NOT YET PUBLISHED. EXPECTED IN FEBRUARY 2025. The Book of the Month February 2025.
Titanic Legacy The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy
£25.00
Book of the Month June 2025
Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography: Life of A Greyhound
£36.00 £40.00
The Book of the Month April 2025.
The QE2 in the Falkands War
£22.50
Book of the Month May 2025 The QE2 in the Falklands War : Troopship to the South Atlantic
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners
£30.00
The True Transatlantic Super-Liners : An Exclusive Class from Imperator to QM2
The Shipwreck Hunter
£13.99
A lifetime of extraordinary discoveries on the ocean floor. Expertise that helped find the Derbyshire.
Atlantic Container Line 1967 - 2017: A 50 Year Journey of Innovative Excellence
£10.00
Atlantic Container Line was a pioneer in the cargo revolution of the 1960s and this book captures the story spanning over the last 50 years.
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel
£15.99
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel brings all of the salt-stained heritage, courage and tenacity into one colourful and highly readable volume; maritime history is in our blood and this book will enrich it.
Last Voyage to Wewak
£16.99
A tale of the Sea, West Africa to South Pacific
Pilots' Pocket Guide and Checklist - Working safely with harbour tugs, 2nd Edition
£15.00
Pilots' Pocket Guide and Checklist - Working safely with harbour tugs. Reducing the risks in port towage, 2nd edition
The Pilot Ladder Manual - 2nd Edition (2024)
£50.00
This publication details the rules, regulations and procedures that should be followed when preparing for pilot embarkation and disembarkation. It includes relevant excerpts from SOLAS regulations and IMO resolutions. The text is supported by explanatory photographs and diagrams that demonstrate good and bad practice. This second edition supersedes both the basic and advanced editions of Pilot Ladder Manual.
Shipwrecks of the P&O Line
£25.00
Scuba stories from the seabed of the Peninsular and Oriental Line by Sam Warwick and Mike Roussel
Swansea Docks in the 1960s
£16.99
Local nostalgia for a Welsh port's 20th Century heyday
Coastal Shipping International 2019
£5.00
This book looks at various aspects of coastal shipping throughout the world from Canada to Cornwall, from New Zealand to Norway.
Upstream and Offshore Energy Insurance, 3rd Edition
£495.00
3rd edition Published: February 2021. This publication is a comprehensive study on offshore energy insurance. It provides understanding of the products that have been developed by the insurance industry to provide financial support.
QE2: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
£25.00
Through words penned by passionate QE2 travellers and with tribute stories from captains, crew and guests, a wide selection of carefully selected photographs bring this wonderful ship to life.
The Mayflower in Britain
£20.00
How an icon was made in London