Edited by I. C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp
Over 2,600 entries
‘Neatly illustrated and meticulously researched…a reference work of uniformly high academic quality’ — Times Literary Supplement
The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea is a completely revised and updated edition of a classic volume that was first published in 1976 to huge acclaim. It covers every aspect of the seas and the vessels that sail on them, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, and marine mammals, to tidal power, piracy, and the literature and language of the sea. The second edition provides new material on topics such as oceanography and marine archaeology; also included are up-to-the-minute articles on underwater vehicles, tsunamis, warfare at sea, marine pollution, the Economic Exclusion Zone, and ship preservation.
I. C. B. Dear served in the Royal Marines and is now a full-time writer specialising in maritime and military history; Peter Kemp was head of the Naval Historical Branch at the Ministry of Defence, and was the general editor of the first edition.
Print edition ISBN: 9780199205684; 019920568X
Publishing history: First edition 1976; second edition 2005; paperback edition 2006
Copyright: © Oxford University Press, the Estate of P. K. Kemp, and I. C. B. Dear 1976, 2005, 2006, 2007
