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Title The Oxford companion to ships and the sea / edited by I.C.B. Dear and Peter Kemp.

Publication Info. Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019.

Item Status

Edition Second edition.
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (2727 entries) : 265 images ; digital files.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford Reference Collection
Oxford reference collection.
Note First edition 1976 ; Second edition 2005 ; Reissued in Oxford Reference Collection 2016."--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Entries A-Z.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary The most comprehensive and authoritative reference book of its kind, the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea provides coverage of a huge range of topics, from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, marine engineering, and marine mammals, to smuggling, tsunamis, mermaids, and the language and literature of the sea.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Local Note Credo Reference General Reference
Subject Ships -- Dictionaries.
Ships.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Subject Marine sciences -- Dictionaries.
Marine sciences.
Naval art and science -- Dictionaries.
Naval art and science -- Dictionaries.
Naval history -- Dictionaries.
Naval history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Dear, Ian, editor.
Kemp, Peter, 1904-1992, editor.
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Added Title Companion to ships and the sea.
Ships and the sea.
Other Form: Print version: 0198800509 9780198800507 vii, 678 pages : illustrations, maps
ISBN 9781787855717 electronic version
9780198800507 hardback
0198800509 hardback