NOVEMBER 2024
Biodiversity of the Southern Ocean / Bruno David, Thomas Saucède.
London, UK : ISTE Press Ltd ; Oxford, UK : Elsevier Ltd, 2015.

Bucked in the yarn : the unique heritage of coker canvas / Terry Stevens.
Carmarthenshire : Graffeg, 2024.

The ocean of churn : how the Indian Ocean shaped human history / Sanjeev Sanyal.
Gurgaon, Haryana, India : Penguin books, 2017.

Small islands in peril? : island size and island lives in Melanesia / edited by Colin Filer.
Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, 2024.

Small yachts : their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice : with numerous plates and illustrations / by C.P. Kunhardt ; edited, abridged, and with a preface by the editors of Woodenboat magazine from the new enlarged edition of 1891.
Brooklin, Me. : WoodenBoat Publications, 1985.

Sonar for practising engineers / A.D. Waite.
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2005.

Strabo's Geography : a translation for the modern world / translated & introduced by Sarah PothecaryPrinceton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Strike of the Sailfish : two sister submarines and the sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier / Stephen Moore
[New York] : Caliber, [2023]

This earthly globe : a Venetian geographer and the quest to map the world / Andrea di Robilant.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Wings of Gold : the story of the first women naval aviators / Beverly Weintraub.
Guilford, Connecticut : The Lyons Press, 2021

JANUARY 2025
Arctic convoys : Bletchley Park and the war for the seas / David Kenyon.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Economic warfare and the sea : grand strategies for maritime powers, 1650-1945 / edited by David Morgan-Owen, Louis Halewood.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023.

Medieval English travel : a critical anthology / edited by Anthony Bale and Sebastian Sobecki.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Planning and profits : British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Complex 1918-1941 / Christopher Miller.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2018]

The salt roads : how fish made a culture / John Goodlad.
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2022.

A history of ship launches and their ceremonies / George Hodgkinson.
Philadelphia, Penn. : Pen and Sword Transport, 2023.

Shipwrecks and the bounty of the sea / David Cressy.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.

The Sun King at sea : maritime art and galley slavery in Louis XIV's France / Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss.
Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2022]

An introduction to sonar systems engineering / Lawrence J. Ziomek.
Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2023.

Fundamentals of underwater acoustics / Orlando Camargo Rodríguez.
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2023]

MARCH 2025
The arts of the sailor : knotting, splicing, and ropework / Hervey Garrett Smith.
New York : Dover, (1953) 1990.

The boiling moat : urgent steps to defend Taiwan / edited by Matt Pottinger.
Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2024]

Chinese colonial entanglements : commodities and traders in the southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950 / edited by Julia T. Martínez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press : School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, [2024]

Girt by sea : re-imagining Australia's security / Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis.
Wurundjeri Country, Collingwood, Vic. : La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc, [2024]

Leading agile acquisitions : a guide to creating culture change in government contracting / Jonathan Mostowski.
[United States] : [Jonathan Mostowski], [2024]

Making men in the age of sail : masculinity, memoir, and the British merchant seafarer, 1860-1914 / Graeme J. Milne.
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Modelling naval ships in small scales / Mike McCabe.
Ramsbury : The Crowood Press, 2022.

Nuked : the submarine fiasco that sank Australia's sovereignty / Andrew Fowler.
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2024.

Seaward : chasing master mariners in the golden age of sail / Harold Bradley.
Eugene, OR : Luminare Press, [2023]

Seaways and gatekeepers : trade and state in the eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 / Heather Sutherland
Singapore : NUS Press, [2021]

MAY 2025
Battle of the Atlantic (1) : the U-boat campaign against Britain, 1939-41 / Mark Stille 
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2024.

Destroyers, greyhounds of the fleet : memoirs of a naval gunner in the Second World War / Peter Saxton.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2025.

Fairfield : a shipyard success story 1834 - 2024 / Ian Johnston.
Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, 2024.

Four points of the compass : the unexpected history of direction / Jerry Brotton.
[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.

Imperial ventures : maritime drama and the invention of risk / Benjamin VanWagoner.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]

International law of underwater cultural heritage : understanding the challenges / Kim Browne, Murray Ralf.
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

The spice ports : mapping the origins of global sea trade / Nicholas Nugent.
London : The British Library, 2024.

Tracks on the ocean : a history of trailblazing, maps and maritime travel / Sara Caputo.
London : Profile Books Ltd, 2024.

U.S. naval power in the 21st century : a new strategy for facing the Chinese and Russian threat / Brent Droste Sadler
Sadler, Brent Droste, author.Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2023]

Yukikaze's war : the unsinkable Japanese destroyer and World War II in the Pacific / Brett L. Walker
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

JULY 2025
BP shipping pictorial : the golden years 1945-1975 / Ray Solly.
Dunbeath : Whittles Publishing, 2023.

Citizen science in maritime archaeology : the power of public engagement / edited by Della A. Scott-Ireton, Jennifer E. Jones, and Jason T. Raupp.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2023]

Fighting in the electromagnetic spectrum : U.S. Navy and Marine Corps electronic warfare aircraft, missions, and equipment / Thomas Wildenberg.
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2023]

Japanese Combined Fleet 1941-42 : the IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway / Mark Stille.
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.

Maritime operations law in practice : key cases and incidents / David Letts and Rob McLaughlin.
New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Maritime salvage operations and environmental protection / Durand M. Cupido.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Predator of the seas : a history of the slaveship that fought for emancipation / Stephen Taylor.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]

Ship models from the age of sail : building and enhancing commercial kits / Kerry Jang.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, 2022.

Ship of lost souls : the tragic wreck of the steamship Valencia / Rod Scher.
Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2024.

Uncommon courage : the yachtsmen volunteers of World War Two / Julia Jones.
London : Adlard Coles, 2023.

AUGUST 2025
Chamber divers : the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever / Rachel Lance.
New York : Dutton, [2024]

C/o Cunard House : 88 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3 / Bill Ferguson.
Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, [2025]

Lessons from the admiral : naval wisdom and sea stories for leaders / Mark C Fava.
Herndon Parkway, Virginia : Amplify Publishing, 2025

Marine algal bloom : characteristics, causes and climate change impacts / Santosh Kumar Sarkar.
Singapore : Springer, [2018]

Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) : background, statutory authorities, and issues for congress : R46921 / Congressional Research Service, Eva Lipiec.
[Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2021

The tinpot navy : the extraordinary exploits and unsung heroes of Australia's fledgeling navy during the Great War / Anthony Delano.
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2025.

Waves across the south : a new history of revolution and empire / Sujit Sivasundaram.
London : William Collins, 2021.

SEPTEMBER 2025
In my element : life lessons from the world's toughest solo ocean race / Pip Hare.
London : Adlard Coles, 2024.

Astute Class nuclear submarine : 2010 to date : insights into the design, construction and operation
Gates, Jonathan, author.
Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset UK : Haynes Publishing, 2018.

Marine biology / Peter Castro, Michael E. Huber ; original artwork by William C. Ober and Claire E.
New York, NY : McGraw Hill, [2024]

Italian assault craft, 1940-1945 : human torpedoes and other special attack weapons / Erminio Bagnas
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Seaford Publishing, 2023.

The neptune factor : Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power / Nicholas A. Lambert.
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2025.

The Tyne coal keel : a unique British watercraft, 1400-1890 / Adrian Osler.
[Tyne and Wear, England] : Adrian Osler, 2022.

Stars to steer by : celebrating the 20th century women who went to sea / Julia Jones.
London : Adlard Coles, 2025.

Introduction to digital navigation : including fundamentals of navigation / Alexander Arnfinn Olsen.
Chamm Switzerland : Springer, [2024]

Naval architecture for marine engineers / revised by Richard Pemberton ; E.A. Stokoe.
London : Reeds, 2024.

The ancient port of Whitby and its shipping : with some subjects of interest connected therewith : plans and illustrations / compiled from various registers of shipping, periodicals, local newspapers and histories, etc. by Richard Weatherill.
Whitby : Horne and Son, 1908.

OCTOBER 2025
China's maritime gray zone operations / edited by Andrew S. Erickson and Ryan D. Martinson.
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2019]

Continental powers and naval development : strategy coherence, threat diffusion, and success at sea
London ; New York : Routledge, 2026.

Deck officers and masters guide v.1 : navigation, manoeuvring, watchkeeping / Richard V. Weinberg.
[United States?] : [Richard V. Weinberg], [2020]

Deck officers and masters guide v.2 : shipbuilding, ship stability and ship operations / Richard V. Weinberg.
[United States?] : [Richard V. Weinberg], [2018]

Field Guide to the Seashores of South-Eastern Australia / Christine Porter ; Ty G. Matthews.
Clayton South, Vic : CSIRO Publishing, 2023.

HMS Turbulent / Stephen Wynn.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2023.

HMS Terror : the design, fitting and voyages of the polar discovery ship / Matthew Betts.
Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, 2022.

Oil spill monitoring handbook / editors: Sharon Hook, Graeme Batley, Michael Holloway, Paul Irving and Andrew Ross.
Clayton South, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, [2016]

Plankton : a guide to their ecology and monitoring for water quality /  Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik and Anthony J. Richardson. 2nd ed.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2019]

Saving MacArthur : the story of America's most daring naval rescue, and the men it left behind / Rudi Tomedi.
Havertown, PA : Casemate Publishers, 2025.

Yamato class battleships : Shipcraft 14 / Steve Wiper.
London : Seaforth, 2009.

January / February 2023

China bound : John Swire & Sons and its World, 1816-1980 /
Robert Bickers.
London : Bloomsbury Business, 2020

The English and French navies, 1500-1650 : expansion,
organisation and state-building / Benjamin W. D. Redding
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2022
Geopolitics, supply chains, and international relations in East
Asia / edited by Etel Solingen.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Knight of the North Atlantic : Baron Siegfried von Forstner and
the war patrols of U-402, 1941-1943 / Aaron S. Hamilton.
Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, 2022.

Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom : a history of the British
Shipbuilders Corporation / Hugh Murphy.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Shipping and globalization in the post-war era : contexts,
companies, connections / Niels P. Petersson, Stig Tenold,
Nicholas J. White
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Years of endurance : life aboard the battlecruiser Tiger, 1914-
1916 / Surgeon Rear Admiral John R Muir
Barnsley : Seaforth Press, 2021.

Over the top : the first lone yachtsman to sail vertically around
the world / Adrian Flanagan.
London : Adlard Coles, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
British battleship vs Italian battleship : the Mediterranean 1940-
41 / Mark Stille
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2020.

The darksome bounds of a failing world :|bthe sinking of the
"Titanic" and the end of the Edwardian era / Gareth Russell.
London : William Collins, 2019.

Boatbuilding - yesterday and today: trends, preferences and
priorities / Foerthmann, Peter
Hamburg : Tredition, 2021.

Disruptive Technology and the Law of Naval Warfare / James
Kraska and Raul Pedrozo
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Fiberglass Boat Restoration: The Project Planning Guide /
Captain Wayne Canning.
New York, NY : Seahorse Publishing, [2017]

Our Blue Planet: An Introduction to Maritime and Underwater
Archaeology / Ben Ford, Jessi J. Halligan, Alexis Catsambis
New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Piracy / Ursula
Daxecker & Brandon Prins
New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Maritime informatics / Mikael Lind (et al.)
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

GMDSS handbook for mariners / Alexander Olsen, Fidaa
Karkori.
Southampton, Hampshire : Magellan Maritime Press Ltd, 2023.
Reeds maritime meteorology [4th ed.] / Elaine Ives, Maurice
Cornish
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Leith-built ships. Volume 1, they once were shipbuilders [1850-
1918] / R.O. Neish.
Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, UK : Whittles Publishing,
[2019].

Leith-built ships. Volume 2, Leith Shipyards 1918-1939 / R.O.
Neish.
Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, UK : Whittles Publishing,
[2021].

Leith-built ships. Volume 3, Henry Robb Ltd. [1945–1965] /
R.O. Neish.
Dunbeath, Caithness : Whittles Publishing, [2022]

Richard Moriarty
Senior Collection Development Librarian
State Library of South Australia