sailing ships

The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his crew to live forever as the undead.

Presents an illustrated history of sailing ships, and contains a number of full-color drawings of ancient galleys and Roman ships, Viking longboats, pirates and privateers, frigates, schooners, and much more.

Chronicles the 150-year history of tall sailing vessels.

Provides an illustrated history of sailing ships and describes how they operate.

Discusses the tall ships which sailed the world before the advent of steam. Describes how they were built, the men who built and sailed them, and life aboard.

Twelve-year old Vicki, and her friend, Peter, try to solve the mystery of the appearance of a ghost ship, "Storm Goddess, " and its eighteenth-century figurehead, when supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort casts the tourist town in a two-hundred-year-old legend.

Andy builds a sailing ship from the collection of items which he has pirated from throughout his cluttered house and yard.

Describes a pirate's job of stealing from other ships when they seize it. Contains information on their weapons such as swords, firearms, cannons, and their hand-to-hand combat with daggers. Concludes with data on the ship and its parts as well as descriptions of a variety of ships many pirates captured.