Bibliography Page

where do we get all this great stuff ?

 

Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net thanks the following contributors

Tom Bates, Ion Livas, Alfons Verheijden and James Jensen for their extensive submissions in the Historical area.

Julie M. for putting up with me. Nick D. Jean Francois for technical advice and help. Cat & Nol, Pascal and Doug for donating valuable web space to get the site started, even if they don't know it.

Art M. for donating a pile of First Class ME exams. A very big thank you to Karim, Walt P, Colin B, Bill P, Serge A, Bosco D, Mihai, John C. for providing many 1st and 2nd questions. Mike R for providing questions and more importantly, answers. Wayne K, Peter B, Brian P, Myles O, Colin B, Stephan L, for submitting exam help and questions (3rd class), Geoff and BB for 2nd class. Robin C. and his partners for the tremendous amount of work on the First Class questions. Thanks goes to Edwin M for the review of regs.

Darren Williams, marine lawyer, for his excellent, insightful legal articles. JK for the informative posts on the Monitor, pictures, tid bits but mostly for the many helpful replies in the various forums. Barry Dressel, Laurent David for clarifications on the history of the diesel engine. Barun Gupta and Kumar Surendra Prassad for their papers on LNG shipping and technology. Allan A. for his stories and pictures. Carissa B. for donating her time and comments; and fellow cadet Isaac N. for his time, pictures and info.

Peter F, Juan M, Bruce W, Christoph B, Dave G, Slattery, Craig B, David B, David W, Jim A, Bill B, Adrian P, Maurice S, Lou C, Jim & Charles L, Richard, Andrew T, Norm N, Erik D, Gerry, David S, Gerhard G, Sam W, Dale P, John G, Daniel A, Brian G, Nic L, Chris C, Alan R, Nick T, Greg McK, Hans, Timothy P, Per-Ake K, John N, Raul B, Ray G, etc, for their jokes, articles, pictures and poems.

Also, a thank you goes out to the casual input, that makes the site more accurate; such as from Cornelius R for exam input. John Sykes for diesel's historical tidbits, and Erik O on the Cunard stuff.

 

Books

In the format of: book title, author, publisher, year. Also, some include my personal rating (should have in your library).

  1. Marine Engine Blue Book
    William D Eglinton, Cornel Maritime Press 1993

  2. Nuclear Ships of the World
    Joseph M Dukert, Coward McCann & MacGreghegan 1973

  3. The Motor Ship Reference Book 20th Edition
    Temple Press 1960

  4. Mariner's Book of Days
    Peter Specter, Wooden Boat Books 1999

  5. Ships and the Sea
    Peter Kemp, Oxford University Press 1988

  6. What ship is that?
    Bob Basnight, Lyons & Burford 1996

  7. Reed's Steam Engineering Knowledge
    Thomas Morton, Thomas Reed Publications 1987

  8. Introduction to marine engineering
    D A Taylor, Butherworth Heinemann, 1995
    10/10 must have for new engineers - ml

  9. The running and maintenance of marine machinery
    Institute of Marine Engineers 1994
    10/10 Excellent and up to date ref  for all - ml

  10. Reed's Applied Mechanics
    William Embleton, Thomas Reed Publications 1994

  11. Reed's Naval architecture
    EA Stokoe, Thomas Reed Publications 1991

  12. Reed's Applied Heat
    William Embleton, Thomas Reed Publications 1991

  13. Marine Log Magazine
    Simmons-Boardman Publications, check it out online

  14. Marine diesel engines
     N. Caldier, Highmark Publishing Ltd. 1987

  15. Marine diesels
     D. Burghart & G. Kingsley, Prentice Hall Inc. 1981

  16. Pounder's marine diesel engines
     Sixth Edition, C.T. Wilbur & D.A. Wright, Butterworth-Heineman Ltd. 1984

  17. Profesional Mariner Magazine
     Navigator Publishing LLC, check it out online

  18. Marine Gas Turbines
     John B. Woodward, John Wiley & Sons, 1975
    5/10 Mostly military and lots of theory stuff - ml

  19. Tanker Operations: A handbook for ship's officer
     GS Marton, Cornell Maritime Press 1992

  20. Diesel: the man and the engine
     Morton Grosser, McClelland & Stewart 1978
    8/10 Very interesting - ml

  21. Marine Auxiliary Machinery
     E. Souchotte, Newnes-Butterworth 1975

  22. Standard Plant Operators' Manual
     S. Elonka, McGraw Hill 1980

  23. Low Speed Marine Diesel
     John B. Woodward, John Wiley & Sons 1981
    6/10 Compact and informative - ml

  24. Lamb's question and answers on the marine Diesel engine, 7th Edition
     Stanley G. Christensen, Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd 1978
    8/10 quite comprehensive, good studying for EKM for senior eng. - ml

  25. Admiralty Manual of Seamanship. Volume 1, 2, 3
     UK Ministry of Defense 1981
    8/10 Complete and thorough - ml

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Part of my technical book library in 2008 (notice Thomas the Train - that's my EK steam collection)
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Still looking for Marine Engineering reference and research material; text books and such? The list below, compiles, pretty extensively, published Marine Engineering works.

bulletCompendium of published Marine Engineering text and reference books. List 1, List 2 bulletCompendium of published Marine Engineering thesis papers bulletOlder price list of Marine Engineering text books at BCIT in Vancouver
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