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For commercial shipping to private boating to the Coast Guard, sailors of all sorts need the best navigational information to guide their way. We have assembled this list of essential Government publications including nautical and astronomical almanacs, navigational rules and laws, lighthouse lists and navigational charts for international and U.S. inland waterways and coastal waters, and more.

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Navigation Rules, International-Inland

Publisher: Transportation Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (COLREGS), incorporating amendments, which became effective on November 19, 1989 and November 1995. Also includes the Inland Navigation Rules which have been in effect for all inland waters, including the Great Lakes, since Mar. 1, 1983. Provides all revisions through January 1, 1999. International rules and inland rules for similar subjects are printed side-by-side for comparison.

Year/Pages: 1999: 226 p.; ill.

Price: $23.00 Add To Cart

The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2012

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office

Description: Produced jointly by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the United States Naval Observatory. Presents data for use in astronomical navigation at sea. Includes planets, selected stars, our Sun, our Moon, twilight, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, and Moonset. Includes “Index to Selected Stars, 2012” and “Altitude correction tables for Sun, Stars, and Planets” on a separate sheet.

Year/Pages: 2011: 356 p.

Price: $33.00 Add To Cart

Nautical Almanac for the Year 2011

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office

Description: Produced jointly by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the United States Naval Observatory. Presents data for use in astronomical navigation at sea. Includes planets, selected stars, our Sun, our Moon, twilight, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, and Moonset. Includes “Index to Selected Stars, 2011” and “Altitude correction tables for Sun, Stars, and Planets” on a separate sheet.

Year/Pages: 2010: 356 p.; ill. and chart.

Price: $43.00 Add To Cart

Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 2014

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Nautical Almanac Office

Description: Official publication produced in collaboration with Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the United Kingdom and the Nautical Almanac Office at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Contains selected data of general interest from the Astronomical Almanac including dates for solar equinoxes, solstices, phases of the Moon; eclipse maps, dates for various planetary phenomena and sunrise/set, moonrise/set times and much more. Data are expressed in the scale of universal time, also known as Greenwich mean time. Available two years in advance of its date.

Year/Pages: 2011: 79 p.

Price: $10.00 Add To Cart

Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 2012

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Observatory, Nautical Almanac Office

Description: Official publication produced in collaboration with Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the United Kingdom and the Nautical Almanac Office at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Contains selected data of general interest from the Astronomical Almanac including dates for solar equinoxes, solstices, phases of the Moon; eclipse maps, dates for various planetary phenomena and sunrise/set, moonrise/set times and much more. Data are expressed in the scale of universal time, also known as Greenwich mean time. Available two years in advance of its date.

Year/Pages: 2009: 94 p.; ill.

Price: $11.00 Add To Cart

Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2012 and Its Companion, The Astronomical Almanac Online

Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Nautical Almanac Office

Description: Prepared in cooperation with Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office. Provides information about sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, stars and other astronomical phenomena. Data are expressed in the scale of universal time, also known as Greenwich mean time.

Year/Pages: 2010: 624 p.; ill.

Price: $40.00 Add To Cart

U.S. Coast Guard Incident Management Handbook, 2006

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Assists Coast Guard personnel in response to oil spills, search and rescue operations and other emergency situations.

Year/Pages: 2006: 364 p.

Price: $23.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 1, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids located in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont (Lake Champlain), Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey.

Year/Pages: 2011: 380 p.

Price: $53.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 2, Atlantic Coast, Toms River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids located between Shrewsbury River, New Jersey and Little River South Carolina.

Year/Pages: 2011: 398 p.

Price: $53.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 3, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Little River, South Carolina to Econfina River, Florida (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids located between Shrewsbury River, New Jersey and Little River South Carolina. It also includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Year/Pages: 2011: 224 p.

Price: $33.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 4, Gulf of Mexico, Econfina River, Florida, to the Rio Grande, Texas

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids located between Econfina River, Florida to Rio Grande, Texas.

Year/Pages: 2011: 374 p.

Price: $53.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 6, Pacific Coast and Outlying Pacific Islands

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids to navigation located on the Pacific Coast, Pacific Islands, and the Coast of Alaska.

Year/Pages: 2011: 302 p.

Price: $44.00 Add To Cart

Light List, 2011, V. 7, Great Lakes, Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River Above the St. Regis River

Publisher: Homeland Security Dept., Coast Guard

Description: Contains a list of lights, sound signals, buoys, daybeacons, and other aids to navigation. It includes aids located on the waters of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River above the St. Regis River.

Year/Pages: 2011: 248 p.

Price: $37.00 Add To Cart

Allegheny River Navigation Charts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to East Brady, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh District)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District

Description: Contains: General Notes; Regulations, Section 7 of River and Harbor Act of 1917; Extracts from Sections of the river and Harbor Act of 1899; United States Coast Guard Information; Characteristics of Lights and Notes; Aids to Navigation and Legend; Tabular Index to Navigation Charts; Map Index to Navigation Charts; Navigation Charts; Allegheny River Terminals; and Allegheny River Small Boat Harbors, Ramps, Landings, Etc.

Year/Pages: 2004: 66 p.; ill.

Price: $24.00 Add To Cart

Monongahela River Navigation Charts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Fairmont, West Virginia (Pittsburgh District)

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District

Description: Contains: General Notes; Regulations, Section 7 of River and Harbor Act of 1917; Extracts from Sections of the river and Harbor Act of 1899; United States Coast Guard Information; Characteristics of Lights and Notes; Aids to Navigation and Legend; Tabular Index to Navigation Charts; Map Index to Navigation Charts; Navigation Charts; Monongahela River Terminals; and Monongahela River Small Boat Harbors, Ramps, Landings, Etc.

Year/Pages: 2004: 112 p.; ill.

Price: $30.50 Add To Cart

Ohio River Navigation Charts: Cairo, Illinois to Foster, Kentucky, June 2010

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Corps of Engineers, Louisville District

Description: Army Corps of Engineers Ohio River Navigation Charts, Louisville District: Cairo, Illinois to Foster, Kentucky. Ohio River Navigation Charts are 8 x 14 scaled color maps that in indicate important navigation features of special interest. Features shown on the charts include channel sailing line, U.S. navigation lights, daymarks, arrival point marks for locks, normal pool elevations, mouth of tributary streams, location of bars, channel buoys, bridges, aerial and submarine crossings, docks, terminals, landings and navigation structures. No soundings are shown. A listing of small boat harbors, ramps, landings and commercial river terminals are included at the back of each navigation chart book. U.S.

Year/Pages: 2010: 288 p.; ill.

Price: $64.00 Add To Cart

Ohio River Navigation Charts: Foster, Kentucky to New Martinsville, West Virginia

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Corps of Engineers

Description: Army Corps of Engineers Ohio River Navigation Charts, Huntington District: Foster, Kentucky to New Martinsville, West Virginia. Ohio River Navigation Charts are 8 x 14 scaled color maps that in indicate important navigation features of special interest. Features shown on the charts include channel sailing line, U.S. navigation lights, daymarks, arrival point marks for locks, normal pool elevations, mouth of tributary streams, location of bars, channel buoys, bridges, aerial and submarine crossings, docks, terminals, landings and navigation structures. No soundings are shown. A listing of small boat harbors, ramps, landings and commercial river terminals are included at the back of each navigation chart book.

Price: $55.00 Add To Cart

Ohio River Navigation Charts: New Martinsville, West Virginia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, 2003-2006

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District

Description: Army Corps of Engineers Ohio River Navigation Charts, Pittsburgh District: New Martinsville, West Virginia to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Provides history facts on the cover about “The Beginnings of the Great Expedition ..., the Eastern Legacy, From Trail Blazing to Walking on the Moon.” Lists buoys, dams, and other known navigational features along the route the Lewis and Clark Expedition took in 1803.

Year/Pages: 2003: 116 p.; ill.

Price: $29.50 Add To Cart

Code of Federal Regulations Title 33—Navigation and Navigable Waters is composed of the following three volumes. The contents of these volumes represent all current regulations codified under this title of the CFR as of July 1, 2011:

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, Pt. 1-124, Revised as of July 1, 2011

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

Description:   

Year/Pages: 2011: 734 p.

Price: $63.00

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, Pt. 125-199, Revised as of July 1, 2011

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

Description:   

Year/Pages: 2011: 1041 p.

Price: $64.00

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, Pt. 200-End, Revised as of July 1, 2011

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register

Description:   

Year/Pages: 2011: 788 p.

Price: $63.00


The Panama Canal: An Army's Enterprise

Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History

Description: Describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project's subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad.

Year/Pages: 2009: 103 p.; ill.

Price: $12.00 Add To Cart




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