Dictionaries and Glossaries

Roberto A. Sarmiento, Transportation Library, Northwestern University and Gisela Lammerts van Bueren, Centro de Recursos Técnicos, Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, compilers

Branch, Alan E. Dictionary of Shipping International Business Trade Terms and Abbreviations. 4th ed. (Formerly Dictionary of Shipping International Trade Terms and Abbreviations.) London: Witherby, 1995, 951p.

Brodie, Peter R. Dictionary of Shipping Terms. 3rd ed. London; New York: Lloyd's of London Press, 1997, 219p.

Brown, Robert H. Dictionary of Marine Insurance Terms and Clauses. 5th ed. London: Witherby, 1989, 415p.

De la Pedraja, Rene. A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry since the Introduction of Steam. Westport, CT: Greenwood 1994, 754p.

Layton, Cyril W. T. Dictionary of Nautical Words and Terms: 8000 Definitions in Navigation, Seamanship, Rigging, Meteorology, Astronomy, Naval Architecture, Average, Ship Economics, Hydrography, Cargo Stowage, Marine Engineering, Ice Terminology, Buoyage, Yatching, etc. 4th ed., rev. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1994, 393p.

O'Flynn, Joseph P. Nautical Dictionary: Over 3,800 Maritime Terms Defined. Boyne City, MI: Harbor House, c1992, 108p.

Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, The. Ed.: Peter Kemp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, 971p.

Times Atlas and Encyclopaedia of the Sea, The. Ed.: Alastair Couper. 2nd ed. [New York]: Times Books 1989, 272p.