2011

Mountbatten Maritime Award

WINNER

Professor David Abulafia – The Great Sea – History of the Mediterranean (Penguin Books)

NOMINEES

Professor Alastair Couper – Sailors and Traders (University of Hawaii Press)
John Farndon – Atlas of the Oceans (Adlard Coles – A&C Publishers)
Sandra Clayton – Dolphins Under My Bed (Adlard Coles – A&C Publishers)
Ben Pester (posthumous) – Just Sea and the Sky (Adlard Coles – A&C Publishers)
Jay O’Donnell – Rescue – 194 (Penguin Books)
Dr Julian Lewis – Racing Ace – Samuel Kinkhead (Pen and Sword)
Julian Stockwin – Conquest – Thomas Kydd (Hodder and Stoughton)
David Carpenter – Below the Waterline (Bears Hyde Publishing)
Tim Parker – Signalman Jones – Recollections of Lt Cdr Holder-Jones DSM RNVR (Seafarer Books)
Anthony Laughton, John Gould, Tom Tucker, Howard Roe – Of Sea and Ship and Scientists – UK’s National Institute of Oceanography (Lutterworth Press)
Tim Clayton – Sea Wolves (Little Brown Book Group)
Paul Greenberg – Four fish – A Journey from the Ocean to your Plate (Penguin Books)
Frank McLynn – Captain Cook – Master of the Seas (Yale University Press)
Dr Anthony Cumming – The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain (US Naval Institute)
Robin Burnett – Water under the Keel (The Book Guild)
Sara Allerton – Making Shore (Saraband)
Conrad Waters – World Naval Review 2011 (Seaforth Publishing)
Paul Kay – Ireland’s Hidden Depths (Sherkin Island Marine)
John Mahon – Drink up and be a Man (Seafarer Books)
Brian Lavery – Royal Tars (Conway Maritime)
Professor Andrew Lambert – Warrior (Conway Maritime)
Jean Hood – Carrier – Naval Operations (Conway Maritime)
Donald E Graves – In Peril on the Sea – The RCN and the Battle of the Atlantic (RCN Institute – Gazelle Books)
Douglas Austin – Churchill and Malta’s War (Amberley Publishing)
Quentin Rees – Cockleshell Heroes (Pen and Sword)
Hugh Boscowan – The Capture of Louisbourg (Oklahoma University Press)
Bernard Edwards – War under the Red Ensign (Pen and Sword)
Dr Norman Friedman – British Cruisers (Seaforth Publishing)
John Lane – The Martingale Chronicles (LITC Press)
Richard Woodman – History of the British Merchant Navy –Vol 5: Fiddlers Green (The History Press)
John Dempster – Rise and Fall of the Dock Labour Scheme (Biteback Publish and Robson Press)
Jo Cox, Hannah Cunliffe, Martyn Heighton, Matthew Tanner – Conserving Historic Vessels (National Historic Ships)
Norman Polmar and Michael White – Project Azorean – The CIA and the Raising of K-129 (Casemate Publishing)
Jonathan Eastland – HMS Victory –First Rate (Seaforth Publishing)
Kevin Brown – Poxed and Scurved (Seaforth Publishing)
David Hobbs – The British Pacific Fleet – The RN’s Most Powerful Strike Force (Seaforth Publishing)
Ewen Southby-Tailyour – Nothing Impossible – The Royal Marines 1664-today (Third Millennium Publishing)
Huw Lewis-Jones – Face to Face – Ocean Portraits (Conway Maritime)