2013

Maritime Media Awards 2013

Institute of Directors
Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Mountbatten Maritime Award

WINNER

Rose George – Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything (Portobello Books/Granta)

NOMINEES

Patrick Semple – Curious Cargo (Code Green Publishing)
Sam Willis – In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy in the Age of Nelson (Atlantic Books)
Lucy Wood – Diving Belles (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Luke Powell – Working Sail, A Life in Wooden Boats (The Dovecote Press)
Nils Schwerdtner – Germany Luxury Ocean Liners (Amberley Publishing)
Christopher Unsworth – The British Herring Industry (Amberley Publishing)
J Kent Layton – Edwardian Super Liners (Amberley Publishing)
Ian Collard – Mersey Ferries Through Time (Amberley Publishing)
Philip Hoare – The Sea Inside (Fourth Estate)
Robert Hutchinson – The Spanish Armada (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion)
Julian Stockwin – Betrayal (13th novel in the Captain Kydd series) (Hodder & Stoughton)
Mark Keating – Cross of Fire (a Pirate Devlin novel) (Hodder & Stoughton)
Ben Crawshaw – Catalan Castaway: A Sail-and-Oar Story (Lodestar Books)
Brian Lavery – All Hands: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy since 1939 (3rd Vol) (Conway/Anova)
Hugh Bicheno – Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs (Conway/Anova)
Philip Parker – The Great Trade Routes: A History of Cargoes and Commerce over Land and Sea (Conway/Anova)
Paul Watkins – Midget Submarine Commander: The Life of Godfrey Place VC (Pen and Sword Books)
A G F Ditcham – A Home on the Rolling Main: A Naval Memoir 1940-1946 (Seaforth Publishing)
Tom Cunliffe – Pilot Cutters Under Sail (Seaforth Publishing)
Prof Christopher Bell – Churchill and Sea Power (Oxford University Press)
Capt Peter Hore RN – Wingfield at War (Whittles Publishing)
Niall Smillie – Global Marine Trends 2030 (0427 Design)
Nic Compton – Why Sailors Can’t Swim (Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury)
Sandra Clayton – A Thousand Miles from Anywhere (Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury)
Doina Cornell – Child of the Sea (Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury)
Barry Pickthall – Eileen Ramsay (Adlard Coles/Bloomsbury)
Ben Wilson – Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy (Orion/Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Captain Peter Hore – Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in The Naval Review (Seaforth Publishing)
David Gregory – The Lion and the Eagle: Anglo-German Naval Confrontation in the Imperial Era 1815-1919 (Writersworld)
Michael Lloyd – Cruise Ship (Witherby Publishing Group)
Jonathan Coad – Support for the Fleet – Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy’s Bases 1700 – 1914 (English Heritage)
Stephen Taylor – Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain’s Greatest Frigate Captain (Faber & Faber)
Stuart Prebble – Secrets of the Conqueror: The Untold Story of Britain’s Most Famous Submarine (Faber & Faber)
Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood – The Fabled Coast: Legends and Traditions from around the Shores of Britain and Ireland (Random House Books)
Iain Ballantyne – Hunter Killers: The Dramatic Untold Story of the Royal Navy’s Most Secret Service (Orion/Weidenfeld & Nicolson)