The Mountbatten Award for Best Book

WINNER

David Mearns – The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Deep-Sea Discoveries (Allen & Unwin)

NOMINEES

Doaa Abdel-Motaal – Antarctica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent (Praeger)
Tami Oldham Ashcraft – Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (William Collins)
Naomi Austin – The Call of the Sea: A Visual Timeline of Sunderland's Shipbuilding History Through to the Tall Ships Race of 2018 (Consilience Media)
Iain Ballantyne – The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Mike Bender – A New History of Yachting (Boydell Press)
Sally Berridge – The Epic Voyages of Maud Berridge: The Seafaring Diaries of a Victorian Lady (Adlard Coles Nautical)
Kathy Brogan, Russ Bagley, John Barker – If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere, How Did We End Up Here? (Shivering Sheep)
Steven Price Brown – Riddle of the Waves (Adlard Coles)
Steve Bush – The Fotoflite Files, Volume 1: Royal Navy Warships (NavyBooks)
Horatio Clare – Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North (Chatto & Windus)
Nic Compton – Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea (Adlard Coles)
Caspar Craven – Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World (Adlard Coles)
Kaci Cronkhite – Finding Pax: One Woman's Journey for the Love of her Wooden Boat (Adlard Coles)
Anthony Cumming – In Action with Destroyers 1939–1945: The Wartime Memoirs of Commander J A J Dennis DSC RN (Pen & Sword Maritime)
J. David Davies – Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy (Seaforth Publishing)
Steve Dunn – Bayly's War: The Battle for the Western Approaches in the First World War (Seaforth Publishing)
Bernard Edwards – Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945 (Pen & Sword Maritime)
Barry Gough – Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty (Seaforth Publishing)
Dik Gregory and Paul Shanahan – Being Human in Safety-Critical Organisations: How People Create Safety, What Stops Them and What to Do About It (TSO)
David Hobbs – The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War (Seaforth Publishing)
Gillian Hutchinson – Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found (Adlard Coles)
Sam Jefferson – The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail (Osprey Publishing)
Sarah Kinkel – Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy (Harvard University Press)
Rod Macdonald – Dive Scapa Flow (Whittles Publishing)
Martin Mace – The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers’ Accounts of British Warships in Action During Operation Dynamo (Frontline Books)
John McWilliams – British Motor Fishing Vessels (Amberley Publishing)
Jonathan North – Nelson at Naples: Revolution and Retribution in 1799 (Amberley Publishing)
Nicholas Rankin – Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler (Faber & Faber)
Samuel Robinson – Ocean Science and the British Cold War State (Palgrave Macmillan)
Rachel Slade – Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (Ecco Press)
Robert C Stern – The Battleship Holiday: The Naval Treaties and Capital Ship Design (Seaforth Publishing)
Eric Thompson – On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service (Casemate Publishers)
Adam Weymouth – Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey (Particular Books)
Rif Winfield and Stephen S Roberts – French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786 (Seaforth Publishing)