Sea Chest - Maritime Memorabilia of All Types

Sea Chest brings you the bounty of the Seven Seas in all forms. Relics of the culture, history of the old sailing ships, music, movies and much more.
Check out Great Sea Songs for a list of sailing related songs with YouTube links. Great Sailing stories is a list the greatest stories of the sea ever written. Same for Great Sailing Movies.
Maritime Interests is a list of merchants selling every kind of seagoing memorabilia, from models to maps to treasure and much, much more!

Favorite Sailing Songs & Music

Thank you to the Marlinspike Magazine FB members. Songs with * are from the Lesser Antilles collection, put together by Tom Corcoran, friend of Jimmy Buffet, as a cassette of saililng songs for sailors to enjoy.

A Boat like Gideon Brown by Great Big Sea
All Along the Lee Shore by David Crosby
Ambrose by Bob Wrights
All At Sea by Jamie Cullum
Anchoring Dance Eileen Quinn
A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
A Tune for November by Gordon Bok
Back to the Beginning Again by Switchfoot
Back to the Island by eon Russell
Ballad of the Greenland Whalers by Chad Mitchell Trio
Banana Republics by Steve Goodman
Banks of Newfoundland by Lloyd and McColl
Banks of the Sacramento by Foc'sle Singers & Paul Clayton
Barbados by Jesse Colin Young
Barretts Privateers by Stan Rogers
Bermuda Triangle by Fleetwood Mac
Black Ball Line by The X-Seaman's Institute
Blood and Thunder by Mastodon
Blow by Saldaje
Bone in her Teeth by Darrel Winslow
Bonnie Ship the Diamond by Carl Peterson
Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
Bound for South Australia by The Kilkenny's
Bottom of the World by Terry Allen
Brandy by Looking Glass
Cape Cod Girls by Baby Gramps
Captain Jim's Drunken Dream by James Taylor
Carolina Caroline by Jonatan Edwards
Chicken on the Raft by The Young Tradition
Clear away in the Morning by Gordon Bok
Cool Change by Little River Band
Donkey Riding by Great Big Sea
Down by the Seaside by Zeppelin
The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel
Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot
Elephant Island by Pilotdrift
Everybody's Talkin' by Fred Neil
False Echose by Jimmy Buffett
Farewell and Adieu to you Spanish Ladies by Pirates for Sail
Fidler's Green by Marley's Ghost
Fisherman's Wharf by Stan Rogers
Flowers of Bermuda by Stan Rogers
Ghosts of Cape Horn by Gordon Lightfoot
Go to Sea no More by Straight Furrow
Golden Vanity by Peter Paul and Mary
Good Ship Venus by Loudon Wainwright III
Haul Away by Mark Knopfler
Haul Away Joe by The Clancy Brothers
Heave Away by The Fables
Hey Papa by Terence Boylan
Hoist the Rag by Tom Waits
Home Dearie Home by Geoff Kaufmann
Homeward Bound by U.S. Navy Band and Sea Chanters Chorus
If I Had a Boat by Lyle Lovett
I'm Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphy
I'm Your Captain by Grand Funk
Into the Mystic by Van Morrison
Into the Mystic by Allman Brothers
I will go to Sea No More by Randy Newman
Keep on Sailing by Ian Matthews
La Isla Bonita by Madonna
Leaky Little Boat by Roger Clyne
Leave Her Johnny Leave Her by Stan Rogers
Let the Bullgine Run by Alan Mills and the Four Shipmates
Lighthouse by James Taylor
Lost by William Pint and Felicia Dale
Lost Sailor by Grateful Dead
Lukey by Great Big Sea
Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers
Mingulay Boat Song by Richard Thompson
Mountain by Nantucket Sleighride
Mountains to the Sea by Dan Vogelberg
Mutinous by Pay the Devil
Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers
Nothing but a Breeze by Jesse Winchester
Old Maui by Dreadnaughts
One Particular Harbor by Jimmy Buffet
On and On by Stephen Bishop
Peking by Tom Lewis
Peter Street by Irish Descendants
Philadelphia by Mark Knopfler with James Taylor
Pirates by Emerson Lake and Palme
Popeye the Sailor Man by Cartoon Theme
Privateering by Mark Knopfler
Privateers by ?
Pump Chantey by William Pint and Felicia Dale
Pure Shores by All Saints
Ride Captain Ride by Blues Image
Roll the Woodpile Down by Dreadnaughts
Rolling Down to Rio by Tom Lewis
Rolling Home by Peter, Paul and Mary
Roll Me Back to the Sea by Larry Read
Sail Away by Styx
Sailing by Christopher Cross
Sailing in the Wind by Loggins and Mesinna
Sail on Sailor by Beach Boys
Sailor's Life by Fairport Convention
Salty Dog by Procul Harum
Santy Anno by ?
Sea Fever by William Topley
Ship of Fools by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Shiver Me Timbers by Tom Waits
Sholes O' Herrin' by Corrie Folk Trio
Single-Handed Sailor by Dire Straits
Six Months in a Leaky Boat by Split Enz
Skye Boat Song by Bear McCreary
Sky Hooks and Tartan Paint by Sting and Brian Johnson
Sloop John B by Beach Boys
Smooth Sailing by Leon Bridges
Song for our Ancestors by Steve Miller Band
Son of a Son of a Sailor by Jimmy Buffet
Southern Cross by CSN
Strike the Bell by The X-Seaman's Institute
The Captain and the Kid by Jimmy Buffett (Soren Larsen)
The Balland of the Greenland Whalers by Chad Mitchell Trio
The Great Silky of Sule Skerry by Steeleye Span
The Hispaniola/Silver and Loyals March by Chieftans
The Last Farewell by Roger Whittaker
The Lee Shore by David Crosby
The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers
The Minstrel by Dan Vogelberg
The Shores of Botany Bay by Makem & Clancy
The Soul Cages by Sting
The Whaler's Dues by Jethro Tull
The Wild, Wild Sea by Sting
Touch by John Klemmer
Unmooring by Hughie Jones
Vahevala by Loggins and Messina
Valparaiso by Sting
Voila, an American Dream by Rodney Crowell
What Shall We do with the Drunken Sailor by Irish Rovers
When the Ship Comes In by Dylan
Where Does an Old-time River Man Go? by John Hartford
White Squall by Stan Rogers
Wooden Ships by CSNY
Wreck of the Hesperus by Procul Harum
Yo Ho a Pirates Life for Me by Toucan Pirates
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum by Craig Toungate

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Great Books about Square-riggers, Sailing and the Sea.

Check out these dedicated websites with great lists for new reads!

Good Reads - Great Sea Sailing Stories, Fiction

History and Headlines - 10 Great Sea Stories

Amazon Best Selling Sea Stories

Carsten Jensen's Top 10 Seafaring Tales

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Great Sea and Sailing Movies

Movies that capture life under sail and all manner of other related adventures.
Favorite Sea-going films of the history and romance of sea life and adventure.
Check out these websites!
Aleria's Adventures - Blue Water Cruising
IMBD - Sea Movies
IMBD - Sea Movies
IMBD - Sea Movies
List Challenges - 50 Best Sea Adventure Movies
Halcyon Yacht's Top 15 Sailing Films
Classic Boat - Top 10 Sailing Movies