John Lyman Book Awards
The John Lyman Book Awards are given annually by the North American Society for Oceanic History to recognise excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history. They are named after Professor John Lyman of the University of North Carolina.
The awards are presented in six categories:
- Canadian naval and maritime history
- U.S. naval history
- U.S. maritime history
- History of maritime science and technology
- Maritime biography and autobiography.
- Maritime reference works and published primary sources,
| Year of Publication | Author | Book |
| 2019 | John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon | Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum |
| 2018 | Michael Palin | Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time |
| 2017 | Jeffers Lennox | Homelands and Empire: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeast North America, 1690-1763 |
| 2016 | Joel Zemel | Scapegoat, The Extraordinary Legal Proceedings Following the 1917 Halifax Explosion |
| 2015 | Glen M. Stein | Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition |
| 2014 | Gordon W. Smith | A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939 |
| 2014 Honorable Mention | Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum & Earl Wiseman | Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013 |
| 2013 | John English | Ice and Water: Politics, Peoples, and the Arctic Council |
| 2012 | Nicholas Tracy | A Two-Edged Sword: The Navy As an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy |
| 2012 Honorable Mention | Barry Gough | Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams |
| 2011 | James S. Pritchard | A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding During the Second World War |
| 2009 | Aaron Plamondon | The Politics of Procurement: Military Acquisitions in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter |
| 2008 | Robert Malcomson | Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813. |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Freeman M. Tovell | At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. |
| 2007 | Barry Gough | Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America |
| 2006 | Jennifer M. Hubbard | A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 |
| 2006 Honorable mention | Barry Gough | Through Water, Ice and Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 |
| 2005 | Stuart E. Jenness | The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916. |
| 2005 Honorable mention | Jonathan R. Dull | The French Navy and the Seven Years' War |
| 2004 | Peter E. Pope | Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century |
| 2004 Honorable mention | Fraser M. McKee | "Sink all the shipping there": The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners |
| 2003 | Julian Gywn | Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815 |
| 2002 | John Griffith Armstrong | The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy |
| 2001 | Robert Malcomson | Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834 |
| 2000 | Arnold Hague | Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 |
| 1999 | James P. Delgado | Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage |
| 1998 | Robert Malcomson | Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814 |
| 1997 | Peter E. Pope | The Many Landfalls of John Cabot |
| 1996 | Edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, Fred W. Crickard | A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity |
| 1995 | James Pritchard | Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2019 | Benjamin Armstrong | Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy. |
| 2019 Honorable Mention | Ryan D. Wadle | Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 |
| 2018 | Ungentle Goodnights: Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There.= | |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Scott Mobley | Progressive in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898 |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | William N. Still, Jr. | Victory Without Peace: The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924 |
| 2017 | Gary J. Ohls | American Amphibious Warfare: The Roots of Tradition to 1865 |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | Donald M. Kehn, Jr. | In the Highest Degree Tragic: The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II |
| 2016 | Paul E. Pedisich | Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881-1921 |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | Lisle A. Rose | Seas, Skies, and Submarines: America's Sailors in the Great War |
| 2015 | John Darrell Sherwood | War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965-1968 . |
| 2014 | David J. Bercuson and Holger Herwig | Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil |
| 2014 Honorable mention | Kevin J. Crisman | Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812 |
| 2013 | Thomas Wildenberg | Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power . |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Matthew Taylor Raffety | The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America |
| 2012 | David Rigby | Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II |
| 2012 Honorable mention | Robert Shenk | America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923 |
| 2011 Honorable mention | Spencer C. Tucker | The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia |
| 2010 | Albert A. Nofi | To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 |
| 2009 | William R. Braisted | Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922-1933 |
| 2008 | Craig L. Symonds | Lincoln and His Admirals. |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Howard J. Fuller | Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. |
| 2008 Honorable mention | John T. Kuehn | Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese. |
| 2007 | Lisle A. Rose | Power at Sea: vol. 1. The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918; vol. 2. The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945; vol. 3. A Violent Peace, 1946-2006 |
| 2006 | William N. Still, Jr. | Crisis at Sea: The U.S. Navy in European Waters in World War I |
| 2006 Honorable mention | James D. Hornfischer | Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors |
| 2005 | Jonathan Parshall Anthony Tully | Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. |
| 2005 Honorable mention | Craig L. Symonds | Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History |
| 2004 | Michael J. Bennett | Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War |
| 2004 Honorable mention | R. Blake Dunnavent | Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of Tactical Doctrine, 1775-1970. |
| 2004 Honorable mention | John Darrell Sherwood | Afterburner: Naval Aviation and the Vietnam War |
| 2003 | Jack Friend | West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay |
| 2002 | Mitchell B. Lerner | The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy |
| 2001 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II |
| 2000 | William Henry Flayhart III | The American Line, 1871-1902 |
| 1998 | Jack Sweetman, ed. | Great American Naval Battles |
| 1997 | David Curtis Skaggs Gerard T. Altoff | A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 |
| 1996 | Malcolm Muir | Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy. 1945 1975 |
| 1995 | Jeffery G. Barlow | Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 |
| 1995 | Charles Dana Gibson E. Kay Gibson | Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, 1861 1866 and Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861 1868 |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 2019 | Nancy Shoemaker | Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: American in Nineteenth-Century Fiji. |
| 2019 Honorable Mention | James M. Lindgren | Preserving Maritime America: A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums. |
| 2018 | Matthew R. Bahar | Storm of the Sea: Indians & Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail. |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Matthew McKenzie | Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966. |
| 2017 | S. Max Edelson | The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | William M. Fowler, Jr. | Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | Robert P. Watson | The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution |
| 2016 | Donald Grady Shomette | Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast, 1775-1783 |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | Lee Van Der Voo | The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate. |
| 2015 | Faye M. Kert | Privateering: Patriots & Profits in the War of 1812 |
| 2015 Honorable mention | Mark G. Hanna | Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire,1570-1740 |
| 2015 Honorable mention | Joshua L. Reid | The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs |
| 2014 | Brian Rouleau | With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire |
| 2014 Honorable mention | Catherine Cangany | Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt |
| 2014 Honorable mention | Dane A. Morrison | True Yankees: The South Seas & The Discovery of American Identity |
| 2013 | David Igler | The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Jennifer Schell | A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Denver Brunsman | The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic |