
The price depends on the size of the book: As a basic rule of thumb (exceptions are possible) I charge $15 for books up to 200 pages, $20 for books with 200-400 pages, $25 for books with 400-500 pages and max. You would like to have high resolution digital images of one of the cruise books listed here? A few of the books are already available as download.

You have a cruise book that is not listed here and you like to contribute it? Here are your options. My own books are not for sale and I'm not able to help you locating old Cruise Books. In these cases, the name of the contributor is mentioned on the cruise book's index page. A few books, however, have been donated to me by visitors of the website. The cruise books displayed here are part of my own collection. It is estimated that by now, almost 10,000 different US Navy cruise books have been published and the number of collectors is constantly increasing A major difference compared to today's cruise books is that the early log books, as they were called, covered a period of up to two years which was the common period for a standard deployment at that time. This tradition dates back to the late 1800s, when the crews began documenting events of their cruises. Creating those books is an old tradition in the US Navy.

Several commands only order copies for about 2/3 of the crew as a rule of thumb. The number of copies of a cruise book is very limited. US Navy Cruise Books are unofficial publications published by a ship's crew to document a cruise or deployment. 1932 Cruise Books and 28 (De)Commissioning Programs available. US Navy Cruise Books - The largest online collection of freely accessible US Navy Cruise Books.
