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:
| Year of Publication | Author | Book |
| 1995 | James Pritchard | Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 1996 | Edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, Fred W. Crickard |
A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity (McGill Queen's University Press) |
| 1997 | Peter E. Pope | The Many Landfalls of John Cabot (University of Toronto Press) |
| 1998 | Robert Malcomson | Lords of the Lake: The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814 (Robin Brass Studio) |
| 1999 | James P. Delgado | Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Checkmark Books) |
| 2000 | Arnold Hague | Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 (Vanwell Publishing Ltd. In Canada; Chatham Publishing in Great Britain; Naval Institute Press in the U.S.) |
| 2001 | Robert Malcomson | Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834 (UK: Chatham Publishing/US: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2002 | John Griffith Armstrong | The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy (University of British Columbia Press) |
| 2003 | Julian Gywn | Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters, 1745-1815 (University of British Columbia) |
| 2004 | Peter E. Pope | Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2004 Honorable mention | Fraser M. McKee | "Sink all the shipping there": The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners (Vanwell Publishing) |
| 2005 | Stuart E. Jenness | The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916. (McGill-Queen's University) |
| 2005 Honorable mention | Jonathan R. Dull | The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (University of Nebraska Press) |
| 2006 | Jennifer M. Hubbard | A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939 (University of Toronto Press) |
| 2006 Honorable mention | Barry Gough | Through Water, Ice and Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 (Dundurn Press) |
| 2007 | Barry Gough | Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing Co., Ltd.) |
| 2008 | Robert Malcomson | Capital in Flames: The American Attack on York, 1813. (Montreal: Robin Brass Studio; Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Freeman M. Tovell | At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. (Vancouver: University British Columbia Press) |
| 2009 | Aaron Plamondon | The Politics of Procurement: Military Acquisitions in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter |
| 2011 | James S. Pritchard | A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding During the Second World War |
| 2012 | Nicholas Tracy | A Two-Edged Sword: The Navy As an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy (Carleton Library) |
| 2012 Honorable Mention | Barry Gough | Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams |
| 2013 | John English | Ice and Water: Politics, Peoples, and the Arctic Council (Allen Lane) |
| 2014 | Gordon W. Smith (P. Whitney Lackenbauer, ed.) | 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 |
| 2015 | Glen M. Stein | Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition (McFarland & Company) |
| 2016 | Joel Zemel | Scapegoat, The Extraordinary Legal Proceedings Following the 1917 Halifax Explosion (New World Publishing) |
| 2017 | Jeffers Lennox | Homelands and Empire: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeast North America, 1690-1763 (University of Toronto Press) |
| 2018 | Michael Palin | Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time (Random House Canada) |
| 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 (Harbour Publishing) |
| 2021 | Barry Gough | Possessing Meares Island: A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound (Harbour Publishing) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 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 (Ensign Press) |
| 1995 | Jeffery G. Barlow | Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1996 | Malcolm Muir | Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy. 1945 1975 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1997 | David Curtis Skaggs Gerard T. Altoff |
A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1998 | Jack Sweetman, ed. | Great American Naval Battles (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | William Henry Flayhart III | The American Line, 1871-1902 (W.W. Norton & Co.) |
| 2001 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2002 | Mitchell B. Lerner | The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas) |
| 2003 | Jack Friend | West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2004 | Michael J. Bennett | Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2004 Honorable mention | R. Blake Dunnavent | Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of Tactical Doctrine, 1775-1970. (University Press of Florida) |
| 2004 Honorable mention | John Darrell Sherwood | Afterburner: Naval Aviation and the Vietnam War (New York University Press) |
| 2005 | Jonathan Parshall Anthony Tully |
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. (Potomac) |
| 2005 Honorable mention | Craig L. Symonds | Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (Oxford University Press) |
| 2006 | William N. Still, Jr. | Crisis at Sea: The U.S. Navy in European Waters in World War I (University Press of Florida) |
| 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 (Bantam Books) |
| 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 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press) |
| 2008 | Craig L. Symonds | Lincoln and His Admirals. (New York: Oxford University Press) |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Howard J. Fuller | Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International) |
| 2008 Honorable mention | John T. Kuehn | Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese. (Annapolis, Mary.: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2009 | William R. Braisted | Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922-1933 (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology) |
| 2010 | Albert A. Nofi | To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 |
| 2011 Honorable mention | Spencer C. Tucker (ed.) | The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia |
| 2012 | David Rigby | Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2012 Honorable mention | Robert Shenk | America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923 (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2013 | Thomas Wildenberg | Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry over Air Power (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2014). |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Matthew Taylor Raffety | The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America (University of Chicago Press) |
| 2014 | David J. Bercuson and Holger Herwig | Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil |
| 2014 Honorable mention | Kevin J. Crisman (ed.) | Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812 |
| 2015 | John Darrell Sherwood | War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965-1968 (Naval History & Heritage Command). |
| 2016 | Paul E. Pedisich | Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881-1921 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | Lisle A. Rose | Seas, Skies, and Submarines: America's Sailors in the Great War (University of Missouri Press) |
| 2017 | Gary J. Ohls | American Amphibious Warfare: The Roots of Tradition to 1865 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press) |
| 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 (University of Nebraska Press) |
| 2018 | Christopher McKee | Ungentle Goodnights: Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press).= |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Scott Mobley | Progressive in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | William N. Still, Jr. | Victory Without Peace: The United States Navy in European Waters, 1919-1924 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press) |
| 2019 | Benjamin Armstrong | Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy (University of Oklahoma Press). |
| 2019 Honorable Mention | Ryan D. Wadle | Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 (University of Oklahoma Press) |
| 2020 | Thomas Heinrich | Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Navy Ship-building, 1922-1945 (Naval Institute Press). |
| 2020 Honorable Mention | John B. Hattendorf & William P. Leeman (eds.) | Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy (Naval Institute Press). |
| 2021 | Michael Bonner & Peter McCord | The Union Blockade in the American Civil War, A Reassessment (University of Tennessee Press). |
| 2021 Honorable Mention | Claude Berube | On Wide Seas: The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era (University of Alabama Press). |
| 2021 Honorable Mention | Edward J. Marolda | Admirals Under Fire: The US Navy and the Vietnam War (Texas Tech University Press). |
| 2022 | Thomas Sheppard | Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2022 Honorable Mention | Trent Hone | Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2022 Honorable Mention | Michael A. Verney | A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 1995 | William C. Fleetwood, Jr. | Tidecraft: The Boats of South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida, 1550 1950 (WBG Marine Press) |
| 1996 | Wayne M. O'Leary | Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830 1890 (Northeastern University Press) |
| 1997 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Harvard University Press) |
| 1998 | Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jr., John Hattendorf, Jeffrey J. Safford, Edward W. Sloan, and Andrew German |
America and the Sea: A Maritime History (Mystic Seaport Museum) |
| 1999 | Charles R. Schultz | Forty-Niners 'Round the Horn (University of South Carolina Press) |
| 1999 Honorable mention | Alexander Boyd Hawes | Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island (Posterity Press) |
| 2000 | Lisa Norling | Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2000 Honorable mention | Ralph Linwood Snow Douglas K. Lee |
A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
| 2001 | Nicholas Dean | Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship (Tilbury House, Publishers and Maine Maritime Museum) |
| 2002 | Wade G. Dudley | Splintering the Wooden Wall (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2003 | ALex R. Larzelere | The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2004 | Paul A. Gilje | Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. (University of Pennsylvania Press) |
| 2004 Honorable mention | James A. McMillan | The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (University of South Carolina Press) |
| 2005 | Peter L. Bernstein | Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, (W. W. Norton & Co.) |
| 2005 Honorable mention | Edwin L. Dunbaugh | New England Steamship Company: Long Island Sound Night Boats in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Florida) |
| 2006 | Joshua M. Smith | Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (University Press of Florida) |
| 2006 Honorable mention | Eric Robert Taylor | If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Louisiana State University Press) |
| 2007 | Eric Jay Dolin | Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (New York: W.W. Norton and Company) |
| 2007 | Donald G. Shomette | Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2008 | William E. Lass | Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935. (Norman, Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Co.) |
| 2008 | Frances F. Dunwell | The Hudson: America's River. (New York: Columbia University Press) |
| 2009 | John R. Bockstoce | Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade |
| 2010 | William S. Dudley | Maritime Maryland: A History |
| 2011 | William Michael Morgan | Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawai'i, 1885-1898 (ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy) |
| 2012 | W. Jeffrey Bolster | The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail |
| 2012 Honorable Mention | James P. Delgado | Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns and Pearls |
| 2013 | David Igler | The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Jennifer Schell | A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen (University of Massachusetts Press) |
| 2013 Honorable mention | Denver Brunsman | The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic {University of Virginia Press) |
| 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 |
| 2015 | Faye M. Kert | Privateering: Patriots & Profits in the War of 1812 (The Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2015 Honorable mention | Mark G. Hanna | Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire,1570-1740 (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2015 Honorable mention | Joshua L. Reid | The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale University Press) |
| 2016 | Donald Grady Shomette | Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast, 1775-1783 (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.) |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | Lee Van Der Voo | The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate (St. Martin's Press). |
| 2017 | S. Max Edelson | The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence (Harvard University Press) |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | William M. Fowler, Jr. | Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | Robert P. Watson | The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution (Da Capo Press) |
| 2018 | Matthew R. Bahar | Storm of the Sea: Indians & Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail (Oxford: Oxford University Press). |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Matthew McKenzie | Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966 (University of Massachusetts Press). |
| 2019 | Nancy Shoemaker | Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: American in Nineteenth-Century Fiji (Cornell University Press). |
| 2019 Honorable Mention | James M. Lindgren | Preserving Maritime America: A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums (University of Massachusetts Press). |
| 2020 | Jamin Wells | Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach (University of North Carolina Press). |
| 2020 Honorable Mention | Colin J. Davis | Contested and Dangerous Seas: North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion (University of Massachusetts Press). |
| 2021 | Hannah Farber | Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press). |
| 2021 Honorable Mention | Timothy D. Walker (ed.) | Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railway (University of Massachusetts Press). |
| 2022 | Gregg Andrews | Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis 1875-1930 (Louisiana State University Press). |
| 2022 Honorable Mention | Jane Hooper | Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786-1860 (Ohio University Press). |
| 2022 Honorable Mention | Joshua M. Smith | Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812 (University of Massachusetts Press). |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 1996 | Robert Schneller | A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1997 | Catherine Petroski | A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail (Northeastern University Press) |
| 1998 | W. Gillies Ross | This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58 (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 1999 | Craig Symonds | Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | Spencer Tucker | Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2001 | John H. Schroeder | Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2003 | Thomas Wildenberg | All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower (Brassey's) |
| 2004 | Kathleen Broome Williams | Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2005 | Clark G. Reynolds | On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers, (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2006 | Mary Malloy | Devil on the Deep Blue Sea: The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston (Bullbrier Press) |
| 2006 | David Curtis Skaggs | Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2006 Honorable mention | John H. Schroeder | Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy (University Press of Florida) |
| 2007 | Stephen Fox | Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama (New York: Alfred Knopf) |
| 2008 | David Hackett Fischer | Champlain's Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada. (New York: Simon and Schuster) |
| 2011 | Elliot Carlson | Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway |
| 2012 Honorable Mention | Larry Berman | Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell “Bud” Zumwalt, Jr. |
| 2013 Honorable Mention | Geoffrey L. Rossano (ed.) | Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace |
| 2014 | Lloyd J. Matthews | General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander |
| 2015 | Dennis L. Noble | The Sailor’s Homer: The Life and Times of Richard McKenna, Author of The Sand Pebbles (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2016 | Tamara Plakins Thornton | Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2017 | Sheila Johnson Kindred | Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen (McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 2017 Honorable mention | Stan Grayson | A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World (Tilbury House Publishers/New Bedford Whaling Museum) |
| 2019 | Anthony J. Connors | Went to the Devil: A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade (University of Massachusetts Press) |
| 2019 Honorable mention | Phillips Payson O’Brien | The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff (Dutton) |
| 2020 | Brett Goodin | From Captives to Consuls: Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making Across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2021 | Paul Stillwell | Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. (Naval Institute Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 1995 | Harold D. Langley | History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 1997 | Thomas R. Heinrich | Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2001 | Gary E. Weir | An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment (Texas A&M University Press) |
| 2002 | Steven J. Dick | Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2002 | William H. Roberts | Civil War Ironclads (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2004 Honorable mention | Marc Levinson | The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press) |
| 2005 | Helen M. Rozwadowski | Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, (Belknap/Harvard University Press) |
| 2006 | Anthony Newpower | Iron Men and Tin Fish: Race to Build a Better Torpedo during World War II (Praeger) |
| 2007 | Larrie D. Ferreiro | Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press) |
| 2008 | Gary Kroll | America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas) |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Russell A. Potter | Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875. (Seattle: University of Washington Press) |
| 2009 | Eric L. Mills | The Fluid Envelope of our Planet: How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science |
| 2010 | Susan Casey | The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean |
| 2011 | Stephen J. Hornsby | Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune (Carleton Library) |
| 2012 | Lissa K. Wadewitz | The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea |
| 2013 | Kurkpatrick Dorsey | Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Norman Friedman | Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology |
| 2014 Honorable mention | John Maxtone-Graham | SS United States: Red, White, & Blue Riband |
| 2014 Honorable mention | Michael A. Osborne | The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France |
| 2015 | Wendy van Duivenvoorde | Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships (Texas A&M University Press) |
| 2016 | Jennifer Hubbard, David J. Wildish, & Robert L. Stephenson |
A Century of Maritime Science: The St. Andrews Biological Station (University of Toronto Press) |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | William Barr, tr. & ed. | Emil Bessels’ Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition 1871-1873 (University of Calgary Press) |
| 2017 | Charles W. J. Withers | Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridien (Harvard University Press) |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | Peter Wadhams | A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic (Oxford University Press) |
| 2018 | Jason W. Smith | To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Roger C. Smith (ed.) | Florida's Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck (University Press of Florida) |
| 2019 | Margaret E. Schotte | Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1500-1800 (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
| 2019 Honorable Mention | Richard J. King | Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” (University of Chicago Press) |
| 2020 | Larrie Ferreiro | Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800-2000 (The MIT Press) |
| 2021 | Norman Polmar & Lee J. Mathers | Opening the Great Depths : The Bathyscaph Trieste and Pioneers of Undersea Exploration (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2022 | Graham Bell | Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea (Oxford University Press) |
| Year | Author | Book |
| 1995 | Craig L. Symonds | The Naval Institute's Historical Atlas of U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1996 | Michael J. Crawford, Editor |
The Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. 10 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 1997 | Briton C. Busch Barry M. Gough, Editor |
Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men in the North Pacific, 1787-1800 (The Arthur H. Clark Company) |
| 1998 | Robert Randolph Carter Harold B. Gill, Jr. Joanne Young |
Searching for the Franklin Expedition: The Arctic Journal of Robert Randolph Carter, (Naval Institute Press) |
| 1999 | Robert J. Cressman | The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2000 | David Freeman | Canadian Warship Names (Vanwell Publishing Ltd.) |
| 2002 | Michael J. Crawford, Editor |
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. 3 (Naval Historical Center) |
| 2003 | C. Herbert Gilliland | Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846 (Naval Institute Press) |
| 2004 | W.H. Bunting | Sea Struck (Martha's Vineyard Historical Society) |
| 2006 | Ralph Sessions | The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press) |
| 2006 Honorable mention | C. Danial Elliott, Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Richard Ring |
Maritime History: A Hand-list of the Collection in the John Carter Brown Library (1474 to ca.1860) (The John Carter Brown Library) |
| 2007 | John B. Hattendorf, Editor in Chief |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (New York: Oxford University Press) |
| 2007 Honorable mention | Deidre Simmons | Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press) |
| 2008 | George J. Billy, Christine M. Billy |
Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) |
| 2008 Honorable mention | Robert Eric Barde | Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger) |
| 2009 | Yonah Alexander | Terror on the High Seas: From Piracy to Strategic Challenge |
| 2011 | Gordon Miller | Voyages: To the New World and Beyond |
| 2012 | Jonathan C. Kinghorn | The Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931: A History With Details on All Ships |
| 2012 Honorable mention | John D. Broadwater | USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes its Final Voyage |
| 2013 Honorable mention | John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough, eds. |
With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013) |
| 2014 | Nancy Shoemaker (ed.) | Living With Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History |
| 2015 | Mark L. Evans Roy A. Grossnick |
United States Naval Aviation 1910-2010 (Naval History & Heritage Command) |
| 2016 | Rebecca Huycke Ellison | Daniel O.Killman’s Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail & Steam (McFarland Publishing) |
| 2016 Honorable Mention | Jun Kimura | Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding (University Press of Florida) |
| 2017 Honorable Mention | Alicia Caporaso (ed.) | Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes (Society for Historical Archaeology/Springer Publishing Company) |
| 2018 Honorable Mention | Anna Gibson Holloway Jonathan W. White |
"Our Little Monitor": The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Kent State University Press) |
| 2019 | Ken W. Sayers | U.S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels: A History and Directory from World War I to Today (McFarland Publishing) |
| 2021 | William N. Still & Richard A. Stephenson | Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918 (North Carolina Office of Archives & History) |
| 2022 | Robert G. Allan, with Peter A. Robson | Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story (Harbour Publishing) |