company bloomsbury publishing plc founded 1947 founder k adlard coles country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london key people janet murphy director nonfiction topics nautical books imprints thomas reed reeds nautical almanacs conway official website adlard coles nautical adlard coles nautical is the largest nautical publisher in the world 1 with over 300 books in print and publishing 60 new titles every year . 2 the company publishes books on topics of interest to sailors and motorboaters and also landlubbers with an interest in the sea . their list includes almanacs cruising guides pilot books and how to instruction books as well as large format photographic books sailing narratives and sea related reference maritime history humour and trivia books . 3 today adlard coles nautical is part of bloomsbury publishing . contents 1 history 2 notable authors 3 external links 4 references history edit championship yachtsman kaines adlard coles founded his own nautical publishing company in 1947 . he wrote many of the books including pilots sailing narratives and the classic heavy weather sailing which is still published by the company in an updated form to this day . 4 a & c black publishers which had bought nautical books in 1987 acquired the adlard coles company in 1990 and merged the two companies into the adlard coles nautical imprint . 2 in 2000 a & c black was bought by bloomsbury publishing plc and in 2003 the company acquired the reeds nautical almanac . 5 in september 2014 bloomsbury bought conway publishing and the maritime and military history list now complements the adlard coles nautical imprint . 6 notable authors edit maurice and maralyn bailey frank bethwaite dee caffari robert erskine childers jimmy cornell tom cunliffe frank dye paul elvstrom maurice griffiths paul heiney halsey herreshoff sir robin knox johnston tristan jones sam llewellyn czes aw marchaj bernard moitessier crispin money coutts 9th baron latymer hugo montgomery swan mike peyton libby purves jill dickin schinas joshua slocum richard woodman external links edit official website reeds nautical almanac official website adlard coles nautical blog adlard coles nautical twitter feed adlard coles nautical on facebook adlard coles nautical on pinterest references edit yachting and boating world a b sailing networks noonsite hanse schiffstechnik international uk archived april 25 2012 at the wayback machine . reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk http www.thebookseller.com news bloomsbury buys pavilions conway imprint retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adlard coles nautical & oldid 742544855 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 19471947 establishments in the united kingdomhidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 09 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view