North American Maritime History
● Winner: Bouchard, Jack. Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World. Yale University Press, 2025.
● Honorable mention: Takakjian, Eric, and Randall Peffer. Yarmouth Castle Burning: The Deadliest Passenger Ship Disaster off the Coast of the United States Since 1934. Schiffer, 2025.
World Maritime History
● Winner: Schmitt, Casey. The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Nautical and Maritime Archaeology
● Winner: Jones, Jennifer E., Della A. Scott-Ireton, and Jason T. Raupp, eds. Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: Terminology, Theory, and Infrastructure. University Press of Florida, 2025.
● Honorable mention: Jones, Jennifer E., Calvin H. Mires, and Daniel Zwick, eds. Intertidal Shipwrecks: Management of a Historic Resource in an Unmanageable Environment. University Press of Florida, 2025.
North American Naval History
● Winner: Jamison, Thomas M. The Pacific’s New Navies: An Ocean, its Wars, and the Making of US Sea Power. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
● Honorable mention: Schaffer, Benjamin C. The First Fleets: Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775. University of Alabama Press, 2025.
World Naval History
● Winner: Easton, Callum. The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
● Honorable mention: Wilson, Evan, and Paul M. Kennedy, eds. Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition. Naval Institute Press, 2025.
Maritime Reference
● Winner: Gimblett, Richard H., and Karl Gagnon. Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910–2025. Dundurn Press, 2025.
● Honorable mention: Sagnières, Hubert. For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic Lands 1818-1876. Flammarion, 2025.
Biography/Autobiography
● Symonds, Craig L. Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and Its Trial by Fire in World War II. Oxford University Press, 2025.