Ships and boats: general interest

In 1977, the remote British island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, host to Napoleon and Captain Bligh, and Boer War prisoner-of-war camp, was first served by a lifeline motorship dedicated to the purpose.

Selten gelingt es, das Thema eines Fachbuches so darzustellen, dass es nicht nur einem Berufsstand und dessen Nachwuchs zu grundlegendem Wissen und guter Ausbildung verhilft, sondern daneben auch dem interessierten Laien verständlich ist.

From the 1890s, the German shipping lines had begun to build the fastest and most luxurious liners.

For generations of Londoners, a trip to the seaside aboard a pleasure steamer such as the Royal Eagle, Golden Eagle or Royal Daffodil was the highlight of the year and these 'Poor Man's Liners' were part of childhood and family life for huge numbers of people.

A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II.

On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage.

"e;The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims - And Its Place in Life Today"e; is a 1911 account of the events and forces that prompted the famed landing in Plymouth of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.

Cornwall's rich waters have always provided a bountiful harvest for its fisherman.

During the War of 1812, the U.

The specialized language of seafarers is a complex mixture of the strange and the familiar, incorporating words from a variety of English dialects and foreign languages, and peppered with coined phrases and slang words.

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This volume contains a collection of classic articles on sailing yachts, with information on subjects including flags, nautical etiquette, maintaining yachts, equipment, and many other related aspects.

This densely illustrated, hands-on guide to diesel engine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair renders its subject more user-friendly than ever before.

The Titanic.

This densely illustrated, hands-on guide to diesel engine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair renders its subject more user-friendly than ever before.

Built in 1949 in Southampton for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships.

Beautiful boats last a long time, but ugly ones die young.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships.

A fascinating look at the making of the Titanic in vivid, colorful detail.

World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United States and Japanese aircraft carriers is often lost in broader discussions of the Pacific naval war.

The Cunard Line's Britannia was the first steamship to establish regular communication across the Atlantic.

The first tugs were built at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a result of the development of enclosed docks and the increase in size and power of sea-going vessels.

Charles I's authoritative and intolerant rule as monarch, and the unpopular Ship Money tax which he initiated, were instrumental in creating the most splendid and controversial warship in English history.

This vintage book is a complete and accessible guide to boat construction, with full instructions for designing and building punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, and more.

Comfort is not a measureable quality, mainly because it means different things to different people.

On a blustery, West Highland summer's day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards from Mallaig up through the Sound of Sleat between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Skye.

In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) embarked on his third and final expedition into the Canadian Arctic to force the Northwest Passage.

Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way.

In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast.

The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s.

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders.

On July 4, 1991, the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers, the most powerful surface combatants in naval history, was commissioned.

The Titanic.

From Gigha in the south to Lewis in the north and St Kilda in the west, Alistair Deayton covers the piers of the Hebrides and other outlying islands in the companion volume to his West Highland Piers.

Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East.

Maud Berridge (1845 1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo.

A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina LowcountryCompleted in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean.

Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types.

This book extends the current international interest in the conceptualization of the marine sector to explore its importance of at different geographical scales: from the national, to regional and small area analysis within the context of base theory, New Economic Geography, agglomeration theory, industrial cluster policy and small area level analysis.

Hamburg und die QUEEN MARY 2 - das ist eine ganz besondere Beziehung: nirgendwo auf der Welt wird der letzte Ozeanliner so begeistert empfangen wie an der Elbe.

Named after the Greek goddess of youth, the double-sculling skiff Hebe was a most beloved and well-travelled little boat.

The passenger steamer burst upon the early nineteenth century with all the suddenness and immediate widespread popularity of electronic communications in our own time.

In becoming "e;a useful man"e; on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia.

A practical, hands-on manual covering the entire Day Skipper syllabus in a step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on the water.

Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

Harley Crossley was a professional artist for over forty years.