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.
Yachtelektrik für EinsteigerDer Skipper von heute muss nicht nur navigieren, sondern auch die zunehmend komplizierten Bordsysteme bedienen, die Yachtelektrik kennen und im Notfall reparieren können.
Einsteiger, die sich ein neues Boot kaufen möchten, erfahrene Yachteigner, die sich ein größeres Schiff wünschen oder Umsteiger, die zwischen Segel- und Motoryacht wechseln wollen: Sie alle stehen vor der Frage, welches das richtige Schiff für sie ist und was es beim Kauf zu beachten gilt.
Auf Törn mit dem Sportboot – Das Bordbuch für MotorbootfahrerWer mit dem Motorboot auf Binnenschifffahrtsstraßen oder Seeschifffahrtsstraßen unterwegs ist, ist selten allein.
Die ESTONIA: 25 Jahre nach dem Untergang - neue Beweise, neue ErkenntnisseEs war die größte zivile Schifffahrtskatastrophe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Am 28.
"Perfekte Bootselektrik" ist ein unverzichtbares Handbuch für alle Bootsbesitzer, die elektrische Geräte an Bord installieren, warten und reparieren möchten: Es behandelt alle relevanten Aspekte der Bootselektrik und vermittelt anhand von zahlreichen, leicht verständlichen Schritt-für-Schritt-Bildfolgen sowie vielen Detailzeichnungen und Tabellen das nötige Fachwissen, welches sowohl Motorbootfahrer als auch Segler benötigen, um elektrischen Problemen an Bord vorzubeugen und im Ernstfall selbst lösen zu können.
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.
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.
Discover the Titanics Forgotten Sister: A Saga of Ambition, Tragedy, and LegacyStep into a world where grand dreams of engineering marvels on the high seas were born, a world where ambition and tragedy collide in the story of the largest ship of her time.
An immersive account of a commercial fishing disaster at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as ';an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.
This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northwards to Stonehaven.
A lively, at times hilarious, first-hand account of a lighthouse keeper's life in the last traditional years before the introduction of helicopter reliefs and automation.
After joining the Australian Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen, Dick Jolly trained as an engineer before joining the Australian National Line as a cadet.
Now that lighthouse automation has been completed, what of the service and dedication to duty that was unfailingly provided by keepers, their associates and their families?
We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weather on our holidays or where we're visiting next on our travels.
This entertaining and informative book will be of practical benefit to all who discover the historic Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal, whether walking, cycling, boating or visiting the Falkirk Wheel or the Kelpies.
Simon Hall's second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, when cargo carriage at sea saw radical change and the romance of being at sea in old-style cargo ships came to an end.
This is the story of lightkeepers' contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons - their primary function of course - 'for the safety of all'.
Perched on an isolated rock in the Scottish Hebrides, this is a fascinating account of Skerryvore, 'the most graceful lighthouse in the world', and the great Victorian engineer who designed and built it.
Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world's most famous lighthouses in this classic book which has become the standard work on the subject.
Simon Hall went to sea in search of a way of life that he believed was glamorous, adventurous and disciplined, a life where smartly-uniformed men ran ships in a tightly organised manner.
The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes - the battles that they waged, and all too often lost - against the hazards of the sea.
In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, and when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages.
To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32ft wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and to the Atlantic side of the islands, not often visited by cruising yachts.
In the Ray Solly trilogy, Mariner's Launch, Mariner's Voyage and Mariner's Rest, the author brings alive a lifestyle which epitomised excitement and adventure during the 'golden age' of international shipping.
A tale of 117 years of devotion to duty, peacefulness and calm, disrupted forever by a day of inexplicable violence, a community's battle to have a lighthouse built.
