Shipbuilding technology, engineering and trades

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This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built.

This book explores a variety of research topics in marine technology delving into a wide array of crucial research topics within the maritime industry and its technology, encapsulating the latest research findings presented at The 8th International Conference on Marine Technology (SENTA 2023).

Sailing Strategy is considered a racing classic.

This comprehensive handbook on submarine pipeline systems covers a broad spectrum of topics from planning and site investigations, procurement and design, to installation and commissioning.

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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world.

The aim of this book, now revised for the 5th edition, is to help students through their shore-based Yachtmaster course.

This second edition deals comprehensively with all aspects of a ship's machinery from propulsion and steering to deck machinery and electrical equipment with a strong emphasis upon correct and safe procedures.

Britain's rivers deserve to be better known.

This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II.

This comprehensive book brings together the latest developments in reliability and maintainability methods from leading research groups globally.

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Jimmy Cornell is the undisputed authority on long distance voyaging.

The second edition of the Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year is updated with a new chapter describing Nick's eventual completion of the Fastnet Race thirty years after his first, ill-fated attempt.

This book provides critical information relating to the design and construction of means of access onboard marine vessels and platforms, including ladders, walkways and ramps, hatches, and alternative access points.

The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems tailor-made for film.

Principles of Yacht Design has now established itself as thestandard book on the subject for practising designers, navalarchitecture students, discerning boat owners and the boatbuildingindustry as a whole.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the identification and assessment of structural loads arising from accidental events in offshore structures.

Reeds Astro Navigation Tables is an established book of annual astro-navigation tables compiled specifically for the needs of yachtsmen.

The First Ever Guide for Optimizing Boat SystemsThis guide is invaluable for anyone designing or installing mechanical systems on a new boat, retrofitting an existing boat, or evaluating a boat's operating condition.

THIS EBOOK EDITION IS DESIGNED TO BE EXPERIENCED ON COLOUR DEVICES

The practical guide to celestial navigation - know what to do step by step, understand why you're doing it, and be confident that you can put it into practice when on board.

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Merchant John Banister (1707-1767) of Newport, Rhode Island, wore many hats: exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, money-lender, extender of credit and insurer, owner and outfitter of sailing vessels, and ship builder for the slave trade.

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

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.

This updated edition provides a modern scientific approach to evaluating ship resistance and propulsion for a range of ship types.

Reeds Introductions: Essential Sensing and Telecommunications for Marine Engineering Applications covers all fundamental and essential theoretical maritime physics principles which underpin modern marine sensors and telecommunications devices as needed by marine users such as: Navy, Coastguard, Merchant Shipping and users of pleasure craft.

Competent Crew covers both the shorebased and the practical aspects of the RYA Competent Crew course.

The purpose of this text is to ensure the survival of skipper and crew in the event of their boat sinking.

Authoritative, practical, and hands-on information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical charts The classic How to Read a Nautical Chart explains every aspect of electronic and paper nautical charts: how a chart is assembled, how to gauge the accuracy of chart data, how to read charts created by other governments, how to use information such as scale, projection technique and datum that every chart contains; how not to get fooled or run aground by overzooming.

Give this book a year and it will improve your sailing and that's if you read only one tip a day.

This book is the powerboating equivalent to Heavy Weather Sailing - the classic and bestselling sailing reference on the Adlard Coles list.

Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum.

This book provides a guide for the marine community to understand and address the noise and vibration environment associated with ships.

From rubber landing boats to picket boats to minesweepers, smaller support vessels did much of the work of the Korean War, and endured many of the dangers and hardships.

The Reeds Western Almanac covers the coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Western Scotland, Ireland or Western England.

Computational Welding Mechanics for Engineering Application: Buckling Distortion of Thin Plate and Residual Stress of Thick Plate deals with two special issues in the field of computational welding mechanics: buckling distortion of thin plate and residual stress of thick plate.

The dramatic account of two American warships in the South Pacific, this book follows the USS Astoria (CA-34) and USS Chicago (CA-29) during the late summer of 1942, when both participated in the early days of the critical battle for Guadalcanal.

This book presents the outcomes from the 2nd International Conference on Marine and Advanced Technologies 2021 (Icmat2021) which was organized by the Research and Innovation section, University Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering Technology.

Race Training with Jim Saltonstall is for all those who wish to improve their personal performance within the most challenging sport in the world.

This is a fully revised, new edition on the topic of instrumentation and control systems and their application to marine engineering for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Electrical/Marine Engineering undergraduate students.

This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II.

'What Jimmy Cornell doesn't know about cruising isn't worth knowing' - Yachting WorldOne of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles on all the oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic.

For 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels.

From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging.

A number of trends and forces are converging to require change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) nautical charting mission.