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Author : Trygvie Jensen
Publisher : Trygvie Jensen
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Door County (Wis.)
ISBN : 9780976478270
Author : Randi Svensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Boatbuilding
ISBN : 1920831118
For wooden boat lovers, the name is synonymous with boats designed with an unerring eye for beautiful and balanced lines, and performance to match. It brings back memories of idyllic holidays afloat in rented motor cruisers; the race-winning Halvorsen brothers, their superb racing yachts, Peer Gynt, Anitra V and Freya; and the Halvorsen-built Gretel; and the boats of World War II - fast 38s, 62s and Fairmiles, and the motor cruiser that sank the Japanese mini submarine in Sydney Harbour.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 8412575296
Author : Howard F. West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Torpedo-boats
ISBN : 0788425374
Naval combat narrative is the heart of this book: Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Bougainville, the Mediterranean sea, the English Channel, the Philippines - historic operations in which the PT boats would win fame, glory, and a place in history. Encyclopedic in scope, this is the definitive work on the history of PT boats. W2537HB - $35.50
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781493068326
The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.
Author : Frederick William Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035285704
Author : Theodore R Treadwell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513645
Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.
Author : Frederick William Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:551919619
Author : Charles Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491015179
We thought we had it tough with a test. As history shows, politics was at one time the only way on to the patrol. I can only guess what must have been required in order to be appointed. Politicians could tell you or your family that his quota for this year was filled but perhaps next year he could do something. They could put that particular carrot on a stick and dangle it for a solid year. All politicians need to be elected or re-elected, so one may have been asked to help in some small way. Perhaps they might work the polls, offer to distribute literature, walk the streets campaigning for the man, or offer a child up as a sacrificial lamb if need be. Of course, there were never any blood alters found in the ruins of old Atlantic City, but a dagger or two have shown up and "et tu Brutus" was heard uttered after many an election.All who were lifeguards, be it for a single year, a decade, or in some cases more than half a century, are the reason sons and daughters were born and some families even exist today. We did, in one very important way, alter the world. We saved lives. We shared in helping Atlantic City to become the Queen she was. This is the tradition of the Atlantic City Beach Patrol.
Author : Tiziana Banini,Oana-Ramona Ilovan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030667665
This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereotypes. A mixed methodology is employed to research case studies at diverse territorial scales which are relevant to the impact of a variety of factors on place/territorial identity processes such as migration, political and economic changes, natural disasters, land use changes, etc. Visual imagery, constructing visual discourses and living within visual cultures are placed in the foreground and refer to among others the changes and challenges introduced by the Internet and social networks in place/territory representations and self-representations; identity politics and its impact on place/territorial identity representations; discourses in shaping representations and self-representations of territorial/place-based identities related to collective memory, cultural heritage, invented tradition, imagined communities and other key notions.
Author : Lilly Robbins Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537446258
When the author found two letters written by her now deceased father while he was on the battlefront of World War II, she knew she had to find a World War II veteran still living amongst us and tell his story. She found her veteran.Every veteran has a story. This is the life account of a World War II PT sailor whose love for the motor torpedo boat has lasted over seventy years. When the eighteen-year-old Oklahoman stepped onto the deck of the PT boat for the first time in 1944, his life was forever entwined with the PT boat.This is also the story of the rescue of PT-658 when a group of silver-haired Navy veterans set out to find and restore a surviving motor torpedo boat. When they found PT-658, she was half sunk and rotting in an estuary of San Francisco Bay. Through the efforts of this PT sailor and other veteran sailors and volunteers, the grand lady is back. PT-658 is the only fully operational World War II PT boat remaining in the world.
Author : Julian G. Braddock
Publisher : Vjb Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ship captains
ISBN : 0965270505
The author writes about four 18th-century sea captains: John Cutler Braddock, David Cutler Braddock, William Lyford, Sr., and William Lyford, Jr.
Author : Vince Welch,Cort Conley,Brad Dimock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Boaters (Persons)
ISBN : 1892327074
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393066661
A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Author : David D. Bruhn
Publisher : Heritage Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Minesweepers
ISBN : 9780788443251
From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens