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Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B244916
Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220744452
Author : Roy Fenton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837646555
The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the world’s trades and economies. Their design and technological development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which revolutionised the British coastal coal trade. The same engineering principles were applied to produce ocean-going steam and later motor tramps. By the end of the 19th century, the capabilities and economies of these ‘black freighters’ had captured from the sailing ship much of the world’s trade in bulk commodities. In the second half of the 20th century, the tramps in turn evolved into multi-purpose, dry bulk carriers. These workhorses of the sea transport commodities including metallic ores, grain, coal, timber and other minerals. Quantities of up to 400,000 tons are carried in the largest, specialised ore carriers. In a parallel development, applying the same technical principles produced smaller yet efficient steam and later motor coasters which came to dominate short sea shipping. The book concludes with a discussion of how the economies of transportation provided by bulk carriers have had profound effects on industrialisation, globalisation and the world’s economy, and discusses the environmental impact of these ships.
Author : Edgar Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCAL:$B557428
Author : Phil N. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cargo ships
ISBN : UVA:35007000048599
...eagerly awaited by ship enthusiasts and modelmakers alike...MODEL SHIPWRIGHT, Histories of the major and minor owners and crews; over 1,300 companies illustrated with 56 photos, 22 plans and 34 colour profiles.
Author : Phil N. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cargo ships
ISBN : UVA:35007000048581
Author : Malcolm Cooper
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399015547
This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building, and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings. They entered the vanguard of the Allied shipping effort at a time when the German U-boat threat was at its most dangerous, and British shipping resources were stretched to the limit. They were deployed in the North Atlantic, on the long supply routes around Africa to the Middle East, in the Russian convoys, in operations in support of the invasions of North Africa and Italy and the land campaigns which followed, in the D-Day landings, and later amphibious operations on the south coast of France. Finally, some of the class joined an invasion force making its way towards Malaya when Japan surrendered in August 1945. The Oceans paid a heavy price for these accomplishments, one third of the class being lost to torpedoes, bombs, or mines in places as far apart as the Florida coast, the Norwegian Sea, the Bay of Algiers, and the Gulf of Oman. While these achievements alone would merit an important place in histories of the war at sea, the impact of the Oceans stretched far beyond the direct contribution of the ships themselves. The yards where they were built also served as models for a series of new American shipyards, designed to mass produce cargo vessels with such speed and in such volume as to completely reverse the mathematics of attrition, which had run so badly against the Allies into 1942. Even more important, the Oceans’ blueprints were used as the basis for the American Liberty ship, the 2,700-strong fleet which finally tilted the balance of the war at sea decisively in the Allies’ favor and went on to underpin the post-war renewal of the world merchant fleet. This comprehensive new history, based on extensive archival research and lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, restores the Oceans to their rightful place in history. The ships’ design antecedents are explained, and their ordering, financing, and construction analyzed in full. Wartime operations are covered in depth, by theater, and with full details of war losses and other casualties. The book concludes with an assessment of their subsequent peacetime careers and a comparison to other war-built designs. This is a model history of a highly significant class of ship.
Author : Gordon H. Boyce
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781835532898
Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, these vessels transported in bulk essential minerals and ores, grains, timber, and other commodities and played a vital role in creating the modern global economy. While the histories of some individual tramp firms have been written, this book uses personal correspondence and surviving company records to chart the development of the entire industry - the largest in the world- during a period of transformational technical change. Who were the bold, risk-takers who founded tramp firms? How did they mobilise the resources needed to enter this dynamic sector, build immense companies, and accumulate vast fortunes? Why did others fail? This study reveals how executives learned ‘the art’ of managing tramps and developed strategic networking skills. Tramp shipping resonates with many of today’s high-growth industries: it was an information intensive, high stress operation that required rapid - sometimes instinctive - decision-making within a turbulent market. Building business networks was supported by a distinctive culture that streamlined communication. This innovative study places information, knowledge, learning, culture, and communication at the centre of the analysis in order to transport readers into the minds of those fascinating entrepreneurs who helped build the modern world.
Author : Roy Fenton
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781848321588
The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence the tag 'tramp', though new tramps were built, often with the owner's eye on chartering to the liner companies. In this new book by the well-known author Roy Fenton, their evolution is described over the course of more than 100 years, from the 1860s, when the steam tramp developed from the screw collier, until it was largely replaced by the specialist bulk carrier in the 1980s. ??An introduction looks at the design and building of tramps before going on to describe the machinery, from simple triple-expansion turbines to diesel engines. Their operation and management and the life of the officers and crews is also covered. The meat of the book is to be found in the 300 wonderfully evocative photographs of individual ships which illustrate the development of the tramp and its trades through the last years of the 19th century, the two world wars, and the postwar years. Each caption gives the dimensions, the owners and the builder, and outlines the career, with notes on trades and how they changed over a ship's lifetime. Design features are highlighted and notes on machinery included. This will become a classic work, to inspire all merchant ship enthusiasts and historians.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11538650
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433066364658
Author : F.E. Chadwick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368439330
Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.
Author : F. E. Chadwick,John H. Gould,J. D. J. Kelley,William H. Rideing,A. E. Seaton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Steamboats
ISBN : 9781465614599
IT is a wonderful fact in the swift expansion of mechanical knowledge and appliances of the last hundred years that while for unknown ages the wind was the only propelling force used for purposes of navigation, apart from the rude application of power through oars worked by men, the whole scheme of steam transport has grown, practically, to its present wonderful perfection within the lifetime of men yet living. Of course, the idea, as is that of all great inventions, was one of slow growth. It cropped up at various stages through the eighteenth century, and there are faint evidences of gropings in this direction in the latter part of the seventeenth; but these latter were not much more definite than the embodiment of the idea of the telegraph in Puck’s girdle round the earth, and the evidence that men really thought of propelling boats by steam is very meagre until we come to the pamphlet written by Jonathan Hulls, in 1737, in which he gave utterance to a very clear and distinct idea in the matter. It struggled through a very backward infancy of fifty years and more, certain memorable names appearing now and then to help it along, as that of Watt (without whose improvements in the steam-engine it must still have remained in swaddling-clothes), Fitch, De Jouffroy, Rumsey, Symington, and finally Fulton, who, however much he may have learned from his predecessors, has unquestionably the credit of putting afloat the first commercially successful steamboat. He is thus worthy of all the honor accorded him; much of it came too late, as he died at the comparatively early age of fifty, after passing through the harassments which seem naturally to lie in the path of the innovator. A graphic history of the wonderful changes wrought in this great factor of the world’s progress was set forth during the summer of 1886, at the International Exhibition at Liverpool, where, by model and drawing, the various steps were made more completely visible and tangible than, perhaps, ever before. True, the relics of the earlier phases of the steamship age, when its believers were but few and generally of small account, were sparse, but the exhibits of later models, from the date of the inception of transatlantic traffic, preparations for which were begun in earnest by laying down the steamship Great Western in 1836, were frequent enough, and the whole of the steps in the development of the means of ocean traffic from then till now were sufficiently well shown.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7DZA
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Railroads
ISBN : NYPL:33433004764969