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Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Story
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0752456040
The SS Great Britain story
Author : Len Deighton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802161086
"It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal"--
Author : Adrian Ball,Diana Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002073149
Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445684529
The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0857331051
The SS Bristol, a world first with new technologies was built in 1843, went around the world 37 times, retired 1889 and now resides back home in Bristol, England where today she is conserved. Now launched in the Haynes manual treatment, her innovative technology (screw propeller, iron hull and 1000hp steam engine) are all explained along with specially commissioned photographs of the ship’s anatomy.
Author : Wyn Davies Davies,Herb Schmitz
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781848321441
The SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Brunel, was the first ocean-going vessel to be screw-driven and built entirely of iron. When she was launched in 1843 she was twice the size of any previous ship and her revolutionary design heralded a complete break with traditional ship construction. As is the case for many historic ships, however, there is a surprising shortage of informative and well illustrated guides, for reference during a visit or for research by enthusiasts - ship modellers, naval buffs, historians or students. This new series redresses the gap. ??Written by experts and containing more than 200 specially commissioned photographs, each title takes the reader on a superbly illustrated tour of the ship, from bow to stern and deck by deck. Significant parts of the vessel _ for example, the propeller, steering gear, engine and accommodation _ are given detailed coverage both in words and pictures, so that the reader has at hand the most complete visual record and explanation of the ship that exists. In addition, the importance of the ship, both in her own time and now as a museum vessel, is explained, while her design and build, and her career prior to restoration and exhibition are all described.??No other books offer such superb visual impact and detailed information as the Seaforth Historic Ship Series _ a truly groundbreaking concept bringing the ships of our past vividly to life.
Author : Bill Jackman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504941075
John Gray, the captain of the SS Great Britain since 1854, mysteriously disappeared on his way home from Australia in November 1872. How he died remains a mystery to this day.
Author : Ewan Corlett
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ships, Iron and steel
ISBN : UOM:39015018506264
Tell the stroy of the ss Great Britain and her revolutionary design and the current restoration being undertaken.
Author : Nicola Skinner
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063071759
Nicola Skinner's inventive, funny, surprising prose once again tells an honest story of big emotions, making Starboard the perfect follow-up to the critically acclaimed Storm. Kirsten Bramble is too famous to have friends. That’s what she tells herself, anyway—but with the end of her hit reality TV show barreling toward her, Kirsten’s not sure she’s ready to say goodbye to her lonely life of fame. Luckily—or unluckily—Kirsten can’t help being plunged headfirst into a new adventure when she’s dragged on a class trip to visit the SS Great Britain. Because somehow, the ancient ship can speak to her—and she wants Kirsten to be her new captain. The ship pulls out of the harbor with no sails and no working engine, and try as Kirsten might, she can’t convince the ship to turn back until they find a way to help her finish her final quest. Kirsten doesn’t feel like a captain—but along the way, she may just realize that the ending of an adventure, while scary, can be just as special as the beginning.
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1785211722
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain was a world first when she was launched at Bristol in 1843. This uniquely successful passenger ship design brought together the leading technologies of the day (screw propeller, iron hull and 1,000hp steam engine) to transform world travel. She was a successful ship and continued sailing until 1886, travelling 32 times around the world and nearly one million miles at sea. Great Britain was finally abandoned in the Falkland Islands in 1937, but in 1970 an ambitious salvage effort brought her home to Bristol, where today she is conserved.
Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445667218
The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and largest Atlantic Steamship of its day.
Author : Fin J Ross
Publisher : Clan Destine Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648848721
Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him. To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in Bourke-street's renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all. What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly underqualified manager of the new Billings Better Bookstore. Fidelia's thirst for knowledge is contagious. She tutors two orphan boys and two illiterate women, inspiring them to unlock their creativity; and her exploration of colonial Melbourne takes her to some unusual places. Nothing daunts this diminutive genius, except the mystery of what really happened to her parents on the voyage from England.
Author : Donald Olson,Stephen Brewer,Donald Strachan,Barry Shelby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780470648698
Frommer's travel guide to Great Britain.
Author : Andrew Hassam
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719045460
Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally, and one way of dealing with this appears to have been to write a diary. The surviving diaries offer snapshots of the lives of and experiences of many ordinary people who emigrated.
Author : Alistar Roach
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781473879492
“Brings Ough’s life and work beautifully to light in a volume rich in photographs, drawings, technical detail and personality.”—Schopenhauer’s Workshop Norman Ough is considered by many as simply the greatest ship modeler of the twentieth century and his exquisite drawings and meticulous models have come to be regarded as masterpieces of draughtsmanship, workmanship and realism; more than technically accomplished ship models, they are truly works of art. This new book is both a tribute to his lonely genius and a practical treatise for model shipwrights. Ough lived most of his adult life far from the sea in a flat high above the Charing Cross Road in London, where his frugal existence and total absorption in his work led to hospitalization on at least two occasions; he was an eccentric in the truest sense but he also became one of the most sought-after masters of his craft. Earl Mountbatten had him model the ships he had served on; his model of HMS Queen Elizabeth was presented to Earl Beatty; film production companies commissioned models for effects in several films. Incorporating many of his original articles from Model Maker Magazine, his detailed line drawings now kept in the Brunel Institute, and photographs of his models held in museums and at Mountbatten’s house, this book presents an inspiring panorama of perhaps the most perfect warship models ever made. “An amazing, almost intimidating view of the method, modelling, drawings, and a life of a builder so obsessed with his work that some may say he was a man who went down with his ships.”—FineScale Modeler