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Author : Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : UCAL:$B74380
Author : Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Ships
ISBN : LCCN:36016918
Author : Charles Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116949251
Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421436869
Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Author : Hendrik Willem Loon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1227252298
Author : Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0267696833
Excerpt from Ships of the Seven Seas In gathering material for a book of this kind one's sources of information are likely to be so numerous and so diverse as to defy classification. Some of the information I have gotten first hand on ships in which I have served or voyaged. Much more of it has been picked up from countless scattered sources during twenty years or more in which ships have been my hobby. More still, however, has been consciously taken from books on ships and shipping that I have gathered together or referred to during the time I spent actually in preparing the manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Karl R. Zimmermann
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590785525
Ocean liners once sailed all the world's seas and played important roles in times of peace and war. Ships transported the rich and famous as well as millions of immigrants to new countries. Over time, airplanes changed the nature of travel and the role of the ocean liners. Today's cruise ships are dramatically different from the liners of old, bigger than ever, they are like small cities on the water.
Author : Ross A. Klein
Publisher : Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 086571522X
A shocking exposé of modern piracy - the Fast Food Nation of the cruise industry
Author : Peter Pigott
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781554888368
With a witty and informative style, Pigott evokes not only the nostalgic heyday of ocean travel but reveals a slice of almost-forgotten Canadiana in this study of the Canadian Pacific Line. From the stifling steerage quarters to the elegant drawing rooms, shore dwellers and old salts alike will be delighted.
Author : Thomas R. Heinrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0756765129
Sustained by a skilled work force and the PA iron and steel (I&S) industry, Phila. shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily than most other shipbuilders. Between the Civil War and WW1, Phila. emerged as the vital center of Amer. shipbuilding. Heinrich describes how entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change gave rise to major shipbuilding firms; how naval arch., marine eng'g., and craft skills evolved as I&S overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and internat. trade and the rise of the Amer. steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. But, large-scale naval construction in the 1920s brought about the demise of the Phila. shipyards.
Author : Dennis M. Powers
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589794481
Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant places, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bering Sea. Smell the salt in the air and hear the ocean's rush as the ship sails with hardened men, leaking seams, and shrieking winds.
Author : George F Bass
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500051368
Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken. From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the streets and houses of the richest English colony in the New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692. They will accompany famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea. They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised from the depths of the Mediterranean. The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in 1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It describes the foods, games, weapons, tools, and grooming implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery. 350 color illustrations.
Author : Emil Pacholek,Colin McNaughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 072265636X
Author : Peter Freuchen,David Loth
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ocean
ISBN : 1592281257
Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time.
Author : Ellen Jackson
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802853417
During a geography lesson, a child takes an imaginary journey to each of the seven seas, including the Brown Sea which is made of chocolate, and the Pink Sea which has flamingos.
