The Evolution And Significance Of The Powered Bulk Carrier

Author : Roy Fenton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837646555

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The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier by Roy Fenton Pdf

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 : Gordon H. Boyce
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802075557

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A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870-1914 (Volume 1) by Gordon H. Boyce Pdf

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 : Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781000831207

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Merchant Ship Types by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen Pdf

Merchant Ship Types provides a broad and detailed introduction to the classifications and main categories of merchant vessels for students and cadets. It introduces the concept of ship classification by usage, cargo type, and size, and shows how the various size categories affect which ports and channels the types of vessels are permitted to enter. Detailed outlines of each major vessel category are provided, including: • Feeder ship; • General cargo vessels; • Container ships; • Tankers; • Dry bulk carriers; • Multi-purpose vessels; • Reefer ships; • Roll-on/roll-off vessels. The book also explains where these are permitted to operate, the type of cargoes carried, and specific safety or risk factors associated with the vessel class, as well as their main characteristics. Relevant case studies are presented. The textbook is ideal for merchant navy cadets at HNC, HND, and foundation degree level in both the deck and engineering branches, and serves as a general reference for insurance, law, logistics, offshore, and fisheries.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00170937302

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Hugues Canuel
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682476307

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The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power by Hugues Canuel Pdf

The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine nationale continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself. The destruction of French sea power—at the hands of the Allies, the Axis, and fratricidal confrontations in the colonies—continued unabated until the scuttling of the Vichy fleet in 1942. And yet, just over twenty years after this dark day, Charles de Gaulle announced a plan to complement the country’s nuclear deterrent with a force of nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-carrying submarines. Completing the rebuilding effort that followed the nadir in Toulon, this force provided the means to make the Marine nationale a fully-fledged blue-water navy again, ready to face the complex circumstances of the Cold War. An important continuum of cooperation and bitter tensions shaped naval relations between France and the Anglo-Americans from World War II to the Cold War. The rejuvenation of a fleet nearly wiped out during the hostilities was underpinned by a succession of forced compromises, often the least bad possible, reluctantly accepted by French politicians and admirals but effectively leveraged in their pursuit of an independent naval policy within a strategy of alliance. Hugues Canuel demonstrates that the renaissance of French sea power was shaped by a naval policy formulated within a strategy of alliance closely adapted to the needs of a continental state with worldwide interests. This work fills a distinct void in the literature concerned with the evolution of naval affairs from World War II to the 1960s. The author, drawing upon extensive research through French, British, American, and NATO archives (including those made public only recently regarding the sensitive circumstances surrounding the French nuclear deterrent) maps out for readers the unique path adopted in France to rebuild a blue-water fleet during unprecedented circumstances.

Author : Yatish T. Shah
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000368543

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Hybrid Energy Systems by Yatish T. Shah Pdf

Hybrid Energy Systems: Strategy for Industrial Decarbonization demonstrates how hybrid energy and processes can decarbonize energy industry needs for power and heating and cooling. It describes the role of hybrid energy and processes in nine major industry sectors and discusses how hybrid energy can offer sustainable solutions in each. Introduces the basics and examples of hybrid energy systems Examines hybrid energy and processes in coal, oil and gas, nuclear, building, vehicle, manufacturing and industrial processes, computing and portable electronic, district heating and cooling, and water sectors Shows that hybrid processes can improve efficiency and that hybrid energy can effectively insert renewable fuels in the energy industry Serves as a companion text to the author’s book Hybrid Power: Generation, Storage, and Grids Written for advanced students, researchers, and industry professionals involved in energy-related processes and plants, this book offers latest research and practical strategies for application of the innovative field of hybrid energy.

Author : United States. Congress. House Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1740 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119526460

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commisstion Appropriation Bill by United States. Congress. House Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : LOC:00158815424

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill, 1974 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1748 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119592512

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1975 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2084 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119592496

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Roy Fenton
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781848321588

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Tramp Ships by Roy Fenton Pdf

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 : Eric Grove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000371130

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The Future of Sea Power by Eric Grove Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the platforms from which they are launched and controlled. It looks at the evolving uses of the seas, both economic and military, and sets sea power against the developing world environment, political, legal and economic, discussing those factors that stimulate nations to exert power at sea and those that limit their naval capabilities. It also develops a theoretical framework for future thinking about maritime strategy and forces, revises and updates Mahan’s classical analysis of the foundations of sea power, and discusses thinking about naval tasks.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1900 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Public works
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119529076

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill, 1975 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1648 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Public works
ISBN : MINN:31951P01180720I

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Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill, 1975: Testimony of Members of Congress and other individuals and organizations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works Pdf

Author : Patrick Malone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351675352

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Architecture, Mentalities and Meaning by Patrick Malone Pdf

In order to function, architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural, economic, and political forces. Thus, architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on meaning, and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics, psychology, political economy, philosophy, geography, and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive, cultural, socio-economic, and political. However, despite the duty to conform, it is argued that the treatment of human processes, and the understanding of architectural mentalities, can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages, small freedoms, and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality, and in the relationships between architecture and other fields.