An Illustrated History Of Ships
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The Ship
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Author : Björn Landström
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1961
The Ship written by Björn Landström and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Architecture categories.
This is the story of the ship - a journey of six thousand years on all the waters of the world. The Ship takes us from Queen Hatshepsut's obelisk vessels and the papyrus rafts of the Nile into the Mediterranean of the classic times, into the world of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules the horizon stretches to distant lands: The Ship takes us with Columbus' Santa Maria to the Indies, into the great age of seafaring. Captain Cook, the East Indiamen, Nelson and the Victory, the graceful clippers, the first steam-propelled vessels, Mississippi paddle-wheelers, the Monitor and the Merrimack, icebreakers, aircraft carriers, tugs, whalers, and nuclear-powered submarines - Björn Landström knows them all, making his knowledge live in superb illustrations and informative text.
An Illustrated History Of Ships
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Author : Edward Lewis Cornwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
An Illustrated History Of Ships written by Edward Lewis Cornwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Naval art and science categories.
The Illustrated History Of Ships
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Illustrated History Of Ships written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Naval art and science categories.
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The Royal Navy
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Author : J. R. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The Royal Navy written by J. R. Hill and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Great Britain categories.
Britain is an island nation and throughout history its navy has been of great importance for its defence. As a consequence it has always had a special significance and has over the centuries entrenched itself in the national psyche, making itself manifest not only through the hero-worship ofits principal characters such as Horatio Nelson and Sir Francis Drake but also finding expression through art, music, and literature.Like any great national institution, the navy is a complex web of interconnected histories - operational, strategic, political, economic, administrative, technological, and social. Now updated for its paperback edition, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, in a series of fourteenchapters, provides a thorough and engaging treatment of these histories, covering every aspect of naval history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the dawn of the new millennium.The book explores:Major action and campaigns - the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland, the Atlantic Campaign of 1939-45, the Falklands conflict, the Gulf War, and attacks on terrorist bases in Afghanistan in 2001.Developments in naval history and technology - navigational advances, surveying, constructional developments, disaster relief, the suppression of the slave trade, and the Strategic Defence Review of 1998.Key personalities - Drake and Nelson, Samuel Pepys, Francis Beaufort, Jackie Fisher, Lord Charles Beresford, Lord Jellicoe.Naval life - recruitment (press gangs, training, education, discipline), tactics, gunnery and armaments, amphibious operations, wages and conditions, victualling and supply.How and when did Britain's perception of the sea change from a thing of fear to a 'moat defence' (in the words of Shakespeare)?How did the navy's administrative systems develop during the Tudor period?During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, its greatest period of expansion, how did the navy develop strategically and operationally?How successfully did the navy defend the British Empire during the nineteenth century?What role did the navy play in Victorian Britain's thirst for exploring of the world?What technical developments have been important to the navy?What effect did two world wars have on the role of the Royal Navy?What does the modern navy look like now and what about the future?With a full chronology, which has been brought up to date to the end of 2001, an extensive list of further reading, 16 pages of colour plates, 23 maps, 6 special Action Station diagram 'box' features, and around 200 black-and-white integrated illustrations, this is an authoritative and highlyreadable account of a unique fighting service and its people.
Battleships
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Author : David Ross
language : en
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-12-18
Battleships written by David Ross and has been published by Amber Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-18 with History categories.
The World’s Greatest Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed in the last 500 years. Each entry includes a description of the ship’s development and history, a colour profile, key features and specifications. Packed with more than 200 illustrations, the book is a colourful guide for the naval warfare enthusiast.
The U S Navy
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Author : Nathan Miller
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1977
The U S Navy written by Nathan Miller and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
The 200-year history of the U.S. Navy is told vividly here in stirring authoritative prose which is dramatized by more than 400 carefully chosen illustrations.
Tramp Ships
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Author : Roy Fenton
language : en
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-13
Tramp Ships written by Roy Fenton and has been published by Seaforth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-13 with Transportation categories.
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.
The Illustrated History Of Ships
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Author : Edward Lewis Cornwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Illustrated History Of Ships written by Edward Lewis Cornwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Ships That Shaped Our World
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Author : Bruce M. Gooley
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Ships That Shaped Our World written by Bruce M. Gooley and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with History categories.
A richly illustrated history of the East Indiamen, American North Atlantic Packets, Blackwall Frigates, American and English Clippers, Colonial Clippers, Windjammers, the Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Co Line, Brunel's Ships and the Blue Riband Steamers.
The Ship
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Ship written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.