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Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers by : N. S. Robins
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by N. S. Robins and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Thames pleasure steamers that begins in 1814, when the first steamer arrived in the river to ply her trade. This title uses period photographs, handbills to provide the full story of the boats that came out in the summer and flitted about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.
Book Synopsis The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic collection of illustrations that capture the golden era of pleasure steamers on the Thames.
Book Synopsis Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945
Book Synopsis Clyde Pleasure Steamers by : Ian McCrorie
Download or read book Clyde Pleasure Steamers written by Ian McCrorie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Down the River to the Sea. An Historical Record of the Thames Pleasure Steamers, 1816 to 1934. [With Illustrations.]. by : Leonard G. LANE
Download or read book Down the River to the Sea. An Historical Record of the Thames Pleasure Steamers, 1816 to 1934. [With Illustrations.]. written by Leonard G. LANE and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ships That Came to the Pool of London by : Nick Robins
Download or read book The Ships That Came to the Pool of London written by Nick Robins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Robins explores the ships that came to the Pool of London throughout history.
Book Synopsis The Coming of the Comet by : Nick Robins
Download or read book The Coming of the Comet written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812 Henry BellÍs Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India CompanyÍs wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. ??In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Syminton Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. ??The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states, and with the transport of oil from BurmaÍs oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississipi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia.??This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.
Book Synopsis Pleasure Boating on the Thames by : Simon Wenham
Download or read book Pleasure Boating on the Thames written by Simon Wenham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River Thames above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country. Simon Wenham's illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Download or read book From War to Peace written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted for commercial use. The most successful classes to transfer to the merchant service were the Hunt-class minesweepers of the Great War, Landing Craft, Tank, the salvage tugs of World War Two, and the wooden-hulled Fairmile launches which became familiar at seaside resorts in the 1950s and ‘60s; and, of course, the MFV classes that helped the fishing industry in the postwar years. The story includes the successful commercial conversions of many of the Flower and Castle Class corvettes and River Class frigates, notably the 1954 conversion of HMCS Stormont to a luxury yacht for the Greek shipping magnate Onassis. It describes why HMS Charybdis became a passenger liner in the Great War, and how HMS Albatross nearly became a luxury liner after World War Two, but in fact was transformed into a very unpopular emigrant ship and ended her days as a floating casino based at Cape Town. The author reveals the military antecedents of numerous commercial vessels that many would have thought were built especially for the service that they later maintained, and it illustrates just how many Royal Navy vessels ended up in private ownership. And the question is asked: if the military had not built so many ships that were eminently suitable for commercial adaptation, would the technical development of merchant shipping have progressed at a faster rate than it did? The answer is a definite ‘no’, and is illustrated in several ways. It was former naval vessels that promoted the early development of the Ro-Ro ferry; former naval ships introduced numerous design innovations, for example, the raised foredeck common for so many years on salvage tugs, and, above all, stripped of their military hardware, ex naval ships provided opportunities for modest investment where otherwise there would have been none. Copiously illustrated throughout, the book tells a fascinating story of invention and ingenious ship conversion, and of pragmatic adaptation in the financially stringent years after two world wars.
Book Synopsis Down the River to the Sea by : Leonard G. Lane
Download or read book Down the River to the Sea written by Leonard G. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Down the River to the Sea by : Leonard G. Lane
Download or read book Down the River to the Sea written by Leonard G. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of Steamships by : A. F. L. Deeson
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Steamships written by A. F. L. Deeson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pleasure Boating on the Thames by : Simon Wenham
Download or read book Pleasure Boating on the Thames written by Simon Wenham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RIVER THAMES above London underwent a dramatic transformation during the Victorian period, from a great commercial highway into a vast conduit of pleasure. Pleasure Boating on the Thames traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more than any other on the waterway to popularise recreational boating. Salter Bros began as a small boat-building enterprise in Oxford and went on to gain worldwide fame, not only as the leading racing boat constructor, but also as one of the largest rental craft and passenger boat operators in the country.Simon Wenham’s illustrated history sheds light on over 150 years of social change, how leisure developed on the waterway (including the rise of camping), as well as how a family firm coped with the changes brought about by industrialisation – a business that, today, still carries thousands of passengers a year.
Book Synopsis Coastal Passenger Liners of the British Isles by : Nick Robins
Download or read book Coastal Passenger Liners of the British Isles written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger and cargo liner was in its heyday, catering both for the first class tourist as well as offering keenly priced second class fares for the like of football fans following away matches. Sadly, these wonderful steamer services are now largely forgotten but this new book will stir fond memories of the ships and their coastal voyages. The Depression of the 1930s, coupled with competition from both railway and the motor coach, were to spell the end for many of the coastal liners, while heavy losses incurred in World War II left only a few ships each offering just a handful of passenger berths. The story of their one hundred years of service is accompanied by numerous fascinating anecdotes, and the book focuses as much on the social need for coastal passenger services, the men and women who provided the services and the passengers who used them, as it does on the nuts and bolts of the ships themselves. This beautifully presented book will delight both ship enthusiasts and all those who enjoy the maritime and social history of the British Isles.
Download or read book Ships Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating selection of images and ephemera of these now-lost vessels.
Book Synopsis London's Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book London's Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gladwell takes us on a journey down the water, exploring the story of the London pleasure steamer.
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