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Author : Clement Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Merchant Shipping written by Clement Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War written by Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells what was required of the British ships in various phases of the war, how they met them and the costs involved.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Government Control of the Operation of the British Merchant Fleet in Wartime written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Woodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747813485
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Merchant Navy written by Richard Woodman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in times of crisis the merchant fleet has also offered military assistance. In fact, the merchant convoys and armed cruisers that defied the German blockades to supply Britain in the First World War were so pivotal that they were recognised as a second 'navy' – the Merchant Navy. This fleet again saw service in the Second World War, continuing to keep Britain provisioned even in its darkest hour. Richard Woodman here relates the Merchant Navy's colourful history and brings to life the day-to-day experiences of the seamen.
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526711680
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Thin Grey Line written by Bernard Edwards and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naval historian and retired merchant navy captain recounts the contributions of Britain’s civilian ships during WWII in this “cracking read” (The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem). The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of the Royal Navy, the army, or the Royal Air Force. They were British merchant seamen on the transatlantic passenger liner SS Athenia, torpedoed by a German U-30 submarine on September 3, 1939. For the duration of the war, Britain’s merchant fleet performed a vital role, carrying the essential supplies that kept the country running during the darkest days and made victory possible. Their achievements came at a terrible cost with 2,535 British oceangoing merchant ships being sunk and, of the 185,000 men and women serving in the British Merchant Navy at the time, 36,749 sacrificed their lives. Another 4,707 were wounded and 5,720 ended up as prisoners of war. Their casualty rate of twenty-five percent was second only to RAF Bomber Command’s. Thoroughly researched and full of fascinating true accounts, Bernard Edwards’s Churchill’s Thin Grey Line tells the inspiring story of those brave civilian volunteers who fought so gallantly to defend their ships, cargo, and country. “A cracking read which brings home to the reader how much we in [England] owe to the Merchant Navy . . . Bernard Edwards has done them proud.” —The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem
Author : Richard Woodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747813515
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Merchant Navy written by Richard Woodman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in times of crisis the merchant fleet has also offered military assistance. In fact, the merchant convoys and armed cruisers that defied the German blockades to supply Britain in the First World War were so pivotal that they were recognised as a second 'navy' – the Merchant Navy. This fleet again saw service in the Second World War, continuing to keep Britain provisioned even in its darkest hour. Richard Woodman here relates the Merchant Navy's colourful history and brings to life the day-to-day experiences of the seamen.
Author : Clement Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book British Merchant Shipping written by Clement Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. J. Tennent
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904381365
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (813 download)
Download or read book British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in World War One written by A. J. Tennent and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 258 pages, this is a tennents reference book on the loss of every British merchant ship sunk by German submarine in the great war.
Author : Dorothy Burwash
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442651113
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book English Merchant Shipping 1460-1540 written by Dorothy Burwash and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1947-12-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance period. Her account includes a description of the size and design of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business arrangements under which they sailed and the codes of maritime law which governed them, the wages and conditions of work of the common seaman and the degree of navigational skill of the shipmasters and pilots. This was the time when seamen and merchants of northern Europe were beginning to venture out of the familiar home waters and undertake voyages of discovery such as the Bristol expeditions 1501–1504 which in all probability reached Labrador and possibly Greenland. The author concludes that, although English shipping faced stiff competition from traders and seamen of other countries in northern Europe—most particularly the Dutch—the period was one of healthy growth which laid a good foundation for the more brilliant and better known exploits of the Elizabethan age. Based on extensive and detailed research in manuscript sources preserved in the Public Record Office, British libraries and the British Museum, this study is an essential one for serious students of English history.
Author : Richard M. Leighton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book U.S. Merchant Shipping and the British Import Crisis written by Richard M. Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. T. Watts
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ISBN 13 : 9780785548546
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (485 download)
Download or read book My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman written by C. T. Watts and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George William Thomson Omond
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Law of the Sea written by George William Thomson Omond and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854": with an Introductory Summary, Notes, Index, and an Appendix written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Board of Trade
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Merchant Shipping, Tables Showing the Progress of Merchant Shipping in the United Kingdom and the Principal Maritime Countries ... written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Clement Wakefield JONES
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)
Download or read book British Merchant Shipping written by Sir Clement Wakefield JONES and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clement Jones
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ISBN 13 : 9781331302506
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book British Merchant Shipping (Classic Reprint) written by Clement Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Merchant Shipping In January, 1921, it was my privilege to deliver a lecture in the University of Liverpool on the subject of "British Shipping in Relation to British Trade," and shortly afterwards it was suggested that I should expand my paper into a book on British Shipping. This volume is an attempt to carry out the suggestion. My aim in writing it has been to retrace the steps by which we, as a country, have come into the possession of our Mercantile Marine, and to describe the methods that we pursue in our task of maintaining it. I thought at first that the subject of British Shipping was too vast to be dealt with adequately in one volume, for there is enough material in the past history and the present performance of our Merchant Service to fill a shelf. On the other hand, it would be useless to present that busy person, "the general reader," with a whole row of books and expect him to have time to cope with so bulky a work. Some day a complete history of Shipping, with all the details and ramifications of its management, ought to be written, but it will not be a one-volume affair. In the meantime, I have been obliged to condense and omit where I should have preferred to expand. Such literature as exists on the subject of British Shipping is mainly of a highly technical nature - too technical for the comprehension of either the general reader or the young man about to enter a shipping office. 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 : United States. Maritime Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Merchant Marine for Trade and Defense written by United States. Maritime Commission and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
