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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Historical sketches written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rene De La Pedraja
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313035024
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry written by Rene De La Pedraja and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-08-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
Author : United States. Marine Safety Council
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Marine Safety Council written by United States. Marine Safety Council and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Marine Safety Council written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Where the Fleet Begins written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the modern research and development center from its dual origin when David Taylor and George Melville brought science and technology to the emerging steam-driven steel fleet, through a full century of modernization and several reorganizations. Details the constant work to transform vision into reality, and to keep innovation flowing from cutting-edge science and technology into the Navy's ships and submarines.
Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682475530
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Warship Builders written by Thomas Heinrich and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Author : Rodney Watterson
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514464
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Whips to Walls written by Rodney Watterson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.S. Navy on a quest for a prison system that culminated with the opening of Portsmouth Naval Prison in 1908. During World War I, that prison became the center of the Navy’s attempt to reform what many considered outdated means of punishment. Driven by Progressive Era ideals and led by Thomas Mott Osborne, cell doors remained opened, inmates governed themselves, and thousands of rehabilitated prisoners were returned to the fleet. Championed by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, Osborne’s reforms proceeded positively until Vice Adm. William. Sims and others became convinced that too many troublemakers were being returned to the fleet. In response, FDR led an on-site investigation of conditions at Portsmouth prison, which included charges of gross mismanagement and rampant homosexual activity. Although exonerated, Osborne resigned and initiatives were quickly reversed as the Navy returned to a harsher system.
Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436868
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Ships for the Seven Seas written by Thomas Heinrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert M. Browning
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817306793
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)
Download or read book From Cape Charles to Cape Fear written by Robert M. Browning and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Browning brings a fuller, deeper understanding of the Navy's critical role in the war". -- Southern Historian
Author : Robert Taggart
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Evolution of the Vessels Engaged in the Waterborne Commerce of the United States written by Robert Taggart and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Flayhart
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393047103
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The American Line (1871-1902) written by William H. Flayhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the largely unknown early history (1870-1900) of the American Steamship Company--an extremely colorful and eventful time replete with disasters and triumphs.
Author : Norman J. Brouwer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467122238
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Steamboats on Long Island Sound written by Norman J. Brouwer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Fulton built the world's first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, but it was not until after the War of 1812 that these vessels entered service along the Long Island Sound. For 127 years, between 1815 and 1942, steamboats provided a link between New York and cities in southern New England, greatly reducing travel time. Steamboats served the Connecticut cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Derby, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Norwich, and Stonington. They also linked New York to the Rhode Island cities of Newport, Bristol, and Providence as well as the southern Massachusetts cities of Fall River and New Bedford. The rapid expansion of industries in southern New England gave steamboats the additionally important role of transporting raw materials to mills and factories and their finished products to New York. Rivalries between steamboat services led to the construction of faster, larger, and more elegantly furnished boats, resulting in the "floating palaces" that were some of the largest and most majestic steamboats the world had ever seen.
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Patrick Labadie
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Submerged Cultural Resources Study written by C. Patrick Labadie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward William Sloan
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512917
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer written by Edward William Sloan and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic account of the 40-year Naval career of Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, whose contributions to Naval engineering helped usher in the development of the modern American Navy. Focusing on the years during and immediately after the Civil War, this study chronicles the extensive contributions made by Isherwood in expanding the size and scope of the U.S. Navy.
Author : Daniel Lenihan
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Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book Submerged Cultural Resources Study written by Daniel Lenihan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee J. Levert
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789126665
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Naval Warfare written by Lee J. Levert and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outline of the principles and methods of naval warfare, comprehensive and excellently organized, this book will interest the general public as well as naval personnel. Intended for the general reader, Fundamentals of Naval Warfare is a plea for better understanding of the facts about naval warfare in order to support security measures. Ships and bases need trained personnel—the cost of unpreparedness is high. Here is a summary of the history of war, of weapons, of ships, of battles. Here is a discussion of the tactics of shore installations, base planning, harbor defense, employment in naval warfare, amphibious warfare, engineering problems, staff work, logistics, etc. Lieutenant-Commander Lee J. Levert carefully avoids any implication of personal bias, speaking only rarely of specific officers. He presents sample problems in planning and execution of plans to illustrate his points. He feels we have reached the twilight of carriers, as such, and presents the ideal ship-a combination of a battleship and a carrier, in one. Fundamentals of Naval Warfare is primarily a book for students of strategy and tactics, of naval warfare—and for armchair admirals.
