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Author : Trygvie Jensen
Publisher : Trygvie Jensen
ISBN 13 : 0976478277
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Wooden Boats and Iron Men written by Trygvie Jensen and published by Trygvie Jensen. This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randi Svensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920831110
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Wooden Boats, Iron Men written by Randi Svensen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For wooden boat lovers, the name is synonymous with boats designed with an unerring eye for beautiful and balanced lines, and performance to match. It brings back memories of idyllic holidays afloat in rented motor cruisers; the race-winning Halvorsen brothers, their superb racing yachts, Peer Gynt, Anitra V and Freya; and the Halvorsen-built Gretel; and the boats of World War II - fast 38s, 62s and Fairmiles, and the motor cruiser that sank the Japanese mini submarine in Sydney Harbour.
Author : David D. Bruhn
Publisher : Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 0788443259
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Wooden Ships and Iron Men written by David D. Bruhn and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens
Author : Benjamin Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616316X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Small Boats and Daring Men written by Benjamin Armstrong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.
Author : Tim Troll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578508795
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Sailing for Salmon written by Tim Troll and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska is one of the great commercial fisheries on earth. More than half of the world's sockeye salmon return to "The Bay" every year. Sailing for Salmon is a nostalgic look back, through photographs and recollections, on the "sailboat days," a time when these salmon were harvested from sailboats - a time still within living memory. These sailboats, called Bristol Bay double-enders, were well-crafted and beautiful, but obsolete for most of their history. The use of motorized fishing vessels was finally allowed in 1951. The Bristol Bay commercial fishery has changed much since then, but the sailboat remains the iconic image of a fishery born on the wind.
Author : Jon Freeman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671253745
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (537 download)
Download or read book The Complete Book of Wargames written by Jon Freeman and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and evaluates in terms of presentation, rules, playability, realism, and complexity, wargames located in various ages and in real and imaginary lands
Author : Charles Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781491015179
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (151 download)
Download or read book When Boats Were Made of Wood and Men Were Made of Steel written by Charles Draper and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We thought we had it tough with a test. As history shows, politics was at one time the only way on to the patrol. I can only guess what must have been required in order to be appointed. Politicians could tell you or your family that his quota for this year was filled but perhaps next year he could do something. They could put that particular carrot on a stick and dangle it for a solid year. All politicians need to be elected or re-elected, so one may have been asked to help in some small way. Perhaps they might work the polls, offer to distribute literature, walk the streets campaigning for the man, or offer a child up as a sacrificial lamb if need be. Of course, there were never any blood alters found in the ruins of old Atlantic City, but a dagger or two have shown up and "et tu Brutus" was heard uttered after many an election.All who were lifeguards, be it for a single year, a decade, or in some cases more than half a century, are the reason sons and daughters were born and some families even exist today. We did, in one very important way, alter the world. We saved lives. We shared in helping Atlantic City to become the Queen she was. This is the tradition of the Atlantic City Beach Patrol.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066665
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Author : Jessica Berry
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691451
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Poole Iron Age Logboat written by Jessica Berry and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of significant multi-disciplinary work carried out by a variety of specialists, from conservators to woodworking and boatbuilding experts, exploring the history of the Poole Iron Age logboat (today imposingly displayed in the entrance to Poole Museum in Dorset) and also its functionality – or lack of – as a vessel.
Author : David Kunz and Bill Simpson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146712401X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River written by David Kunz and Bill Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"--
Author : Vince Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892327079
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Doing of the Thing written by Vince Welch and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Bleecker Luce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Text-book of Seamanship written by Stephen Bleecker Luce and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore R Treadwell
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513646
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Splinter Fleet written by Theodore R Treadwell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Boat who Wouldn't Float written by Farley Mowat and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1970 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly. How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.
Author : Anthony John Lewery
Publisher : David & Charles Uk
ISBN 13 : 9780715301456
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Flowers Afloat written by Anthony John Lewery and published by David & Charles Uk. This book was released on 1996 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the traditional paintwork which adorns British narrow boats.
Author : Douglas Bryant
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544869650
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Navy Gave Me Shoes written by Douglas Bryant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a WWII Veteran of the US Navy Submarine Service from his growing up years in the hard times of the Great Depression to the end of his 25 year Navy career.
Author : Christopher E. Bowman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994249098
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Me, the Boat and a Guy Named Bob written by Christopher E. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1972 a 20 year old kid from California took off to see the world. His journies led him down the East African coast and across several oceans to a magical Caribbean island and the building of a beautiful boat. This schooner, christened Water Pearl, was owned in part by he legendary musician Bob Dylan. "I'm either in New York or on the West Coast or down in the Caribbean. Me and another guy own a boat down there," he once said. Finally, after forty years, here is the story of how through a cosmic chain of events this remarkable story came to pass.
