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Download or read book Steaming East written by Sarah Searight and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 19th century, it took months to get from England to India, clear at the other end of the Empire. Better communications were imperative. This is the story of how it was done - laboriously, stubbornly, sometimes misguidedly - by several generations of entrepeneurs, engineers, inventors and military men, first with steamships and then by railway. It is a story full of colourful anecdotes and even more colourful characters, from Captain Charles Chesney (who tried - and failed - to establish a steamship route on the Euphrates River to the founder of the Orient Express (who rejoiced in the name of Georges Nagelmackers) to Major James Buster Browne, builder of a rail line across a Northwest Indian desert so inhospitable that 32 soldiers died there of heat stroke when their train broke down. The account spans roughly a century, from the first tentative use of steam engines in ships to the decline of the great age of railways following World War I.
Book Synopsis McCracken's Practical Navigation by : John James McCracken
Download or read book McCracken's Practical Navigation written by John James McCracken and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Linnean Society of London
Download or read book Transactions written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer by : Guy Warner
Download or read book World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer written by Guy Warner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family. He joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, flying more than a dozen landplanes, seaplanes and flying boats, gaining his wings as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant. In July 1917 he was posted to the newly commissioning aircraft carrier HMS Furious, which would be based at Scapa Flow and Rosyth. He served in this ship until February 1919, flying Short 184 seaplanes and then Sopwith 1½ Strutters off the deck. He also flew a large number of other types during this time from shore stations at Turnhouse, East Fortune and Donibristle. He served with important and well-known naval airmen including Dunning, Rutland (of Jutland) and Bell Davies VC. He witnessed Dunnings first successful landing on a carrier flying a Sopwith Pup in 1917 and his tragic death a few days later. He also witnessed the Tondern raid in 1918, the worlds first carrier strike mission. He took part in more than a dozen sweeps into the North Sea by elements of the Grand Fleet and Battle Cruiser Fleet. He carried out reconnaissance missions off the coast of Denmark, landing in the sea to be picked up by waiting destroyers. He witnessed the surrender of the High Seas Fleet. Promoted to Captain, he acted as temporary CO of F Squadron for a time postwar.
Download or read book Aleppo written by Philip Mansel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world - successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.
Download or read book United States Bulletin Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cunard Quadruple-screw Atlantic Liner "Aquitania," 45,647 Gross Tons, Britain's Largest Steamship by :
Download or read book The Cunard Quadruple-screw Atlantic Liner "Aquitania," 45,647 Gross Tons, Britain's Largest Steamship written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Malacca Conspiracy by : Don Brown
Download or read book The Malacca Conspiracy written by Don Brown and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against the exotic background of the Straights of Malacca, a daring plot is hatched to finance a nuclear attack against American cities, and Zack and Diane are thrust into the midst of a sizzling race against the clock to foil the conspiracy before disaster strikes"--From publisher description.
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Download or read book Engineering; an Illustrated Weekly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small Craft by : George Henry Pasche Muhlhauser
Download or read book Small Craft written by George Henry Pasche Muhlhauser and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by : United States Naval Institute
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unbroken written by Alastair Mars and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bleak, heartbreaking days of early 1942, when beleaguered Malta was reeling under bombardment and blockade and Rommel was making his last desperate thrust towards Egypt, only one British submarine was operating in the western Mediterranean - the tiny, 600-ton Unbroken. In twelve months in the Med, Unbroken sank over 30,000 tons of enemy shipping, took part in four secret operations, three successful gun actions, and survived a total of over 400 depth charges, as well as innumerable air and surface attacks. This account of the 26-year-old Alastair Mars' command of this outstandingly successful submarine embraces her construction, sea trials and voyage to Gibraltar preparatory to her vital role in the Mediterranean. Once there, she was responsible for the destruction of two Italian cruisers and played a pivotal part in Operation Pedestal, the convoy that saved Malta from surrender. Alastair Mars writes simply and without pretension, and his words evoke the claustrophobic yet heroic world of the submariner.
Download or read book Modern Navigation written by William Hall and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St. Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St. Nicholas written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Navy and Allies from October 1944 to September 1945 by : Kenneth Edwards (Commander.)
Download or read book The Royal Navy and Allies from October 1944 to September 1945 written by Kenneth Edwards (Commander.) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marine Engineer and Motorship Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
