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Author : Erik Hofman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Steam Yachts written by Erik Hofman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780944580080
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book "Medea" written by Craig Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Dunn
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399059750
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Steam Yachts at War written by Steve Dunn and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and European royalty, American magnates, the landed aristocracy and the nouveau riche, but when wars came, in 1898 and 1914, they were quickly transformed into warships, and many of their crews became warriors rather than servants. The US Navy was the first to recognise the potential of these elegant vessels. In the Spanish-American war of 1898, the USN – short of ships to operate a blockade of Spanish-owned Cuba – purchased twenty-eight of them and turned them into patrol craft and bombardment ships. In Britain in 1914 steam yachts became a stop gap navy, filling in for neglected investment in small craft. The USN followed suit in 1917. Their wonderful interiors were ripped out, antiquated guns and sometimes depth charges fitted, and their crews signed into the naval reserves. Around the coasts of the Britain and France, in the Mediterranean and the USA, Canada, these former luxurious playthings now attacked land positions and fought surface warships and U-boats. They interdicted blockade runners, escorted convoys, were used as depot ships, served as hospitals afloat and undertook a host of other functions. In all, some 300 yachts fought at sea. This new book, lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans of pre-war and wartime steam yachts from a world now lost to view, tells their story and the stories of the men who served in them. It examines their peacetime origins and development, describes their owners and designers, and considers their naval deployment, the conditions under which the crews lived and worked, the many and varied duties assigned to the yachts, and their successes and failures together with the losses sustained. In just a couple of generations these beautiful craft progressed from status symbols to instruments of war to complete extinction; Steam Yachts at War tells this compelling story.
Author : L. Francis Herreshoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493073427
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Yachting written by L. Francis Herreshoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of Yachting presents a panoramic view of yachting, providing an insightful introduction to the pleasures, craft, and history of the sport, with emphasis on the era of the great steam yachts. It is a meticulous account based on accurate knowledge and detailed research. Most yachting histories have been so much influenced by the nationality of the author that the British and American versions are quite different, but L. Francis Herreshoff was equally familiar with both sides. He has given a much more factual account of the international races than can be found in other writings. This book will appeal to the large group of amateur and professional seamen who strive to keep alive the traditions and lore of sail. The book was first published by Sheridan House in 1963 under the title An Introduction to Yachting and reprinted in 1980. The title of this new paperback edition, The Golden Age of Yachting, more accurately reflects the treasures found in this magnificent volume.
Author : John Choules
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429020164
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star written by John Choules and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Overton Choules
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star written by John Overton Choules and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Butler Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Engineering Index written by John Butler Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur M. Winfield
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752423617
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or the Deserted Steam Yacht written by Arthur M. Winfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or the Deserted Steam Yacht by Arthur M. Winfield
Author : Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080713841X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Author : John W. Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Watt and the Steam Age written by John W. Grant and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Steamship and Other Power Vessels written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Bass
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Steamboats Reigned in Florida written by Bob Bass and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Robert Fulton installed a steam engine in the side wheel boat North River Steamboat in 1807, the world changed forever. With this innovation, riversthe natural transportation arteries of the South - were opened as routes to transport travelers and goods to previously inaccessible areas. Today, the steamboat triggers romantic images of adventures on the Mississippi taken from Mark Twain. But the opening of the major rivers in Florida to steamboat navigation was vital to the state's development." "This history brings together the author's unique experiences traveling Florida's steamboat routes with the historical record of the innovations and explorations that led to the steamboat's reign as the preferred mode of transport before the dawn of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Frederic Schiller Cozzens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yachts and Yachting written by Frederic Schiller Cozzens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Outing written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Master, Mate and Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Galt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Steam-boat written by John Galt and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
