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Book Synopsis Canadian Pacific Afloat, 1883-1968 by : George Musk
Download or read book Canadian Pacific Afloat, 1883-1968 written by George Musk and published by London : Canadian Pacific. This book was released on 1968 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Essays on British Columbia by : J. Friesen
Download or read book Historical Essays on British Columbia written by J. Friesen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1976 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive character of B.C., which is found not only in its spectacular environment, but also in its community, its politics and its past, is admirably captured in this collection of 16 essays.
Book Synopsis The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950 by : Greg Kennedy
Download or read book The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950 written by Greg Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchant navies represent economic and industrial strength. This study revises the definition of maritime power through a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation for the roles played by the merchant marine of a nation.
Book Synopsis A Bridge of Ships by : James Pritchard
Download or read book A Bridge of Ships written by James Pritchard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Bridge of Ships James Pritchard tells the story of the rapidly changing circumstances and forceful personalities that shaped government shipbuilding policy. He examines the ownership and expansion of the shipyards and the role of ship repairing, as well as recruitment and training of the labour force. He also tells the story of the struggle for steel and the expansion of ancillary industries. Pritchard provides a definitive picture of Canada's wartime ship production, assesses the cost (more than $1.2 billion), and explains why such an enormous effort left such a short-lived legacy. The story of Canada's shipbuilding industry is as astonishing as that of the nation's wartime navy. The personnel of both expanded more than fifty times, yet the history of wartime shipbuilding remains virtually unknown. With the disappearance of the Canadian shipbuilding industry from both the land and memory, it is time to recall and assess its contribution to Allied victory.
Book Synopsis The American Line (1871-1902) by : William H. Flayhart
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.
Download or read book Pacific Apostle written by David D McKay and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, David O. McKay embarked on a journey that forever changed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His visits to the Latter-day Saint missions, schools, and branches in the Pacific solidified the Church leadership's commitment to global outreach. As importantly, the trip inspired McKay's own initiatives when he later became Church president. McKay's account of his odyssey brings to life the story of the Church of Jesus Christ’s transformation into a global faith. Throughout his diary, McKay expressed his humanity, curiosity, and fascination with cultures and places--the Maori hongi, East Asian customs, Australian wildlife, and more. At the same time, he and his travel companion, Hugh J. Cannon, detailed the Latter-day Saint missionary life of the era, closely observing logistical challenges and cultural differences, guiding various church efforts, and listening to followers' impressions and concerns. Reid L. Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher's meticulous notes provide historical, religious, and general context for the reader.Blending travelogue with history, Pacific Apostle illuminates the thought and work of an essential figure in the twentieth-century Church of Jesus Christ.
Book Synopsis The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950 by : S W Field
Download or read book The Merchant Marine in International Affairs, 1850-1950 written by S W Field and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed up by numerous industrial experiences, illustrating the practical obstacles when implementing any quality change. Focusing on the essentials of quality (strategies, principles and techniques) designing for quality is also discussed and new techniques for assessing the risks and costs of non-conformance are introduced. The result is an insight to quality engineering that will prove invaluable to engineering students and professionals.
Book Synopsis Disaster At Sea by : William Flayhart
Download or read book Disaster At Sea written by William Flayhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flayhart delivers a gripping chronicle of mishap and mayhem . . . filled with danger and heroism and rich with detail."—Sea Power A colorful and deadly history of ocean liner disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Disaster at Sea is a chronicle of the most frightening episodes in the maritime history of the North Atlantic. From 1850 to the present day, the Atlantic has been home to hundreds of ocean liners and cruise ships, each more lavish than the last...all of them symbols of wealth and luxury. Perhaps this is why readers have always been fascinated by the lives of these ships—and their deaths. Many of us know the stories of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Both tragedies caused tremendous loss of life, even as they made the ships immortal. But there are many little-known accounts of extraordinary survivals at sea, such as the Inman and International liner City of Chicago that jammed her bow into an Irish peninsula in 1892 but stayed afloat long enough for all to be rescued, or the City of Richmond that survived a dangerous fire in 1891, and a year earlier the City of Paris, whose starboard engine exploded at full speed in the mid-Atlantic and yet miraculously still made port. Often such tales are forgotten even if the ship sank: In 1898 the Holland-America liner Veendam hit a submerged wreck and sank at sea, but all lives were saved—so this vessel's dramatic story seemed less important in maritime history than incidents involving human loss. As recently as 2000, the Sea Breeze I sank off the East Coast of the United States while on a positioning voyage, but all her crew members were rescued in a heroic effort by U.S. Coast Guard helicopters. These stories and many others are dramatic, and acclaimed maritime scholar William Flayhart has spent much of the last forty years in search of material from which to create colorful narratives. Author of The American Line: 1871–1902 and coauthor of Majesty at Sea and the first edition of QE2, Flayhart retells classic ocean liner disaster stories while bringing to light never-before-published but compelling episodes in man's ongoing battle with the sea. Originally published in hardcover under the title Perils of the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Perils Of The Atlantic by : William Flayhart
Download or read book Perils Of The Atlantic written by William Flayhart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perils of the Atlantic" captures the stories of a number of vessels that experienced adventure on the high seas, from the tragic loss of the liner "Arctic" in 1854 to the swift sinking of the Italian "Andrea Doria" in 1956.
Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diwan Revisited written by Holl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Thunderstruck written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect murder. With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalogs, 1963- by :
Download or read book The National Union Catalogs, 1963- written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ninety-five Years Young by : Cindy Zimmerman
Download or read book Ninety-five Years Young written by Cindy Zimmerman and published by Wildflower Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the history of the S.S. Keewatin from its construction in 1907 in Scotland, its operation by the Canadian Pacific Railway from 1907 to 1965, to its present usage as a privately owned maritime museum in Douglas/Saugatuck, Michigan. The book also describes and illustrates the boat's operation, its scheduled route, and most importantly, stories and photos of those whose lives it affected, past and present.
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Book Synopsis The Canadian Naval Chronicle, 1939-1945 by : Robert A. Darlington
Download or read book The Canadian Naval Chronicle, 1939-1945 written by Robert A. Darlington and published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II the Canadian Navy embarked on a five-year anti-submarine offensive with a tiny fleet of six destroyers and a navy largely untrained in submarine warfare. This chronicle of ship successes and losses charts the increase in fighting capability of the Canadian naval forces and their growing success against enemy submarines and surface warships. From the dreadful loss of sixteen ships out of a single convoy in 1941, to the painstaking teamwork of hunting down and destroying an asdic contact a few years later, the authors have managed to capture the drama of these events in considerable detail. The information provided in each account represents comprehensive research into the incident from available records and from personal recollections and interviews collected by the authors. Each includes the ships and crews involved on both sides, their movements just prior to the event, the action itself, the casualty lists, and the medals awarded as a result of the action. This book also contains, for the first time, a complete record of all the Canadian owned Merchant ships lost, as well as a table of RCAF Squadron successes against enemy U-boats. --
Book Synopsis Shipping Literature of the Great Lakes by : LeRoy Barnett
Download or read book Shipping Literature of the Great Lakes written by LeRoy Barnett and published by East Lansing : Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the last century and a half, the Great Lakes shipping companies have printed a substantial amount of material relating to their operations. These publications are mainly sailing schedules, tourist promotional pieces, annual reports, and so forth, primarily issued in the form of pamphlets and brochures. This literature is scattered all across North America in scores of public repositories, quite often uncataloged in ephemera collections. This situation makes it very difficult for someone to find Great Lakes navigation paper, particularly if they are looking for a specific item.".