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Book Synopsis Lifeboat Directory by : Nicholas Leach
Download or read book Lifeboat Directory written by Nicholas Leach and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federal Item Name Directory for Supply Cataloging by :
Download or read book Federal Item Name Directory for Supply Cataloging written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Directory of Names, Pennant Numbers and Addresses of All Members of the International Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes by : International Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes
Download or read book A Directory of Names, Pennant Numbers and Addresses of All Members of the International Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes written by International Ship Masters' Association of the Great Lakes and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rudder Marine Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.
Book Synopsis Directives, Publications and Reports Index by : United States. Coast Guard
Download or read book Directives, Publications and Reports Index written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipping written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory by : Great Britain. General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen
Download or read book The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory written by Great Britain. General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marine Catalog and Buyers' Directory by :
Download or read book Marine Catalog and Buyers' Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lifeboat Baronet by : Janet Gleeson
Download or read book The Lifeboat Baronet written by Janet Gleeson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical biography, the life story of the founder of the United Kingdom’s royal charitable lifeboat service is revealed for the first time. Established in the nineteenth century when death from shipwreck was a tragic reality, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) was created with the sole mission of saving lives. But little is known about the RNLI’s founder, Sir William Hillary. A handsome, charismatic figure known to be something of a philanderer, Hillary was a social climber born to a slave-holder’s family in Liverpool who mingled with royalty and married an heiress. So how did Hillary become one of England’s national heroes? Historian and bestselling author of The Arcanum Janet Gleeson reveals for the first time how a charming adventurer was inspired to lead the historic campaign for the creation of the National Institute for the Preservation of Life (today’s RNLI). Despite having never learned to swim himself, Hillary braved terrifying storms to save hundreds of lives during his quest. Drawing on previously unpublished letters—many of them written by Hillary himself—Gleeson narrates the fascinating story of the RNLI’s development, along with the Hillary’s political ties and private tribulations. For history lovers and fans of maritime adventure stories, Lifeboat Baronet is an absorbing account of how a Regency rake improbably became an important Victorian philanthropist and reformer.
Book Synopsis Official Congressional Directory by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Official Congressional Directory written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory by :
Download or read book Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ward's North of England Directory by : Robert Ward
Download or read book Ward's North of England Directory written by Robert Ward and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rudder Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom by :
Download or read book Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the United Kingdom written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on with total page 2812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: