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Author : Harvey Cole Estep
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book How Wooden Ships are Built written by Harvey Cole Estep and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William N. Still
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872495111
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Confederate Shipbuilding written by William N. Still and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labour. Each of these subjects is discussed, and the text concludes by joining these problems to the issues of the Civil War.
Author : William N. Still
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN 13 : 9780865264946
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918 written by William N. Still and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.
Author : Basil Greenhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932846195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of the Wooden Ship written by Basil Greenhill and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work touches on the specialized world of wooden-ship building, looking at the endless variations of techniques from country to country, region to region, and over the course of history.
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1473894824
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Wooden Warship Construction written by Brian Lavery and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful book detailing the construction of the Royal Navy’s sailing warships” from the maritime historian and author of Nelson’s Navy (Pirates and Privateers). The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book takes a selection of the best models to both describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of wooden shipbuilding. For this purpose, it reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full color, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, which can be shown far more clearly than described. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. “This book includes plentiful visual representations of actual ships in model form and the accompanying graphics make for wonderful reading . . . I cannot express enough how enjoyable this book is to read.”—Spotter Up “A high-quality book which is recommended to all ship historians and modellers.”—Military Modelling
Author : William A. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region written by William A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970359
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Sea and Civilization written by Lincoln Paine and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
Author : Courtney Ellis Peckham
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738510828
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Essex Shipbuilding written by Courtney Ellis Peckham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three centuries, shipbuilding flourished in Essex, a small village wrapped around a shallow tidal estuary that flows into Ipswich Bay. From sturdy little Chebacco boats to the tough but graceful fishing schooners that plied the Grand Banks, Essex vessels became known throughout the maritime world as swift and strong fishermen, and Essex shipbuilding became synonymous with craftsmanship of the highest order. More than four thousand ships slid down the ways destined for ports such as Gloucester, Boston, and New York. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, the industry had vanished and this extraordinary chapter in American maritime history was closed. Essex Shipbuilding recalls an era when dozens of vessels in different stages of construction lined the Essex River and the shipyard gangs worked six days a week, year-round, in any weather. Featuring the photograph collection of Dana A. Story, Essex Shipbuilding illustrates the firms of A.D. Story and Tarr & James, who built the famous racing schooners Mayflower, Columbia, and Gertrude L. Thebaud, and the high-lining fishermen Elsie and Adventure. Essex Shipbuilding also depicts these vessels at sea-fishing, racing, or pursuing more unusual work, from Arctic exploration to naval service in both world wars to rumrunning during Prohibition.
Author : Emile Konijnenburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shipbuilding from Its Beginnings written by Emile Konijnenburg and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Palmer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427343
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Organizing the Shipyards written by David Palmer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Organizing the Shipyards, David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II. These yards had tremendous strategic importance because of their location in the Northeast's three port regions: New York Shipbuilding in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, which led each of the drives, pioneered industrial unionism and became one of the largest of the new CIO unions, with a quarter of a million members in an industry that employed more wartime workers than any other. Using oral history interviews with former union officials, organizing staff, and rank-and-file workers, Palmer presents both a narrative and a scholarly account. He covers the successes and the failures of union organizing in the yards themselves, in neighboring communities, and sometimes in outreach to political leaders as elevated as Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the process, Palmer offers a reassessment of the basis for the early gains of the CIO and also for its subsequent bureaucratization.
Author : Andrew C. Toppan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439611629
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Bath Iron Works written by Andrew C. Toppan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bath Iron Works was established by Gen. Thomas Hyde in 1884 and launched its first ship in 1891. This collection of shipbuilding photographs brings to life the proud history of Bath Iron Works. Since then, the shipyard on the Kennebec River has built dozens of luxurious yachts, hardworking freighters, tugs, trawlers, lightships, and more than two hundred twenty warships for the U.S. Navy. Today, Bath Iron Works continues a shipbuilding tradition that began nearly four hundred years ago when the first ship built in America was constructed just a few miles downriver from Bath. Bath Iron Works showcases a unique collection of photographs that provides a rare view inside one of the nation's great shipyards. The book shows the yard's origins in a few simple buildings, its expansion into a modern shipbuilding facility, and its rapid growth into an industrial powerhouse during World War II. During these years, Bath Iron Works produced famous ships such as the America's Cup defender Ranger, the yachts Aras and Hi-Esmaro, the record-setting destroyer USS Lamson, and fully one fourth of all destroyers built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Bath Iron Works gives an insider's view of these great vessels and many others, as skilled craftspeople turn raw materials into complex ships, each uniquely suited to its purpose.
Author : Fred M Walker
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320728
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Ships and Shipbuilders written by Fred M Walker and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In this new book the author describes the lives and deeds of more the 120 great engineers, scientists, philosophers, businessmen, shipwrights, naval architects and inventors who shaped ship design and shipbuilding world wide. Covering the story chronologically, and going back briefly even to Archimedes, such well-known names as Anthony Deane, Peter the Great, James Watt, Robert Fulton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel share space with lesser known characters like the luckless Frederic Sauvage, a pioneer of screw propulsion who, unable to interest the French navy in his tests in the early 1830s, was bankrupted and landed in debtors prison. With the inclusion of such names as Ben Lexcen, the Australian yacht designer who developed the controversial winged keel for the 1983 Americas Cup, the story is brought right up to date. Concise linking chapters place all these innovators in context so that a clear and fascinating history of the development of ships and shipbuilding emerges from the pages. An original and important new reference book.
Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421436852
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Ships for the Seven Seas written by Thomas Heinrich and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Japanese Naval Shipbuilding written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 026251415X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Ships and Science written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe. "Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. Bouguer's monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise of the Ship) founded a discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to predict a ship's characteristics and performance before it was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer's work as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously untapped primary-source and archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in the contexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Ferreiro describes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science of explaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, ship resistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era's influential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization of ship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from the viewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why the development of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding. A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.
Author : David J. Eyres
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ship Construction written by David J. Eyres and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship Construction is a comprehensive text for students of naval architecture, ship building and construction, and for professional Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Covers the complete ship construction process including the development of ship types, materials and strengths of ships, welding and cutting, shipyard practice, ship structure and outfitting, All the latest developments in technology and shipyard methods, including a new chapter on computer-aided design and manufacture, Essential for students and professionals, particularly those working in shipyards, supervising ship construction, conversion and maintenance. Book jacket.
Author : Scotts' Shipbuilding
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock written by Scotts' Shipbuilding and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1906, this work presents an account of the two hundred years' journey of a shipbuilding company maintained for so long by one family alone. Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, often called Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company established in Greenock on the River Clyde. During its time in Greenock, Scotts built over 1,250 ships. The Scotts began the building of ships in Greenock in 1711, and till the day of publishing this work, their descendants have maintained the high customs which have been formed during these two hundred years. Contents include: The Era of the Sailing Ship The Development of the Steamship A Century's Work for the Navy Yachting and Yachts The Twentieth Century Efficiency: Design: Administration The Shipbuilding Yard The Engine and Boiler Works
