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Book Synopsis The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail by : Cyril L. Hume
Download or read book The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail written by Cyril L. Hume and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae are well known clipper ships and in this book the reader will become acquainted with equally important ships such as Marco Polo and Samuel Plimsoll and others. There is even the story of the Plimsoll Line and the dubious origin of that name.
Book Synopsis Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail by : Sam Jefferson
Download or read book Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail written by Sam Jefferson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaking speed records carrying tea back from China, the ships combined beauty with breathtaking performance. With over 200 gorgeous paintings and illustrations, and thrilling descriptions of the adventures and races on the water, this beautiful book brings the era vividly to life. Chapters include: The origins of the clippers - from the gold rush to the tea trade A hell ship voyage with 'Bully' Waterman, one of the most successful and notorious captains of the era Marco Polo, the fastest ship in the world - her rise to prominence and subsequent decline Mary Patten's battle with Cape Horn - a lady captain takes charge in a very male world Mutiny aboard the 'wild boat of the Atlantic' The great China tea race of 1866 - an amazingly close race across the world, only decided in the final few miles The Sir Lancelot defies the odds - her eccentric captains and rivalry with the legendary Thermopylae The Cutty Sark's longest voyage First-hand accounts, newspaper reports and log entries add fascinating eyewitness detail, whilst the stunning images show how the designs of these thoroughbreds developed over the years. A wonderful read and worthy celebration of these racehorses of the sea.
Download or read book The Cutty Sark written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Running Her Easting Down by : William F. Baker
Download or read book Running Her Easting Down written by William F. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Days of Sail by : Andrew Shewan
Download or read book The Great Days of Sail written by Andrew Shewan and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Stephanie Barczewski
Download or read book Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Stephanie Barczewski and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have become increasingly interested in how modern national consciousness comes into being through fictional narratives. Literature is of particular importance to this process, for it is responsible for tracing the nations evolution through glorious tales of its history. In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide excellent windows through which to view British culture, because they provide very different perspectives. King Arthur and Robin Hood have traditionally been diametrically opposed in terms of their ideological orientation. The former is a king, a man at the pinnacle of the social and political hierarchy, whereas the latter is an outlaw, and is therefore completely outside conventional hierarchical structures. The fact that two such different figures could simultaneously function as British national heroes suggests that nineteenth-century British nationalism did not represent a single set of values and ideas, but rather that it was forced to assimilate a variety of competing points of view.
Book Synopsis The Cutty Sark Story by : John Richardson
Download or read book The Cutty Sark Story written by John Richardson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this ebook is to create a more vivid impression of an historic event which took place in May 1916 off the South African coast.
Book Synopsis Merchant Sail by : William Armstrong Fairburn
Download or read book Merchant Sail written by William Armstrong Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual by : National Maritime Museum
Download or read book The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual written by National Maritime Museum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with fascinating facts and using original source material about the ship, this is a perfect introduction to the Cutty Sark. Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade in wool from Australia, where for ten years she held the record time for a journey to Britain. After finishing her time in service as cargo ship, and then a training and cadet ship, it was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. This handy and illuminating pocket manual collates original documents to tell the fascinating story of how the legendary Cutty Sark was commissioned, her design and building, life on board and her notable journeys.
Book Synopsis Cutty Sark - Ferreira by : John Richardson
Download or read book Cutty Sark - Ferreira written by John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most famous old sailing ships still extant, Cutty Sark was one of the last clippers built for the China tea trade. Ordered by Captain John Willis of London, her hull was of composite construction, with teak planking on iron frames. Even though she lost one of her most dramatic encounters with her main rival, Thermopylae, she still acquired the admiration of London, for the persistence of her crew. She completed a 16,000-mile journey in 119 days, by no means an illustrious feat; the admiration was the inventiveness of her crew in building makeshift rudders twice, as she had lost her rudder in severe gales. In 1952, the Cutty Sark Preservation Society came together under the auspices of Frank Carr, director of the National Maritime Museum. Finally, in1954, she was opened as a museum at Greenwich.
Book Synopsis The China Clippers by : Basil Lubbock
Download or read book The China Clippers written by Basil Lubbock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an effort to preserve the records of the most perfect type of sailing ship at the very height of its development, and it has been written entirely for sailors and those who are interested in shipping. I have put down as simply as possible the personal histüry of certain ships and that in the plain language of the sea without any attempt to explajn technical or seafaring terms for the benefit of the landsman. The materiell gathered together in this book has been culled from countless abstract log books, as well aa from information supplied to me, not only by the men who sailed the ships but also by their owners, designers and builders. Indeed I have to thank so many people for their help that a page of print would not contain their names, and I can only hope that this book may, perhaps, recall some pleasant sea memories and thus in some slight way recompense them for their kindness und trouble. Reprint of the original edition (1899)
Book Synopsis Brown's Nautical Almanac by : R. Ingram-Brown
Download or read book Brown's Nautical Almanac written by R. Ingram-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Log of the "Cutty Sark" by : Basil Lubbock
Download or read book The Log of the "Cutty Sark" written by Basil Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The “Cutty Sark”: by : Dr. C. Nepean Longridge
Download or read book The “Cutty Sark”: written by Dr. C. Nepean Longridge and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in two volumes in 1933, this amalgamated edition provides an in-depth description of the hull, deck fittings, and rigging of this famous ship, together with a detailed account of the building of a scale model, which was added to the collection at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, England. The first volume gives an account of the ship itself, with plans and full instructions for building the hull, bulwarks, and deck fittings of a scale model. The second volume describes the masts, spars, and rigging of a scale model, and including the builder’s specification for the construction of the original ship. Fully illustrated throughout.
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Book Synopsis The Last of a Salty Breed by : Roy Vaughan
Download or read book The Last of a Salty Breed written by Roy Vaughan and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the Romans built roads to create and maintain their empire, so the British ruled the ocean waves with ships, and created the biggest empire the world has seen. The Last of a Salty Breed tells tales about British ships, seamen, and the many millions of folk who were voluntarily or forcibly shipped to the four corners of the world to create new countries. This book takes a conventional, chronological narrative interspersed by interludes between the chapters. They are light-hearted or poignant in nature, in many cases highlighting the high and low points of seafaring, and the harrowing voyages of times past. The author, a former maritime journalist for the New Zealand Herald and a ship deck officer, adds to the narrative his personal experiences and those of his maritime ancestors, who stretch back to the 1700s. The main “characters” are ships and prominent seafarers who made history one way or another, from Elizabethan mariners to present time, and include the author’s long family history of seafaring. “The dual dialogue and the subject a very worthy one, as to my knowledge there is no history of the New Zealand Merchant Navy, only books about ships and individual shipping companies.” – Captain Hamish Ross, editor of “Sea Breezes,” the worldwide magazine of ships and the sea
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