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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Foundation Shipbuilder written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. J. Hoving
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444041
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age written by A. J. Hoving and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1671, Dutch diplomat and scientist Nicolaes Witsen published a book that served, among other things, as an encyclopedia for the “shell-first” method of ship construction. In the centuries since, Witsen’s rather convoluted text has also become a valuable source for insights into historical shipbuilding methods and philosophies during the “Golden Age” of Dutch maritime trade. However, as André Wegener Sleeswyk’s foreword notes, Witsen’s work is difficult to access not only for its seventeenth-century Dutch language but also for the vagaries of its author’s presentation. Fortunately for scholars and students of nautical archaeology and shipbuilding, this important but chaotic work has now been reorganized and elucidated by A. J. Hoving and translated into English by Alan Lemmers. In Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, Hoving, master model builder for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sorts out the steps in Witsen’s method for building a seventeenth-century pinas by following them and building a model of the vessel. Experimenting with techniques and materials, conducting research in other publications of the time, and rewriting as needed to clarify and correct some vital omissions in the sequence, Hoving makes Witsen’s work easier to use and understand. Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age is an indispensable guide to Witsen’s work and the world of his topic: the almost forgotten basics of a craftsmanship that has been credited with the flourishing of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. To view a sample of Ab Hoving’s ship model drawings, please visit: http://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/AbHoving.htm
Author : John Richard Steffy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603445207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks written by John Richard Steffy and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume details the complex art of wooden shipbuilding in ancient and early modern times. The text includes discussion of ancient, medieval, and post-medieval shipwrecks, which represent a cross section of technology as seen through a select group of archaeological finds.
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Shipbuilder written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Loren C. Steffy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446648
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Thought like a Ship written by Loren C. Steffy and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Richard “Dick” Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy’s job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle. He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he’d been an electrician in a small, land-locked town in Pennsylvania. He held no advanced degrees—his understanding of ships was entirely self-taught. Yet he would find himself half a world away from his home town, planning to reassemble a ship that last sailed during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he planned to do it using mathematical formulas and modeling techniques that he’d developed in his basement as a hobby. The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, Steffy said ships spoke to him. Steffy joined a team, including friend and fellow scholar George Bass, that laid a foundation for the field of nautical archaeology. Eventually moving to Texas A&M University, his lack of the usual academic credentials caused him to be initially viewed with skepticism by the university’s administration. However, his impressive record of publications and his skilled teaching eventually led to his being named a full professor. During the next thirty years of study, reconstruction, and modeling of submerged wrecks, Steffy would win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and would train most of the preeminent scholars in the emerging field of nautical archaeology. Richard Steffy’s son Loren, an accomplished journalist, has mined family memories, archives at Texas A&M University and elsewhere, his father’s papers, and interviews with former colleagues to craft not only a professional biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, but also the first history of a field that continues to harvest important new discoveries from the depths of the world’s oceans.
Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682475530
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Warship Builders written by Thomas Heinrich and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Author : James Douglas MacBride
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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding written by James Douglas MacBride and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren Curtis Riess
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492262
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Ship That Held Up Wall Street written by Warren Curtis Riess and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship. Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologists—Warren Riess and Sheli Smith—to direct the excavation and analysis of the ship’s remains. As it turned out, the mystery ship’s age and type meant that its careful study would help answer some important questions about the commerce and transportation of an earlier era of American history. The Ship that Held Up Wall Street tells the whole story of the discovery, excavation, and study of what came to be called the “Ronson ship site,” named for the site’s developer, Howard Ronson. Entombed for more than two hundred years, the Princess Carolina proved to be the first major discovery of a colonial merchant ship. Years of arduous analytical work have led to critical breakthroughs revealing how the ship was designed and constructed, its probable identity as a vessel built in Charleston, South Carolina, its history as a merchant ship, and why and how it came to be buried in Manhattan.
Author : A. Campbell Holms
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Practical Shipbuilding written by A. Campbell Holms and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Heave Together written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy van Duivenvoorde
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492319
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding written by Wendy van Duivenvoorde and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.
Author : Roy Willmarth Kelly
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Shipbuilding Industry written by Roy Willmarth Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Timberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1028 pages
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Download or read book The Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492861
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Rise & Fall of British Shipbuilding written by Anthony Burton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of the following century the British merchant fleet ranked just 38 in the world. The glory days of sail had given way to the introduction of the steam age. Traditional shipwrights had railed against new industrial methods resulting in the infamous demarcation disputes. Talented men, like Brunel and Armstrong, had always sought change and development, but too many shipbuilders were relying on old technologies. From building mighty battleships and extravagant ocean liners, the nation became complacent and its yards were eventually no longer as innovative as their foreign competitors. In the twenty-first century, British shipbuilding has shrunk to a mere fraction of its former size and has become almost totally dependent on government contracts.The popularity of and fascination with this subject has prompted a new edition of Anthony Burton’s successful book. With fresh images and a new, final chapter, the story of the rise and cataclysmic fall of British shipbuilding has been brought right up to date.
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Total Pages : 2150 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book International Shipping and Shipbuilding Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book International Shipping & Shipbuilding Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1966-1973 include British shipbuilding compendium (1969-1970 called UK and overseas shipbuilding compendium; 1971, UK and overseas shipbuilding and marine compendium).
