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Book Synopsis The Four-masted Barque Lawhill by : Kenneth Edwards
Download or read book The Four-masted Barque Lawhill written by Kenneth Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawhill was one of the last of the great four-masted barques to make a living in the 20th century, is closely associated in people's minds with the last grain races and the twilight period of the age of sail.
Book Synopsis The Lawhill Story by : John Richardson
Download or read book The Lawhill Story written by John Richardson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the long gone ages of maritime history many ships of sail and steam have captured the imagination; one of them was a sailing vessel named Lawhill, a four masted barque which after being built at Dundee in 1892 lasted right up until 1957.
Book Synopsis In Deep. (Based on a Real Voyage of the Four Mast Barque Lawhill.). by : Francis Baines
Download or read book In Deep. (Based on a Real Voyage of the Four Mast Barque Lawhill.). written by Francis Baines and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mariner's Mirror by : Leonard George Carr Laughton
Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 28men written by Ward Wayne Ward and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge was just one of the catalysts responsible for the disposal of the Australian Commonwealth Shipping Line to Great Britain. In reality the final sale was a gift to a conglomerate of British shipowners; five new passenger ships and two large special purpose vessels all that remained of 57 ships. Ships sold for little more than their scrap value with a small down payment followed by default. 28men depicts an explosive period of endemic industrial disputation, the near general strike that crippled New South Wales in 1917. During this volatile period of strikes, union power, political intrigues and a world at war, there emerged from near anarchy a conservative cohesion of political forces within the Australian government. A coalition of Nationalist and Country Party had ample justification to crush the union movement; the Moreton Bay debacle as flagship of the Sydney Harbour Regatta, the Bass Strait ferry Loongana near tragedy, and the doomed union struggle against the introduction of a foreign time and motion regime. On a permanent confrontational footing strode the Wobblies through the shambles, Industrial Workers of the World who fearlessly fought the establishment with sometimes disastrous results. Out of this turmoil a chance meeting in New York between a young Australian seaman and an I.W.W. organiser grew a love story as turbulent as the period.
Book Synopsis Swinging the Maelstrom by : Malcolm Lowry
Download or read book Swinging the Maelstrom written by Malcolm Lowry and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, the creative process that developed from a rather pessimistic and misanthropic vision of the world as a madhouse (The Last Address, 1936), via the apocalyptic metaphors of a world on the brink of Armageddon (The Last Address, 1939), to a world that, in spite of all its troubles, leaves room for self-irony and humanistic concern (Swinging the Maelstrom,1942–1944).
Book Synopsis The Great Windships by : Brian Stafford
Download or read book The Great Windships written by Brian Stafford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great merchant sailing ships were the original apparatus of globalisation. They brought the East and West together, carrying goods back and forth to the benefit of both, and turning world’s oceans into marine highways. Along them would travel all manner of goods in unheard of volumes – gold, silver, gems, spices coffee, tea and other foodstuffs – as well as ideas, attitudes, religion and disease. Besides their superior armament, the ships’ masters felt they were racially and religiously superior. Their vessels became instruments of colonial conquest, aiding the rise of the West over the much more populous East. They also enabled the opium and slave trades. For better and for worse, they made the modern world. The Great Windships tells an epic story that stretches from the fragile vessels of the Age of Exploration to the mighty windjammers of the late nineteenth century. It follows how the nations of the West participated in this great adventure – their triumphs and shortcomings and the contributions each made to the development of the sailing ship. Full of drama, deceit, high-seas adventure and knowledge, this is a book for anyone who’s ever gazed in awe at a mighty tall ship; or been curious as to their ability and the vital role in the evolution of the modern world.
Download or read book Engineers written by Matthew Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and illustrates engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural influences and personalities have brought it to its present state. For professional and student architects and engineers.
Download or read book The Last of the Wind Ships written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic record of early twentieth-century maritime history.
Download or read book Joseph Conrad written by Peter Villiers and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master's ticket and commanding the barque Otago. This book traces his sea-career, and shows how Captain Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski, master mariner, became Joseph Conrad, master novelist. In addition to a new analysis of Conrad as mariner, the book contains a wealth of detail about the merchant service in the late nineteenth century-the economics of sail, the cargoes, the competition with steam, the skill and teamwork required to maneuver a windjammer, the harsh realities and dangers of everyday life at sea.
Download or read book Sea Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Syren & Shipping Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Development of Crude Oil Tankers by : Ray Solly
Download or read book The Development of Crude Oil Tankers written by Ray Solly and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book, Dr. Solly examines the history of crude oil tankers from early days when this vital commodity was carried aboard ordinary sailing vessels, through the innovative designs that resulted in significant breakthroughs leading to early single-hulled VLCCs, and the later stronger hence safer double-hulled vessel. The professional reader will identify with much of the author’s thinking, especially his handling of the enormous advances in shipboard techniques, and examination of excellent contributions made by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) from its conception in 1948, to its penetratingly effective work of today. Special attention is paid to their profound influence on the industry through MARPOL and SOLAS innovations, including arguably the greatest contribution made to tanker safety and environmental protection by Inert Gas Systems (IGS) and Crude Oil Washing (COW). Non-seagoing readers in allied shipping professions, and that huge army of ship enthusiasts, will learn a great deal about the ins-and-outs of an industry which, for the immediate future, underpins virtually every aspect of practical 21st Century living. Ray Solly’s authoritative story is lavishly supported by 211 images (many of which have never previously been published), plus accounts of two recent voyages aboard a Norwegian North sea shuttle tanker, and a product carrier. Both passenger trips not only updated his professional knowledge but provided penetrating insight into current maritime practices. Each confirmed his convincing observation that today’s crude oil carriers present the safest and most regulated form of transportation in the world.
Book Synopsis My Year Before the Mast by : Annette Brock Davis
Download or read book My Year Before the Mast written by Annette Brock Davis and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, a young Canadian woman rejected the expectations of society and her upper-class family and became a crew member aboard one of the last great four-masted sailing vessels that still plied the ocean. It was not an easy task. Young Annette had to fight pressures from her family, rejection from schools of navigation, and doubts from ship owners. When she finally found a berth as an apprentice seaman, she faced hostility from officers and crew, who grumbled that she should be home "raising babies." In the end, however, Annette won their respect, taking in sails, standing night watches, hauling and coiling ropes all the tasks the men were doing, with no concession to a girl’s lesser strength. My Year Before the Mast tells the story of Annette Brock Davis’s life on the sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line. Her courage and determination to break into a closed male world are central to this book, but we cannot ignore the fact that, while this is a book about a woman’s struggle, it is also a book about the sea. Davis brings to life an era long gone, and introduces an incredible cast of characters the crew, officers, and passengers, each with his own foibles, humour, generosity, and flashes of meanness. But through it all, Annette emerges as the most remarkable character of them all.
Book Synopsis Square Rigged Sailing Ships by : David R. MacGregor
Download or read book Square Rigged Sailing Ships written by David R. MacGregor and published by Fountain Press, Limited. This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lloyd's Missing Vessel Book 1929 - 1954 by : Lloyd's Register Foundation
Download or read book Lloyd's Missing Vessel Book 1929 - 1954 written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1929-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd's of London's Missing Vessel Books lists ships posted as missing to settle insurance claims. The books are a unique resource that can assist in identifying shipwrecks, and the digitisation effort aims to make them more accessible to researchers and enthusiasts. The project is part of the Unpath'd Waters initiative, which seeks to make it easier to research and discover the UK's maritime heritage.
Book Synopsis Four-Masted Ships by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Four-Masted Ships written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Dundonald (ship), Esmeralda (BE-43), Falls of Clyde (ship), Herzogin Cecilie, Kings County (barque), Kruzenshtern (ship), Lawhill, Moshulu, Msy Wind Song, Msy Wind Spirit, Omega (barque), Pamir (ship), Passat (ship), Peking (ship), Pommern (ship), Sedov, Spanish ship Juan Sebastian Elcano (1927), USS Robert H. McCurdy (SP-3157), Viking (barque). Excerpt: Pamir was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957 she had been outmoded by modern bulk-carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium's inability to finance much-needed repairs or to recruit sufficient sail-trained officers caused severe technical difficulties. On 21 September 1957 she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores, with only six survivors rescued after an extensive search. The four-masted barque was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, where she was launched on 29 July 1905. She had a steel hull and tonnage of 3,020 GRT (2,777 net). She had an overall length of 114.5 m (375 ft), a beam of about 14 m (46 ft) and a draught of 7.25 m (23.5 ft). Three masts stood 51.2 m (168 ft) above deck and the main yard was 28 m (92 ft) wide. She carried a total of 3,800 m (40,900 ft ) of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 knots (30 km/h). Her regular cruise speed was around 8-9 knots. She was the fifth of ten near sister ships. She was commissioned on 18 October 1905 and used by the Laeisz company in the South American nitrate trade. By 1914 she had made eight voyages to Chile, taking between 64 and about 70 days for a one-way trip from Hamburg to Valparaiso or Iquique, the foremost Chilean nitrate ports at the time. During World War I she stayed in port in the Canary Islands. Due to...
