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The Heyday Of Thames Pleasure Steamers
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Book Synopsis The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic collection of illustrations that capture the golden era of pleasure steamers on the Thames.
Book Synopsis London's Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book London's Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gladwell takes us on a journey down the water, exploring the story of the London pleasure steamer.
Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers by : N. S. Robins
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by N. S. Robins and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Thames pleasure steamers that begins in 1814, when the first steamer arrived in the river to ply her trade. This title uses period photographs, handbills to provide the full story of the boats that came out in the summer and flitted about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.
Book Synopsis Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945
Book Synopsis Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating selection of images and ephemera of these now-lost vessels.
Book Synopsis Thames Coast Pleasure Steamers by : Edward Charles Bexley Thornton
Download or read book Thames Coast Pleasure Steamers written by Edward Charles Bexley Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pleasure Boating on the Thames by : Simon Wenham
Download or read book Pleasure Boating on the Thames written by Simon Wenham and published by History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Victorian period the River Thames underwent a dramatic transformation from a great commercial highway into a vast pleasure-stream. This book traces these changes through the history of the firm that was to popularise pleasure boating on the waterway more than any other.
Book Synopsis Down the River to the Sea by : Leonard G. Lane
Download or read book Down the River to the Sea written by Leonard G. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Down the River to the Sea by : Leonard G. Lane
Download or read book Down the River to the Sea written by Leonard G. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Paddle Steamers of the Thames by : Peter Box
Download or read book Paddle Steamers of the Thames written by Peter Box and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Thames paddle steamers as a means of transport began in the 1820s. They transported millions of holidaymakers along the river and to coastal resorts, initially transporting both cargo and passengers. By the 1860s these vessles were being supplanted by more modern, 'passenger-only' steamers. These new vessels often appeared only in the summer, hence the term 'butterfly boats' to describe them. By the time of the 1871 Bank Holidays Act, steamer routes were well established. The steamers offered a means of escape from the daily drudgery of work, to the 'glamorous' resorts of the Thames Estuary and, later, across the Channel. Until the First World War they were able to compete with other forms of transport and were still popular. However, by the mid-1930s the very concept of a paddle steamer was being threatened by the modern vessels that had appeared. In the late 1960s, the last paddlers were scrapped and with those vessels died - often literally - a Victorian heritage. A few survived in 'static roles' and today, still linger on. Of all the traditional Thames paddle steamers, only Medway Queen survives. She has returned to the Medway and her survival is the key aim of the Medway Queen Preservation Society. In Paddle Steamers of the Thames Peter Box manages to bring back the noises, smells and vibrations of this particular form of transport and an old-fashioned way of travelling at a slow, leisurely speed.
Book Synopsis By Steamer to the Essex Coast by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book By Steamer to the Essex Coast written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the pleasure steamer cruises along the Essex coast.
Book Synopsis Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pleasure steamer reached its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: hundreds of vessels, most of them paddle-powered, plied the lakes, waterways and coast of Britain, most often ferrying daytrippers from urban areas to the coast. Presenting a serene alternative to rail travel, they had the added advantage of dropping passengers off directly at the main attraction of any resort, the pier, which owed its very existence to the steamers, which needed somewhere to dock offshore. Andrew Gladwell here explores the rise and fall of these attractive ships, the companies that ran them, the experiences of their passengers and crew, and the restoration and conservation of the few remaining pleasure steamers, such as Waverley, Kingswear Castle and The Medway Queen.
Book Synopsis London's Pleasure Steamers by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book London's Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gladwell takes us on a journey down the water, exploring the story of the London pleasure steamer.
Book Synopsis The Ships That Came to the Pool of London by : Nick Robins
Download or read book The Ships That Came to the Pool of London written by Nick Robins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Robins explores the ships that came to the Pool of London throughout history.
Book Synopsis By Steamer to the Kent Coast by : Andrew Gladwell
Download or read book By Steamer to the Kent Coast written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of steamer travel, people were taking day trips to the coast. Andrew Gladwell tells the story of steamers to the Kent coast.
Book Synopsis The Coming of the Comet by : Nick Robins
Download or read book The Coming of the Comet written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Company’s wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Syminton Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states, and with the transport of oil from Burma’s oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississipi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia. This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.
Download or read book From War to Peace written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted for commercial use. The most successful classes to transfer to the merchant service were the Hunt-class minesweepers of the Great War, Landing Craft, Tank, the salvage tugs of World War Two, and the wooden-hulled Fairmile launches which became familiar at seaside resorts in the 1950s and ‘60s; and, of course, the MFV classes that helped the fishing industry in the postwar years. The story includes the successful commercial conversions of many of the Flower and Castle Class corvettes and River Class frigates, notably the 1954 conversion of HMCS Stormont to a luxury yacht for the Greek shipping magnate Onassis. It describes why HMS Charybdis became a passenger liner in the Great War, and how HMS Albatross nearly became a luxury liner after World War Two, but in fact was transformed into a very unpopular emigrant ship and ended her days as a floating casino based at Cape Town. The author reveals the military antecedents of numerous commercial vessels that many would have thought were built especially for the service that they later maintained, and it illustrates just how many Royal Navy vessels ended up in private ownership. And the question is asked: if the military had not built so many ships that were eminently suitable for commercial adaptation, would the technical development of merchant shipping have progressed at a faster rate than it did? The answer is a definite ‘no’, and is illustrated in several ways. It was former naval vessels that promoted the early development of the Ro-Ro ferry; former naval ships introduced numerous design innovations, for example, the raised foredeck common for so many years on salvage tugs, and, above all, stripped of their military hardware, ex naval ships provided opportunities for modest investment where otherwise there would have been none. Copiously illustrated throughout, the book tells a fascinating story of invention and ingenious ship conversion, and of pragmatic adaptation in the financially stringent years after two world wars.
