Ships category: 1007 books
Western Ferries
Taking on Giants
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In the late 1960s, drawing on Scandinavian experience, Western Ferries pioneered roll-on roll off ferry operations in Scotland's West Highlands and Islands. This innovative company's original focus, was Islay, where its hitherto undreamt of frequency of service transformed that island's access to...
To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940
The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Product Description: To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923–1940, by Professor Albert A. Nofi, examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy’s twenty-one “fleet problems” conducted between World Wars I and...
Patrick O'Brian's Bodies at Sea
Sex, Drugs and the Physical Form in the Aubrey-Maturin Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
An exploration of the complex roles that bodies—both literally and figuratively—play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series reveals much about the novels’ many meditations on mind and body. Beginning with a consideration of genre norms and the bodies of the novels’ main characters, the book’s...
by Mark Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Here is the story of the one hundred and two passengers who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. The trip was crowded and dangerous. Trouble continued when the passengers settled in Plymouth for a bitter, cold winter. However, their determination was ultimately rewarded; the Pilgrims adjusted...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This text provides an original contribution to the maritime literature focusing on developments in this field in the Baltic Region. This part of the world has seen dramatic changes in recent years, particularly with the collapse of the Communist led regimes in Poland and the Soviet Union, and the...
All Taut
or Rigging the boat
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
All Taut or Rigging the boat written by Oliver Optic who was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. This book was published in 1886. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While...
by chakrapani srinivasa
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Development of Shipping, Maritime and Port industries are well exposed in this book. Details of Ports and Ship yards and enterpreneurs engaged in it are given with contact address.International Views and speeches rendered by Naval Staff in International Conferences on Shippimg and Ports are added attractions.
by Peter Gerhard
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Captivating, well-documented study focuses on piracy among Spain's Pacific coast colonies, ranging from Panama to points north. Gerhard traces the exploits of the Elizabethan pirates — most notably, Sir Francis Drake and the crew of the Golden Hind —Dutch raiders, mercenary buccaneers like Captain Morgan, and the incursions of English smugglers.
by Maria Staal
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Dodelijke aanvallen van piraten en bijna-botsingen met andere schepen zijn maar een paar van de gevaren die zeelui werkzaam op containerschepen vandaag de dag lopen. 'Tussen containers en tijdzones' is het verhaal van het leven aan boord van een vrachtschip waar het avontuur nooit ver weg...
Tempi passati
Il faro e le sue genti
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Alcune autobiografie, oltre a rivelarci la profonda interiorità di chi le ha scritte, riescono a colpire il cuore del lettore attraverso particolari, aneddoti, sguardi e squarci della realtà che ha visto queste memorie incarnarsi nella pagina scritta. Tempi passati, in questo senso, è molto più...
by Richard Stagg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The crewman's story opens with a rowdy postmortem held on the rescue ship, leaving all in confusion. Then comes a flashback to Titanic's departure from Belfast, her dubious coaling in Southampton, then the voyage itself, with a lively technical tour of the ship to set the scene. After hitting ice,...
Troubled Waters
Leisure Boating and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This is the story of how the Second World War affected leisure boating: of the people who managed to overcome huge difficulties to go sailing during the war itself and the difficulties of re-establishing the sport in post-war years; of the sailing and yacht clubs which survived bombings, requisitioning,...
The First and the Fastest
Comparing Robin Knox-Johnston and Ellen MacArthur's Historic Round-the-World Voyages
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This is the story of two single-handed non-stop round-the-world voyages: Robin Knox-Johnston’s in 1968/69 and Ellen MacArthur’s in 2004/05. Although there were similarities – both voyages started and finished in Falmouth, for instance, and neither sailor was in a conventional race – the story...
La patente nautica
Come superare l'esame per il comando delle imbarcazioni a vela e a motore, entro le 12 miglia e senza limiti, e imparare a navigare
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 27, 2017
La nuova edizione, aggiornata al nuovo formato d’esame, di un manuale testato, modificato e aggiornato in anni di lezioni, che nasce dalla concreta esperienza didattica del contrammiraglio Varrone Terenzio. Tutte le nozioni teoriche necessarie al superamento dell’esame per la patente nautica senza...