Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
by Alan W. Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels. It has, however, seen development in the form of a new sea-lock and marina, which have enhanced the town's tourist appeal....
by Neel R. Zoss
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
During the last years of the 19th century, the Duluth Harbor, situated between the sister cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, was the birthplace of a bold and innovative and decidedly odd-looking class of Great Lakes barges and steamships known as whalebacks. Capt. Alexander McDougall and his...
The Shipwright and the Schooner
Building a Windjammer in the New England Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The Shipwright and the Schooner is an exploration into traditional New England shipbuilding, and it is a journey of discovery for both the author, who has spent his life building wooden boats, and the photographer, who had his first experiences in the boatyard. The book chronicles in words and stunning...
Who Sank the Titanic?
The Final Verdict
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
A reporter explores the role that criminal negligence may have played in history’s most famous disaster at sea.
The RMS Titanic was hailed as largest, strongest, safest ship of its time, an exemplar of British shipbuilding. But what the 1,500 victims who sailed to their watery graves never knew...
by Michael Foley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
London’s Docklands have a rich and varied history. Dating from the Middle Ages, they developed into one of the biggest docks in the world. The riches of Britain’s Empire found its way into the country through the River Thames and into London. Unfortunately, the people who worked and lived in London’s...
Barons of the Sea
And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea).
There was...
Shipwrecks of the Delaware Coast
Tales of Pirates, Squalls & Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Under the hot summer sun, vacationers stroll the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, chewing saltwater taffy and listening to the gulls raucous cackle. Few realize that under the sparkling water rests a graveyard. Horrific nor'easters, treacherous shoals and simple human error caused the demise of countless ships,...
Other Side Of Night The Carpathia, The Californian And The Night The Titanic Was Lost
The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic was Lost
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
After every disaster, someone has something to hide . . . A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained...
by George W. Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose.
With this utilitarian principle in...
Ship Captain's Daughter
Growing Up on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Ann Lewis's childhood was marked by an unusual rhythm. Each year the thawing and freezing of the Great Lakes signaled the beginning and end of the shipping season, months of waiting that were punctuated by brief trips to various ports to meet her father, the captain.
With lively storytelling...
Racing Through the Night
Olympic's Attempt to Reach Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Entering service a full ten months ahead of Titanic, the Olympic was a near identical sister ship,the fi rst of a class of three liners, two of which would sink. Wade Sisson tells the story of the Olympic on the fateful night of April 14 - 15 1912, how she was 500 miles away, outbound from New York,...
Reeds Sea Transport
Operation and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This book gives a complete picture of the Maritime Transport Industryso
that those involved with shipping can see their own specific field of
interest in perspective and understand how the basic model of this mode of transport
operates.
The sixth edition of Reeds Sea Transport
has been updated...
by Paolo Costa, Maurizio Maresca, Romano Prodi
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The future of Italian port activities is either European or nothing at all. Like every other ‘industry’ in our country, port activities are faced with the need to meet the challenges of the technological and organisational innovation of their production system and the globalisation of their markets....
Titanic or Olympic
Which Ship Sank?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Debunking the theory that the sister ships swapped places, this book proves a switch was not possible Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911, which may have made her a liability to her owners the White Star Line. Since 1912 rumors...