Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
by Andrew Gladwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
From the 1840s, with the development of steamships, there was a demand for day trips to the coast. Towns along the Thames and on the Essex and Kent coasts benefitted from the influx of trippers. Numerous companies, such as the Eagle and Belle steamers and the New Medway Steam Packet Co., catered for...
by Alistair Deayton, Iain Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
On 8 August 1974, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer was sold by her owners for the princely sum of a pound. The PS Waverley has now spent more of her career in preservation than in service with the British Transport Commission and Caledonian MacBrayne. She is still a common sight on the Clyde,...
by Alistair Deayton
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
From Gigha in the south to Lewis in the north and St Kilda in the west, Alistair Deayton covers the piers of the Hebrides and other outlying islands in the companion volume to his West Highland Piers. Since the 1810s, steamers have provided a valuable service to the communities of the Western Isles....
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume VI: Submarines, Gunboats, Gun Vessels and Sloops, 1860–1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by...
by Paul Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1956
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining...
Harwich Lifeboats
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Harwich lifeboat station operates two modern, state-of-the-art lifeboats,operated by 28 volunteers and two full-time members of staff. The lifeboats work the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, as well as the rivers Stour, Orwell and Deben, the Walton Backwaters and the Thames estuary south of Harwich. Nicholas...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Shipping is a pillar of global trade, with 90 per cent of the world’s trade in goods and raw materials carried by ship. Despite the economic benefits this delivers, maritime operations can be dangerous, and when accidents occur the consequences are serious. Consequential outcomes from hazards at...
by Ian Collard
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
A Mersey ferry was recorded in the Domesday Book, and for around a thousand years, they have plied between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the Wirral and Liverpool. The sail and man-powered craft gave way to steam ferries in 1815. In this book, Ian Collard tells the story of the Mersey ferries, concentrating...
Coast Lines
Fleet List and History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Formed on Merseyside in 1913, Coast Lines grew from a small fleet of sixteen coastal ships operating in the Irish Sea to the world’s largest coastal fleet. At the time, over 4 million tons of shipping sailed from the Mersey on coastal voyages. At its height, the company included Powell, Bacon &...
Blue Star Line
Fleet List & History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Blue Star Line was founded by brothers William and Edmund Vestey in 1911 to ship meat in refrigerated vessels from Australia, New Zealand and South America to the UK. Expanding into passenger services as well as refrigerated and general cargo, the line launched services to South America via Portugal...
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Fleet List & History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Founded in 1838 in Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific and primarily traded from the UK to the Pacific coasts of South America. Its most famous ships included the Reina del Pacifico and the Reina del Mar. With a line of notable firsts...
The Lusitania's Last Voyage
Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A first-hand account of the Lusitania’s doomed final voyage.
On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of war had a terrible toll-of the...
Mussolini’s Navy
A Reference Guide to the Regia Marina 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
This book is a complete guide to the Regia Marina, the navy with which Italy fought the Second World War. Starting with the historical background, it describes how the navy developed, how it was organised, the facilities that supported it, and the operations it conducted both before and after the...
Ancestors on the Move
A History of Overseas Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ever wanted to understand more about your ancestor's sea travels? What was life like aboard ship for both passengers and crew, how long did the journey take, what kind of conditions could be expected, and what exotic locations might they have visited along the way? Following the tried and tested routes...