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Adventures of the Hebe
Sailing on Britain's Canals Between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Named after the Greek goddess of youth, the double-sculling skiff Hebe was a most beloved and well-travelled little boat. Adored by the young Desmond Stoker, whose father had fitted her with a sail and canvas cover, she was rowed, sailed and frequently man-hauled along canals and rivers the length...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is a collection of vintage articles on model boat building, with information on tools and equipment, instructions for fitting engines, tips for sailing and racing, and more. Detailed and profusely illustrated, this volume is recommended for the serious model boat enthusiast and is not to...
by Paul N. Hasluck
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This vintage book is a complete guide to designing and building model boats, with information on tools and equipment, rigging, fitting engines, and many other related aspects. Profusely illustrated and highly accessible, this book is ideal for those with little previous experience, and would make...
Thetis Down
The Slow Death of a Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 1 June 1939 His Majesty’s Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.
The disaster became...
The Splicing Handbook, Third Edition : Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes: Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes
Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
The only reference devoted entirely to splicing today’s ropes
The Splicing Handbook includes step-by-step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices in traditional twisted and modern braided ropes, and it covers every kind of splicing project you are likely to...
by Robert Steward, Carl Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Get the latest boatbuilding tips from this updated classic
Since its first publication in 1970, Boatbuilding Manual has become the standard reference in boatbuilding and boat design schools, in the offices of professional builders, and in the basement workshops of home builders. No other boatbuilding...
RMS Titanic
A Modelmaker's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
RMS Titanic has had more written about her than any other ship but, surprisingly, there is little information directed at the modelmaker. This superb book contains all the information needed to build a highly accurate model, down to the tiniest details of the hull s rivets. The work is based on the...
by Adrian Neison
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This vintage book is a complete and accessible guide to boat construction, with full instructions for designing and building punts, skiffs, canoes, sailing boats, and more. With detailed working drawings and simple, step-by-step instructions, this volume is ideal for those with little previous experience,...
by Robert M. Koerner
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Following the structure of previous editions, Volume 2 of this Sixth Edition proceeds through four individual chapters on geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geofoam and geocomposites. The two volumes must accompany one another. Volume 1 contains geosynthetics, geotextiles, geogrids and geonets....
by Thomas Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
No Fighting Chance, Ireland's Lady of the Lake Disaster of 1833, recounts the "little Titanic" disaster when 250 Irish emigrants suddenly found themselves abandoned by their captain in a rapidly sinking ship in the waters off Newfoundland. Earlier that day, tno_fighting_chance-1he Lady of...
Adrift
A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder...
The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
First published in 1808, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor became a standard guide throughout the 19th century in both England and the United States. Author Darcy Lever compiled the text for "a young gentleman whose inclinations at that time led him to the choice of a sea-faring life," and he later...
Pembroke Dock 1814-2014
A Bicentennial Look Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In 2014 Pembroke Dock celebrates 200 years since its founding, when a Royal Dockyard - the only one ever to exist in Wales - was established here on the banks of Milford Haven. The dockyard was the reason for the rapid development of the town, with people from rural Pembrokeshire and from all around...
Inshore Craft
Traditional Working Vessels of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles.
The types are arranged by coastal area and each is described in terms of its shape and design, fitness for location...