In this beautiful volume featuring 300 photographs, Roy Fenton illustrates the Tramp Ship’s evolution over the course of more than 100 years, from the 1860s, when the steam tramp developed from the screw collier, until it was largely ...
The South American Saint Line had its origins in two separate companies both established in 1926. They were amalgamated to form the B. & S. Shipping Co. Ltd. in 1933 under the management of Richard Street. Street's ambition was to ...
... British Whaling Fleets; the bonuses,paid by the British Government, included bonuses of £800,£700 and£600 [at the time a whalers catch—not profit—did not average £4,000 for a three year cruise] for the first three ships to enter the ...
The Journal of Lieutenant David Wingfield, Royal Navy Don Bamford, Paul Carroll ... The relevant passage reads: Along the coast from Cape Hurd, places of shelter are not so numerous as they are along the Manitoulin, ...
In a series of 14 chapters, this book brings together contemporary research findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of word reading (especially morphological structure). Contributors include...
Streater's Directory: 20th Century Merchant Shipping Books & Publications
This is the 15th annual edition of the Bibliography of Nautical Books, a reference guide to over 14,000 nautical publications. It deals specifically with the year 2000.
... forgotten over the centuries, but a handful have survived. In 2003 and 2004 ... ship timbers. Most of the planks discovered were, however, relatively thin and ... wales, and two tabernacle steps to hold masts (fig. 17).37 This 9.3 m long ...
Everest Media,. #10 The Allied advance on Rabaul was sustained on two fronts in 1943 and was hastened by a brilliant success for Allied aircraft in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. In the three days from 2 to 4 March 1943, bombers of the ...
Leading us through the European fascination with marine life, the attempts to establish a whaling industry, the fear of seaborne invasion which led to the creation of a navy of our own in 1911 through to the rise of our unstoppable ...