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A medical and neurological analysis of the captain's failure in
command, and the evidence that he was impaired by Alzheimer's
Disease.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1930.
She's Bound to be a Goer tells the forty year story of the
steamboats that served Fairhope, Alabama from its beginning in 1894
as well as those serving the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. The
construction of a bridge for automobiles across the upper part of
Mobile Bay doomed the steamboats.
Arrested Development takes a hard look at the state of Nigeria's
shipping sector and concludes that the sector has failed to live up
to expectation. Inconsistent government policies, mediocrity, poor
planning, and a general lack of understanding of the role of
shipping in national development have all contributed to the sorry
state of the shipping sector. The author traced the history of
Nigeria's shipping sector from the precolonial era to the present
time and concludes that a lot more needs to be done if meaningful
development of the sector is to be attained.
Arrested Development takes a hard look at the state of Nigeria's
shipping sector and concludes that the sector has failed to live up
to expectation. Inconsistent government policies, mediocrity, poor
planning, and a general lack of understanding of the role of
shipping in national development have all contributed to the sorry
state of the shipping sector. The author traced the history of
Nigeria's shipping sector from the precolonial era to the present
time and concludes that a lot more needs to be done if meaningful
development of the sector is to be attained.
Many great accounts of the fateful night of April 14th and 15th of
1912 have been told about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Over the
past one hundred and one years, the stories of the people and the
disaster have been explained in art, movies, books, music and
verse. This book begins with an original poem I have written to
commemorate the ship's first, last and only voyage and the heroics
demonstrated by some of those souls on board, some who survived and
others who did not. Other wonderful and historic poems from the
years immediately following the disaster are included here along
with musical tributes, some of which can be linked to hear historic
renditions on ebooks and computers. Some of the poems are famous,
while others were penned by unknown poets. Newspapers of the day
found that they received unsolicited poems by the hundreds on a
daily basis - so many that the editor of the New York Times penned
an editorial declaring many to be unworthy. The editorial concluded
with a harsh admonition to its readers that simply because one had
pen and paper didn't anoint them with the talent of a poet.
Newspapers of today tend to be considerably friendlier to their
declining readerships. What all those who wrote the poems of the
Titanic shared in common was the desire of those authors to express
shock, despair and sorrow in all the depths of human emotion. In
addition, the very best attributes of character, heroics and
courage were described in verse and song as exhibited or even
imagined to have been displayed by the valiant on board the
Titanic. Included here are two original poems penned by me along
with my favorite story about the hero dog of the Titanic, Rigel,
which I tell to visitors at the Titanic Museums in Pigeon Forge,
Tennessee and Branson, Missouri, where I hope to see you when you
visit. - Ken Rossignol
In September 1994, the passenger ferry Estonia set out on an
overnight cruise from Tallinn, Estonia to Stockholm, Sweden and
sank in the Baltic Sea, killing nearly 1000 people in 35 minutes.
It was the worst peacetime sea catastrophe in European waters in
the 20th century. A controversial government investigation blamed
the ship's design and high waves. But the Estonia was the only
intact ship in maritime history to sink in less than one hour --
faster than some torpedoed ships. This disturbing fact is the core
of the tragedy and was left unexplained. The victims still remain
in the shipwreck in shallow depth just off the coast of Finland, a
spot militarily guarded by Sweden. "The Hole: Another look at the
sinking of the Estonia ferry on September 28, 1994" examines
alternative explanations in view of post-Soviet chaos, proceeding
from the theory that the Estonia had a hole -- from a collision or
an explosion.
In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation
details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the
ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and
plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of sun,
moon, stars, and planets to obtain 26 position fi xes to fi nd your
way along a 2,800-nmi voyage lasting 17 days. Solutions are
provided by computation, workforms, and detailed plots using
universal plotting sheets. After completing this passage you will
be prepared to navigate by celestial navigation on your own,
whether you need to or choose to. Also includes notes on optimizing
sight analysis, hurricane tracking, DR error analysis, ocean
currents, and use of visible light ranges for nighttime arrivals.
In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic
slipped below the waters of the Atlantic becoming one of the
greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century. 68 years later, a
young boy would learn about the lost liner while spending the day
with his grandfather. This is the story of that day and the
collection of memorabilia which would be amassed over the years,
the unbreakable bond between a grandfather and grandson joined
together by the interest in the unsinkable ship.
When their old GRP yacht was devastated by a Southern Ocean storm,
Jill Schinas and her husband, Nick, resolved to build something
stronger. Gaily, - and without having researched the matter to the
least degree -they threw themselves into the work of designing and
constructing the ultimate, ocean-proof, eco-friendly, dream
cruising yacht. On their side they had a wealth of sailing
experience, which provided a perfect knowledge of what was
required, but their only other weapons were irrepressible
enthusiasm and the mindset which enables a man to build a radio
from a potato or a mast from a lamppost. Had this been a business
enterprise no bank would ever have lent the capital, for ranged
against the dreamers was a whole battery of forces any one of which
would have deterred more realistic people. For a start, neither
Jill or Nick had any experience with a welder - and yet they were
proposing to build a steel boat. Secondly, they seemed only to have
enough money to buy a couple of masts and the sails. Worst of all,
they had two kids and a new baby in tow - and no one with a young
family ought to attempt anything more ambitious than the washing
up. Regardless of these drawbacks, Nick and Jill went ahead. "It'll
only take a year and a half," said he, confidently. Fifteen years
down the line, Mollymawk is afloat and the family have cruised all
over the Atlantic; but the boat is still not finished. This is the
tale of what went wrong and what went right. Packed full of advice
about such things as ocean-worthy design and sail plans, it will
also tell you how to operate a cutting torch, how to avoid a leaky
stern-gland, how to pour your own rigging sockets, how to handle a
ferocious gander, how to sandblast, how to weld in mid-Atlantic,
how to amuse three young children in a cabin space the size of a
phone booth... and much, much more besides.
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources
were available to the French navy during the ancien regime 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 why France was the loser in the long
duel with England for the control of commerce and the extension of
empire. Two years of research in the Archives Nationales and in the
Archives de la Marine in Paris, Toulon, and Rochefort enabled him
to draw on contemporary sources of information of which little, if
any, use has been made before, and a further year of research in
the libraries of New York City, particularly in the rich Proudfit
Naval Collection, also yielded new material. It is Mr. Bamford's
achievement to have handled this vast store of primary sources with
such skill and judgement that the reader, by turning over letters
from disgruntled forest proprietors, reports from harassed maitres
on the trickery and recalcitrance of the peasants, instructions
from the top echelon of the navy to inspectors in the forests, and
a variety bills, receipts, and memoranda, is given at first hand an
appreciation of the difficulties faced by the navy in trying to
obtain timber and masts of the choice quality required for building
ships-of-the-line. The navy had to compete with the merchant marine
and with industrial and private users of fuel for supplies that
were continually being depleted by mismanagement and by the
conversion of forests to arable land. Measures, superficially
admirable, for conserving the forests are found on closer
examination to be at once over-precise and not properly enforced.
Transport, even in a country so abundantly supplied with navigable
rivers as France, was expensive and difficult. Not only historians,
but scholars in the field of forestry, economics, geography,
agriculture, and transport will find this book illuminating.
Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of
vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In
this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English
merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance
period. Her account includes a description of the size and design
of the ships, the trades in which they engaged, the business
arrangements under which they sailed and the codes of maritime law
which governed them, the wages and conditions of work of the common
seaman and the degree of navigational skill of the shipmasters and
pilots. This was the time when seamen and merchants of northern
Europe were beginning to venture out of the familiar home waters
and undertake voyages of discovery such as the Bristol expeditions
1501-1504 which in all probability reached Labrador and possibly
Greenland. The author concludes that, although English shipping
faced stiff competition from traders and seamen of other countries
in northern Europe-most particularly the Dutch-the period was one
of healthy growth which laid a good foundation for the more
brilliant and better known exploits of the Elizabethan age. Based
on extensive and detailed research in manuscript sources preserved
in the Public Record Office, British libraries and the British
Museum, this study is an essential one for serious students of
English history.
Step into a time capsule and explore the flora, fauna, and
fishermen of the Isles of Shoals. Originally published in 1873,
this book is a firsthand account of shipwrecks, storms, and simple
lives 10 miles off the coast of New England. Celia Thaxter was a
poet, artist, and noted gardener who spent much of her life on
White, Smuttynose, and Appledore islands.She made the acquaintance
of such luminous contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Childe
Hassam, William Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This
book shines with attention to the smallest detail as Thaxter
watches the seasons pass, the islanders age, and the times change
in a tiny, seemingly abandoned corner of the world.
It was the original Survivor series, only without the omnipresent
cameras, paramedics, and faux tribal rituals. Between the spring of
1947 and the summer of the year 2006, more than forty expeditions
sought to drift across the oceans of the world on rafts. These
audacious voyages began with the legendary Kon-Tiki expedition,
under the leadership of the renowned Norwegian explorer Thor
Heyerdahl. The Kon-Tiki raft drifted more than four thousand miles
from Peru to Polynesia, and remained afloat months after experts
predicted it would sink to the bottom of the Pacific. Heyerdahl's
radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners
drifted between continents on ocean currents electrified the
postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty
million copies in sixty-five languages. In the wake of Kon-Tiki
documents all of the transoceanic raft expeditions that were
organized and carried out in the half century after Kon-Tiki.
Spanning more than fifty years and recounting more than forty
expeditions, In the wake of Kon-Tiki is a riveting chronicle of
human daring, endurance, and folly.
"Finally Fram showed herself in all her glory as the best sea-boat
in the world. It was extraordinary to watch how she behaved. ...
the Fram gave a wriggle of her body and was instantly at the top of
the wave, which slipped under the vessel. Can anyone be surprised
if one gets fond of such a ship?" --Captain Nilsen of the Fram,
1912. From her launch in 1892, to the triumphant return to Norway
in 1914, the polar expeditionary ship Fram sailed north almost to
the North Pole, and south to Antarctica. supporting three of the
most daring of all polar adventures. In the centenary year of Roald
Amundsen's successful trek to the South Pole, this is the story of
his ship, the Fram, and her voyages to the ends of the earth.
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++++ The Ship: Her Story W. Clark Russell
Combining a ship finance textbook with a jet setting geopolitical
romp, Viking Raid picks up where The Shipping Man left off - on a
journey into the famously private world of international shipping
tycoons and their financiers. At the conclusion of The Shipping
Man, Robert Fairchild is sipping rose on the Cote d'Azur with Coco
Jacobsen and toasting to the success of their $300 million junk
bond offering; six months later the CEO is in the 120-degree engine
room of a supertanker discharging two million barrels of Saudi
crude oil - afraid for his job and afraid for his life. Fortunes
change quickly in the volatile world of international oil shipping
and Fairchild knows that unless he can find another $500 million
soon his powerful Norwegian tanker tycoon boss will have little use
for him. When Robert convinces Coco to attempt an Initial Public
Offering of Viking Tankers on Wall Street, the desperate American
thinks his problems may have been solved - but the former hedge
fund manager couldn't be more wrong. Instead, Fairchild finds
himself stuck between an American shale gas wildcatter and The
Peoples' Republic of China in their competition for clean energy.
Combining swashbuckling shipping adventure with corporate finance
derring-do, Viking Raid puts Fairchild back at the table in the
highest-stakes casino in the world - with more than just his deal
at risk.
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