On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers' reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.

CVN-78, CVN-79, and CVN-80 are the first three ships in the Navy's new Gerald R. Ford (CVN- 78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). CVN-78 was procured in FY2008. The Navy's proposed FY2013 budget estimates the ship's procurement cost at $12,323.2 million (i.e., about $12.3 billion) in then-year dollars. The ship received advance procurement funding in FY2001-FY2007 and was fully funded in FY2008- FY2011 using congressionally authorized four-year incremental funding. The Navy did not request any procurement funding for the ship in FY2012, and is not requesting any procurement funding for the ship in FY2013. The Navy plans to request $449 million in procurement funding in FY2014 and $362 million in procurement funding in FY2015 for the ship to cover $811 million in cost growth on the ship.

Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey allows the reader to travel aboard Cunard's newest ship, the second largest ship to carry the Cunard colours. The ultimate in luxury cruising waits aboard Queen Elizabeth. From the three-storey Royal Court Theatre, complete with box seating, to the opulence of the Queens Room, the authors have captured the interior elegance of Queen Elizabeth with never-before-published images. Explore the behind-the-scenes areas, with a tour of the Engine Room, Stores and the Bridge, before returning to the passenger areas to discover bars, lounges, restaurants and cabins. This stunning volume is a must-have whether you're a seasoned Cunard passenger, or simply an armchair traveller. Written by two enthusiastic Cunard fans, travellers and historians, this book is beautifully illustrated with over 200 colour photographs and includes a foreword by Peter Shanks, former president of the Cunard Line, thoughts from Commodore Rynd on the ship's fifth anniversary and an afterword by Captain Chris Wells, Queen Elizabeth's First Master. This is Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross' sixth Cunard book and the fourth in their Journey series.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1904.

For over 20 years, the Greyhound of the Seas, the Cunard Liner "Mauretania" held the record for the fastest Transatlantic crossing. Much loved and admired, after two decades as the pinnacle of ocean liners, her time came to end. First laid up and then, in a fanfare of nostalgia, consigned to the breaker's yard in Rosyth, she ended her life at the hands of a breaker's torch. Although modern historians revile such an ignominious fate, the "Mauretania's" demise helped to rekindle local industries, her steel helping to build the next generation of ocean liner - and her sumptuous fittings being snapped up by owners of stately homes and public houses to give future generations a hint as to the luxury the "Mauretania" once embodied. To this end, this slim volume recounts the end of the ship's life and the ensuing demolition process, an epilogue often overlooked in many books due to its obvious distasteful nature to ocean liner enthusiasts.

This publication is designed for the tugboat buff, and for people interested in a maritime career. It contains a number of photos, and the guiding principles to take you from entry level up to the wheelhouse. A maritime career can easily surpass a truck driving career in many ways. It pays you if the boat doesn't go anywhere, provides your food and lodging, and has all of the fringe benefits you could want. Check it out

The rivers of America have always held a certain mystique for mankind. Perhaps they bring to mind the tales of Tom Sawyer, Huck FInn, or Mark Twain? Rafts were built to use the rivers for transportation. But it only went down river Then the great steamboats that could carry cargoes up and down the rivers. Those tasks have been taken over by modern diesel powered towboats. They cause us to look on in awe as they navigate the rivers with massive fleets of barges. They are stately, beautifully painted, and bear all manner of names by which to identify them. Well, we could stand on the river banks and watch or idly float down the rivers and marvel at these powerful modern wonders. Or if we meet the requirements we could actually travel on one of them and be well paid for our services. Have you ever looked up or down a river, and wondered what was just around the bend? River mariners can tell you, or you can sign up and look for yourself The newer towboats are spacious and elaborate compared to the boats of yesterday. I developed this book to give insight into this career field. It provides factual information and guidance to persons wanting to seek career employment. The door is open and the welcome mats are out Where else can a person earn $140K a year without a college education? See you on board Captain Cole

"The Guide," as it is referred to in Panama includes specific piloting instructions covering all of coastal Panama, its major navigable rivers that reach the coast, as well as the San Blas Islands and Las Perlas.

The Panama Guide, 2nd ed. contains 187 charts, an 8-page color section with Tom Zydler's photography of Panama, plus GPS waypoints, instructions for transiting the Panama Canal, lists of navigational aids, local services, customs regulations, recommendations for on-shore activities, and a detailed index. It will make the waters surrounding Panama more accessible to yachtsmen by clearly showing routes for safe navigation, anchorages, rules and regulations, and suggestions for polite interaction with the Panamanian people.