This report discusses the June 14, 2003, accident in which the U.S. small passenger vessel Taki-Tooo capsized while attempting to cross the bar at Tillamook Bay, Oregon. From its investigation of the accident, the Safety Board identified the following major safety issues: decision to cross the bar, Tillamook Bay operations, and survivability. On the basis of its findings, the Safety Board made recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Marine Charter Association, and the owners and operators of charter fishing vessels operating out of Tillamook Bay, Oregon.

This report discusses the sinking of the amphibious passenger vehicle, Miss Majestic, during an excursion tour of Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs, Arkansas, on May 1, 1999. The NTSB's investigation of this accident identified safety issues in the following areas: vehicle maintenance, Coast Guard inspections of the Miss Majestic, Coast Guard inspection guidance, reserve buoyancy, and survivability. The Safety Board's recommendations to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Governors of the States of New York and Wisconsin are included.

"From T-2 to Supertanker" provides a unique insight into the oil tanker industry's efforts to produce safe and efficient vessels.

Dr. Andrew G. Spyrou believes that marine transportation is the key to effective global shipping, part of which is carrying petroleum by tanker. Enormous changes have taken place in tanker design and construction since World War II. Closure of the Suez Canal on two occasions-1956 and 1967-provided the impetus to enlarge the tanker and to improve tanker performance and safety.

The industry's efforts to design and construct today's modern tankers, driven by scale, safety and ecological concerns, have led to ever-larger models. Today's 'Very Large' and 'Ultra Large' crude oil carriers represent the most complex mobile steel structures ever developed.

Spyrou discusses how this industry is striving to minimize vital ecological concerns such as oil pollution of the seas, atmospheric pollution by engine exhaust, and contamination of the marine ecosystem. Advances, however, have not been without crises, challenges, and successes.

1913. Sixteen Illustrations. Contents: The Last Day Aboard Ship; Struck By an Iceberg; The Foundering of the Titanic; Struggling in the Water for Life; All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat; The Port Side: Women and Children First; Starboard Side: and Women First, But Men When There Were No Women.

Originally published in 1930, this is a wonderfully detailed look at the history of the Sailing Ship in the nineteenth century. Packed with photos and anecdotes, every major ship and Captain of the day is examined in depth. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Types of Ships - The East Indiamen - American Superiority and Atlantic Packets - Navigation Laws, Utility Ships - Opium and Tea Clippers - Rushes To Californian and Australian Gold Fields, Some Fast Passages - Wool, Wheat and Emigrant Ships - Roaring Forties, Icebergs, Slow and Fast Passages, Etc - Disasters, Rescues, Etc - Life On A Sailing Ship

"Before the coming of the 'dot com" era it was by no accident that the richest individuals in the world were involved with tankers. Probably the most famous ship owner in the world was Aristotle Socrates Onassis. But before one looks at tanker freights of which Onassis among others managed to secure a good return on capital it is crucial to recap and examine some of the factors that affected the tanker industry starting with the Second World War."

"The Transportation of Oil by Sea" offers a fascinating introductory account of crude oil transportation and how international issues from World War II, pre-independence Zimbabwe, and the Iran-Iraq War have been influenced by considerations for oil production and transportation.

Author Tony Akaki presents a diversity of geographical, political, environmental, and economic insights in one volume, offering a compelling look at this often-overlooked aspect of history.

It's a race against time. Since the first Titanic had sailed the North Atlantic back in April 14, th 1912. Since then, people all over the world love talking about the beautiful Ocean liner the Titanic. They talk about how beauiful the Vessel was. Scientists would explore the ship that is laying on the Ocean floor of the Atlantic. Scientists had brought back items that lived in the sea for many years. Scientists had even brought back a part of the ship, but what about the ship itself? Scientists would say, it is very impossible to bring s ship that size back to the surface. But could they rebuild a ship that size again and make it look like the real Titanic? The tax payers would say, no, no way because it would cost them to much money, and it may hit another Iceberg and sink again. No one really talks about rebuilding the Titanic. Since the Titanic is gone it is just a memory or is it? In this story it had been done. The Titanic has been reborn. The race continues on.

From Orkney and Shetland to the north east coast, and from Fife to Berwick, fishing boats have been an important part of the maritime heritage of Scotland. The original designs of fishing vessels were based on Viking ships, but by the early twentieth century, scaffies, fifies and zulus were being replaced by more modern craft, all of which are included in this charming collection of fishing boats of Scotland. The future of the fishing industry in Scotland cannot currently be termed as promising; successive EEC rulings gave resulted in a large diminution of fleet, and this, combined with a regime of ever-changing restrictions and rules, have made it impossible to work with current legislation and still be economically viable. However, the author hopes that there will be those who, either due to faith and enterprise or simply for lack of other opportunity, will continue to invest and continue as generations of their forefathers have done before. This book illustrates the vessels that played a past in the fishing industry in Scotland, with 200 old photographs accompanied by informative captions.

Shipboard Fire is a manual on merchant ship types including Passenger carrying ships of various classes that ply the waters of the high seas and the lakes and rivers of all of the navigable waters. Any and all persons who are yachtsmen or who would take passage on a Cruise ship or other Merchant Vessel would find the first four chapters of special interest as these chapters dwell on not only the ship types but also that of the ship's nomenclature (parts of the ship) and the language (names of the parts) used by the seamen on board. The manual also covers ship construction in that it explains the deck planning system and how to find ones way on board. The main emphasis of Shipboard Fire, however is directed toward the folks within the Department of Homeland Security and toward the Land based Firefighters and Emergency personnel who have Marine Facilities or Ports of Call within their areas of Jurisdiction or Response. Much of the manual does apply not only the larger ships that carry commercial goods and passengers but applies to all vessels or floating platforms down to the smallest boat, they have the same inherit problems as the big ones. The manual goes into detail on certain events that may occur on board a ship during an emergency or fire that describes the Machinery Room and equipment, Ship Stability problems to keep the ship upright, the firefighting plan, strategy and logistics. Fires on board ship require special attention and for the safety of the firefighter, this manual was written. Putting out a fire on a floating platform is a dangerous undertaking and its inherent problems are not experienced on shore side facilities. Sea Captains and Mates and Marine Terminal Operators would be interested in this manual, as it would help them understand the problems of the fire service and how their input would enhance the Firefighting or Rescue effort.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

1926. Contents: Ships of the Ancient World; Viking Voyages to America; Barbary Pirates; The Portuguese Explorers; The Argosies and Pageants of Venice; The Caravels of Columbus; The First Ship to Sail Around the World; Discoverers in the New World; The Great Harry; English Adventurers; The Spanish Armada; The Mayflower; Dutch Ships; Tall East Indiamen; Ships of the American Colonies and Republic; Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast; The Victory: a Ship-of-the-Line; The North Atlantic Packets; Old Ironsides: the Frigate Constitution; Ships in Eastern Seas; Thar She Blows! The Whaler; The Darling of the Seas: The Clipper Ship; Warriors of the Deep; Ships of Various Types; and Ships of the Modern World.

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the "Caledonia," a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the "Caledonia"'s demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"--luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow?
Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction in this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind--the sort that really did happen.

" When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked. Life on the Ohio puts the reader in the pilot's seat as Coomer wrestles with runaway barges, navigates through ice and fog, pacifies angry crew members, and contends with the loneliness of working a thirty-day stretch. A modern counterpart to Twain's account of life as a steamboat pilot, Life on the Ohio depicts the working river as it is today with its immense towboats, gigantic locks and dams, and millions of tons of cargo. Coomer captures the movement of the boats and the colorful language of river people. Coomer admits that he stuck at his job not for money but for love of the river and his work. "Over the years I had experiences I wouldn't trade for a barge full of gold," he says, "and that's what this book is all about."

A colorful and deadly history of ocean liner disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Disaster at Sea is a chronicle of the most frightening episodes in the maritime history of the North Atlantic. From 1850 to the present day, the Atlantic has been home to hundreds of ocean liners and cruise ships, each more lavish than the last...all of them symbols of wealth and luxury. Perhaps this is why readers have always been fascinated by the lives of these ships and their deaths. Many of us know the stories of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Both tragedies caused tremendous loss of life, even as they made the ships immortal. But there are many little-known accounts of extraordinary survivals at sea, such as the Inman and International liner City of Chicago that jammed her bow into an Irish peninsula in 1892 but stayed afloat long enough for all to be rescued, or the City of Richmond that survived a dangerous fire in 1891, and a year earlier the City of Paris, whose starboard engine exploded at full speed in the mid-Atlantic and yet miraculously still made port. Often such tales are forgotten even if the ship sank: In 1898 the Holland-America liner Veendam hit a submerged wreck and sank at sea, but all lives were saved so this vessel's dramatic story seemed less important in maritime history than incidents involving human loss. As recently as 2000, the Sea Breeze I sank off the East Coast of the United States while on a positioning voyage, but all her crew members were rescued in a heroic effort by U.S. Coast Guard helicopters. These stories and many others are dramatic, and acclaimed maritime scholar William Flayhart has spent much of the last forty years in search of material from which to create colorful narratives. Author of The American Line: 1871 1902 and coauthor of Majesty at Sea and the first edition of QE2, Flayhart retells classic ocean liner disaster stories while bringing to light never-before-published but compelling episodes in man's ongoing battle with the sea. Originally published in hardcover under the title Perils of the Atlantic."

It is related that on the night of the disaster, right up to the time of the Titanic's sinking, while the band grouped outside the gymnasium doors played with such supreme courage in face of the water which rose foot by foot before their eyes, the instructor was on duty inside, with passengers on the bicycles and the rowing-machines, still assisting and encouraging to the last. Along with the bandsmen it is fitting that his name, which I do not think has yet been put on record--it is McCawley--should have a place in the honourable list of those who did their duty faithfully to the ship and the line they served.

This report discusses the sinking of the U.S. small passenger vessel Panther in the Ten Thousand Islands area of Everglades National Park, Florida, on December 30, 2002. From its investigation of the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board identified the following safety issues: company operations, company's preventive maintenance program, and lifejacket stowage. The Safety Board's recommendations to the National Park Service are included.

This book sets forth both the theory and practice of navigation as applied to fishing. It explains the use of various aids in work with and without fishing gear, while searching for and taking fish. Several methods of course-shaping are suggested along with a mathematical treatment if navigational problems. The book is intended for students of navigation departments or colleges, and was originally published in the Soviet Union. The book is an outcome of teamwork by Vladimir Olkhovsky, Anatoly Tantsura and Vladimir Yakovlev. At he time of original publication, Professor Olkhovsky was pro-rector of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has written Oceanography in the Service of Modern Navigation with V. Dremling (as co-author), Radio Aids to Dead Reckoning, A Reference Handbook of Fishing Navigators (as editor-in-chief), etc. Tantsura was assistant professor at the Navigation Department of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has contributed articles on fishing oceanography to various periodicals. Yakovlev is an engineer at the Research and Development Sector of the Murmansk Navigation School. He has contributed to A Reference Handbook of Fishing Navigators (edited by Olkhovsky) and a number of articles to periodicals.

This report discusses the June 6, 2000, fire that occurred on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia, while it was underway in Chatham Strait, near Juneau, Alaska. From its investigation of this accident, the National Transportation Safety Board identified safety issues in the following areas: the adequacy of inspection and maintenance procedures for electrical systems; the adequacy of management safety oversight of maintenance procedures; and the adequacy of firefighting procedures. Based on its findings, the Safety Board made recommendations to the Alaska Marine Highway System.

SIXTEEN boats were in the procession which entered on the terrible hours of rowing, drifting and suspense. Women wept for lost husbands and sons, sailors sobbed for the ship which had been their pride. Men choked back tears and sought to comfort the widowed. Perhaps, they said, other boats might have put off in another direction. They strove, though none too sure themselves, to convince the women of the certainty that a rescue ship would appear.

This book is intended for the use of students at shipbuilding institutes and may also serve as a text for research and design engineers engaged in ship construction. The book treats the problems concerned with the buoyancy and stability of a complete and damaged ship encountered by the naval architect in the design, building and operation of ships. It presents the theory of the subject matter and the methods of calculations employed in ship construction. The technique of calculations is illustrated by numerical examples in a number of cases. In distinction to other books dealing with the problems of buoyancy and stability of ships, this text covers both static and dynamic effects. Some theoretical propositions and calculations have been developed by the author and are published in the world naval literature for the first time. Vladimir Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Doctor of Technical Sciences, is professor and head of the Department of Naval Architecture at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is conducting wide research work in the field of theoretical naval architecture, applied hydromechanics and theoretical mechanics. He has worked out some problems of the theory of buoyancy and stability of ships with consideration of static and dynamic effects which is an important contribution to the theory of naval architecture. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is the author of several books and a large number of scientific papers and reports. The main of these are the following: Statics of the Ship, Short Course in Theory of Ship, and Statics and Dynamics of the Ship.