Die Aufgabe dieser Darstellung aus dem Jahre 1958 war es, eine vollstandige Ubersicht uber die Anfange der Fluss- und Seedampfschiffahrt des Landes Niedersachsen sowie der Freien Hansestadt Bremen und der westfalischen Stadt Minden zu geben. Auch die Dampfschiffahrt Hamburgs im niedersachsischen Raum fand Berucksichtigung.Von Anfang an hat sich der Verfasser die Aufgabe gestellt, einen umfassenden Uberblick uber alle Dampfschiffe ihrer Zeit zu vermitteln. Deshalb hat das Jahr 1867 als zeitliche Begrenzung keine Bedeutung, weder fur die Verkehrsgeschichte noch fur die technische Entwicklung der Maschinenschiffe. Selbstverstandlich wurde der Verbleib der alteren Rad- und Schraubendampfer, die noch nach 1867 in Fahrt waren, erwahnt.Ein Forschungsauftrag der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zum Studium Niedersachsens bot die Gelegenheit, die grosstenteils noch nicht benutzten Quellen auszuwerten, namentlich die umfangreichen Dampfschiffahrtsakten staatlicher und stadtischer Archive, die Schiffs- und Handelsregister einiger Amtsgerichte, das handschriftliche und gedruckte Material mehrerer Reedereien und Werften sowie die aufschlussreichen Angaben zeitgenossischer Zeitungen.Herausgekommen ist dabei ein lange vergriffenes Kleinod, dass einen ebenso einzigartigen wie vollstandigen Uberblick uber die gesamte Dampfschiffahrt in Niedersachsen, Bremen und im Hamburgischen vermittel

Dieses Buch, im Original 1826 erschienen, ist eines der beruhmten fruhen Werke uber den Schiffbau in deutscher Sprache. Der Autor hat den Wissensstand des 18. Jahrhunderts in Europa zusammengefasst, kommentiert und aus der Sicht des kommenden 19. Jahrhunderts bewertet. Das Buch vermittelt umfassende zeitgenossische Informationen uber die Schiffstheorie, den Entwurf, die Konstruktion, den Bau, die Ausrustung, die Bewaffnung, die Takelage die Segel und viele Schiffstypen. Von besonderem Wert sind 22 Tabellen, die Entwurfsregeln und -werte, Formeln, Daten Abmessungen und Gewichte vieler gebauter oder entworfener Schiffe und ihrer bau- und Ausrustungselemente enthalten. Reihe: Historische Schiffahrt, Band 83

The deeds and personalities of famous pirates have received significant attention in recent years: however, no detailed depiction of their vessels has ever been produced. This title redresses the imbalance, conducting a detailed exploration of the wide variety of pirate vessels that sailed the high seas during the 'golden age' of piracy (1690-1730), from gun-bristling warships to smaller craft such as sloops, brigantines and early schooners. It incorporates the latest archaeological evidence to produce a fascinating account of these vessels, detailing their origins, development and tactical engagement. Packed with contemporary illustrations and superbly detailed colour artwork, the ships of the 'golden age' are brought vividly to life.

This is the story of the unusually long and interesting career of a small Scottish schooner spent primarily in the southern hemisphere. From the construction of the vessel to the careers of those who sailed in her, the story is full of rogues, heroes, the famous and infamous, as well as ordinary people calmly going about their daily business in tempestuous and difficult times. Visionary colonists, whalers, sealers, Maoris, botanists, butchers, missionaries, cannibals, convicts, aristocrats, explorers and more are linked in this narrative and thereby exemplify the courage, skill and vision of people who experience hardship, danger and adversity in their quest for riches in colonial lands.

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

A social and historical narrative depicting life in the British Merchant Navy during the 1950s - the golden age of shipping. This story chronicles the growth of a youth, from naive 16-year-old to a mature young man, capable eventually of accepting the grave responsibilities entrusted to a watch-keeping officer on the bridge of an ocean-going ship. The reader follows his voyage escapades and sees him ambushed by pitfalls resulting largely from his innocence. Collectively these incidents capture the atmosphere of service as a navigating officer cadet in yesterday's Merchant Navy. Cargo handling and seafaring were then highly labour intensive. Ships were smaller in capacity and, with their forest of derricks, were constructed differently from today's clear-deck container and bulk carriers, but needed larger crews. Seamen nevertheless enjoyed a leisurely life, accepting as 'the norm' worldwide cargo delays and strikes, and having to invent their own unique brand of shipboard entertainment. With humorous touches, the author brings alive a lifestyle which epitomised excitement and adventure during this 'golden age' of international shipping, and where young people were expected to meet demanding everyday challenges.

Die Amphitrite, ursprunglich gebaut als "Spielzeug" fur die englische Oberschicht, ist ein ganz besonderes Segelschiff mit vielfaltiger Geschichte. Sie hat unter anderem zwei Weltkriege auf sehr unterschiedliche Art und Weise uberlebt. Den ersten Weltkrieg uberstand sie als Eigentum eines englischen Stahlbarons, der nicht nur die Macht hatte, sie vor dem Zugriff der Regierung zu schutzen, sondern auch das Geld, sie in dieser Zeit auf das Modernste ausstatten zu lassen. Im zweiten Weltkrieg war es das Schicksal der Amphitrite, ohne Masten in der Royal Navy vor Plymouth zu dienen. Sie war Rennschoner, Privatyacht, Ballonsperre, Wohnschiff, Luxustransportmittel fur Touristen, Flaggschiff des "Yacht Club International de Port Grimaud" und Filmschiff. Gemass den Vorstellungen ihrer jeweiligen Eigner wurden die Ein- und Umbauten mehrfach verandert. Seit 1976 ermoglicht sie Jugendlichen das Abenteuer "Segeln auf dem Meer." In diesem Buch wird unter anderem anhand von zeitgenossischen Berichten ihre neun Jahre andauernde Rennkarriere dargestellt. Ein Redakteur der Fernsehserie "Graf Luckner" berichtet uber die Dreharbeiten. Alle an einem praktischen und theoretischen Hintergrund interessierten finden einen Exkurs uber Schiffsbau in Bezug auf die Anforderungen an einen Grosssegler. Zahlreiche Reiseberichte aus uber 60 Jahren und viele Photos runden dieses Portrait eines Meisterwerkes aus dem vorvorigen Jahrhundert a

The largest, most luxurious ship in the world, lost on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg in mid-Atlantic, Titanic has become the stuff of legends. Built at the peak of the race between the British, French and Germans to build bigger and better ships, she was the achievement of 15,000 men in one of the world's most advanced shipyards. While everyone knows the new White Star liner was the most glamorous and was full of millionaires when she sank, few appreciate just how luxurious she was or how advanced her design was for her day. For the first time, Bruce Beveridge, Scott Andrews, Steve Hall, Daniel Klistorner and Art Braunschweiger look in detail at the ship herself, how she was built and what it was like inside. From the engine rooms to the First Class parlour suites, from the Doulton water closets to the cargo cranes, every area of Titanic is presented in stunning detail. Volume One covers the design and construction of Titanic, with individual chapters detailing such diverse areas as the riveting of the ship, her heating and ventilation systems, funnels, steering and navigation systems and more. Volume Two covers the interior design and fitting out of the ship and presents detailed deck-by-deck information, from the palatial rooms of First Class to areas of the ship seen only by the crew.

The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.

Meet workboat builders and the versatile boats' owners, captains, and families who bought and sold goods and played aboard them. Illustrations are contributions of many who were directly connected to these distinctive boats.

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for sailors and fishermen risking their lives in these notoriously dangerous waters. But what was it actually like to be a Scottish lighthouse engineer, and how did the professional activities interact with social and economic conditions in Scotland at the time? How did the Northern Lighthouse Board's Engineer (almost invariably a Stevenson) cope with weeks aboard a small lighthouse vessel, traveling around the rugged Scottish coastline on dangerous tours of inspection and interacting with local people in some of the remotest regions of Europe? The author reveals the fascinating story of the Stevensons as family members as well as engineers - brilliant yet fallible, tough yet vulnerable, with private lives that are little known, even to lighthouse enthusiasts.It sets their work in a historical and social context, drawing heavily on eye-witness accounts by two of Scotland's most celebrated literary sons: Walter Scott, internationally famous poet and member of the Edinburgh establishment; and Robert Louis Stevenson, young family member and disenchanted engineering apprentice desperate to become an author. The reader is taken to the Orkney and Shetland Islands with descriptions of the chain of Stevenson lighthouses that illuminate a vital shipping route between the North Sea, Baltic, and North Atlantic. Finally we travel to Muckle Flugga, the northernmost outpost of the British Isles and last link in the chain, a vicious rock on which David and Thomas Stevenson dared to build their 'impossible lighthouse'.

Walter Laas war einer der grossen Schiffskonstrukteure seiner Zeit. Das 1907/1908 erschienene Werk entstand zu einer Zeit, als die Dampfmaschine langsam aber sicher dem Segelantrieb den Rang ablief. Umso interessanter sind die Untersuchungen von Laas zur Entwicklungsgeschichte und Zukunft von Grosssegler

Many different types of figureheads are pictured in color and b/w photos with a fascinating historical text that explains their use and the sculptors who made them. Figurehead lions, dragon heads, and human forms are primarily from the nineteenth century. Court sculptors and independent figurehead carvers are introduced whose work appears on royal pleasure craft.

AHOY, MATE! Step into the past and aboard the decks of these twenty-five proud vessels, each one launched with high hopes but doomed finally to disaster. From the Huron, a wreck that caused 103 sailors to lose their lives, to the Pulaski, a maritime mishap where two star-crossed lovers almost lost each other forever, author Bob Brooke spins these tales with heart-pounding drama . Whether battered by hurricane-force gales, gouged by hidden rocks, or simply sabotaged by poor judgment, these ships live on in the most compelling ocean-going stories you've ever read.

Launched as the pride of British shipbuilding and the largest vessel in the world, Olympic was more than 40 per cent larger than her nearest rivals: almost 900ft long and the first ship to exceed 40,000 tons. She was built for comfort rather than speed and equipped with an array of facilities, including Turkish and electric baths (one of the first ships to have them), a swimming pool, gymnasium, squash court, a la carte restaurant, large first-class staterooms and plush public rooms. Surviving from 1911 until 1935, she was a firm favourite with the travelling public - carrying hundreds of thousands of fare-paying passengers - and retained a style and opulence even into her twilight years. During the First World War, she carried more troops than any other comparable steamship and was the only passenger liner ever to sink an enemy submarine by ramming it. Overshadowed frequently by her sister ships Titanic and Britannic, Olympic's history deserves more attention than it has received. She was evolutionary in design rather than revolutionary, but marked an ambition for the White Star Line to dominate the North Atlantic express route. Rivals immediately began trying to match her in size and luxury. The optimism that led to her conception was rewarded, whereas her doomed sisters never fulfilled their creators' dreams. This revised and expanded edition of the critically acclaimed RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister uses new images and further original research to tell the story of this remarkable ship 80 years after her career ended.

What finally happened to the USS Arkansas, the Pennsylvania, the Saratoga? Naval historian Kermit (Kit) H. Bonner follows the stories of more than 30 battleships, cruisers and destroyers to their final destinations. Some survive as public museums, some became foreign naval vessels, others wound up in scrapyards or rest eternally at the bottom of the sea. Hundreds of one-of-a-kind photos illustrate the proud heritage of these former rulers of the waves, as well as the men who sailed them.

At 11:40pm on 14 April 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic and began to sink. From the moment the iceberg was spotted, the ship was on a collision course with destiny, with the immediate aftermath of the collision becoming a race against time for those on board to inspect the damage and determine Titanic's fate. In this new study, the events of both the evasive manoeuvres and the subsequent damage assessment are broken down, order by order, moment by moment, giving a forensic analysis of these crucial events. In doing so, with the backing of an exhaustive collection of both historical and modern data, along with over twenty years of personal research by Brad Payne, facts are separated from myths and the most accurate truths about what really happened aboard Titanic during these critical moments are revealed.

Ocean liners conjure up an instant image of luxury. The great salons and smoking room, the suites, the staterooms and even the indoor swimming pools. This book will look at a century or so of the decor of ocean liners. It begins with the likes of the 'Mauretania', commissioned in 1907, and shows the Edwardian flourish and finery-the palm court days. We move into the 1920s & '30s, to Art Nouveau, German Bauhaus and of course the high glamour of Art Deco. Ships include the 'Paris', the innovative 'Ile de France', the 'Bremen' and the stunning 'Normandie' and 'Queen Mary'. Then there is post-war moderne, 'mid century' as it is dubbed today, and finally the contemporary of the current cruise generation-the floating resorts.