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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.
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Ro-Ro Handbook
(Hardcover)
Delyan Mihaylov Todorov
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R1,064
R817
Discovery Miles 8 170
Save R247 (23%)
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This comprehensive handbook details the procedures for the safe and
efficient operation of roll-on roll-off type cargo ships, from
loading and unloading at dockside to navigating the open seas.
Thirteen chapters cover all aspects of Ro-Ro shipping such as ship
development, ports and terminals, hold ventilation, cargo-handling
equipment, transport regulations, ship handling, fire safety,
maintenance, and more. Over 175 pictures, charts, and illustrations
further explain the crucial methods to maintaining safe operations.
As Ro-Ro shipping increases due to global economics, the importance
of this guide, the first of its kind, is clear. Written by a Ro-Ro
ship commander with more than 12 years' experience in the shipping
industry, this book will prove indispensable to ship officers,
operators, managers, superintendents, and surveyors as well as
anyone involved in the operation of Ro-Ro ships.
Chichester Harbour Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a special
place of tranquillity in the crowded south of England. It is
recognized nationally and internationally and is appreciated by
many hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. This book, which
includes previously unpublished memoirs and features famous figures
from King Canute to P.G. Wodehouse, draws together the myriad
threads that have given the harbour and its surroundings their
unique character, telling an engrossing story that stretches far
into the past, present and future. It encompasses topics as varied
as geological and historical tumult, the harbour's vital importance
as a refuge for threatened wildlife, the change from commercial
port to centre for leisure pursuits, the impact of war and the
threat from climate change. Liz Sagues brings to life the people
who have contributed so much to Chichester Harbour, from the
saintly Saxon cleric whose practical fishing skills ended a village
famine to environmentally committed twenty-first-century farmers,
and from a king's favourite mistress to Olympic medal-winning
sailors. The book is for those who already love the harbour - and
for the many more who, as they read on, will join them. Provides a
unique broad-ranging study of Chichester Harbour AONB and its close
surroundings Richly illustrated with approximately 200 colour
photographs Includes previously unpublished memoirs and features
famous figures from Kings Canute and Harold to P.G. Wodehouse, Sir
Henry Royce and Clark Gable Tours through the harbour villages and
suggests walks which cover millennia in minutes and give a real
taste of the harbour Written with magical, compelling style by an
award-winning journalist.
Although better than nine out of ten boats afloat today are made of fiberglass, a significant minority of boaters believe that a boat isnt a boat unless its made of wood. Wooden boats have character. Wooden boats are real. Wooden boats are living things, not plastic stampings from the corporate cookie cutter. But new wooden boats are priced beyond the reach of most families, and building from scratch takes more time and energy than many people have. The alternative, buying a tired old wooden boat and fixing it up, is harder than it sounds because the available information is written for skilled craftsmen using traditional methods and materials to restore antique boats to museum standards--worlds away from the needs of the average boater. Enter author Jim Trefethen, who rebuilds wooden boats in Marblehead, Massachusetts, using modern materials and methods, such as epoxy laminations, to replace traditional heavy timber framework. Written for the novice, this book tells the reader how to select the right boat; establish a work schedule and budget; buy the right tools and equipment; select alternatives to endangered tropical rainforest woods; repair and modify the hull, topsides, deckhouse, masts, and interior; when, why, and how to use fiberglass; paint and refinishing; repairing electrical and mechanical systems, and more.
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Herreshoff
- American Masterpieces
(Hardcover)
Maynard Bray, Benjamin Mendlowitz, Claas Van Der Linde; Introduction by Kurt Hasselbalch; Photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz
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The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company constructed the most
thrilling, innovative and graceful boats ever built in the United
States. Here the finest of the Herreshoff designs afloat today are
presented with insightful commentary on design evolution in every
facet-from lines to displacement to hardware, accompanied by
full-colour images of each vessel both in detail and under way, and
unique colour reproductions of Herreshoff's archival plans and
drawings. Each entry incorporates a history of the boat (or class),
its owners, race results and fate, celebrating the many that still
grace the waters.
Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Within Europe builds on
Professor Sen McGrails 2006 volume Ancient Boats and Ships by
delving deeper into the construction and use of boats and ships
between the stone age and AD1500 in order to provide up to date
information. Regions covered will include the Mediterranean and
Atlantic Europe. This interesting volume is easily accessible to
those with little or no knowledge of the building and uses of
boats, whether ancient or modern.Sen McGrail introduces the reader
to this relatively new discipline through the theory and techniques
used in the study of early boats as well as the many different
types of evidence available to us, including archaeological,
documentary, iconographic, experimental and ethnographic, and the
natural, physical laws.
In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of
spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George
Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more
intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever
have hoped. In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a
stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism,
farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and
how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk
of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a
unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval
shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War
II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that
helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A
colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual
armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the
nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding,
engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose
technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform.
Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German
naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features
of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and
management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce
their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative
analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British,
Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S.
and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and
prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British
and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork
for their impressive production records in World War II. While the
American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned
navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their
combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the
widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended
on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments
into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned
shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German
counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a
vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000
years, examining their historical context and significance, and
showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on
long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not
only informs readers of the technological developments over the
last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks
possible, but covers shipwrecks in culture, maritime archaeology,
treasure hunters and their environmental impacts. Although
shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their
implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s,
foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental
disasters, and in 2021 the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant
container ship Ever Given had a serious impact on global trade.
'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable
and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.'
- Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President On April 15th,
1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after
colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter
Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the
aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the
upstairs/downstairs divide. A Night to Remember provides a vivid,
gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's
descent. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JULIAN FELLOWES
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as 'The Keeper of the Flame'. As
one of Australia's longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent
26 years tending Tasmania's well-known kerosene 'lights' at Tasman
Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island. From sleepless nights
keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped
at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and
keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of
unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more
heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the
lighthouses that were left empty forever. Evocatively told, The
Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying
way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.
London's docks were once the busiest in Britain. They had developed
piecemeal from the beginning of the nineteenth century as the
existing riverside wharves became too congested and pilfering
became rife. Dock systems were built on both sides of the Thames.
The largest group, 'The Royals' comprising the Royal Victoria,
Royal Albert and King George V Docks, created the greatest enclosed
dock area in the world. Changes in cargo handling methods such as
containerisation led to all new developments being concentrated at
Tilbury from the late 1960s, and the closure of the London docks,
along with nearly all of the private riverside wharves and canal
wharves. The London Docklands Development Corporation was set up to
redevelop the dock sites. So what replaced the docks, and what
remains to remind us of what was there before? This book follows
the Thames Path, which has opened up much of what was once a
largely hidden world, from London Bridge to Greenwich to examine
the changes and the heritage that remains on both sides of the
river. Also included is the Regent's Canal, which took goods
onwards into London and linked to the Midlands, and the sewer
network that makes use of the Thames.
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway
around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship
master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the
seven-week voyage of the Justine and Martha was not only unique,
but a memorable experience he was unlikely ever to forget or
repeat. As the author relates the day-to-day problems that the
twelve crewmen encountered while living onboard, the reader is
drawn into their world. The discovery of a plague of rats, steering
problems, running out of fresh water and running aground in the
middle of Sitra port, Bahrain are just some of the difficulties the
two old boats encountered on their way to the Caribbean. Rusty
water, fuel oil in a toilet, and a fire onboard in the Gulf of Suez
were some of the setbacks experienced on the first leg of the
voyage.Designed principally for river work and not as ocean-going
or deep-sea vessels, the hapless Justine and Martha encountered a
short but violent Mediteranean storm on the passage from Port Said
to Malta rendering conditions onboard extremely uncomfortable.On
the leg of the journey from Malta to Trinidad, they hit more bad
weather, partially flooding the Martha. It also became apparent
that the fuel taken onboard by both vessels was biologically
contaminated. Forced to stop at Gibraltar to clean the fuel tanks,
the author and Chief Engineer visited Nerja in Spain, which
coincided with the start of the Mardi Gras. Although blessed with
good weather for their crossing of the Atlantic, this epic voyage
almost ended in disaster just a few meters from the final
destination. An explosion from the engine-room, followed by a
high-pitched mechanical whining, signalled the end of both engines,
leaving the Justine to drift helplessly towards the jagged edges of
a ramshackle concrete pier.
A companion to his successful first book, James Pottinger's new
volume Scottish Fishing Boats: A New Look looks farther afield, and
covers the fishing history of the areas of north-east Scotland, the
west coast and Shetland. Topics covered include miscellaneous types
from today and the past, pursers, smaller craft, visiting boats and
boats which were lost to sea or have been scrapped. A number of
older boats are included to illustrate shapes and designs, which
are often held to retain a measure of character and individuality,
perhaps not as prevalent today. Touching on some of the changes in
boat types and fishing methods, as well as changes and developments
in design and catching methods, this second selection of images
brings the story of Scotland's fishing boats up to date.
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S.
law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury
yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred
survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was
the first successful documented slave landing in the United States
in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to
civil war. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts
from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, reportedly taken
from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities.
However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very
recently. In 2009, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private
papers belonging to Charles Lamar's father, stored for decades in
an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar's
letter book, confirming him as the author. The Lamar documents,
including the Slave-Trader's Letter Book, are now at the Georgia
Historical Society and are available for research. This book has
two parts. The first recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of
Lamar himself, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession,
the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A
portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy
entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was
often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His
involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial
desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the
"Slave-Trader's Letter-Book." Together with annotations, these
seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil
War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling,
figure.
ACTION-PACKED STORIES OF SHIPS SUCH AS: SS Benajmin Noble - SS Carl
D. Bradley - SS Eastland - SS Edmund Fitzgerald - SS G. P. Griffith
- SS Henry Steinbrenner - SS Island Queen - SS Kaliyuga - SS
Kamloops - SS Lady Elgin - SS Mataafa - SS Noronic AHOY, MATE!Step
into the past and aboard the decks of these twenty-one proud
vessels, each one launched with high hopes but doomed finally to
disaster. From the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the last major freighter
lost on the lakes, to the Le Griffin, the ill-fated liner that
mysteriously disappeared during a ruthless storm, author Michael J.
Varhola 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 oceangoing stories you've ever read.
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