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The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier - The Black Freighters (Hardcover)
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The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier - The Black Freighters (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Maritime History, 56
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The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the
powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the
world's trades and economies. Their design and technological
development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which
revolutionised the British coastal coal trade. The same engineering
principles were applied to produce ocean-going steam and later
motor tramps. By the end of the 19th century, the capabilities and
economies of these 'black freighters' had captured from the sailing
ship much of the world's trade in bulk commodities. In the second
half of the 20th century, the tramps in turn evolved into
multi-purpose, dry bulk carriers. These workhorses of the sea
transport commodities including metallic ores, grain, coal, timber
and other minerals. Quantities of up to 400,000 tons are carried in
the largest, specialised ore carriers. In a parallel development,
applying the same technical principles produced smaller yet
efficient steam and later motor coasters which came to dominate
short sea shipping. The book concludes with a discussion of how the
economies of transportation provided by bulk carriers have had
profound effects on industrialisation, globalisation and the
world's economy, and discusses the environmental impact of these
ships.
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