Ships & Shipbuilding

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769094Author Peter MenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The worldwide cruise industry is booming-alone, there are some 56 new cruise ships being built or planned (2018). Cruise ships visit ports around the world. And the ships themselves are amenity-filled, moving resorts. But when did it all begin? This book...

"I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more-just Titanic," wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found...

This is the story of lightkeepers' contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons - their primary function of course - 'for the safety of all'. Since keepers were first...

The Pool of London has long been a busy place. It has been the focus of seaborne trade with the city since the Roman galleys first arrived with exotic cargoes. After the Industrial Revolution the sailing packets were followed by wooden-hulled paddle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474524Author Michael LangleyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring addresses anchoring systems, techniques, and permanent moorings for boats from twelve feet to eighty feet in length. It covers monohulls, multihulls, light displacement sailboats, cruisers, sportfishers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626543393Author William L CrothersFormat HardbackPage Count 562Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Greenwich, the nautical centre of the world was also once part of the area of Southbank in London, which was the centre of British shipbuilding. David Ramzan looks at the development of Greenwich and Deptford, discussing their extensive shipbuilding past...

Dockmanship, according to author Bell, is "the art, skill, and practice of safely berthing and unberthing a vessel." Anyone who has ever spent time observing the action at a marina or boat ramp will concede that the docking practiced by many recreational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008802Author Michael LangleyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Any who think that the end of the long coastal excursions by paddle steamers of yesteryear brought a halt to a trip on the briny may be surprised to learn that there are still more than eighty vessels with Maritime and Coastguard Agency passenger...

Electric propulsion for boats was developed in the early 19th century and--despite the advent of the internal combustion engine--continued with the perfecting of the modern turbo-electric ship. Sustainable and hybrid technologies, pioneered in small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465209184Author Stan KleinFormat PaperbackImprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771604895Author Cheryl AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

The second double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2021 contains poetry by Tomi Adegbayibi, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowski , Daragh Breen, Belinda Cooke , Stuart Cooke , Gareth Culshaw , Carrie Etter , Gerrie Fellows, Maria Jastrzebska, Kenny Knight ,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845749309Author Major Herbert H Austin Royal EngineersFormat PaperbackImprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845743437Author A SpectatorFormat PaperbackImprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982812808Author Annette ComerFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Mas Publishing LLCPublisher Mas Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604892789Author James Joe BrazielFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Livingston Press (AL)Publisher Livingston Press (AL)

In some 300 large-size illustrations, this book shows the whole development of German passenger ships from the first paddle steamers on rivers and lakes, via the early ocean liners still equipped with auxiliary sails and the luxury high-speed steamers...

Maritime navigation has rapidly developed since the publication of the last edition of the title with methods of global position fixing for shipping becoming standardized. As in the previous two editions, this edition will provide a sound basis for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910146132Author William Clark RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Solis PressPublisher Solis PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783782212038Author Peter NeumannFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Koehlers VerlagsgsellschaftPublisher Koehlers Verlagsgsellschaft

This accessible reference introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships and is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems. It covers the design, construction, use, and maintenance of firefighting and fire...

All aboard for a trip back to the glory days of steamboating. This book is packed with history, photographs, and tales highlighting the personalities of various ships and the men who ran them. Colorful paddle-wheelers that carried goods and passengers to...

Built on the shores of the Delaware Bay in 1925, Sequoia is a Trumpy-designed 104-foot wooden motor yacht that has hosted eight U.S. presidents and has become a Chesapeake Bay icon. Giles M. Kelly served as the yacht's skipper from 1983 to 1988, and was...

The story of the Great Liners begins on the Atlantic route between the Old World and the New, between Europe and the United States. It was the most prestigious, most progressive and certainly most competitive ocean liner run of all time. It was on the...

The domestic and international rules governing the qualifications for personnel serving on tank vessels have changed in recent years. To address those new requirements, the fourth edition of Tanker Operations incorporates new material by Mark Huber and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471158943Author Jedwin SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981815749Author Raymond a Bawal JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Inland ExpressionsPublisher Inland ExpressionsWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635617337Author William L CrothersFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609492205Author Joseph W. ZarzynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Introduction to Ship Engine Room Systems outlines the key systems, machinery and equipment found in a ship's engine room. It explores the basics of their function with overall practical guidance for engine room operation and maintenance, recognising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626541115Author Bruce Roberts-GoodsonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

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...

While many books on celestial navigation insist this age-old art is needed only when electronics fail, Berson uses a unique approach that allows boaters to combine both the modern and the traditional. No other books do that.Celestial navigation, in all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268545Author Clifford W. AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...