Vacher @ Sons Ltd, 1918. — 48 p. John Isaac Thornycroft had shown shipbuilding ability when aged 16 he began building a small steam launch in 1859. The vessel was named Nautilus and in 1862 it proved to be the first steam launch with enough speed to follow the contenders in the University race. The ensuing publicity prompted his father, the sculptor Thomas Thornycroft, to...
Eurobooks, 1976. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0-85654-019-6. Nineteen famous ships, from a Viking longship to a modern supertanker, show the changing world of man and the sea at peace and at war. Seen in sequence, the ships illustrate the gradual evolution from small vessels, dependent on manpower, winds and weather, to the selfcontained floating cities of today, navigated by computer and...
Crown Publishers, 1967. — 260 p. A guide to the maritime collections, restorations, replicas, and marine museums in twenty-three countries. 470 photographs.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 144 p. From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological developments that have enabled accurate measurements of position were central to exploration,...
The Mariner's Museum, 1997. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0300073429. From the publisher: "This book, featuring 100 photographs culled from the archives of the Mariner's Museum, depicts the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea...[E]ach photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the...
US Naval Institute Press, 2002. - 420 p. — ISBN10: 1557502501, ISBN13: 9781557502506. In this latest addition to his acclaimed U.S. warship design history series, Norman Friedman describes the ships and the craft of the U.S. amphibious force, from its inception in the 1920s through World War II to the present. He explains how and why the United States successfully created an...
Lyons Press, 2011. 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7627-7829-4. A fascinating look at the making of the Titanic in vivid, colorful detail. A skilled workforce of thousands spent years building the ship in a remarkable feat of design and engineering. From the engine room to the ball room, here is the story of the riveters, engineers, electricians, carpenters, cabinet makers, and artisans...
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. 225 p. A double-edged commitment drives this book, first to the beauty and grandeur of the Pacific Northwest coastline, and second to the venturous nature of the human spirit that sends people out to sea as mariners or passengers. In melding these two ideals, the true tales contained in this collection focus on the unique, the...
Tuckahoe, NY: John de Graff, 1970. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-8286-0040-6. During the first two decades of the 20th Century, steam yachts were the most impressive status symbol man has ever devised. For sheer cost, the requirements were awesome. The purchase of the yacht was only the beginning. At a time when the captain might earn $3,600 a year in pre-inflation dollars, cost for...
Barcelona: Associació d'Amics del Museu Marítim de Barcelona, 2012. — 351 p. Documentación, función, diseño y construcción. Introdusion. Qué sabemos de los galeones del siglo XVII. Documentación escrita. Yacimientos arqueológicos. Iconografía. Buques, armadas y flotas . Tipos de buques del siglo XVII. Tipos de buques regulados en las ordenanzas. Procedencia de los buques y...
Barcelona: Associació d'Amics del Museu Marítim de Barcelona, 2012. — 395 p. Aparejos, artillería y pertrechos. Apéndices. La arboladura y la jarcia firme . Introducción. Labrado de palos y vergas. Los palos machos de mayor y trinquete. El chapuz, la cofa y el tamborete del mastelero. Los masteleros. El bauprés. El palo de mesana. Mesas de guarnición. Generalidades sobre...
2nd Edition. — gpp, 2013. 296 p. — ISBN: 0762786701. A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A...
2nd Edition. — gpp, 2013. 296 p. — ISBN: 0762786701. A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A...
2nd Edition. — gpp, 2013. 296 p. — ISBN: 0762786701. A wealth of facts and history fill this beautifully designed armchair and reference book. This single volume, packed with full-color and vintage photos, contains everything a lighthouse lover or maritime historian wants to know about lighthouse history, changing technologies, lighthouse keepers, and the lenses themselves. A...
West Virginia University Press, 2014. — XII, 412 p. — ISBN: 978-1-938228-81-0 (Cloth); 978-1-940425-04-7 (EPUB); 978-1-940425-03-0 (PDF). Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This...
DK Publishing, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1465484639. For more than 5,000 years, the sea has challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This history of the sea and sailing tells the remarkable story of those individuals — whether they lived to tell the tale themselves or not. From the early Polynesian seafarers and the first full...
London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-59114-328-4. Celebrated as one of the most handsome, fast, and versatile sailing rigs, schooners plied the trade winds of the world for more than two hundred-fifty years. This comprehensive new history traces the evolution of the ship through Europe and the United States and offers a new hypothesis, based on primary source...
London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-59114-328-4. Celebrated as one of the most handsome, fast, and versatile sailing rigs, schooners plied the trade winds of the world for more than two hundred-fifty years. This comprehensive new history traces the evolution of the ship through Europe and the United States and offers a new hypothesis, based on primary source...
Texas A&M University Press, 2005, 248 p. — ISBN10: 1585444510, ISBN13: 9781585444519. Without effective and durable hull fastenings, boats and ships from the earliest days of seafaring through the twentieth century could not have plied the seas. In Ships’ Fastenings, this central element of boat construction receives its first detailed study. Author Michael McCarthy offers a...
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1945. — 156 p. Here is the intriguing account of the little ships with the huge deckloads of lumber that plied the California, Oregon, and Washington coasts, and of the men who operated and sailed them. It is the story of the lumber country, "Paul Bunyan's Country"; of the Mendocino dog-holes, the open coves where the ships were loaded...
W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0-393-03576-X. Most of this book covers the golden age of commuters, the years between the two world wars when commuting by water was both novelty and convenience for the wealthy, sporting business leaders of the 1920s and 1930s. The entire period covered is approximately a hundred years, beginning in 1869 with the steam yachts of...
Wiley, John & Sons, 2012. - 352 p. ISBN: 0470873876. On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever. The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg,...
Marines Editions, 2001. — 120 p. Des frégates en bois du XVIIe siècle aux croiseurs modernes, les auteurs nous entraînent à la découverte d'un type de navires qui a traversé les siècles avec toujours autant de succès, alors que vaisseaux, cuirassés, torpilleurs, sous-marins et porte-avions se disputaient tour à tour une hypothétique maîtrise des océans. Gérard Piouffre et Henri...
D. Appleton & Co., New York, TrÜbner & Co., London, 1858. Reprint by Eastern Press, Inc. New Haven, Conn., 1977. - 228 p. Author's report addressed to the Congress of the United States aimed to show the necessity of building own steamship fleet. Paper A (page 192) enumerates all the Steamers of the United States. Paper B (page 193) gives a list of all the British Ocean Mail...
London: Charles Griffin & company, ltd. Exeter street, Strand. New York: D. van Nostrand company, 23 Murray street and 27 Warren street. 1896, 622 p. Since the Manual of Marine Engineering was written and first published, there have been many and extensive changes in marine engineering practice, due in great measure, if not entirely, to the supply of mild steel at a low price...
London: Charles Griffin & company, ltd. Exeter street, Strand. New York: D. van Nostrand company, 23 Murray street and 27 Warren street. 1922, 796 p. A special Pocket-book of Memoranda, Tables, &c., has long been a desideratum with Marine Engineers. In the existing pocket-books, Marine Engineering matters are only dealt with generally, and such information as is given is in...
Third edition, revised and enlarged. — London, John Murray, Albemarle street, 1894. 764 p. The first edition of this book, published in 1877, grew out of lectures delivered at the Koyal Naval College to naval officers and others studying there: In these lectures it was my endeavour to popularize and explain some of the many problems of naval architecture in a manner which...
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