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Once Britain's largest shipping line, BISNC's trade declined as aircraft took over from troopships. The author takes us through the transition from troopship to cruise ship.
Author : William H. Miller
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445635910
Once Britain's largest shipping line, BISNC's trade declined as aircraft took over from troopships. The author takes us through the transition from troopship to cruise ship.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445638304
Bill Miller looks back nostalgically at the P&O and Orient Line vessels of the 1950s and 1960s.
Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486415321
This fascinating text-and-picture tribute documents both interiors and exteriors of majestic British ships such as the Viceroy of India, the Orion, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Windsor Castle, Pacific Princess, Royal Princess, Crown Princess, and Aurora. Over 200 rare black-and-white illustrations provide views of the ships at sea and in port.
Author : Ambrose Greenway
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1783469293
The British maritime historian explores the golden age of cargo liners and the routes they took around the world in this beautifully illustrated volume. From 1850 to 1950, the cargo liner grew to dominate the world’s trade routes, providing regular services that merchants, shippers and importers could rely on. They carried much of the world’s high-value goods and their services spread to most corners of the world. They were the tool of the world’s first phase of globalization. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs, Cargo Liners tells the story of these majestic ships, beginning with the establishment of routes around Europe and across the North Atlantic in the 1850s. When marine engineer Alfred Holt developed high-pressure compound engines, vessels began to steam further afield, reaching ports in the Far East and Australia. Then the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 cemented the dominance of the cargo liner. Only with the appearance of the first container ship in the 1950s was that dominance finally overthrown.
Author : Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445623889
The story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a fascinating collection of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the 1840s.
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ships
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Author : Thomas E. Bonsall
Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 9780831777814
Author : Robert E. Forrester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317171853
During the nineteenth century Britain’s maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne information from around the globe. Whilst the telegraph increasingly came to dominate long-distance communication, postal services by sea played a vital role in the network of information exchange, particularly to the more distant locations. Much importance was placed upon these services by the British government which provided large subsidies to a small number of commercial companies to operate them. Concentrating initially on the mail service between Britain and South America, this book explores the economic and political involvement of, at the outset, The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (later, Royal Mail Lines) from 1851 until 1874. (The Company’s West Indies services were subsidized from 1840 until the early years of the 20th century.) As well as providing a business history of the Royal Mail companies the book reveals much of the development of Brazil and Argentina as trading nations and the many and varied consequences of maintaining a long-distance mail service. Improved ship design led to larger vessels of greater cargo capacities, essential to the growth of the lucrative, and highly competitive, import/export trades between Britain and Europe and South America. The provision of increased passenger services contributed to the very considerable British financial, commercial and industrial interests in Latin America well into the 20th century. The book also addresses the international competition faced by Royal Mail Lines which reflected Britain’s progressively diminishing dominance of global trade and shipping. In all this book has much to say that will interest not only business historians but all those seeking a better understating of Britain’s maritime and economic history.
Author : Michael B. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1139536907
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History offers a framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. He argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. Miller also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars. He chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century.
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Shipping
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