Book Description
From colonial times to just before the Civil War.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Warships
ISBN :
From colonial times to just before the Civil War.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1935
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert W. McNitt
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
This heavily illustrated book chronicles sailing's unique heritage at the Naval Academy from 1845 onward. It begins in the days of fighting sail, when the reputation of a naval officer depended principally on his ability to handle a square-rigged ship and when sailing was the central activity of the school. Sailing offers vivid descriptions of training aboard the grand old practice ships - Constitution, Constellation, and Macedonian - under master mariners like Stephen B. Luce, then moves to the 1930s, when some energetic midshipmen revived the sailing program by entering intercollegiate competition and offshore racing. By 1995 the program was the most popular midshipman activity; academy sailors won the Dinghy National Championship four times in five years and the top prize in the Newport-to-Bermuda Race - after fifty-four years of trying! Written by a well-known sailor and longtime ocean-racing coach at the Academy, the book is filled with dramatic stories of great races and adventurous cruising. And it records the history of the famous Luders yawls Fearless, Dandy, and Flirt, and the donated boats Vamarie, Highland Light, and Royono, among others, plus sixty years of intercollegiate small-boat racing. It also documents the academy's development of the Quick Stop man-overboard rescue maneuver and its Safety at Sea seminar program, both of which have been adopted nationwide. Admiral McNitt credits the contributions and support of the Fales Committee, the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and other civilian groups who have provided invaluable support over many years. Appendixes list Dinghy National Championship winners, midshipman All-American sailors, the performance of academy boats inthe Bermuda race, and members of the Fales Committee.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1935
Category : History
ISBN :
More than 200 drawings and photos highlight this authoritative study of America's nautical heritage.
Author : Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher : Bonanza Books
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780517004876
A technical study of U.S. military vessels that provides information on the evolution of naval construction, design, and policy prior to the twentieth century
Author : Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 1984-03
Category : Naval architecture
ISBN : 9780393031270
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039333032X
From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli to the war that shook the world in 1812, Toll tells the grand tale of the founding of the U.S. Navy.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Nautical astronomy
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Author : Michael J. Crawford
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780007109456
Covering the classic era of sailing ship warfare from the mid-eighteenth century to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail reveals how warships were built, sailed, and fought in the era made popular today by the novels of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. The often dense technical detail of these works is explained here for the general reader through text and illustrations that bring the period vividly to life. Through his discussions of single-ship actions, fleet operations, famous commanders, and the day-to-day routines of the men who worked the ships, Bernard Ireland investigates how the navy of King George III came to dominate the high seas, ushering in a century of British maritime supremacy. Acclaimed naval artist Tony Gibbons illustrates every type of sailing warship from ships of the line, frigates, and sloops to privateers' schooners, bomb ketches, and xebecs.