Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf
Author : Arthur Hewitt
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Lifesaving
ISBN : 9780896460881
Author : Arthur Hewitt
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Lifesaving
ISBN : 9780896460881
Author : Michael Morgan
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Atlantic Coast (Del.)
ISBN : 0875863388
Libraries, archives, and museums reveal clues to the colorful characters lining the history of Delaware, from its earliest colonial days to the invention of the "beach resort" and the founding of the nation's "Summer Capital" to World War II and the present. Author Michael Morgan brings together this kaleidoscopic view of the men of the sea and the beachfront tycoons who shaped Delaware and its role in the development of America, in war, politics, and business, from the Europeans' arrival at Cape Henlopen until modern times. While the intrepid patriot Henry Fisher and the infamous serial killer Patty Cannon are not known beyond the boundaries of southern Delaware, others such as William Penn, Captain Kidd and the DuPonts enjoy more widespread reputations. Here, tales of shipwrecks and rumrunners combine with the politics of slavery and suffrage to illuminate the history of one corner of the United States, a microcosm that synthesizes light on various facets of the development of the United States in a broader context. * Michael Morgan pens a weekly column, "Delaware Diary," in the Delaware Coast Press and has authored many stories for The Baltimore Sun, Maryland Magazine, Civil War Times Illustrated, America's Civil War and other periodicals for the past 15 years. He is a frequent guest speaker at historical societies in Lewes, Georgetown, and other towns along the Delaware coast.
Author : Elisa Carbone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101647337
Adventure on the high seas! WHAM! The Pliny jolts as if Black Beard himself has just punched her in the belly. Pedro and I slide and smack--bang--into the bulwark. "We're grounded," cries the first mate. "We've hit a shoal!" In May of 1882, a large steamship ran aground off the coast of New Jersey. Elisa Carbone imagines what it was like for two boys on that ship: waking up in the middle of the night, waves crashing over the side, the storm too big to lower the lifeboats. And then the flashing of light from shore--the surfmen, true "heroes of the surf," come to rescue them. The award-winning author's meticulous research combined with Nancy Carpenter's spectacular illustrations make this thrilling adventure on the high seas one not to be missed!
Author : Martha J. Coston
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Signals and signaling
ISBN :
Author : T Michael O'Brien
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : 0898756499
Throughout the United States, local residents customarily view their hometown U.S. Coast Guard units as intimate parts of the civilian community. Nowhere is this truer than in the Great Lakes region. Here, for almost 200 years, the lives of the people and Coast Guardsmen have been intermingled in a most special bond.As enterprising Americans pressed westward along the southern shores of these primeval lakes and upon them, aids to navigation in the form of lighthouses and buoys, and armed revenue cutters were promptly provided by the Federal Government to facilitate their progress. Other varied services of the entity destined to become known as the U.S. Coast Guard, whether lifesaving stations, inspections of steam vessels or regulation of navigational waterways, were provided as needs arose, until today, the Service is ubiquitous on the Inland Seas.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Stanley Treanor
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Goodwin Sands (England).
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Fran Hodgkins
Publisher : Earth Heroes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781584691198
The Earth Heroes books feature the youth and careers of the world's greatest environmentalists, and the waves of influence that spread from their ideas and actions. This second volume in the series features Champions of the Oceans that explored the realm of the sea - such historic and contemporary greats as Jacques Cousteau, inventor of scuba equipment, William Beebe, the bathysphere deep-sea diver, and Her Deepness Sylvia Earle.
Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Heroes
ISBN :