The conquest of the North Atlantic
Author : G. J. Marcus
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : G. J. Marcus
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Geography, Medieval
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Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833161
The story of how the fearsome Atlantic Ocean was explored by early sailors, including the Vikings, whose brilliant navigation matched their bravery.
Author : Gerald S. Graham
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1958-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1487597789
This book is an exploration and interpretation of three centuries of European rivalry and expansion in and around the North Atlantic. Professor Graham tells the story from the first conquest of the ocean by the armed sailing ship at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wooden ship of the line in the nineteenth. Gradually, in competition with Spain and then with Holland and finally with France, England achieved command of the seas, until, by the time of the Napoleonic Wars, despite her relative weakness in manpower, she was able to extend her Empire from its centre in the North Atlantic to the distant reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Author : Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1964
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Steamboat lines
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Author : Cunard Steam-Ship Company Limited
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : John R. Bruning
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0760339910
DIVFrom 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Allied ships and planes fought U-boats and other German warships to protect merchant shipping on the unforgiving North Atlantic./div
Author : Cunard Line, ltd
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Steamboat lines
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Author : John Bruning
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 161058807X
The Battle of the North Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, though it reached its peak from mid-1940 through the end of 1943. The Battle of the North Atlantic pitted German U-boats and other warships of the German navy against Allied merchant shipping. Initially, convoys of merchant ships were protected for the most part by the British and Canadian navies and air forces. Starting in the early fall of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, these forces were aided by ships and aircraft of the United States. The Battle for the North Atlantic began on the first day of the European war and lasted for six years, involving thousands of ships and stretching over hundreds of miles of the vast ocean and seas in a succession of more than a hundred convoy battles and as many as a thousand single-ship encounters. Tactical advantage switched back and forth over the six years as new weapons, tactics, and countermeasures were developed by both sides. The Allies gradually gained the upper hand, driving the German surface raiders from the ocean by the end of 1942 and decisively defeating the U-boats in a series of convoy battles between March and May 1943.