U.S. Merchant Marine, America's Life Lines
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Merchant marine
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Merchant marine
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Merchant marine
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Author : United States. Maritime Administration
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Merchant marine
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Author : Scott C. Truver
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Maritime law
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Author : Emory Scott Land
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Merchant marine
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Author : Barnett Singer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0359980996
Merriam Press Memoir Series. "Turbulent Seas" takes the reader back to the rousing American high sea memoirs that began 180 years ago with Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast." From the mid-1960s until his retirement, Merchant Marine Captain Lance Orton led an adventurous life on ships that crossed the globe's oceans and served ports in wartime Vietnam, India, the old Soviet Union, Alaska, and beyond. Co-authors Orton and Professor Barnett Singer tell of Captain Orton's career in an engaging narrative that, at times, could serve as a script for an action-�adventure movie. Readers will be entertained while learning fascinating details about a career in the U.S. Merchant Marine. This book will make an excellent gift to the family "history buff" and any of those who enjoy real-life adventures. -Michael Allen, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Tacoma. Co-author of the #1 Amazon.com and New York Times Bestseller, "A Patriot's History of the United States," 2014.
Author : Robert Carse
Publisher : New York, W. Morrow
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Merchant marine
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Author : Lance Orton
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475265538
Merriam Press Personal Chronicle 1. Second Edition (May 2012). Lance Orton's career in the American Merchant Marine, during which he experienced an interesting, hectic, and often dangerous life on the high seas, and in a variety of ports from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s. What to him were fascinatingly difficult human challenges began with his cadet days and from his earliest times on the water, then continued during his first voyage as a third officer, and through his appointment as one of the youngest American captains of a very large vessel-in fact, the largest American ship ever built at that time (late 1970s), "The Golden Endeavor," then classed as a supertanker, but later downgraded to "Baby Super." Lance sailed with colorful, crazy, but sometimes gifted maritime personnel, and fought off a number of life-threatening situations, including pirate attacks, knife fights on board ship, attempted poisonings (of me), etc. I also sailed to Vietnam in the years when a merchant mariner literally took his life in his hands doing so. I had to deal with accidents and near explosions on ships, due to volatile hydrocarbons and other material we carried, but also to human error. In this book you get the inside story. You also get a close view of American organizations both blessed and plagued by a variety of personalities, and especially, by the growing disease of bureaucratization and political maneuvering. And you will encounter a sad, yet comical Soviet Union before Gorbachev, where the secret police, inequities, and paranoia were rife. This is one man's story that will compel the your attention. Contents: * My Baptism at Sea with Captain Crofton; * A Young Cadet's Progress and Revolt; * First Voyage to India; * Strafing in Vietnam and American Rage; * Enter the Divine Element; * Incompetence and Tragedy; * To Russia with Vodka; * Back to American Scalawags; * Returning as Captain Orton to KGB Land; * Ships' Revolvers and Revolts; * Final Diagnosis-Lunacy on Board Ship!
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Merchant marine
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Lifeboats
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