Book Description
The fascinating and illustrated story behind the warship figureheads on display at The Box, Plymouth.
Author : David Pulvertaft
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1445698536
The fascinating and illustrated story behind the warship figureheads on display at The Box, Plymouth.
Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786471123
This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but they are also put in context with the times in which they operated. Their builders in East Coast states from Maine to Florida are discussed in detail, as are the men, and a woman in one instance, who commanded and manned these ships. The book documents the roles that owners and shipping agents played, what kinds of cargo the ships carried worldwide and the unusual trades in which they participated.
Author : William L. Crothers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786470062
Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing vessels that formed the backbone of the commercial shipping industry. This comprehensive volume appraises in minute detail the construction of these ships, outlining basic design criteria and enumerating and examining every plank and piece of timber involved in the process, including the keel, frames, hull and deck planking, stanchions, knees, deck houses, bulworks, railings, interior structures and arrangements. More than 150 illustrations illuminate the size, shape, location and pertinent specifics of each item. Complete with a glossary of contemporary industry terms, this work represents the definitive study of the mid-nineteenth century's great American-built square rigged ships.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher :
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher :
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Subject headings
ISBN :
Author : Nupur Chowdhury
Publisher : Nupur Chowdhury
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Six hundred years ago, humanity rose up in revolt against the Aeriels, who were driven from earth and back into their homeland of Vaan after a bloody and glorious war. Eight years ago, Ruban's home was destroyed and his family murdered by an Aeriel. When a new Aeriel threat looms over Ragah, the capital city of Vandram, Ruban Kinoh must do everything in his power to avenge his family's past and protect the future of his country. Which is hard enough without being saddled with a pretty and pompous aristocrat, who seems as useless as he is vain. Faced with a conspiracy that might cost humanity its hard-won freedom, and accompanied by the bejeweled and glitter-clad Ashwin Kwan, Ruban begins his journey into a land where the past and the future intertwine.
Author : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Publisher : Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN :