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Patrol and Rescue Boats on Puget Sound

Author : Chuck Fowler

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 15,27 MB

Release : 2011

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738575810

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Book Description

The history of impressive battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines on Puget Sound has been well chronicled. However, the story of the smaller, fast patrol and rescue boats that have protected its vast inland waters is largely unknown. This book, through more than 200 rare images and engaging text, reveals the fascinating story. It covers Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Air Force craft in the sound, including the famed patrol torpedo boats of World War II. Featuring evocative photographs from the National Archives, as well as veterans' personal collections, this book highlights these military craft, their proud crews, and essential wartime and peacetime operations.



Patrol and Rescue Boats on Puget Sound

Author : Chuck Fowler

Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 32,39 MB

Release : 2011-12

Category : History

ISBN : 9781531650056

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Book Description

The history of impressive battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines on Puget Sound has been well chronicled. However, the story of the smaller, fast patrol and rescue boats that have protected its vast inland waters is largely unknown. This book, through more than 200 rare images and engaging text, reveals the fascinating story. It covers Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Air Force craft in the sound, including the famed patrol torpedo boats of World War II. Featuring evocative photographs from the National Archives, as well as veterans' personal collections, this book highlights these military craft, their proud crews, and essential wartime and peacetime operations.



Adventures on the Olympia Harbor Patrol

Author : James Nugent

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 26 pages

File Size : 31,24 MB

Release : 2016-04-24

Category :

ISBN : 9781532896880

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Preface I wish to thank the honorable women and men of the Port of Olympia Harbor Patrol. These people volunteer their time and risk their personal safety on Southern Puget Sound. Your efforts go largely unnoticed but are greatly appreciated by those need your services. Introduction In the fall of 2015 I saw an advertisement on the Port of Olympia Web Site. It was looking for volunteers to serve on the Olympia Harbor Patrol. In exchange for a year commitment, people would be trained in boat handling, search and rescue and port security.



Tugboats on Puget Sound

Author : Chuck Fowler

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 18,71 MB

Release : 2009

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738559728

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While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.





Afoot & Afloat North Puget Sound

Author : Marge Mueller

Publisher : The Mountaineers Books

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 42,5 MB

Release :

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1594853606

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* Guidebook provides boating and paddling routes to Washington's North Puget Sound, as well as info on land destinations* Popular boating series, used by any type of water traveler - from motor boats, to sailboats, and paddlers* Puget Sound is an island paradise with lots of secluded coves and places to exploreThis guidebook is for people who love water - being on it or near it. That's why this guidebook series not only tell you where to take your boat but what you can do on land when you arrive at your destination. On the other hand, it's not necessary to own a boat to find fun things to do in these books. If you like to hike, bike, picnic, or see wildlife all with a beautiful Puget Sound backdrop, these titles will show you where to do that, complete with detailed driving directions and where to put in your kayak when you arrive.The North Puget Sound guidebook includes places from Blaine and Birch Bay at the northern most point, down through Bellingham Bay; to Fidalgo, Whidbey, and Camano Islands; and on to Edmonds, and the Strait of Juan De Fuca, all the way to Neah Bay.









U.S. Navy Patrol Vessels

Author : Ken W. Sayers

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 558 pages

File Size : 11,14 MB

Release : 2021-08-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1476641412

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During the past century, U.S. Navy patrol vessels have operated everywhere larger warships have--as well as in places where the big boats could not operate. These bantam warriors have performed in a variety of roles, from antisubmarine warfare to convoy escort and offensive operations against enemy forces afloat and ashore. Patrol vessels battled German units in the Mediterranean, fought insurgents along rivers and canals in China and Vietnam and protected U.S. ships and facilities in the Persian Gulf. Covering more than 1000 of the Navy's small combatants, this comprehensive survey provides all-time rosters, histories, specifications and illustrations of patrol vessels from before World War I to the present. World War II PT boats and submarine chasers and Vietnam War swift boats are covered, along with less well known ships such as Eagle boats, patrol yachts, hydrofoil gunboats and control escorts. A detailed accounting of patrol vessel exports, transfers and shipbuilders is included.