The World of Model Ships and Boats
Author : Guy R. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Guy R. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615307273
Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the worlds bodies of water. While ship design has become increasingly sophisticated with time, everything including the luxury liners, warships, and sailboats of today owe much to the watercraft that facilitated travel, trade, and war among ancient cultures. This detailed volume examines the development of the different types of water vehicles and the design of related structures, including docks and quays.
Author : Brian J. Cudahy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780823225699
Fifty years ago--on April 26, 1956--the freighter Ideal X steamed from Berth 26 in Port Newark, New Jersey. Flying the flag of the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, she set out for Houston with an unusual cargo: 58 trailer trucks lashed to her top deck. But they weren't trucks--they were steel containers removed from their running gear, waiting to be lifted onto empty truck beds when Ideal X reached Texas. She docked safely, and a revolution was launched--not only in shipping, but in the way the world trades. Today, the more than 200 million containers shipped every year are the lifeblood of the new global economy. They sit stacked on thousands of "box boats" that grow more massive every year. In this fascinating book, transportation expert Brian Cudahy provides a vivid, fast-paced account of the container-ship revolution--from the maiden voyage of the Ideal X to the entrepreneurial vision and technological breakthroughs that make it possible to ship more goods more cheaply than every before. Cudahy tells this complex story easily, starting with Malcom McLean, Pan-Atlantic's owner who first thought about loading his trucks on board. His line grew into the container giant Sea-Land Services, and Cudahy charts its dramatic evolution into Maersk Sealand, the largest container line in the world. Along the way, he provides a concise, colorful history of world shipping--from freighter types to the fortunes of steamship lines--and explores the spectacular growth of global trade fueled by the mammoth ships and new seaborne lifelines connecting Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Masterful maritime history, Box Boats shows how fleets of these ungainly ships make the modern world possible--with both positive and negative effects. It's also a tale of an historic home port, New York, where old piers lie silent while 40-foot steel boxes of toys and televisions come ashore by the thousands, across the bay in New Jersey.
Author : Chris Oxlade
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 9780749611972
Part of a series examining how science and technology have enabled vast progress in all fields of human endeavour. The book shows all stages of the development of ships and boats from first examples to the modern day and the future.
Author : Kristie Pickersgill
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781474986526
199 clear, labelled illustrations of a variety of waterborne vessels. Find out about the amazing array of ships and boats that sail our oceans and waterways from rowing boats and kayaks to huge luxury liners. Themes include famous ships, sailing ships, all kinds of boats, battleships, submarines and lots more. Great for developing vocabulary and language skills.
Author : Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
Publisher : Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Ships and shipbuilding were important elements of Viking culture and a precondition for trade, warfare and conquest. The important excavations at the Viking towns of Hedeby and Schleswig-Holstein revealed a rich body of finds of wrecks and parts of ships. This is a report on this material and also examines the role of the towns as ports and the role of trading in their development.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sean McGrail
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780747806455
After an introduction to the topic of maritime archaeology and account of the way maritime archaeologists work, the author describes the building and use of rafts, boats and ships in north-west Europe up to about 1500. The evidence for early sea voyages and for navigation without instruments is also surveyed.
Author : Cyrus Hamlin
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780870336218
Intended for people who are not boat designers, this book describes how to bring a dream boat into being. Written by an experienced naval architect, it prepares intelligent amateurs create conceptual vessel designs ready for a naval architects finishing touches. Included are the basic rationales and data needed to undertake a designing project, presented in a style that successfully bridges the gap between technical approach of naval architecture and the simplification of consumer magazine articles. This volume covers a variety of watercraft, so it can be equally useful if youre envisioning a cruising yacht or a sixty-foot fishing boat.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2014-01
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 9780755494934
A full colour educational encyclopedia filled with fascinating facts to educate children. One of a range of titles in the North Parade Publishing Encyclopedia series.