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The boats carried by the men-of-war were needed to move stores, act as the 'engine' in confined waters, and serve as a tenders. This book covers their design and function.
Author : William Edward May
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
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The boats carried by the men-of-war were needed to move stores, act as the 'engine' in confined waters, and serve as a tenders. This book covers their design and function.
Author : William Edward May
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Warships
ISBN : 9780905555911
In the age of sail, the boats were an essential part of any ship's equipment. They moved stores, towed the ship in calms and in confined water, and, for warships, were an extention of their armament. Over the centuries there were almost countless sizes, hull forms and rigs employed, so the exact details have always been a problem to modelmakers, marine artists and even those building replicas.
Author : William Edward May
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Warships
ISBN : 9781840674316
In the age of sail, boats were an essential part of any ship's equipment. They moved stores, towed the ship in calms and in confined waters, and, for warships, were an extension of their armament. With the advent of steam the diversity of boats became even greater. Over the centuries there were almost countless sizes, hull forms and rigs employed, so the exact details have always been a problem to model-makers, marine artists and even those building replicas. This new book, based on a work originally published in 1974, is still the only study of the whole history of this neglected topic. Now revised, expanded and much more thoroughly illustrated, it covers the boat 'establishments' (the sizes and types of boat formally allocated), the methods of hoisting and stowing them aboard ship, the design and construction of the boats themselves, their fittings, rigs and armament - guns, howitzers, and even Congreve rockets.
Author : Philip Reed
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sailing ships
ISBN : 9781557504449
This unmatched volume on the art of static ship modeling is a step-by step guide to building the eighteenth-century 74-gun ship-of-the-line Majestic.
Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0307743632
A Washington Post Notable Book In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of twentieth-century warfare, by convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the new field of operational research.
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File Size : 16,9 MB
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Nancy Rust
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781455625277
Andrew Higgins built boats that could "crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, climb a beach," and "wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall." In World War II, that was exactly what was needed to get soldiers and Jeeps from the ocean to land. This biography for young readers traces the invention of the legendary Higgins boat--and the adventurous childhood of the remarkable man behind it.
Author : Benjamin Armstrong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 080616316X
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.
Author : Jerry E. Strahan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 9780807141434