American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858
Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 488
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Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0486251152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst volume of invaluable, fully illustrated, encyclopedic review of 352 clipper ships from the period of America's greatest maritime supremacy. Introduction. Total in set: 109 halftones. 5 illustrations. Index.
Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 460
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul W Simpson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-05-04
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0244305420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Smashing her way through enormous cross seas and howling winds the Neptune's Car began to run her easting down. She passed a battered barque bearing Hamburg markings vainly attempting to make westing against a thundering south-westerly gale." Those with an interest in American maritime history would know of the story of Mary Patten and the clipper ship Neptune's Car. However few would be aware of the cursed nature of the ship. The Patten's fateful voyage was just one in the career of a clipper whose travels spanned the globe. Built at the yard of Page & Allen in Gosport, Virginia in the spring of 1853, the Neptune's Car quickly established her reputation for speed. However murder, mutiny, mayhem, plague, disaster, war, death and financial ruin haunted any who know her. The fickle hand of fate was always at the helm and like the oceans upon which the clipper sailed, she spared none who showed weakness! Volume One of the Virginia Clippers.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 2398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 1230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fred M Walker
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2010-05-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1848320728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In this new book the author describes the lives and deeds of more the 120 great engineers, scientists, philosophers, businessmen, shipwrights, naval architects and inventors who shaped ship design and shipbuilding world wide. Covering the story chronologically, and going back briefly even to Archimedes, such well-known names as Anthony Deane, Peter the Great, James Watt, Robert Fulton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel share space with lesser known characters like the luckless Frederic Sauvage, a pioneer of screw propulsion who, unable to interest the French navy in his tests in the early 1830s, was bankrupted and landed in debtors prison. With the inclusion of such names as Ben Lexcen, the Australian yacht designer who developed the controversial winged keel for the 1983 Americas Cup, the story is brought right up to date. Concise linking chapters place all these innovators in context so that a clear and fascinating history of the development of ships and shipbuilding emerges from the pages. An original and important new reference book.
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 740
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 702
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