Squalls Before War
Author: Ned Bustard
Publisher: Veritas Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781932168273
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Author: Ned Bustard
Publisher: Veritas Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781932168273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Drew McMullen
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870335389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcMullen (former project director for the Sultana and photographer Niemeyer tell the story of the Sultana, a reproduction of an 18th- century schooner designed to be a floating classroom on the Chesapeake Bay. The text and color photographs describe the day-to-day construction of the vessel and the shipwrights, craftspeople, and volunteers who helped to complete it. Other chapters provide information about the original ship purchased by the British Navy for use as a revenue schooner to patrol East Coast harbors. Oversize: 9.5x12.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Christopher Cerino
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marc Castelli
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781593720070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtist Marc Castelli's passion for the nautical led him to an unusual community-based programme on the Chesapeake Bay: the building of a full-scale replica of the Boston-built 1768 schooner, Sultana, the smallest ship in the Royal Navy. The project became an obsession, involving daily trips to the shipyard and three to five hours a day of drawing for six years. From his drawings and remembrances, and the notes and observations provided by the shipwrights and volunteers who constructed the schooner, Castelli shaped this book. Building Sultana includes still lifes of tools and studies of workers engaged in fine detailed work or gross physical labour.
Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1783277467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a customs-enforcement interceptor on the North American eastern seaboard in the period leading up to the American Declaration of Independence, when British taxation of American trade was a hugely contentious issue. As a typical workaday British American merchant ship taken into naval service, Sultana offers a rare opportunity to understand a technology of paramount importance to this world, where records for merchant ships are scarce, but where in this case a wealth of information, from plan drawings to the fully-intact logbooks, has survived. The book provides a detailed narrative of the ship's activities, and reveals the nature of life on board and the day to day business of operating a small sailing ship. It explores the technology of the ship and her sailing qualities as revealed by the ship's logs and also by the performance of a modern replica. In addition, the book situates Sultana's role within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. It is thereby both naval microhistory and also Atlantic history for all scholars interested in the formation and development of the British Atlantic world.
Author: Jenny Bennett
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1848320132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks . . . this prince of pilots . . . had a charmed life in every sense of the word' - George Bernard Shaw Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defence of London against deadly night time raids.
Author: Ned Bustard
Publisher: Veritas Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 1932168672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michaela Riva Gaaserud
Publisher: Moon Travel
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 952
ISBN-13: 1612385699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArea native and current Virginia resident Michaela Gaaserud provides travelers with an insider's perspective on two of the nation's most historically significant states. An experienced guidebook author, Gaaserud offers up original trip ideas to help visitors make the most of their time, such as Five Days for the Active Traveler and the Seven-Day Historical Road Trip and Pub Tour. With comprehensive coverage for all interests—from strolling Embassy Row and visiting the monuments in Washington, DC to hiking in Shenandoah National Park, from getting some sun on Colonial Beach to seeing the Beauregard Civil War Cemetery—Moon Virginia & Maryland gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. This ebook and its features are best experienced on iOS or Android devices and the Kindle Fire.
Author: Jeff Markell
Publisher: ProStar Publications
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781577852995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnusual Vessels is perfect for anyone interested in the sea and the craft that sail on it. The strange vessels discussed here are just a few of the more curious craft that the author, Jeff Markell, has come across - some he has sailed on, some he has only seen, and some only learned about from others. Ranging in size, color, purpose, and historical significance, the ships described in this book will fascinate sailors and spectators like.
Author: Beth Kanter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1493000403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Washington, D.C. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover all within a 2-hour drive. With full trip-planning information, Da