Mariners of Madang and Austronesian Canoes of Astrolabe Bay, Papua New Guinea
by Mary R Mennis
His Majesty's frigate "Macedonian" was launched in 1810, at the height of the Napoleonic wars, and burned in Manhattan in 1922. Captured by the Americans in 1812, the ship became a symbol of pride for the American navy, and served prominently in the liberation of Latin America, the war against the slave trade, the Irish potato famine, and the American Civil War. The story of the ship, told in this book, is full of battles, chases, and one near-mutiny, and also represents the story of gunboat dip...
Rhode Island Shipwrecks (Postcards of America) (Images of America)
by Charlotte Taylor
Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 2000 (Mcmc 2000)
This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the 5th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, held in Aalborg, Denmark, on 23-25 August 2000. The conference attracted more papers than any of the previous events in this series of meetings. The Proceedings contains three plenary papers from key international speakers, on the topics of nonlinear ship control, fault detection and resolution in AUVs, and control of the human element. Altogether there are over 60 papers coverin...
The crewman's story opens with a rowdy postmortem held on the rescue ship, leaving all in confusion. Then comes a flashback to Titanic's departure from Belfast, her dubious coaling in Southampton, then the voyage itself, with a lively technical tour of the ship to set the scene. After hitting ice, strange things happen. Authentic revelations from crew members such as Beauchamp and Lightoller and experts such as Edward Wilding are pieced together to form a picture which failed to emerge properly...
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the trut...
L'Architecture Navale. Architecture Navale (Ed.1695) (Savoirs Et Traditions)
by Dassie F
After two centuries of biographies and analyses, Admiral Lord Nelson speaks for himself in this collection of excerpts from his private letters and dispatches. Through Nelson's own words readers come to fully appreciate the admiral's insights and opinions. With chapters devoted to such subjects as duty, combat, politics, sea power, life and death, and Nelson's views of himself and his wife, Frances Nisbet, and mistress, Lady Hamilton, the book offers an array of memorable quotations. Each is pla...
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute 1987 Proc of Coastal an
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sailmaker (Library of Living and Working in Colonial Times)
by Laurie Krebs