Download or read book A Merchant Fleet at War written by Archibald Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of the Cunard steamship company's part in the European war.

Download or read book A Merchant Fleet at War Classic Reprint written by Archibald Hurd and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Merchant Fleet at War During a war, which was at last to draw into its vortex practically the whole human race - the issue depending, first and foremost, on sea power - there was little time or opportunity or, indeed, inclination on the part of British seamen to keep a record of their varied activities. The very nature of many of the incidents recorded in the following pages precluded the preparation of detailed reports at the time. Nor can we forget that many of the officers and men, to whose resource, courage, and devotion this volume bears testimony, have joined the great silent army of the dead to whose exploits the freedom of conscience of every man and woman in the British Empire, as well as their state of material comfort, bear witness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Outposts of the Fleet written by Edward Noble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outposts of the Fleet: Stories of the Merchant, Service in War and Peace How is this man recognized P He is not recognized at all. He is a sailor. The Church knows nothing of him except that annually it dispenses tracts, printed in block letters, to him and wonders at his stolid indifference. The State passes him by he is without repre sentation; practically cut of? From voting he cannot make himself heard. Thus the greatest race of sailor-men the world has ever seen is treated as a negligible quantity by the two great upholders of national dignity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The American Merchant Marine written by Winthrop L. Marvin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance From 1620 to 1902 The war navy of the United States has had many, the merchant navy few, historians. Yet the two services are joined by an intimate relationship: they are indispensable the one to the other; they have the same brave, vigorous traditions, and for many years they were cherished with equal pride by the people of the nation whose flag they bore to victory. Now our war fleet, after a period of neg lect and decline, has again grown strong and prosperous, while our merchant fleet on the high seas has shrunk to a mere shadow of its ancient greatness. It is in the firm belief that the renaissance of the merchant navy also will come indeed, is already near at hand that this volume has been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Navy and the War Classic Reprint written by J. R. Thursfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Navy and the War Bruins have made good their escape in the very teeth of vastly superior British squadrons. Against all this we have next to nothing to set except the smart little action in the Heligoland Bight, which was forthwith heralded as a glorious victory. Of course we have captured many helpless German merchantmen, and seized some undefended or weakly defended German colonies, but there is nothing very glorious about that. Altogether, it is a sorry tale of inaction, disappointment, and frequent reverse.' To all these crabbed and cross-grained critics I would reply, 0 yo of little faith, how little you know of the things which belong to your peace! You betray an equal ignorance of naval history and of the nature of naval warfare. Do you think that a fleet, however powerful and confident, can engage the enemy if he will not give it the opportunity? Do you think that any nation can ever go to war without suffering occa sioual disappointments and partial reverses Do you not know that in the Great Revolutionary War, which began in 1793, it was more than a year before the first fleet action was fought by Lord Howe on the glorious first of June 1794 Do you forget that throughout that war, both before Trafalgar and after, British merchant-vessels were captured by the French in hundreds every year, scores of them being snapped up even in the Channel day by day, to the very end of the war? Do you not know that the Seven Years' War, the most successful that England ever fought, began with the loss of Minorca and the trial and death of Byng? The Navy has done nothing, forsooth Why, it has done everything, literally everything; for without it nothing could have been done that has been done) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The New Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Merchant Marine The urgency of selling American goods in overseas markets, and of sending them there in American ships, is even more pressing. Notwithstanding a wide-spread impression, encouraged from quarters that should be better informed, this country has not grown rich while other countries. Were being impoverished during the war. No doubt the artificial abundance of money and credit during the war created an illusion of great wealth; and as long as it remains possible to turn capital over rapidly, this illusion can be maintained. But a very short period of industrial stagnation would bring about an abrupt awakening and a keen realization that the United States has shared - and has shared heavily 111 the economic burden of assisting in winning the World War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Merchant Navy Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Archibald Hurd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Navy, Vol. 2 Thoroughly exasperated, the American Government now issued what amounted to an ultimatum. The Germans gave way, and early in May Count Bernstorff presented a Note in which his Government promised that henceforth the campaign would be conducted in accordance with the general principles of international law, and that no vessel would be sunk until some provision had been made for the safety of the passengers and crew. These concessions ushered in a new phase of the con flict. The Imperial Chancellor had yielded to the American demands in the teeth of fierce opposition from the officers of the naval and military commands. The thought of loyally supporting the Government in the attitude it had adopted evidently never entered their minds, as the events recorded in this volume attest; and for the rest of the year they strove, by making progressive encroachments upon the pledges given, to restore the submarine campaign to the position which it had lost. They were tolerably successful for at the end of 1916 merchant vessels were being sunk without warning in the Atlantic and North Sea as well as the Mediterranean: in January 1917 the number of lives lost in British merchant ships was 276, and 245 of these died as a result of the submarine campaign. When, a few weeks later, the German Government declared unrestricted submarine war, it was practically announcing an accomplished fact, but the decision proved the final influence which brought the United States into the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Story of Our Merchant Marine written by Willis J. Abbot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World War But there are triumphs to be won by sea and by land greater than those of war, dangers to be braved, more menacing than the odds of battle. It was a glorious deed to win the battle of Santiago, but Fulton and Ericsson influenced the progress of the world more than all the heroes of history. The daily life of those who go down to the sea in ships is one of constant battle, and the whaler caught in the ice-pack is in more direful case than the blockaded cruiser; while the captain of the ocean liner, guiding through a dense fog his colossal craft freighted with two thousand human lives, has on his mind a weightier load of responsibility than the admiral of the fleet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Merchant Seaman in War Classic Reprint written by L. Cope Cornford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Seaman in War WE are passing through a crisis in the History of our Nation during which every individual is called upon to take some part. On every side there are evidences of devotion to duty, and much that is heroic and splendid is brought into prominence every day. In a conflict of so vast a scale, however, countless acts of gallantry must inevitably pass unrecorded and unknown; and unless I misjudge my fellow-countrymen, I believe their authors would not have it other wise. Yet the part in this war which has been played by the officers and men of the British Mercantile Marine is such that some record is imperative. They have founded a new and a glorious tradition in the teeth of new and undreamed-of peril, and have borne the full brunt of the enemy's illegal submarine warfare. It is not only in their honour that I feel this book should go before the public, but also as a lesson to succeeding generations who will follow their paths in freedom on the seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Merchant Marine written by Rear Admiral William S. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Marine: A Necessity in Time of War; A Source of Independence and Strength in Time of Peace About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Merchant Navy Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Archibald Hurd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Navy, Vol. 1 Men at the Battle of Sluys - War and piracy - Issue of letters of marque Appointment of Admirals - The Merchant Adventurers - Sebastian Cabot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Old Merchant Marine written by Ralph Delahaye Paine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Two hundred years of wickedness unspeakable and human torture beyond all computation, justiy fied by Christian men and sanctioned by govern ments, at length reading the nation asunder in civil war and bequeathing a problem still unsolved all thisfollowedinthe wakeofthosefirstvoyages in search of labor which could be bought and sold as merchandise. It belonged to the dark ages with piracy and witchcraft, better forgotten than lre called, save for its potent influence in schooling brave seamen and building faster ships for peace and war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Merchant Vessels Classic Reprint written by Robert Riegel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Merchant Vessels Flag was, within on the war. And e war, the United and private ship rine. If these the American ned to operate rwarders on the commer the ships. A sue to man the ships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Fleets Behind the Fleet the Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War Classic Reprint written by W. Macneile Dixon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fleets Behind the Fleet, the Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen, in the War Needless to say, many of the most interesting exploits of our merchant sailors and fishermen must for the present remain behind the veil, but, if the Fates permit, the author hopes'at a later date to enlarge the book so as to make it a Worthier recordpof their unrivalled doings. He Would therefore be grateful to any corre spondents Who cared to send him any account of seafaring experiences during the war likely to contribute to that end. He desires also to take advantage of this opportunity of return ing thanks to those correspondents, Who have already taken a friendly interest in the under taking, and of expressing his obligations to several anonymous Writers from Whose articles in the press he has drawn some of the passages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Freedom of Commerce in War Classic Reprint written by Mancunian Mancunian and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Freedom of Commerce in War The navy is not an ideal protector of commerce. Not only is it enormously costly, but it has other interests to serve which may prevent it from repaying to commerce in protection from the attacks of the enemy what it takes in taxation. So much is now officially admitted. In introducing the Navy Estimates for this year (1913) Mr. Churchill said in effect that the protection of commerce, though an important, was only a secondary duty of the navy. Foreign nations, he explained, were mounting guns on their merchant ships, and it was necessary that English ships should be put in a state to resist their attacks. Accordingly, he proposed to arm them and to train guncrews; and the House of Commons, except for a few questions which were parried, has allowed this remarkable development of policy to go unchallenged and unexplained. Yet the moment it is set out in the open it is exposed to a gale of objections from almost every point of the compass. It is impracticable; for the regulations of many ports forbid vessels carrying explosives to lie alongside their wharves or to enter their docks, and foreign nations have only toadopt these regulations to force shipowners to choose between abandoning their cargoes and abandoning their guns and ammunition. Secondly, evenif it were practicable it would not be efficacious. The ships that are most in need of protection are not the fast liners but the slow tramp steamers, who in the nature of things cannot all be armed. Yet to arm the liners and not the tramps would be an unfair discrimination in favour of the wealthier shipping companies and the larger ships. Moreover, it would not protect even this limited number of ships from the attacks by naval cruisers, which are most to be dreaded, and it would increase their risk of destruction if they were attacked and resisted. But there is also a third and more important objection. Even if the arming of merchantmen were practicable and effectual it would still be a dangerous and reactionary measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book What Are We to Do With Our Government Owned Ships written by Albert D. Lasker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Are We to Do With Our Government Owned Ships: Do We Need a Merchant Marine for Peace and War Automatically the 3,000,000 poor tons must be done away with. Part of it can be used by selling to Americans the hulls at low figures for conversion to types of freighters of which we are not possessed. The balance may either be sold in small quantities in local trades abroad, where, because of shorter runs and cheaper labor, local operation may be possible, or it must largely be dismantled. For, if we permit a potential surplus to remain, with the possibility of its use in only abnormally prosperous times when an tonnage can be profitably operated, the burden of loss will fall on the good tonnage in times of adversity without full enjoyment of profit in time of prosperity, and thus we depress the price of all of our tonnage, and so it will come to pass that we shall liquidate the whole for less than we could liquidate the good part. It is the unneeded surplus, in ships as in all else, that determines the market, and the same circumstances that forced some farmers to burn their corn last winter demands that, at least in so far as the uneconomical 3,000,000 tons of freighters go, we recognize that one of our problems is to force its disappearance from the market. If we are to induce private investment in American ships, it must be under an assurance as to what will be done with the surplus tonnage, plus an assurance that the Government will retire from operation, for private owners can not live and can not finance themselves with those two swords of Damocles hanging over their heads. Government Operation Expensive And Unsuccessful. The Shipping Board, under mandate of the Jones Act to maintain necessary trade routes, is operating 421 ships at an annual loss of approximately $50,000,000. This includes the cost of lay-up, but not the cost of all necessary repairs, though the Board is doing such repairs as it can within the figure named. There should be no quarrel at this expenditure of $50,000,000, because thereby we are keeping the American flag flying into all ports of the world, and the American manufacturer and producer is assured of carriage for his wares to his markets when his needs demand. For the year 1921, America carried under her own flag 51 percent of her total foreign trade. This figure seems to indicate a result much more favorable than the real facts warrant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Merchant Marine Manual Classic Reprint written by Eugenen Edward Odonnell and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Marine Manual Our Government calls the youth of the land to serve in a romantic occupation that abounds in glorious traditions of valiant deeds and useful service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.