Download or read book Heart of Oak written by James P Mcguane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tar-ladles and snuffboxes to sailmaker's fids and carronades, this is a gorgeous photographic essay on Jack Aubrey's world in the Royal Navy. 280 color illustrations.
Download or read book A Sailor s Life written by Jan De Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Years of a Sailor s Life written by George Edward Clark and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sober Men and True written by Christopher McKee and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McKee scours sailors' diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral interviews to uncover the lives and secret thoughts of British men of the lower deck. From working-class childhoods to the hardships of finding civilian employment after leaving the navy, the former sailors speak with candor about the naval life. Illustrations.
Download or read book A Sailor s Life written by Z. W. Ski Kowalewski and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ski Kowalewski is a World War II veteran who enlisted in the United States Navy prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ski was a member of the famous Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) devastated at the Battle of Midway. He flew from four aircraft carriers as an aerial turret gunner in TBF-1 torpedo bombers. He survived a torpedo bomber crash and many torpedo bomber attacks on Japanese surface ships including an aircraft carrier. He was also recruited to support the Marines fighting the Japanese on Guadalcanal at Bloody Ridge. He participated in the burial ceremony at sea of a German submarine captain who had been captured by US Naval forces in the North Atlantic. He is an FAA-rated Airline Transport Pilot, multi-engine land and sea rated. He has flown 25 different aircraft, a jet and ultalights with 14,000 logged flight hours. Ski graduated from Navy flight training and was rated as a Navy pilot. He served one half of his 20-year Navy career as a pilot. After retiring from the Navy, he had a successful career with the Federal Aviation Administration as an Airways Systems Inspection Pilot." --P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Making of a Sailor written by Frederick Pease Harlow and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sailor s Advice on Life written by Cleveland O. Eason and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know how to leverage time? Do you find yourself taking two steps forward and one step back? Are you seeking alternatives to the "school of hard knocks?" Then you have found your source! "A Sailor's Advice on Life" is a sailor's lessons learned for the journey called life. So, whether you are starting out, starting over, looking for the North Star, or trying to figure out where you are, this book is for you! I am a strong believer in critical thinking. I will challenge you to ask questions and to use the time in between the pages to do some self-reflection. As it is often said, it is not just the destination, but the journey that is the adventure! It is my sincere hope that this book will encourage you to navigate life with your eyes wide open and realize your fullest potential! Cleveland O. Eason is the son of a US Army First Sergeant, who completed two Vietnam combat tours and was a US Army boot camp drill instructor before retiring with 20 years of honorable service. Mr. Eason entered the US Navy at the height of the Cold War and obtained the rank of chief petty officer after just nine years of service. Mr. Eason obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander before retiring from active duty with 23 years of honorable service. While on active duty, Mr. Eason had tours in Asia Pacific, Southwest Asia and deployed on US Navy surface ships in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operations. Mr. Eason's military overseas and stateside assignments, ports of call and post-military retirement entrepreneur pursuits, contributed to his ability to have positive interactions with people from all walks of life. His introspective reflections of those interactions allowed him to gain key insights into human behavior. Mr. Cleveland O. Eason graduated from Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. Eason possesses a Bachelor in Applied Science from Troy University, Troy Alabama, a Master in Systems Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California and a Master of Business and Administration (MBA) from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Download or read book Sailor in the White House written by Robert F Cross and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Robert F. Cross’ Sailor in the White House remains one of the most interesting and intimate books about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Secret Service agents, family, and old sailing pals share stories about their days on the water with America’s greatest seafaring president. The author argues that the skills required to be a good sailor are the same skills that made FDR a successful politician: the ability to alter courses, make compromises, and shift positions as the situation warrants. This perspective on Roosevelt shows how his love of the sea shaped his presidency, and its unique look remains refreshing even today.
Download or read book Tin Can Sailor written by Susan Cosentino and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded at the Battle of Tulagi. Peppered with the kind of vivid, authentic details that could only be provided by a participant, the book is the saga of a gallant fighting ship that earned a Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the Third Battle of Savo Island, where she took on a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer and was the last to leave the fray. Calhoun's gripping and colorful account tells what it was like to be there during those furiously fought, close-range engagements. When published in hardcover in 1993, the book was widely praised as a good read loaded with rich and interesting details.
Download or read book Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days written by John D. Whidden and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hello Sailor written by Paul Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of a Sailor written by Frederick Chamier and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sailor s Logbook written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes.
Download or read book Sailors and Traders written by Alastair Couper and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime peoples of the Pacific. It focuses on the sailors who led the exploration and settlement of the islands and New Zealand and their seagoing descendants, providing along the way new material and unique observations on traditional and commercial seagoing against the background of major periods in Pacific history. The book begins by detailing the traditions of sailors, a group whose way of life sets them apart. Like all others who live and work at sea, Pacific mariners face the challenges of an often harsh environment, endure separation from their families for months at a time, revere their vessels, and share a singular attitude to risk and death. The period of prehistoric seafaring is discussed using archaeological data, interpretations from interisland exchanges, experimental voyaging, and recent DNA analysis. Sections on the arrival of foreign exploring ships centuries later concentrate on relations between visiting sailors and maritime communities. The more intrusive influx of commercial trading and whaling ships brought new technology, weapons, and differences in the ethics of trade. The successes and failures of Polynesian chiefs who entered trading with European-type ships are recounted as neglected aspects of Pacific history. As foreign-owned commercial ships expanded in the region so did colonialism, which was accompanied by an increase in the number of sailors from metropolitan countries and a decrease in the employment of Pacific islanders on foreign ships. Eventually small-scale island entrepreneurs expanded interisland shipping, and in 1978 the regional Pacific Forum Line was created by newly independent states. This was welcomed as a symbolic return to indigenous Pacific ocean linkages. The book’s final sections detail the life of the modern Pacific seafarer. Most Pacific sailors in the global maritime labor market return home after many months at sea, bringing money, goods, a wider perspective of the world, and sometimes new diseases. Each of these impacts is analyzed, particularly in the case of Kiribati, a major supplier of labor to foreign ships.
Download or read book Female Tars written by Suzanne J. Stark and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wives and female guests of commissioned officers often went to sea in the sailing ships of Britain’s Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries, but there were other women on board as well, rarely mentioned in print. Suzanne Stark thoroughly investigates the custom of allowing prostitutes to live with the crews of warships in port. She provides some judicious answers to questions about what led so many women to such an appalling fate and why the Royal Navy unofficially condoned the practice. She also offers some revealing firsthand accounts of the wives of warrant officers and seamen who spent years at sea living—and fighting—beside their men without pay or even food rations, and of the women in male disguise who served as seamen or marines. This lively history draws on primary sources and so gives an authentic view of life on board the ships of Britain’s old sailing navy and the social context of the period that served to limit roles open to lower-class women.
Download or read book Life of a Sailor written by Frederick Chamier and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamiers story-telling skills but it is wrong the book is an exact account of his naval career, with every personality, ship and event he describes corroborated by his service records. By the time he went to sea in 1809, the heroic age of Nelson was over, but the war was far from won, and he was to see a lot of action, from anti-slavery patrols off Africa to punitive raids on the American coast during the War of 1812. His descriptions of the latter were to prove highly controversial. Like many liberal officers, he deplored the strategy of bringing the war to the civilian population, and the book was much criticised by more senior naval officers for saying so. Chamier represents a new generation of post-Nelsonic naval officer, more gentlemanly, better educated and perhaps more open-minded he certainly got on well with Lord Byron, whom he met in Constantinople and his sympathies generally look forward to the Victorian age. He was too young to rise to high rank, and after the Napoleonic War, like many others, he was condemned to a life on half-pay and perhaps forced into a literary career, but out of it came one of the eras most authentic accounts of a junior officers naval service.
