Download or read book Across the Pacific Ocean with Paddle Steamship CHINA written by Hillary Don and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wooden, sidewheel-paddle steamship China boldly carried transpacific ocean passengers and freight 6,500 hazardous nautical miles from San Francisco, California, to Yokohama, Japan, and Hong Kong, China, between October, 1867 and June, 1879. She helped unite the East and West coasts of the United States, and developed trade between the youngest and one of the oldest civilizations in the world. China was the final and greatest steamship designed and constructed by one of the United States? preeminent wooden shipbuilders, William Henry Webb. She voyaged alone around South America from New York to San Francisco to begin her transpacific service. However, China?s longevity in trans-ocean trade was threatened from the outset. Sure enough, in 1879 the United States Congress mandated that future ships under its contracts must be constructed of iron with screw propellers. After 12 years of sterling performance, China was retired from the transpacific ocean trade, and served on west coast routes before being used as an quarantine ship. China was dismantled and burned in Tiburon, California in 1889. This book includes adventures of China?s famous cabin passengers on the transpacific route, including William Seward, who embarked three years and five months after he completed the purchase of Alaska by the United States Congress from Russia, and Anson Burlingame representing the Emperor of China in negotiations to improve relationships between the two great countries. This book describes the large number of steerage passengers, sometimes 1,200 on a single voyage from Hong Kong to San Francisco, creating violent opposition from the labor unions to this flood of cheap labor into America. During the dismantling of China her aft deckhouse was saved as a dwelling. Surviving as a residence for 90 years, the aft deckhouse was restored in 1979 by the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society. Named China Cabin, and used as a museum and meeting-place, it is the only structural survivor in the world of a ship built by William Henry Webb. Hillary Don February 20, 2013
Download or read book A Sketch of the New Route to China and Japan written by Pacific Mail Steamship Company and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America as early as 218 B.C., when the great sea captain Hsu Fu set sail in search of the elixir of immortality. Full-color inserts.
Download or read book Pacific Coast Ship China written by Jacques F. Marc and published by Royal British Columbia Museum. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pacific Coast Ship China identifies and dates more than 280 china patterns once used along the Pacific coast of North America in coastal, intercoastal and transPacific services. It covers china used on vessels and in-shore establishments of shipping organizations registered in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Hawaii." "In addition to passenger vessels, it documents the china used by freighter operations, oil companies, government services and yacht clubs. An important feature of this book is a chapter containing brief histories of 73 companies and government agencies that operated ships on the Pacific coast." "This easy-to-use guide is an important resource for collectors, divers and anyone interested in the history of Pacific-coast transportation or commerce." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Navigation of the Pacific Ocean China Seas Etc written by F. Labrosse and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of how Tim Severin & his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft. Their purpose: to test the theory that Asian raft sailors reached America 2,000 years ago. Their experience provides armchair adventurers with one of the most remarkable sea voyages ever, & offers a unique perspective of what happens when historical theories are literally put to the test. Severin is a fine reporter & a literate writer who has produced a fascinating & rewarding blend of history, adventure, & contemporary reporting.Ó Severin uniquely combines in himself the gifts of the adventurer, the historian, & the litterateur.Ó
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage Round the World written by Edward Belcher and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Navigation of the Pacific Ocean China Seas etc written by F. Labrosse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book A Sketch of the New Route to China and Japan By the Pacific Mail Steamship Co s Through Line of Steamships Between New York Yokohama and Hong Kong written by Pacific Mail Steamship Company and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book China Cabin written by Hillary Don and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Cabin is an account of the restoration of the aft deck-house of the wooden sidewheel paddle steamship China, built in 1867. The 20 feet by 46 feet fragment is the only existing relic in the world of the ships built by one of America's foremost wooden ship designer and builder--William Henry Webb (1816-1899). Webb designed and built 137 exceptional wooden ships, from an iron-clad warship sold to Napoleon III of France to famous Clipper sailing ships. China was constructed in 1866-67 for initiation of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's (PMSSC) transpacific mail, freight and passenger service from San Francisco to Hong Kong, and from China via Yokohama, Japan. Deemed by some to be obsolete at birth because more efficient and fire-resistant metal screw-propelled steamships were being built in the United Kingdom, China was laid off by PMSSC in 1882. Sold for scrap in 1885, China was set afire for her metals, on the Tiburon peninsula in 1886. However, all potentially saleable items were saved before burning, including the aft deckhouse, composed of the Social Hall and the staterooms of the ship's surgeon and chief engineer. The structures saved were sold and was used as a residence or, partitioned across the middle, as two residences, for 93 years. Resting on pilings along the shore of Belvedere Cove, it was to be demolished by 1979 to allow for open-space at its site. Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society, led by Beverly Wright Bastian Meyers, stepped forward to save this historical reminder of early wooden sidewheel paddle steamships, one of the most significant maritime historical structures on the West Coast of the United States. Invitations to a Captain's Dinner on the restored China Cabin on 11 July, 1986, marked completion of the magnificent restoration to its state when it was first-built. The cost was near to a million dollars, a few pennies short of the cost of constructing the entire original wooden sidewheel paddle steamship China. The whole cost was borne by the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society's fund raising and volunteer activities, fulfilling its original pledge to the penny.
Download or read book Voyages Through the Northern Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean and Chinese Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coming of the Comet written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812 Henry BellÍs Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India CompanyÍs wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. ??In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Syminton Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. ??The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states, and with the transport of oil from BurmaÍs oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississipi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia.??This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.
Download or read book Chinese Junks on the Pacific written by Hans Van Tilburg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1905, a handful of traditional Chinese sailing vessels, known as junks, sailed from China to North America across the Pacific. These were some of the last commercial sailing junks of China, most of which had little trouble crossing thousands of miles of ocean on their way to American ports. Crowds welcomed them in Victoria, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego, yet often regarded them with a mixture of surprise and contempt as quaint, unwieldy constructions in the fashion of sea monsters and even bizarre objects of fancy. As traveling cultural objects, displaying a variety of gruesome weaponry and other artifacts, some of them served as public floating museums. The arrival of these vessels allowed Western observers to catch a rare glimpse of a little-known yet sophisticated maritime technology and seafaring culture. Van Tilburg's study of this history--the maritime heritage of Chinese junks and their transpacific voyages--examines ten junks, how they were made, why and how they traveled, and how the West received them. Combining historical narrative with ethnology, anthropology, maritime archaeology, and nautical technology, he draws on a wide range of newspaper sources, secondary texts, nautical treatise, archaeological site work, rare historical photos and sketches, and the personal testimony of the sailors themselves to examine these vessels not only as transport vehicles but as complex cultural artifacts that "speak" of a distant seafaring past and intimate cultural ties to the sea. While attention to maritime China has focused primarily on periods versus centuries, Chinese Junks in the Pacific is the story behind the traditional Chinese vessels of the 19th century and how the West misunderstood them. Accessible reading, this book will appeal to scholars of Asian seafaring and archaeology, sailing aficionados drawn to the junk's form and sailing qualities, and those interested in Chinese-American interactions and encounters.
Download or read book A Sketch of the New Route to China and Japan written by Pacific Mail Steamship Company and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A Sketch Of The New Route To China And Japan: By The Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s Through Line Of Steamships Between New York, Yokohama And Hong Kong, Via The Isthmus Of Panama And San Francisco Pacific Mail Steamship Company Turnbull & Smith, printers, 1867 History; Latin America; Central America; History / Latin America / Central America
Download or read book Two Years in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and China written by James F. Munger and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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