Download or read book Barges to Battleships Puget Sound Military Shipbuilding written by David Shirlaw and published by SeaWaves Press Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puget Sound was once one of the nation's leading military shipbuilders. During times of war, the builder's ranged from large corporations and public facilities right down to McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary. In Peacetime, many yards flourished with Bellingham referred to as "The Minesweeper Capital of the World" in the 1950s.
Download or read book Barges to Battleships written by Robert W. Blair and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barges to Battleships written by Robert W. Blair and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete History of Ships and Boats written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the worlds bodies of water. While ship design has become increasingly sophisticated with time, everything including the luxury liners, warships, and sailboats of today owe much to the watercraft that facilitated travel, trade, and war among ancient cultures. This detailed volume examines the development of the different types of water vehicles and the design of related structures, including docks and quays.
Download or read book The Ships of the German Fleets 1848 1945 written by Hans Jürgen Hansen and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful overview of the German navy through WWII. Of particular interest to historians is the examination of ships and traditions prior to WWI. Abundant illustrations. 91/2x12". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Earliest Ships written by Robert Gardiner and published by Conway. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching back into prehistory and into the earliest evidence provided by archaeology, this volume explores the varied lines of development from the most primitive watercraft to the first real seagoing ships, from Northern Europe, through the Mediterranean to the Near and Far Easts. It traces the most primitive forms of boats - rafts, skin boats and dugouts, for example - which developed ultimately into ships for trade, commerce and war. Apart from chapters on the craft themselves there are sections on related topics, including early pilotage and seamanship, and an evaluation of what modern reconstructions can tell us about the performance of ancient ship types. "The Earliest Ships" not only summarises existing information but has been produced by many of those whose pioneering work was responsible for the revolution in understanding in the first place.
Download or read book The Boats of Men of war written by William Edward May and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boats carried by the men-of-war were needed to move stores, act as the 'engine' in confined waters, and serve as a tenders. This book covers their design and function.
Download or read book Ships written by Brian Benson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of the books provides information of historical first boats structure used by ancients to the modern specialized and experimental ships.
Download or read book At Close Quarters PT Boats In The United States Navy Illustrated Edition written by Captain Robert J. Bulkley Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 110 illustrations charting the history of the US Navy PT Boats. “The destiny of our country has been inextricably interwoven with the sea. This was never more true than in the giant World War II that involved all seas and most of mankind. To fight the sea war we needed many types of ships, large and small, from aircraft carriers and battleships to PT boats. “Small though they were, the PT boats played a key role. Like most naval ships, they could carry out numerous tasks with dispatch and versatility. In narrow waters or in-fighting close to land they could deliver a powerful punch with torpedo or gun. On occasion they could lay mines or drop depth charges. They could speed through reefs and shark infested waters to rescue downed pilots or secretly close the shore to make contacts with coast watchers and guerrilla forces. PT boats were an embodiment of John Paul Jones’ words: “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way.” “Naval strength must function from shore to shore and on inland waters where the mobility and flexibility provided by ships can be employed to support land operations. PT boats filled an important need in World War II in shallow waters, complementing the achievements of greater ships in greater seas. This need for small, fast, versatile, strongly armed vessels does not wane. In fact it may increase in these troubled times when operations requiring just these capabilities are the most likely of those which may confront us. “The thorough and competent account herein of over-all PT boat operations in World War II, compiled by Captain Robert Bulkley, a distinguished PT boat commander, should therefore prove of wide interest. The widest use of the sea, integrated fully into our national strength, is as important to America in the age of nuclear power and space travel as in those stirring days of the birth of the Republic.”–President John F Kennedy.
Download or read book Warships after Washington written by John Jordan and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade, but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers.rn This much is broadly understood by anyone with an interest in warships, but both the wider context of the treaty and the detail ramifications of its provisions are little understood. The approach of this book is novel in combining coverage of the political and strategic background of the treaty and the subsequent London Treaty of 1930 with analysis of exactly how the navies of Britain, the USA, Japan, France and Italy responded, in terms of the types of warships they built and the precise characteristics of those designs. This was not just a matter of capital ships and cruisers, but also influenced the development of super-destroyers and large submarines.rn Now for the first time warship enthusiasts and historians can understand fully the rationale behind much of inter-war naval procurement. The Washington Treaty was a watershed, and this book provides an important insight into its full significance.
Download or read book Ships Boats and Craft written by Stuart E. Beck and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ships and Boats written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full colour educational encyclopedia filled with fascinating facts to educate children. One of a range of titles in the North Parade Publishing Encyclopedia series.
Download or read book Ships Data U S Naval Vessels written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Q ships Versus U boats written by Kenneth M. Beyer and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the most self-destructive operation undertaken by the U.S. Navy in World War II, the project had very limited success. The only surviving officer of a Q-ship to chronicle details of the project, Kenneth Beyer draws on his personal experiences as well as information uncovered during years of research in U.S., British, and German records and interviews with participants on both sides.
Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ships Boats Vessels and Other Water borne Craft written by and published by Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising an alphabetical directory of all types of craft past and present containing much discussion of the development of hulls and rigging together with mention of some of the most outstanding warships and commercial vessels supplemented by a nautical glossary, bibliography and index.
Download or read book Splinter Fleet written by Theodore R Treadwell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.
Download or read book Battleship Battlegroup cruiser Destroyer Group Homeporting San Francisco Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
