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 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 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 The Chinese on the Pacific Coast written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 8 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 . This book was released on 1875 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways written by David R.P. Guay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed account of the rise and fall of the maritime branches of two of Canada’s great transcontinental railways of the early twentieth century: the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern.

Download or read book Crashback written by Michael Fabey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the ongoing conflict between the United States and China over who is going to dominate the South China Sea.

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Download or read book Red Star Over the Pacific written by Toshi Yoshihara and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

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 Pacific Ocean written by Jen Green and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceans and Seas is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to Earth's great bodies of water. Each volume contains a wealth of information, including physical features--"surface area and depth, how the ocean was formed, plate movements, coastlines, islands, and more; climate--"including tides, currents, trade winds, hurricanes, and tsunamis; marine life; the history of human settlement along the shores; transportation and navigation; natural resources; and current threats--"including the effects of pollution, overfishing, and mining. Numerous maps, charts, fact boxes, and primary source quotations supplement the text. Supporting both the science and social studies curriculum, this series is truly an indispensable resource.

Download or read book Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North West Coast of America written by John Meares and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Westerners in China written by Foster Stockwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the doors of China are opening to foreign investment and trade as never before, but the history of contact between China and the West goes back many centuries. Goods from China were being traded in Rome long before the birth of Christ, transported over the famous silk road that crossed Mongolia and Russia. But not until the mid-fifteenth century, when Marco Polo published his account of his travels, did China really capture the European imagination. Subsequent centuries saw missionary trips to China by Franciscans and Jesuits, a European craze for Chinese silk and porcelain, European visits to Tibet, the infamous Opium War between Britain and China, and further instances of contact, commerce, and conflict. China has shown amazing economic growth since 1949, and today it has set ambitious goals for growth in trade and technology. This book traces the history of Western exploration in and trade with China. It follows the events outlined above and touches on many other highlights, including exploration by the Russian Nikolay Przhevalsky, who traveled deep into China and today is largely remembered for the horse he discovered and identified there; the travels of nineteenth-century women explorers in China; American Roy Chapman's discovery of the first fossilized dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert; and the competition between two American explorers to be the first to capture a live panda. Also included are a chronology of Chinese history and a pronunciation guide.