Download or read book The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry written by Craig J. Forsyth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired. In addition there is reprinted a complete set of the laws relating to American seaman between 1918-1970. Together they provide a comprehensive understanding of the historical events surrounding the American merchant seaman, the creation of maritime policy, and the policy itself.
Download or read book The Story of the American Merchant Marine written by John Randolph Spears and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Merchant Marine written by Bankers Trust Company (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yankee Ships written by Reese Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the American Merchant Marine Industry and Its Future written by Robert C. Frimodig and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Maritime Legacy written by Robert A. Kilmarx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive historical analysis of merchant shipping on the high seas and associated shipbuilding under sovereign U.S. jurisdiction from precolonial times to the present. It identifies U.S. policy developments that have affected the merchant marine and shipbuilding industries.
Download or read book Foc s le and Glory hole written by James Christopher Healey and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Merchant Marine written by Winthrop Lippit Marvin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Merchant Marine A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors written by Ralph Delahaye Paine and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a fascinating history of the American merchant marine. The book contains thrilling stories about brave Americans, their love for the sea, and adventures at sea in the 1600s and 1800s. In this book, the author focuses on American merchantmen, the American navy, privateers, and fishermen, as well as discussing the American revolution and post-revolutionary war dangers to merchantmen and the Federal legislation enacted to promote and protect the American sea trade. The book contains the following: Colonial Adventures in Little Ships - The Privateers of '76 - Out Cutlases and Board - The Famous Days of Salem Port - Yankee Vikings and New Trade Routes - Free Trade and Sailors' Rights - The Brilliant Era of 1812 - The Packet Ships of the "Roaring Forties" - The Stately Clippers and her Glory - Bound Coastwise.
Download or read book Fourth Arm of Defense written by Salvatore R. Mercogliano and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.
Download or read book Our Merchant Marine written by United States. Navy Department. Administrative Office and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of the U S Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry written by Rene De La Pedraja and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-08-23 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
Download or read book The American Merchant Marine Problem written by National Industrial Conference Board and published by New York : National Industrial Conference Board. This book was released on 1929 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Our Merchant Marine written by Willis John Abbot and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbott's book is a comprehensive account of the history of the American merchant marine. The book highlights the contributions of American maritime industry to the growth and development of the country. It provides a detailed analysis of the challenges faced by the industry and its revival during World War I. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of American maritime industry. 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. 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 History of American Merchant Seamen written by Elmo Paul Hohman and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last American Sailors written by Michael Rawlins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sadistic captain puts his crew on edge. A young officer has a breakdown in a near-collision. A sailor jumps to the bottom of the sea. The Last American Sailors recounts one man's decade in a misunderstood industry--the merchant marine, a fleet with a glorious past and an uncertain future. If On the Road met The Perfect Storm, we would have The Last American Sailors, the definitive travelogue of a merchant seaman and an encompassing look into the mysterious world of merchant shipping.
Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of the U S Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry written by René De La Pedraja Tomán and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foremost authority has written the first comprehensive reference about the U.S. Merchant Marine and American shipping from the introduction of steamships to today's diesel containerships--showing the impact of politics, economics, and technology on maritime history during the last two centuries. Over 500 entries describe people, private companies, business and labor groups, engineering and technological developments, government agencies, terms, key laws, landmark cases, issues, events, and ships of note. Short lists of references for further reading accompany these entries. Appendices include a chronology, diagrams of government organizations, and lists of business and labor groups by founding dates. An unusually extensive index lends itself to the varying research interests of students, teachers, and professionals in maritime and economic history, business-labor-government relations, and military studies.
