Download or read book The New Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Merchant Marine In his admirable volume on the Dardanelles campaign, Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell, K. C. B., tells of the many urgent appeals that were made in May and June, 1915, to the War Office in London for reinforcements. In response, the Commander of the Expeditionary Force, Sir Ian Hamilton, was informed that his army was to be "augmented by three complete divisions and by infantry of two more Territorial divisions, all of them coming from the United Kingdom." "They were timed to arrive," says the author, "between the 10th of July and the 10th of August - a striking illustration of the number of days needed to embark and to move a force of all arms, mustering considerably less than 100,000 men, oversea on a fortnight's voyage." When it is realized that the British, with all of their ships and facilities for the movement of troops and supplies at sea, found it necessary to take a full month to transport "considerably less than 100,000 men," together with their equipment, at a time when the German submarine campaign had scarcely begun and England had lost but a small amount of her tonnage, it is not difficult to understand the skepticism with which Germany viewed the ability of the United States, with practically no overseas tonnage available, to transport a sufficient army, food, and munitions to the battlefields of France and Flanders in time to be a serious menace to her military operations and ambitions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of the American Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by John R. Spears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the American Merchant Marine About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Articles on the American Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by Edith May Phelps and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Articles on the American Merchant Marine Ever since President Wilson's message to Congress of December 7, 1914, asking for legislation for the encouragement of American shipping, a bill has been before Congress, in some form or other, providing for government participation, in some measure, in the ownership and control of an American merchant marine. While no bill has been passed to this date, the debates have been the means of arousing the public to the present condition of American shipping, and of reviving discussion of this subject to a considerable degree. In response to the resulting demand for material on this question, this volume has been compiled for the use of students, debaters and others wishing to make a study of the question. It attempts to set forth the facts in regard to the history of our merchant marine and its present status with regard to the shipping of other nations. The arguments for and against government ownership and control are also presented. In keeping with the general plan of the series, this volume contains affirmative and negative briefs, a selected bibliography, and reprints of much valuable material on the question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plan for the Operation of the New American Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by Edward N. Hurley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plan for the Operation of the New American Merchant Marine This message was conveyed to General Pershing, and there is no question but that it heartened him and every soldier and imbued them with the knowledge that the American people Were back of the ship building program, and that the ships would be furnished to help them carry on the work of aiding to win the war. I am sure that it also heartened all the Allies. The men deserving of the credit for this great success are the workers in the shipyards, and the enthusiastic people back of them. Every newspaper, every magazine, every moving - picture thea 'tre, and the 4-minute men organization, consisting of speakers, were used to impress upon the people the need for the construction of ships with the greatest possible speed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Need of the Hour written by Benjamin J. Rosenthal and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Need of the Hour: An American Merchant Marine British dominion, for it was ever the aim of England to keep this valuable business under her direct control; but when we gained our independence, we swept aside all the antiquated navigation laws that had been imposed upon us by England, and the United States started out to build up its own merchant marine. During the first ten years marked progress was made in that direction, and at the dawn of the new century we were carrying 80% of our own products on American bottoms. In the next decade additional progress was made, and by 1810 we were carrying In a very short time thereafter not only practically all our own, but a large portion of the world's commerce was being carried by our ships, and our maritime greatness formed the most Splendid period in our commercial history, for we led the world as a maritime nation and then occupied the position as a carrier that England holds at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Old Merchant Marine written by Ralph D. Paine and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors A vessel was a community venture, and the custom still survives in the ancient ports of the Maine coast where the shapely wooden schooners are fashioned. The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares. They became part owners, as did likewise the merchant who supplied stores and material; and when the ship was a oat, the master, the mates, and even the seamen, were allowed cargo space for commodities which they might buy and sell to their own ad vantage. Thus early they learned to trade as shrewdly as they navigated, and every voyage directly concerned a whole neighborhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Question of Ships written by J. D. Jerrold Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Question of Ships: The Navy and the Merchant Marine It is a curious fact that a great commercial question, vital in its influence upon the well-being of an eminently practical nation, should so often be approached upon the side of sentiment. A bewildering maze of statistics, an array of accommodating figures, and a dexterous spinning of subtle phrases, are made to form the premises, not of an irrefutable conclusion, but of an appeal, which fires the heart, if it do not satisfy the head, of many a patriot. To discuss a question so sober, so melancholy as the restoration of the Merchant Marine, from the standpoint of its poetical merits, is not a priori convincing of its imminent necessity; and, whether an advocate shines in the broad light-beam of free-trade, or is glorious in the panoply of protection, he should forswear heroics and pleas ad hominem, and treat the subject from the grossly material vantage-ground of dollars and cents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Merchant Marine Manual Classic Reprint written by Eugenen Edward Odonnell and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Marine Manual Our Government calls the youth of the land to serve in a romantic occupation that abounds in glorious traditions of valiant deeds and useful service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of Our Merchant Marine written by Willis J. Abbot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World War But there are triumphs to be won by sea and by land greater than those of war, dangers to be braved, more menacing than the odds of battle. It was a glorious deed to win the battle of Santiago, but Fulton and Ericsson influenced the progress of the world more than all the heroes of history. The daily life of those who go down to the sea in ships is one of constant battle, and the whaler caught in the ice-pack is in more direful case than the blockaded cruiser; while the captain of the ocean liner, guiding through a dense fog his colossal craft freighted with two thousand human lives, has on his mind a weightier load of responsibility than the admiral of the fleet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Merchant Marines of the United States England France and Japan 1900 1912 Classic Reprint written by Frank Bonner Leonard Jr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Merchant Marines of the United States, England, France, and Japan, 1900-1912 The American traveller from the United States in Europe or in South America today is noted because of his pride in his country and everything American, and it is often a grievous blow to that pride to note, as he gazes on the forest of masts and the many flags that fly over the ships in the ports of these countries, the absence of the stars and stripes. And this is true not only of Europe, but also of the great American ports of New York, Philadelphia or Boston. So strong has grown the feeling on this subject that both houses of Congress have had since 1904 a merchant marine commis sion investigating conditions and advising as to what may be done to rebuild our foreign merchant marine. It has been generally agreed that if this is done at once, government aid must be invoked, and in this connection that ob noxious word subsidy is most often used. In order to make clear the meaning of some of the common terms that will crop up all through a discussion of this kind, it may be well to define a few of them. A subsidy is any form of government aid given to ship building or ship Operating interests. A postal subvention is money paid to a ship company partly for services rendered in carrying the mails, partly for speed or other conditions, and partly as pure subsidy or aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Merchant Marine written by David A. Wells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Merchant Marine: How It Rose, Increased, Became Great, Declined and Decayed, With an Inquiry Into the Conditions Essential to Its Resuscitation and Future Prosperity Edict of Nantes, which deprived France of her best artisans and industries, have been accepted by all historians and econo mists as the two most striking and exceptional examples in modern times, of great national industrial disaster and decay directly contingent on unwise and stupid, but at the same time deliberately adopted, state policies. It has been reserved for the United States, claiming to be one of the most enlightened and liberal nations of the world, after an experience of near three hundred years since the occurrence of the above precedents, to furnish a third equally striking and parallel example of results contingent on like causes, in the decay and almost annihilation of her merchant marine and ocean carrying trade, - a branch of her domestic industry which formerly, in importance, ranked second only to agriculture. It is proposed to tell, in the following pages, the story of this happening, and to endeavor to deduce from a record of sad and mortifying experience, what changes in federal statutes and national policy are essential to resuscitate and again make prosperous our shipping interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Americans Who Have Contributed to the History and Traditions of the United States Merchant Marine Point, New York, and the Cadet Basic Schools at Pass Christian, Mississippi, and San Mateo, California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oh Susanna written by Meade Minnigerode and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oh, Susanna: A Romance of the Old American Merchant Marine It is just a page torn from a ship's log book, very creased and yellow. The writing it bears is fine and well formed, the writing of a more leisurely age. The matters it discusses are very strange. ." . . his insane desire to secure the blue china elephant. Of the black lacquer box I always had my suspicions. . ." ." . . on that night when my father returned from aboard the stranded junk. . . it must be that Ah Fung, the Chinese merchant, unwittingly aroused. . ." The words were written by Matthew Parsons, the great Handsome Mat, in San Francisco, many years ago, and the page which holds them is a cherished relic in the Parsons family today. It hangs in its ebony frame in the office of Matthew Parsons Second, the President of the Hermes Steamship Line of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Pacific Merchant Marine Vol 2 written by Thos C. Butterworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pacific Merchant Marine, Vol. 2: March 20 December 4, 1909 The Gatun earth dam is the central point of discussion, and we were instructed by Mr. Taft to give it first consideration in the light of all new evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ships and the Ocean A List of Books on Ships Commerce and the Merchant Marine Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ships and the Ocean: A List of Books on Ships, Commerce, and the Merchant Marine It will not be long before our newly awakened shipyards will be the material of which similar books are made. Already the magaw zines are seizing on their dramatic points and publishing arresting stories, a good example of which is R. M. Hallett's Fashioning the Hollow Oak, in Century, June, 1917. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Merchant Marine written by K. C. Mcintosh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Merchant Marine: Letter to the Chairman, of the Committee on Commerce Transmitting a Copy of an Article on the American Merchant Marine In Chart I there appears but one line south of Panama, and that represents a desultory, semioccasional run of the Pacific Mail to Callao, 'the ships employed being the gallant survivors of an ancient fleet built in the old soft-iron days. It is true that there are American tramps encircling South America in the name of W. R. Grace Co., hit this company, huge and far-flung as are its interests, has not even scratched the' market, which was Once fairly well taken up by the' Germans. American shipowners did not trust the South Amen. C'an run. They alleged, first, that credit was unsatisfactory; second, that repeat orders were few; third, that a return cargo was uncertain. The United States in 1915 was avoiding South America from experi ences of the past, and had not yet Opened its eyes to changing condi tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book America s Merchant Marine written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from America's Merchant Marine: A Presentation of Its History and Development to Date With Chapters on Related Subjects Realizing the deep interest, both national and international, in the American Merchant Marine, we have prepared this volume for distribution to our customers and friends. It is, as will be seen, an original work, and gives a compact history of our merchant marine, with chapters on related subjects. The greatest possible care has been taken to insure the strictest accuracy of this volume. Every statement has been derived from official reports or from other trustworthy sources. As an additional precaution against possible errors, the proof sheets were submitted to a number of leading maritime men who were requested to give them a critical reading. The judgment of some of these authorities may, with propriety, be here quoted. "I have no hesitancy in pronouncing your treatise on this subject as the best and most comprehensive handling of the subject I have yet seen," is an extract from a letter of Captain C. A. McAllister, vice-president of the American Bureau of Shipping and Secretary of the U. S. Shipping Board Navigation Laws Revision Committee. Winthrop L. Marvin, the noted authority on American merchant marine matters, writes: "I have examined the text of 'America's Merchant Marine' which you are publishing, and regard it as an exact, comprehensive and particularly timely work. Its historical review is excellent, and its survey of maritime conditions during and since the great war brings together symmetrically the facts and figures requisite to full present information." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
