Download or read book The Paddle Steamer Medway Queen written by Medway Queen Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Medway Queen written by Paddle Steamer Preservation Society and published by American Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medway Queen written by Richard Halton and published by Noodle Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the famous paddle steamer is told from its construction as a pleasure vessel through wartime service as a minesweeper, as well as a rescue vessel during the Dunkirk evacuation, through to 'demobilisation' and a return to peacetime activities.
Download or read book Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating selection of images and ephemera of these now-lost vessels.
Download or read book River Medway Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gladwell brings the great days of pleasure steamers on the River Medway to life through a wonderful selection of images.
Download or read book Paddle Steamers of the Thames written by Peter Box and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Thames paddle steamers as a means of transport began in the 1820s. They transported millions of holidaymakers along the river and to coastal resorts, initially transporting both cargo and passengers. By the 1860s these vessles were being supplanted by more modern, 'passenger-only' steamers. These new vessels often appeared only in the summer, hence the term 'butterfly boats' to describe them. By the time of the 1871 Bank Holidays Act, steamer routes were well established. The steamers offered a means of escape from the daily drudgery of work, to the 'glamorous' resorts of the Thames Estuary and, later, across the Channel. Until the First World War they were able to compete with other forms of transport and were still popular. However, by the mid-1930s the very concept of a paddle steamer was being threatened by the modern vessels that had appeared. In the late 1960s, the last paddlers were scrapped and with those vessels died - often literally - a Victorian heritage. A few survived in 'static roles' and today, still linger on. Of all the traditional Thames paddle steamers, only Medway Queen survives. She has returned to the Medway and her survival is the key aim of the Medway Queen Preservation Society. In Paddle Steamers of the Thames Peter Box manages to bring back the noises, smells and vibrations of this particular form of transport and an old-fashioned way of travelling at a slow, leisurely speed.
Download or read book British Paddle Steamers The Twilight Years written by John Megoran and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former captain of the PS Kingswear Castle explores the final decades of paddle steamers in Britain.
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 The Story of the Paddle Steamer written by Bernard Dumpleton and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering. When the engineers of the early nineteenth century experimented with steamboats they chose the paddle wheel as the form of propulsion. Within twenty years the paddle steamers were at work on inland waters and short sea passages. They were graceful, elegant ships, but in the jet age too slow and uneconomical. In the 1950s they went to the breaker’s yards in droves, and now there are only a few left. This book tells they story of the paddle steamers, and of the men who built, owned and sailed them.
Download or read book British Paddle Steamers written by John Megoran and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected tales from around the UK from the heyday of the excursion paddle steamers.
Download or read book By Steamer to the Kent Coast written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of steamer travel, people were taking day trips to the coast. Andrew Gladwell tells the story of steamers to the Kent coast.
Download or read book Waverley Steam Navigation Company written by Alistair Deayton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book that explores the history of the Waverley Steam Navigation Company.
Download or read book The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic collection of illustrations that capture the golden era of pleasure steamers on the Thames.
Download or read book Historic Ships written by Paul Brown and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only guide to Britain's preserved historic ships.
Download or read book Cosens Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the story in words and pictures of the Cosens Pleasure Steamers.
Download or read book By Steamer to the Essex Coast written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the pleasure steamer cruises along the Essex coast.
Download or read book The Little History of Kent written by Susan McGowan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent has been the gateway to Britain since prehistoric man first set foot on our soil. Its people have repelled invaders including Julius Caesar, the Vikings and William the Conqueror, while welcoming migrants from countries such as France, Austria and the Netherlands. In turn, men from Kent played a part in invading and conquering such faraway places as Canada and the USA, leaving their stamp on the world at large. This volume is a tribute to those who have shaped our society and the world around us: from the long barrow at Trottescliffe and the medieval abbey of St Augustine to the Channel Tunnel and Bluewater Shopping Centre, it is plain to see that the landscape around us is itself a monument to those who went before.
