Download or read book The Swansea Copper Barques and Cape Horners written by Joanna Greenlaw and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier written by Roy Fenton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the world’s trades and economies. Their design and technological development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which revolutionised the British coastal coal trade. The same engineering principles were applied to produce ocean-going steam and later motor tramps. By the end of the 19th century, the capabilities and economies of these ‘black freighters’ had captured from the sailing ship much of the world’s trade in bulk commodities. In the second half of the 20th century, the tramps in turn evolved into multi-purpose, dry bulk carriers. These workhorses of the sea transport commodities including metallic ores, grain, coal, timber and other minerals. Quantities of up to 400,000 tons are carried in the largest, specialised ore carriers. In a parallel development, applying the same technical principles produced smaller yet efficient steam and later motor coasters which came to dominate short sea shipping. The book concludes with a discussion of how the economies of transportation provided by bulk carriers have had profound effects on industrialisation, globalisation and the world’s economy, and discusses the environmental impact of these ships.
Download or read book Pilots written by and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Cunliffe is a well-known British writer and sailing enthusiast who's Bristol Channel Pilot cutter Hirta is familiar to TV viewers in the UK.
Download or read book The Riddle of the Caswell Mutiny written by Seamus Breathnach and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1875 captain George ''Bully' Best found himself in Buenos Aires without a crew and without a cargo. His men had for the most part deserted him. Before making his way to Antofogasta, where he loaded up with Saltpetre (nitrate), he recruited a' mixed crew' of Greeks and British. The British refused to sail with the Greeks, and rather than allow them onshore to see the British Consul, captain Best beat them and put them in irons. Even before the Caswell sailed for Queenstown on January 1 1876, an Irishman and a German jumped ship and were never heard of again. Obvious tensions might lead one to expect a British mutiny. And perhaps this might have happened had not the Greeks beaten them to it. For some unexplained reason the Greeks, under the influence of 'Big George' Peno, mutinied and killed the captain, the first and second mates, and the black Welsh steward. All four bodies were lashed to an anchor and thrown overboard. By February two of the mutineers, the brothers Pistoria, escaped by boat up the river Plate to Buenos Aires. The remainder drifted under Greek command until March 11th, when the British counter mutinied and killed two of their captors. A third mutineer was brought back to Queenstown to be tried for Murder on the High Seas. Young Christos Emmanuel Bombos found himself imprisoned with a sixty three year old Fenian named Thomas Crowe. Both men provided the spectacle of a 'double hanging' in Cork's male prison. A full eyewitness account is given of the executions, which happen to be one of the most striking events in nineteenth century penological literature. Three years later one of the escaped mutineers was arrested in Monte Video and a second trial was staged in Cork. Of the sixteen persons who set out from Buenos Aires: two jumped ship; four were murdered in the mutiny; two were murdered in the counter-mutiny; one was hanged in 1876 and another in 1879; and six returned to tell the tale.
Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Spencer Apollonio and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Download or read book The Set of the Sails written by Alan Villiers and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1949 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Great Days of the Cape Horners written by Yves Le Scal and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Development written by Gavin Capps and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history.
Download or read book History of the Port of Swansea written by William Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book King Copper written by Ronald Rees and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering and easy-to-read study of the history of the rise and fall of the copper trade in south Wales from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. 22 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Sea Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wales a History written by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1985 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All the events of Welsh history--the glories, the disasters and the rich personalities-- are charted in this magnificently illustrated book, whose publication coincides with a major television series presented by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. A born story-teller, he brings alive the dramatic past of this remarkable country"--Book jacket.
Download or read book Swansea Terminal written by Robert Lewis and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swansea Terminal is the sequel to Robert's Lewis acclaimed debut, The Last Llanelli Train. Readers of the earlier novel may be surprised to discover that a sequel exists: after all P.I. Robin Llewellyn ended the first book as a terminal alcoholic pursued by killers. Well, he's back, but only just: as Swansea Terminal opens, Robin is homeless in Swansea, just another dosser intent on drinking himself into an early grave. He doesn't look in any state to stagger through another crime caper as twisted as The Last Llanelli Train ? but stagger through it he does. After all, Robin is the perfect patsy, and before long Swansea's dodgiest gangsters have found him a job ? one only a chronic alcoholic with nothing to lose would be crazy enough to take. Every bit as dark, funny and oddly poignant as The Last Llanelli Train, this is new British crime fiction at its very finest.
