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Book Deer Isle and Stonington

Download or read book Deer Isle and Stonington written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island communities of Deer Isle and Stonington lie in Penobscot Bay, a region known and loved by sailors the world over. Deer Isle and Stonington portrays life on the island from the age of ferries and steamships, to the building of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge, through World War II. These vintage photographs allow the reader to watch as the island's main streets grow and change. Represented are landmarks such as the Mark and Pumpkin Island lighthouses, the Stonington Opera House, and the oldest buildings on the island. The vital industries of seafaring, sail making, commercial fishing, granite quarrying, and yachting are pictured here alongside images of everyday life-celebrations and ceremonies, shopping and picnics, education and worship, work and play.

Book American Yachts in Naval Service

Download or read book American Yachts in Naval Service written by Kenneth Howard Goldman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.

Book Naval Investigation  Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Naval Affairs  United States Senate  66th Congress  2d Session  1921

Download or read book Naval Investigation Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Naval Affairs United States Senate 66th Congress 2d Session 1921 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Supplement

Download or read book New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.

Book Maritime Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Hill
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-09-25
  • ISBN : 1351559141
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book Maritime Law written by Christopher Hill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime Law is an exhaustive introduction to this complex area of law. The book is ideal for newcomers and experienced professionals requiring an update on the general principles and case law. • Charterparties chapter • Passengers chapter • Salvage – includes developments in case law and introduction of new Lloyd’s Open Form Salvage Agreement • Sale of ship and shipbuilding contracts • Collisions • Oil pollution – Convention on bunker spills

Book Great Yachts of Long Island s North Shore

Download or read book Great Yachts of Long Island s North Shore written by Robert B. MacKay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the 20th century, Long Islands North Shore, the so-called Gold Coast, was becoming the most desirable residential area in the United States. Estates belonging to American captains of finance and industry lined the bluffs and bays from the city line to Eatons Neck. Some of the nations most renowned familiesincluding the Astors, Bakers, Huttons, Morgans, Pratts, Sloans, Roosevelts, Whitneys, and Vanderbiltsused their yachts for racing, cruising, commuting, or epic voyages. These vessels regularly plied the waters of the North Shore and bolstered the development of yacht clubs like the New York and Seawanhaka Corinthiancity institutions that established stations at Glen Cove and Centre Island, respectively. These clubs served to provide many outlets for the social gatherings that accompanied this pastime. Although the Great Depression and then World War II would bring the era of the great yachts to an end, a wealth of images remain that can be marveled at a century later.

Book Naval Investigation

Download or read book Naval Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U Boats off the Outer Banks

Download or read book U Boats off the Outer Banks written by Jim Bunch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.

Book Cruising World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Supplement

Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)

Book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper written by John Albert Sleicher and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lloyd   s Register of Yachts 1934

Download or read book Lloyd s Register of Yachts 1934 written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1934-01-01 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lloyd’s Register of Yachts was first issued in 1878, and was issued annually until 1980, except during the years 1916-18 and 1940-46. Two supplements containing additions and corrections were also issued annually. The Register contains the names, details and characters of Yachts classed by the Society, together with the particulars of other Yachts which are considered to be of interest, illustrates plates of the Flags of Yacht and Sailing Clubs, together with a List of Club Officers, an illustrated List of the Distinguishing Flags of Yachtsmen, a List of the Names and Addresses of Yacht Owners, and much other information. For more information on the Lloyd’s Register of Yachts, please click here: https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-register-of-yachts-online

Book Out of the Depths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan G. Jamieson
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2022-10-24
  • ISBN : 1789146208
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Out of the Depths written by Alan G. Jamieson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and significance, showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, and shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but he also covers shipwrecks in culture and maritime archaeology, their appeal to treasure hunters, and their environmental impacts. Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious effect on global trade.

Book Hitler s U Boat War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clay Blair
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2010-07-21
  • ISBN : 0307874370
  • Pages : 865 pages

Download or read book Hitler s U Boat War written by Clay Blair and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war against the Allies, or "The Battle of the Atlantic." It is an epic sea story, the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in all history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles, in hopes of forcing the British out of the war, thereby thwarting the Allied strategic air assault on German cities as well as Overlord, the Allied invasion of Occupied France. Fortunately for the Allies, the U-boat force failed to achieve either of these objectives, but in the attempt they sank 2,800 Allied merchant ships, while the Allies sank nearly 800 U-boats. On both sides, tens of thousands of sailors perished. The top secret Allied penetration of German naval codes, and, conversely, the top secret German penetration of Allied naval codes played important roles in the Atlantic naval battle. In order to safeguard the secrets of codebreaking in the postwar years, London and Washington agreed to withhold all official codebreaking and U-boat records. Thus for decade upon decade an authoritative and definitive history of the Battle of the Atlantic could not be attempted. The accounts that did appear were incomplete and full of errors of fact and false interpretations and conclusions, often leaving the entirely wrong impression that the German U-boats came within a whisker of defeating the Allies, a myth that persists. When London and Washington finally began to release the official records in the 1980s, Clay Blair and his wife, Joan, commenced work on this history in Washington, London, and Germany. They relied on the official records as well as the work of German, British, American, and Canadian naval scholars who published studies of bits and pieces of the story. The end result is this magnificent and monumental work, crammed with vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions and dispassionate but startling new revelations and interpretations and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. The Blair history will be published in two volumes. This first volume, The Hunters, covers the first three years of the war, August 1939 to August 1942. Told chronologically, it is subdivided into two major sections, the War Against the British Empire, and the War Against the Americas. Volume II, The Hunted, to follow a year later, will cover the last years of the naval war in Europe, August 1942 to May 1945, when the Allies finally overcame the U-boat threat. Never before has Hitler's U-boat war been chronicled with such authority, fidelity, objectivity, and detail. Nothing is omitted. Even those who fought the Battle of the Atlantic will find no end of surprises. Later generations will benefit by having at hand an account of this important phase of World War II, free of bias and mythology.

Book Pacific Islands Monthly

Download or read book Pacific Islands Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yachting  by R T  Pritchett  the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava  K P   James McFerran  Rev  G L  Blake  T B  Middleton  Edward Walter Castle and Robert Castle  G  Christopher Davies  Llewis Herreshoff  the Earl of Onslow

Download or read book Yachting by R T Pritchett the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava K P James McFerran Rev G L Blake T B Middleton Edward Walter Castle and Robert Castle G Christopher Davies Llewis Herreshoff the Earl of Onslow written by Sir Edward Sullivan (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ship s Data U S  Naval Vessels

Download or read book Ship s Data U S Naval Vessels written by United States Ships Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: