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Category : Ships
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Merchant Ship Shapes
Author: Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook
Author: Roy R. BehrensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780971324473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This is an anthology of twenty-seven World War I-era essays, by various authors, on ship camouflage from that time period. It focuses primarily on American and British camouflage, and especially on "dazzle camouflage," a counter-intuitive method in which brightly colored abstract shapes were applied to the ship's surface. The purpose of such camouflage was not low visibility, but to make it difficult to aim a torpedo at a distant, moving ship from a submerged submarine (U-boat), while peering through a periscope. The book includes 275 drawings, diagrams and vintage photographs, and a 40-page camouflage bibiliography, the largest ever.
Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations
Author: Jeom Kee PaikPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462482
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Ship-shaped offshore units are some of the more economical systems for the development of offshore oil and gas, and are often preferred in marginal fields. These systems are especially attractive to develop oil and gas fields in deep and ultra-deep water areas and remote locations away from existing pipeline infrastructures. Recently, the ship-shaped offshore units have been applied to near shore oil and gas terminals. This 2007 text is an ideal reference on the technologies for design, building and operation of ship-shaped offshore units, within inevitable space requirements. The book includes a range of topics, from the initial contracting strategy to decommissioning and the removal of the units concerned. Coverage includes both fundamental theory and principles of the individual technologies. This book will be useful to students who will be approaching the subject for the first time as well as designers working on the engineering for ship-shaped offshore installations.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Merchant Ship Types
Author: Alfred Cecil HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800
Author: Phillip ReidPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004426345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic during the two centuries of its development was static for all intents and purposes, and that whatever incremental changes took place in it were inconsequential to the development of the British Empire and its offshoots. Drawing on a unique combination of evidence from both traditional and unconventional sources, Phillip Reid shows how merchants, shipwrights, and mariners used both proven principles and adaptive innovations in hulls, rigs, and steering systems to manage high physical and financial risks. Listen also to the podcast where the author is interviewed about the book for New Books Network and the podcast with Liz Covart for Ben Franklin’s World by clicking here.
Looking for a Ship
Author: John McPheePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429958111
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Merchant Ship Stability
Author: A.R. LesterPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483102440
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Merchant Ship Stability presents the theory and application of methods for maintaining ship stability. It serves as a textbook for deck officers and first year degree students. The book discusses the methods of Simpson's rules for measuring ship form, the principle of floatation, finding the position of the center of gravity, and the effect of the center of gravity of the vessel not being on the centerline, the effect of having liquids within the vessel which are free to move and the effect of suspending weights. Topics on the assessment of stability of large angles of heel, regulations about merchant vessel stability, and dry docking and grounding are provided as well. Deck officers and merchant marine students will find the book very useful.
Fourth Arm of Defense
Author: Salvatore R. MercoglianoPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780945274964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
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.
Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes
Author: United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description