Author: William Nugent GlascockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Naval sketch book
Author: William Nugent GlascockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Complete Book of Maritime Design
Author: Nicki MarshallPublisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517160725
Category : Marine art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here is a vast collection of nautical imagery that doubles as a history of maritime illustration throughout the ages. Arranged thematically, the more than 1,600 line drawings encompass shipbuilding designs, navigational instruments, lighthouses, trade and smuggling, guns and armaments, famous ships and seafarers, and exotica. This is an indispensable resource for artists, designers, and naval enthusiasts. Includes 16 full-color pages.
Naval Sketchbook
Author: William Nugent GlascockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Naval Sketch-book, Or, The Service Afloat and Ashore
Author: William Nugent GlascockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Battalion Artist
Author: Janice BlakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780817922245
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Battalion Artist explores the three years, three months, and three days of Nat Bellantoni's life on the Pacific front in World War II. He had known since childhood that he wanted to be--that he in fact was--an artist. When he packed his seabag and took leave of his family and his sweetheart to go to war, he knew that the best way to manage the narrative of his life and to cope with the ups and downs of his feelings was to create images--visual records that spoke of what he felt, as well as what he saw. In this stunning book filled with authentic World War II images--many in full color--we see and feel the intensity of wartime life through the eyes of a talented young artist who was also a US Navy Seabee. Natale Bellantoni, a young art student from Boston, sailed across the Pacific in 1943-45 and returned home with a sea chest of art and photographs documenting his experiences in New Caledonia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Okinawa. His subject matter was his daily life: endless weeks at sea, harbors and ships, men at work, airstrips, the local countryside, and the view of enemy planes overhead at night from his fox hole. Now collected in a lavishly illustrated volume, his watercolors, sketches, and photographs offer a window onto one of the most significant moments in American history. The Battalion Artist explores the World War II experiences of Nat Bellantoni, but it reflects the story of an entire generation.
The Naval and military sketch book, and history of adventure by flood and field
Author: Bound for Blue Water
Author: J. Russell JinishianPublisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 9780867130881
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bound for Blue Water is written and complied by J Russell Jinishian, an internationally recognized authority on contemporary marine art. Informative essays on fishing , commerce, yachting, military, and coastal marine art are written for the beginning enthusiast and the experienced collector alike. Leading artists bring to life a picture of maritime America from the ports of New York and New England, to Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and the Northwest. Portrayed here is every waterborne vessel from clipper ships and classic sailing yachts to early-twentieth-century seiners of Gloucester Harbor : from Hudson Bay and NewEngland whaling ships to tugs and ocean liners of the twentieth century; from Boston's bustling T-Warf , to brigantines in the U.S> Exploring Expedition. Highlighting key movements and artists, this is the book that collectors and enthusiasts have been waiting for.
Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery
Author: Norman FriedmanPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
The Sea Journal
Author: Huw Lewis-JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500021279
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils.In this remarkable gathering of private journals, log books, letters and diaries, we follow the voyages of intrepid sailors, from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands, as they set down their immediate impressions of all they saw. They capture their experiences while at sea, giving us a precious view of the oceans and the creatures that live in them as they were when they were scarcely known and right up to the present day. In a series of biographical portraits, we meet officers and ordinary sailors, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers. A handful of contemporary mariners provide their thoughts on how art remains integral to their voyaging lives.Often still bearing the traces of their nautical past, the intriguing and enchanting sketches and drawings in this book brilliantly capture the spirit of the oceans and the magic of the sea.
War at Sea
Author: Nathan MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195110382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
From the sinking of the British passenger liner Athenia on September 3, 1939, by a German U-boat (against orders) to the Japanese surrender on board the Missouri on September 2, 1945, War at Sea covers every major naveal battle of World War II. "A first-rate work and the best history of its kind yet written".--Vice Admiral William P. Mack, U.S.N. (Ret.). 30 photos.