Author: Gordon R. Newell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastwise shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Picture history of coastwise passenger liners. Companion volume to "Pacific tugboats" and "Pacific steamboats."

Author: Gordon Newell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875642123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Robert D. Turner
Publisher: Orbit Books
ISBN: 9781550391091
Category : Coastwise shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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A companion volume to Robert Turner's first book, The Pacific Princesses. Remembered for their elegance, luxury, and reliability, the Princesses were the finest coastal liners on the Pacific coast. They established an enduring reputation for elegance and beauty that remained unmatched for over sixty years. Their names became legends along the coast: The Princess Victoria, Princess Kathleen, and the lovely Princess Marguerite, the last of the coastal liners, are just a few of the beautiful steamships remembered.

Author: Jacques F. Marc
Publisher: Royal British Columbia Museum
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"Pacific Coast Ship China identifies and dates more than 280 china patterns once used along the Pacific coast of North America in coastal, intercoastal and transPacific services. It covers china used on vessels and in-shore establishments of shipping organizations registered in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Hawaii." "In addition to passenger vessels, it documents the china used by freighter operations, oil companies, government services and yacht clubs. An important feature of this book is a chapter containing brief histories of 73 companies and government agencies that operated ships on the Pacific coast." "This easy-to-use guide is an important resource for collectors, divers and anyone interested in the history of Pacific-coast transportation or commerce." --Book Jacket.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1473853524
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger and cargo liner was in its heyday, catering both for the first class tourist as well as offering keenly priced second class fares for the like of football fans following away matches. Sadly, these wonderful steamer services are now largely forgotten but this new book will stir fond memories of the ships and their coastal voyages. The Depression of the 1930s, coupled with competition from both railway and the motor coach, were to spell the end for many of the coastal liners, while heavy losses incurred in World War II left only a few ships each offering just a handful of passenger berths. The story of their one hundred years of service is accompanied by numerous fascinating anecdotes, and the book focuses as much on the social need for coastal passenger services, the men and women who provided the services and the passengers who used them, as it does on the nuts and bolts of the ships themselves. This beautifully presented book will delight both ship enthusiasts and all those who enjoy the maritime and social history of the British Isles.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1600

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Author: Robert C. Belyk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Fascinating, never-before-documented stories of the worst shipwrecks on the Pacific Coast during the golden age of coastal transportation, 1854 to 1929 In this intriguing chronicle, author Robert Belyk closely examines ten significant maritime disasters that occurred during one of the most turbulent eras in the history of travel. Discover the real-life drama endured by those caught in the terrifying midst of disaster at sea??and the real causes behind the tragedies. Vividly re-created and painstakingly researched, the shipwrecks accounted for here include: 1854: the Yankee Blade runs aground off Point Arguello, California.Twenty-eight passengers lose their lives. 1875: The old side-wheeler Pacific rams another passenger ship off the coast of Cape Flattery, Washington. Two hundred and seventy-seven people perish when her rotting hull gives way. 1906: The Valencia strikes a reef off the Washington coastline. Before dozens of dazed onlookers on the shore, the ship goes down, taking 117 passengers and crew with her.

Author: Gordon Newell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787208214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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With his vast collection of photographs and memorabilia, combined with his skill as a writer, Newell truly makes the ships and memories of them become living personalities. How Jack London, Count von Luckner, Sir Ernest Shackleton and all other intrepid adventurers of the sea would have gloried in this book; and present-day sea rovers, you, how you will glory in it! Here are the glamour, majesty and color of the most exciting things ever built—the mammoths of the sea. Gordon Newell’s salty stories and fine photos bring these monarchs and superliners to life so completely, that you hear once more the deep-throated whistle blasts as the ships knife their way out of the fog, one after another. “I am not recording affection for the Mauretania as President of the United States, but as civilian Franklin D. Roosevelt who loves the sea, its ships and the men who sail them...” writes F.D.R. in his story “Queen with a Fighting Heart.” Author Gordon Newell shares these sentiments. “The Kronprinz Wilhelm” he writes, “was not a ship to give up easily. Night was falling, the darkness would give her a fighting chance. The last of the fuel was shoveled into the furnaces. The worn-out engines were breaking their hearts for the ship...out of the night she came, the sky glowing red above the crowns of her belching funnels. The white glow of acres of foam at her bow. The guns of the British cruisers swung around.”

Author: Will Lawson
Publisher: Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson
ISBN:
Category : Ships and shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The history, rise and development of steamers on the Australian, New Zealand and Western American Coasts