Author: Robert Greenhalgh AlbionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Square-riggers on Schedule
Author: Robert Greenhalgh AlbionPublisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1965 [c1938]
ISBN:
Category : Mail steamers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Square-riggers on schedule
Author: Robert G. AlbionSquare-riggers on Schedule
Author: Robert Greenhalgh AlbionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Square riggers of schedule, by robert greenalgh albion
Author: Robert greenhalgh AlbionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Eagle Seamanship
Author: Edwin H. DanielsPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9780870212512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A convenient pocket training manual for square-rigger sailing. Written for cadets serving on the U.S. Coast Guard training barque Eagle.
Square Riggers Before the Wind
Author: Rigging Period
Author: Lennarth PeterssonPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848322186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Employing superb, clear draughtsmanship this book illustrates each and every detail of the rigging of typical period fore-and-aft vessels.?The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex task that any modeller has to accomplish; the intricacies can be daunting and visual references limited. The author's first book, Rigging Period Ship Models, was a triumph of clarity for those needing to decipher the complexities of square rig and has now sold in multiple editions. This book does the same for fore-and-aft craft and deploys three typical eighteenth-century types _ an English cutter, a three-masted French lugger and an American schooner. Some 200 diagrams show clearly where each separate item of standing and running rigging is fitted, led and belayed. Whatever the requirements of the modelmaker, all the information is here.?This new paperback edition brings a visual clarity to the complexities of period rigging and will delight anyone with an interest in the rigging of traditional fore-and-aft craft.
Avenues of Transformation
Author: James EdstromPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809338769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Avenues of Transformation tells the tale of Illinois's admission to the Union in 1818--the campaign for statehood, the passage by Congress of an act enabling statehood, and the state's first constitutional convention--through the leadership of three early leaders: Daniel Pope Cook, Nathaniel Pope, and Elias Kent Kane.
A Gentleman of Color
Author: Julie WinchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195347456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.
Across the Oceans
Author: Seija-Riitta LaaksoPublisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN: 9522228087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph.