Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Trawler Sirius Star, Inc. V. Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Trawler Sirius Star, Inc. V. Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Author: The Federal Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
In the Court of Claims of the United States No. 30373, "West Virginia," Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Plaintiff, V. the United States, Defendant
Author: Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logistics, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Naval Accidents, 1945-1988
Author: William M. ArkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Lighthouse Service
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Grand Traverse Lighthouse
Author: Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Grand Traverse Lighthouse sits majestically at the entrance of Grand Traverse Bay, guiding vessels between Chicago and the Straits of Mackinac. For over 150 years, it has been an important beacon for all who have plied the waters of Lake Michigan. The original 1852 lighthouse was used for six years before being torn down. In 1858, a larger lighthouse with an attached nine-sided tower was erected on a site farther west. Over the course of its history, 66 lighthouse keepers, assistant keepers, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel have maintained the light. Today visitors tour the restored lighthouse, which is now a living museum filled with displays and exhibits depicting a simpler way of life. A climb to the tower where keepers once stood watch now provides an inspiring panorama.
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington
Author: Paul GardulloPublisher: Smithsonian Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guises—its challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the world, and a stronghold in the history and culture of the nation's capital. Through photographs of formal weddings, elegant cotillions, ballet studios, and quiet family life, the Scurlocks revealed a world in which the black middle class refused to be defined or held captive by discrimination. From its home on the vibrant U Street corridor, the Scurlock Studio gave us indelible images of leaders and luminaries, of high society and working class, of Washingtonians at work and at play. In photograph after photograph, the Scurlocks captured an optimism and resiliency seldom seen in mainstream depictions of segregated society. Luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune, Alain Locke, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lois Mailou Jones testify to the intellectual and cultural vibrancy that was unique to Washington and an inspiration to the nation. Photographs of a Peoples Drugstore protest and Marian Anderson's Easter morning concert at the Lincoln Memorial remind us that the struggle for equality in black Washington began long before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Offering a rich lens into our past, The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington is a powerful trigger of personal and historical memory.
US Heavy Cruisers 1941–45
Author: Mark StillePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782006311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Designed and produced under the regulations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, Portland, New Orleans and Wichita classes were exercises in compromise. While they possessed very heavy armament – the Pensacolas, for example, carrying a main battery of ten 8” guns – this came at the cost of protection – armor was the same thickness as a gun cruiser, and incapable of protecting the vessels from enemy 8” fire. As the classes evolved, these flaws began to be corrected, with the main battery being reduced, and increased protection being added to the vital areas of the ship. Despite these drawbacks, the pre-war heavy cruiser classes served with distinction throughout World War II.