Wooden Boats and Iron Men
Author | : Trygvie Jensen |
Publisher | : Trygvie Jensen |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Door County (Wis.) |
ISBN | : 0976478277 |
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Author | : Trygvie Jensen |
Publisher | : Trygvie Jensen |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Door County (Wis.) |
ISBN | : 0976478277 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9788412575293 |
Author | : Randi Svensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Boatbuilding |
ISBN | : 9781920831110 |
For wooden boat lovers, the name is synonymous with boats designed with an unerring eye for beautiful and balanced lines, and performance to match. It brings back memories of idyllic holidays afloat in rented motor cruisers; the race-winning Halvorsen brothers, their superb racing yachts, Peer Gynt, Anitra V and Freya; and the Halvorsen-built Gretel; and the boats of World War II - fast 38s, 62s and Fairmiles, and the motor cruiser that sank the Japanese mini submarine in Sydney Harbour.
Author | : David D. Bruhn |
Publisher | : Heritage Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Minesweepers |
ISBN | : 0788443259 |
From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens
Author | : Howard F. West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Torpedo-boats |
ISBN | : 9780788425370 |
Naval combat narrative is the heart of this book: Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Bougainville, the Mediterranean sea, the English Channel, the Philippines - historic operations in which the PT boats would win fame, glory, and a place in history. Encyclopedic in scope, this is the definitive work on the history of PT boats. W2537HB - $35.50
Author | : Theodore R Treadwell |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612513646 |
Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.
Author | : R. B. Hillyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 199? |
Genre | : Illinois River (Ill.) |
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Author | : Tiziana Banini |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030667669 |
This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereotypes. A mixed methodology is employed to research case studies at diverse territorial scales which are relevant to the impact of a variety of factors on place/territorial identity processes such as migration, political and economic changes, natural disasters, land use changes, etc. Visual imagery, constructing visual discourses and living within visual cultures are placed in the foreground and refer to among others the changes and challenges introduced by the Internet and social networks in place/territory representations and self-representations; identity politics and its impact on place/territorial identity representations; discourses in shaping representations and self-representations of territorial/place-based identities related to collective memory, cultural heritage, invented tradition, imagined communities and other key notions.
Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393066665 |
A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.
Author | : Jon Freeman |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780671253745 |
Describes and evaluates in terms of presentation, rules, playability, realism, and complexity, wargames located in various ages and in real and imaginary lands