Wooden Ship
Author | : Peter H. Spectre |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Naval architecture |
ISBN | : 9780304344895 |
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Author | : Peter H. Spectre |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Naval architecture |
ISBN | : 9780304344895 |
Author | : Basil Greenhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
This book traces the evolution and associated traditions of the wooden ship, through her multiple forms and styles from her prehistoric beginnings to her demise shortly after the First World War. Details are provided on regional variations including the small three-masted schooner (Wales), the large three-masted schooner (Finland), the three-masted barque (Canada), and the four-master schooner (United States).
Author | : Richard W. Bricker |
Publisher | : TAMU Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Starting in 1916, Texans built seventeen four- and five-masted sailing ships out of East Texas pine, making a significant contribution in World War I. The ships' careers carried them to Europe, South America, both American coasts, and even eighty miles up the Danube River. In Wooden Ships from Texas, Richard W. Bricker brings to light this fascinating, but little-known, period in Texas maritime history. Bricker unearthed a considerable quantity of archival material, allowing him to describe them and make at least a partial career tracking of each vessel. The first ship built was the City of Orange, and her irascible captain provided a memorable maiden voyage from Orange, Texas, to Genoa, Italy. Official documents told a story of events like those found in sea fiction: shanghaiing, cruelty to seaman, excessive drinking, and pistol waving. A rare story is told, too: an order to jettison part of the cargo with no apparent good cause. Out of fourteen ships builit at one shipyard, four burned and one was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Spain. These losses did not spell total disaster for the fleet, however. Only three lives were lost and a significant quantity of cargo had been delivered to Europe by some of these ships before tragedy struck. Only one of the other nine vessels burned after being transferred to the Italian flag. Two other vessels were lost at sea after leaving Texas Registry. For each vessel, Bricker provides a description; narratives of the ship's career; and selected photographs of construction, launching, and anchored views. Because no known photographs of the vessels under sail survived, Bricker himself has painted these views. Bricker's engaging and informative text, which also covers a massive effort to build wooden steamships in Texas for the war, will interest Texas history, maritime history, and World War I enthusiasts as well as ship hobbyists.
Author | : George C. Holmes |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1473360625 |
This vintage book is a detailed treatise on the history and development of wooden ships from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Detailed and profusely illustrated, this book is highly recommended for those with an interest in the fascinating history of seafaring and would make for a fantastic addition to any home collection. Contents include: “Ancient Ships in the Mediterranean and Red Seas”, “Ancient Ships in the Seas of Northern Europe”, “Mediaeval Ships”, “Modern Wooden Sailing-Ships”, and “Description of an Archaic Greek Bireme”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sailing. This book was first published in 1906.
Author | : David C. McIntosh |
Publisher | : WoodenBoat Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1988-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780937822104 |
David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.
Author | : Jan Adkins |
Publisher | : WoodenBoat Books |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780937822852 |
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Author | : Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2023-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Ancient and Modern Ships: Wooden Sailing Ships" by Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author | : Peter Spectre |
Publisher | : WoodenBoat Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780937822340 |
The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
Author | : Maynard Bray |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2000-11-17 |
Genre | : Ships, Wooden |
ISBN | : 0393048993 |
This magnificent collection of full-color photographs by renowned photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz of beautiful vessels includes wooden boats ranging from simple prams to sailing and power yachts. Noted marine historian Maynard Bray provides commentary on more than 90 of the world's most photogenic boats.
Author | : George Holmes |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781721630288 |
An endeavour has been made in this handbook, as far as space and scantiness of material would permit, to trace the history of the development of wooden ships from the earliest times down to our own. Unfortunately, the task has been exceedingly difficult; for the annals of shipbuilding have been very badly kept down to a quite recent period, and the statements made by old writers concerning ships are not only meagre but often extremely inaccurate. Moreover, the drawings and paintings of vessels which have survived from the classical period are few and far between, and were made by artists who thought more of pictorial effect than of accuracy of detail. Fortunately the carvings of the ancient Egyptians were an exception to the above rule. Thanks to their practice of recording and illustrating their history in one of the most imperishable of materials we know more of their ships and maritime expeditions than we do of those of any other people of antiquity. If their draughtsmen were as conscientious in delineating their boats as they were in their drawings of animals and buildings, we may accept the illustrations of Egyptian vessels which have survived into our epoch as being correct in their main features. The researches now being systematically carried out in the Valley of the Nile add, year by year, to our knowledge, andviii already we know enough to enable us to assert that ship building is one of the oldest of human industries, and that there probably existed a sea borne commerce in the Mediterranean long before the building of the Pyramids.