South African steam tugs I knew
Author | : Thomas William Hardiman |
Publisher | : Kwarts Publishers |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1920562214 |
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Author | : Thomas William Hardiman |
Publisher | : Kwarts Publishers |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1920562214 |
Author | : George Swede |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1453572392 |
The Steam Tug is a historical read about the evolution of the steam engine and steam tug. Developed and patented in England in 1737, the author takes the reader to the end of the roaring 1850s in New York Harbor. It was not until 1807 that Robert Fulton introduced the first commercially successful steamboat the “Clermont” on the Hudson River in New York. In the early 1800s sailing ships entering the harbor would lie at anchor in Sandy Hook for days and weeks waiting for wind to power them into the harbor so they could offload their cargo. Due to the expansion of shipping and commerce during the mid 1800s, sailing ships realized that small steam ferries operating between Staten Island and lower Manhattan could tow them into local wharfs to discharge their cargo and begin loading domestic goods to distant ports abroad saving valuable time. With the advent of large clipper ships, increased commerce and advanced steam boats, would lead to the rise and birth of a new industry, The Towing Business.
Author | : Phil N. Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Tugboats |
ISBN | : 9780905184074 |
This book is beautifully produced and a must for anyone at all interested in these fascinating craft, MODEL BOATS. A full history covering early tugs, wood iron and steel paddle `tugs', harbour, seeking and coastal screw tugs, and ocean tugs. Thames craft tugs, tenders and passenger carrying tugs, naval and wartime tugs. Tug owners and builders. Tug construction, engines and deck gear. Over 1000 steam tugs and 400 owners are covered. The 85 tug plans range from 1833 to 1956 and 29 colour profiles will be of interest to modellers. More than 90 photographs (some colour), sketches, and colour diagram of 88 funnel colours.
Author | : David Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Tugboats |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Chuck Fowler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738559728 |
While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.
Author | : Ian Collard |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445654113 |
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Mersey tugs have changed and developed since the late nineteenth century.
Author | : David L. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Steam-navigation |
ISBN | : 9780711028579 |
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1839 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Plymouth (Tug) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Bruce Franklin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1978800924 |
Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top-secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what he learned was eye-opening. He saw that even as the U.S. preached about peace and freedom, it was engaging in an endless cycle of warfare, bringing devastation and oppression to fledgling democracies across the globe. Now, after fifty years as a renowned cultural historian, Franklin offers a set of hard-learned lessons about modern American history. Crash Course is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between America’s foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements. More than just a memoir or a history book, Crash Course gives readers a unique firsthand look at the building of the American empire and the damage it has wrought. Shocking and gripping as any thriller, it exposes the endless deception of the American public, and reveals from inside how and why many millions of Americans have been struggling for decades against our own government in a fight for peace and justice.