CK - Ships & Shipbuilding 1

With over 2,000 miles of navigable waterway in the UK, Britain’s canals are an asset to be treasured by everyone. Nick Corble has written an accessible guide which will help you get the best out of ……続きを見る

The Seaman's Medical Instructor In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen is a comprehensive 19th-century medical manual designed specifically for sailors and those respon……続きを見る

Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting: A Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs is a comprehensive manual that delves into the art and science of painting vehicles from a bygone e……続きを見る

World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the subject of many books, popular movies, and documentaries, but the very important story of the fighting between United S……続きを見る

Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers by Harry Alverson Franck offers a unique, ground-level view of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th centuryーt……続きを見る

Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers by Harry Alverson Franck offers a unique, ground-level view of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th centuryーt……続きを見る

The essential guide to modern equipment found in merchant ships, focusing on 'motor' propulsion for marine engineers. Developed to complement Reeds vol 8: General Engineering Knowledge for Marine En……続きを見る

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea. The world's seas and oceans are big business. Based on gross marine product, the ocean ……続きを見る

An invaluable aid to masters of ships for more than 30 years. Since the initial publication of the third edition in 2001, many substantive changes have occurred in both the legal and operational env……続きを見る

Kapitän Gerd Peters (†) und drei weitere Insider haben ihre privaten Archive ein Stück weit geöffnet, um Fragen zu beantworten, die in bisherigen Büchern über die Geschichte der Deutschen Seereedere……続きを見る

In "The Seaman's Friend," Richard Henry Dana provides a comprehensive guide to maritime life, juxtaposing the practicalities of sea travel with reflections on sailor culture and ethics. Written in t……続きを見る

"Die Kreuzfahrt der Dazzler" erzählt die fesselnde Geschichte von Joe Bronson, einem jungen Mann, der im San Francisco des späten 19. Jahrhunderts aufwächst. Sein starker Drang nach Freiheit bringt ……続きを見る

Alles für die Bootsreparatur: So erstrahlen alte Yachten in neuem Glanz Klassische Yachten lassen die Herzen vieler Bootsbesitzer höherschlagen. Sie erinnern an die goldene Ära des Bootsbaus und ver……続きを見る

Bright and colourful, slow and easy, narrowboats are seen today as the epitome of a peaceful life and a wonderful way to get away from the stresses of modern living. Although true, this is a far cry……続きを見る

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping. Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for ……続きを見る

En ung nazisoldat gør en usædvanlig opdagelse, da han under 2. verdenskrig i en gletsjer finder det mest legendariske skib nogensinde. 60 år senere er Juan Cabrillo og hans agenttrænede mandskab på ……続きを見る

German U-boats are getting through the defences. It's up to the Wrens to stop them. After her fianc died in the sinking of the Royal Oak, Mary finds herself stationed in Orkney, still battling her g……続きを見る

The merchants of Manchester were concerned about the high tariffs charged at Liverpool Docks and the excessive rates for transhipment of goods to Manchester. They decided that the best thing for the……続きを見る

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced t……続きを見る

The "Interim" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissio……続きを見る

"Shaghaiing," or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as "crimps," and they had no resp……続きを見る

Never-before-published, firsthand accounts of under-sea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can hit a target trying to avoid being hit. Legendary fig……続きを見る

The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations--there were six children. Dominick bought th……続きを見る

Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.S. Consul in the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but before his arrival in Bangkok, he was also a merchant ship captain, builder of clipper ships, legislat……続きを見る

The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement. It included seven swing bridges and the aqueduct at Barton, and helped turn the cotton-producing capital of Great Britain into an inland……続きを見る

The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, ‘The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.’ The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated p……続きを見る

THE maintenance of an industry for two hundred years by one family, in the direct line of succession and in one locality, is almost unique in the history of western manufactures. Such a record prove……続きを見る

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and……続きを見る

The Pool of London has long been a busy place. It has been the focus of seaborne trade with the city since the Roman galleys first arrived with exotic cargoes. After the Industrial Revolution the sa……続きを見る

Buying a boat can be a minefield, but a handbook like this will make it a lot easier for would-be boat owners to make sensible, informed choices. Whether buying a new or secondhand boat, would-be ow……続きを見る