Author: Sir William Henry White
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: William Henry White
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Author: United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: sir William Henry White
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Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: Don Leggett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317068386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation and to offer a series of interconnected considerations of maritime technology and culture in a period of significant and lasting change. Its ten authors reveal the processes involved through the eyes and hands of a range of actors, including naval architects, dockyard workers, commercial shipowners and Navy officers. By locating the ship's re-invention within the contexts of builders, owners and users, they illustrate the ways in which material elements, as well as scientific, artisan and seafaring ideas and practices, were bound together in the construction of ships' complex identities.

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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Rosenberg Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: John Kiste
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Eighth-century martyr St Boniface, tennis player and TV presenter Sue Barker, painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, actor Sir Donald Sinden, Boer War commander Sir Redvers Buller, radio and TV presenter Ed Stewart and round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester are among personalities through the ages who have been born in Devon. The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, including Scott of the Antarctica, Agatha Christie, Parson Jack Russell (of terrier fame) and Wayne Sleep. The Elizabethan explorers Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh were all Devonians, as were party leaders Michael Foot and David Owen. This book, by renowned local author John Van der Kiste, features mini-biographies of all these and many more.