Author: Frank Hubert Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Flag of the Seven Seas
Author: Frank Hubert Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Flag
Author: Marc Leepson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312323097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Journalist and historian Marc Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Flag sifts through the historical evidence to--among many other things--uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the Stars and Stripes. It details the many colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the flag"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312323097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Journalist and historian Marc Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Flag sifts through the historical evidence to--among many other things--uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the Stars and Stripes. It details the many colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the flag"--Page 4 of cover.
Ships for the Seven Seas
Author: Thomas Heinrich
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421436868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421436868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
The Sailor of the Seven Seas
Author: Yasmin Faruque
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 146699648X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
This book, The Sailor of the Seven Seas, is a collection of Farrukh Ahmad's adventure poems that Yasmin Faruque has translated from Bengali to English. It contains poems about the spirit of adventure inherent in man. In these poems Farrukh Ahmad has laid open his love of beauty, truth, and adventure.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 146699648X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
This book, The Sailor of the Seven Seas, is a collection of Farrukh Ahmad's adventure poems that Yasmin Faruque has translated from Bengali to English. It contains poems about the spirit of adventure inherent in man. In these poems Farrukh Ahmad has laid open his love of beauty, truth, and adventure.
Seven Seas Magazine
Author:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The Nautical Gazette
Author:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Sea Power
Author:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Log
Author:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Weekly Commercial News
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Battle on the Seven Seas: German Cruiser Battles 1914-1918
Author: Gary Staff
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
ISBN: 9781526743855
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
ISBN: 9781526743855
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description