Author: Denis Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851776668
Category : Steam-boilers, Marine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the story of the machinery which powered those ships. It aims to tell the story of marine engineering development through the steamship and the job it did both in commercial and naval terms.
Steam at Sea
Author: Denis Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851776668
Category : Steam-boilers, Marine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the story of the machinery which powered those ships. It aims to tell the story of marine engineering development through the steamship and the job it did both in commercial and naval terms.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851776668
Category : Steam-boilers, Marine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume covers the development and decline of the steam engine from the late-18th century to the present day. It is not a history of the steamship, but the story of the machinery which powered those ships. It aims to tell the story of marine engineering development through the steamship and the job it did both in commercial and naval terms.
Steam Power and Sea Power
Author: Steven Gray
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137576421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137576421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire. In particular, it considers how steam propulsion made vessels utterly dependent on a particular resource – coal – and its distribution around the world. In doing so, it shows that the ‘coal question’ was central to imperial defence and the protection of trade, requiring the creation of infrastructures that spanned the globe. This infrastructure required careful management, and the processes involved show the development of bureaucracy and the reliance on the ‘contractor state’ to ensure this was both robust and able to allow swift mobilisation in war. The requirement to stop regularly at foreign stations also brought men of the Royal navy into contact with local coal heavers, as well as indigenous populations and landscapes. These encounters and their dissemination are crucial to our understanding of imperial relationships and imaginations at the height of the imperial age.
Coal, Steam and Ships
Author: Crosbie Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Forty Years Master
Author: Daniel O. Killman
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493803
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History. During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, all the while remaining in impeccable standing with the owners of his vessels. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels in the Pacific is chronicled in Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam. Edited and annotated nearly forty years after Killman’s death by prominent Pacific Coast maritime historians John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr., Killman’s memoir has been compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison from her father’s papers. Now with an introduction by maritime scholar Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull, Killman’s rollicking narrative of storms, surly mates, bustling ports, and the business of navigating the high seas will entertain and inform scholars, students, and general readers interested in nautical and maritime history, late nineteenth–early twentieth century trade and commerce, and West Coast/trans-Pacific maritime history.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493803
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History. During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, all the while remaining in impeccable standing with the owners of his vessels. His thrilling life at sea during the last decades of sailing ships and the emergence of steam vessels in the Pacific is chronicled in Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam. Edited and annotated nearly forty years after Killman’s death by prominent Pacific Coast maritime historians John Lyman and Harold D. Huycke Jr., Killman’s memoir has been compiled by Rebecca Huycke Ellison from her father’s papers. Now with an introduction by maritime scholar Brian J. Rouleau and an afterword by David Hull, Killman’s rollicking narrative of storms, surly mates, bustling ports, and the business of navigating the high seas will entertain and inform scholars, students, and general readers interested in nautical and maritime history, late nineteenth–early twentieth century trade and commerce, and West Coast/trans-Pacific maritime history.
S.S. Savannah
Author: Frank Osborn Braynard
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
From Tree to Sea
Author: Ted Frost
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN: 9780861380336
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In 'From Tree To Sea', Ted Frost, who was apprenticed as a shipwright in 1916, tells in detail with the aid of his own drawings how a wooden steam fishing boat was built in one particular shipyard at the time he began to learn his trade.
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN: 9780861380336
Category : Boatbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In 'From Tree To Sea', Ted Frost, who was apprenticed as a shipwright in 1916, tells in detail with the aid of his own drawings how a wooden steam fishing boat was built in one particular shipyard at the time he began to learn his trade.
The Marine Steam-engine
Author: Thomas Main
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engines
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engines
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Marine Steam Engine
Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engines
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engines
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Marine Steam Engines
Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336825989X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1899.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336825989X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1899.
International Marine Engineering
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description