Author: David Couling
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Steam Yachts
Author: David Couling
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Steam Yachts at War
Author: Steve Dunn
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1399059750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and European royalty, American magnates, the landed aristocracy and the nouveau riche, but when wars came, in 1898 and 1914, they were quickly transformed into warships, and many of their crews became warriors rather than servants. The US Navy was the first to recognise the potential of these elegant vessels. In the Spanish-American war of 1898, the USN – short of ships to operate a blockade of Spanish-owned Cuba – purchased twenty-eight of them and turned them into patrol craft and bombardment ships. In Britain in 1914 steam yachts became a stop gap navy, filling in for neglected investment in small craft. The USN followed suit in 1917. Their wonderful interiors were ripped out, antiquated guns and sometimes depth charges fitted, and their crews signed into the naval reserves. Around the coasts of the Britain and France, in the Mediterranean and the USA, Canada, these former luxurious playthings now attacked land positions and fought surface warships and U-boats. They interdicted blockade runners, escorted convoys, were used as depot ships, served as hospitals afloat and undertook a host of other functions. In all, some 300 yachts fought at sea. This new book, lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans of pre-war and wartime steam yachts from a world now lost to view, tells their story and the stories of the men who served in them. It examines their peacetime origins and development, describes their owners and designers, and considers their naval deployment, the conditions under which the crews lived and worked, the many and varied duties assigned to the yachts, and their successes and failures together with the losses sustained. In just a couple of generations these beautiful craft progressed from status symbols to instruments of war to complete extinction; Steam Yachts at War tells this compelling story.
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1399059750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and European royalty, American magnates, the landed aristocracy and the nouveau riche, but when wars came, in 1898 and 1914, they were quickly transformed into warships, and many of their crews became warriors rather than servants. The US Navy was the first to recognise the potential of these elegant vessels. In the Spanish-American war of 1898, the USN – short of ships to operate a blockade of Spanish-owned Cuba – purchased twenty-eight of them and turned them into patrol craft and bombardment ships. In Britain in 1914 steam yachts became a stop gap navy, filling in for neglected investment in small craft. The USN followed suit in 1917. Their wonderful interiors were ripped out, antiquated guns and sometimes depth charges fitted, and their crews signed into the naval reserves. Around the coasts of the Britain and France, in the Mediterranean and the USA, Canada, these former luxurious playthings now attacked land positions and fought surface warships and U-boats. They interdicted blockade runners, escorted convoys, were used as depot ships, served as hospitals afloat and undertook a host of other functions. In all, some 300 yachts fought at sea. This new book, lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans of pre-war and wartime steam yachts from a world now lost to view, tells their story and the stories of the men who served in them. It examines their peacetime origins and development, describes their owners and designers, and considers their naval deployment, the conditions under which the crews lived and worked, the many and varied duties assigned to the yachts, and their successes and failures together with the losses sustained. In just a couple of generations these beautiful craft progressed from status symbols to instruments of war to complete extinction; Steam Yachts at War tells this compelling story.
The Steam Yachts
Author: Erik Hofman
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Steam Yachts and Launches
Author: C. P. Kunhardt
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Category : Launches
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Launches
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Steam Yachts and Launches: Their Machinery and Management
Author: C.P. Kunhardt
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Category : Launches
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Launches
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Text
Author: Dixon Kemp
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Category : Yacht building
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Category : Yacht building
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Marine Engineering
Author:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Marine Engineering Log
Author:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts
Author: Ross MacTaggart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057621
Category : Mansions
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A re-creation of a time of fantastic wealth through never-before-seen photographs.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057621
Category : Mansions
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A re-creation of a time of fantastic wealth through never-before-seen photographs.
The Royal Yacht Squadron
Author: Montague John Guest
Publisher:
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Category : Yachting
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yachting
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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