Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
From colonial times to just before the Civil War.
The History of the American Sailing Navy
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
From colonial times to just before the Civil War.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
From colonial times to just before the Civil War.
The History of the American Sailing Navy
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of American Sailing Ships
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
More than 200 drawings and photos highlight this authoritative study of America's nautical heritage.
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
More than 200 drawings and photos highlight this authoritative study of America's nautical heritage.
American Sailing Ships
Author: Charles Gerard Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246582
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An anecdotal, highly personal course through America's nautical history features nearly 140 images of ships from the 18th through 20th centuries: quoddy boats, fishing schooners, clippers, packet ships, frigates, and other vessels.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246582
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An anecdotal, highly personal course through America's nautical history features nearly 140 images of ships from the 18th through 20th centuries: quoddy boats, fishing schooners, clippers, packet ships, frigates, and other vessels.
History of the American Sailing Navy
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: Bonanza Books
ISBN: 9780517004876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A technical study of U.S. military vessels that provides information on the evolution of naval construction, design, and policy prior to the twentieth century
Publisher: Bonanza Books
ISBN: 9780517004876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A technical study of U.S. military vessels that provides information on the evolution of naval construction, design, and policy prior to the twentieth century
Sailing at the U.S. Naval Academy
Author: Robert W. McNitt
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This heavily illustrated book chronicles sailing's unique heritage at the Naval Academy from 1845 onward. It begins in the days of fighting sail, when the reputation of a naval officer depended principally on his ability to handle a square-rigged ship and when sailing was the central activity of the school. Sailing offers vivid descriptions of training aboard the grand old practice ships - Constitution, Constellation, and Macedonian - under master mariners like Stephen B. Luce, then moves to the 1930s, when some energetic midshipmen revived the sailing program by entering intercollegiate competition and offshore racing. By 1995 the program was the most popular midshipman activity; academy sailors won the Dinghy National Championship four times in five years and the top prize in the Newport-to-Bermuda Race - after fifty-four years of trying! Written by a well-known sailor and longtime ocean-racing coach at the Academy, the book is filled with dramatic stories of great races and adventurous cruising. And it records the history of the famous Luders yawls Fearless, Dandy, and Flirt, and the donated boats Vamarie, Highland Light, and Royono, among others, plus sixty years of intercollegiate small-boat racing. It also documents the academy's development of the Quick Stop man-overboard rescue maneuver and its Safety at Sea seminar program, both of which have been adopted nationwide. Admiral McNitt credits the contributions and support of the Fales Committee, the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and other civilian groups who have provided invaluable support over many years. Appendixes list Dinghy National Championship winners, midshipman All-American sailors, the performance of academy boats inthe Bermuda race, and members of the Fales Committee.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This heavily illustrated book chronicles sailing's unique heritage at the Naval Academy from 1845 onward. It begins in the days of fighting sail, when the reputation of a naval officer depended principally on his ability to handle a square-rigged ship and when sailing was the central activity of the school. Sailing offers vivid descriptions of training aboard the grand old practice ships - Constitution, Constellation, and Macedonian - under master mariners like Stephen B. Luce, then moves to the 1930s, when some energetic midshipmen revived the sailing program by entering intercollegiate competition and offshore racing. By 1995 the program was the most popular midshipman activity; academy sailors won the Dinghy National Championship four times in five years and the top prize in the Newport-to-Bermuda Race - after fifty-four years of trying! Written by a well-known sailor and longtime ocean-racing coach at the Academy, the book is filled with dramatic stories of great races and adventurous cruising. And it records the history of the famous Luders yawls Fearless, Dandy, and Flirt, and the donated boats Vamarie, Highland Light, and Royono, among others, plus sixty years of intercollegiate small-boat racing. It also documents the academy's development of the Quick Stop man-overboard rescue maneuver and its Safety at Sea seminar program, both of which have been adopted nationwide. Admiral McNitt credits the contributions and support of the Fales Committee, the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, and other civilian groups who have provided invaluable support over many years. Appendixes list Dinghy National Championship winners, midshipman All-American sailors, the performance of academy boats inthe Bermuda race, and members of the Fales Committee.
The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855
Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393031270
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393031270
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
American Small Sailing Craft, Their Design, Development, and Construction
Author: Howard Irving Chapelle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393031430
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393031430
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the author of Yacht Designing and Planning and Boatbuilding: the definitive history and survey of the great classic American small sailing craft.
John Paul Jones
Author: Evan Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451603991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, “in harm’s way.” Evan Thomas’s minute-by-minute re-creation of the bloodbath between Jones’s Bonhomme Richard and the British man-of-war Serapis off the coast of England on an autumn night in 1779 is as gripping a sea battle as can be found in any novel. Drawing on Jones’s correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the American Revolution—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson—Thomas’s biography teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle, to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones’s spirit was classically American.