Naval Science
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The Navy as a Fighting MachineThe Navy as a Fighting Machine What is the navy for? Of what parts should it be composed? What principles should be followed in designing, preparing, and operating it in order to get the maximum return for the money expended? To answer these questions...
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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.The inaccessibility of the official Fighting Instructions from time to time issued to the fleet has long been a recognised stumbling-block to students of naval history. Only a few copies of them were...
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The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and FutureThe Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future Whatever interest may be possessed by a collection of detached papers, issued at considerable intervals during a term of several years, and written without special reference one to the other, or, at the first,...
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American Merchant Ships and SailorsAmerican Merchant Ships and SailorsIn an earlier series of books the present writer told the story of the high achievements of the men of the United States Navy, from the day of Paul Jones to that of Dewey, Schley, and Sampson. It is a...
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Some Principles of Maritime StrategySome Principles of Maritime StrategyAt first sight nothing can appear more unpractical, less promising of useful result, than to approach the study of war with a theory. There seems indeed to be something essentially antagonistic between the habit of mind that seeks theoretical guidance...
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Knots, Splices and Rope WorkKnots, Splices and Rope Work - A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.The history of ropes and knots is so dim and ancient...
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Diario histórico de la rebelion y guerra de los pueblos Guaranis situados en la costa oriental del Rio Uruguay, del año de 1754Diario histórico de la rebelion y guerra de los pueblos Guaranis situados en la costa oriental del Rio Uruguay, del año de 1754 Los esfuerzos combinados de dos grandes potencias europeas no bastaron para dar cumplimiento al tratado de 1750, que debia deslindar sus...
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Sea-Power and Other StudiesSea-Power and Other StudiesThe essays collected in this volume are republished in the hope that they may be of some use to those who are interested in naval history. The aim has been to direct attention to certain historical occurrences and conditions which the...
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Lord JimLord Jim ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 7874 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Apr 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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Lord JimLord Jim When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writers control. One or two discovered internal evidence...
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Notes By the Way in a Sailor's LifeNotes By the Way in a Sailor's Life In 1898 I was in Hongkong on a business affair which gave me much leisure, when Murray Bain, editor of the China Mail, whom I had long known, asked why I did not send him a...
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The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and SailorsThe Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A people with a native genius for seafaring won and...
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