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Ocean SteamshipsOcean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliancesSlow Growth of the Idea of Steam PropulsionModels Shown at the Liverpool Exhibition in 1886Claims of Precedence in the Invention of SteamboatsWhat Fulton AccomplishedThe ClermontThe Voyage of the Savannah in 1819The First...
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Ship Repairing: Analyses and EstimatesAuthor: Arun Kr Dev, Makaraksha Saha, George BrucePublisher: SpringerPublished: 03/11/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62dISBN: 9789811694707About the AuthorDr. Arun Kr Dev, a Naval Architect, Marine and Offshore Engineer, holds the current position of Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies...
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Core Principles of Maritime NavigationCore Principles of Maritime Navigation introduces the main navigation concepts required by trainees and professionals involved in maritime operations. The book covers a wide range of subjects from wind, waves and depths to navigational marks and buoys, navigational techniques and equipment, passage planning, duties...
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The U.S. Marine CorpsU.S. Marines pride themselves on being the first to fight for their country. By sea, by land, and by air, Marines work as a team. They get help from high-tech vehicles such as the F/A Hornet fighter jet and weapons such as M-4 rifles....
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Maritime Economics 3eFor 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the "perfect" market of classical economics....
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GrenadeHere it is The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz's NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed phenomenon REFUGEE. This is another searing and heart-pounding look at kids making their way through war.A New York Times bestseller It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war.Hideki...
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A Few Good MenCharacters: 14 male, 1 female Int. This Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the...
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I, SniperThe explosive New York Times bestseller by Stephen Hunter that sends ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger into the thick of an FBI investigation and features some of the greatest gunfights ever to grace the page. It takes a seasoned killer... Four famed '60s radicals...
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The clipper ship eraThe clipper ship era - an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869THE Clipper Ship Era began in 1843 as a result of the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China; continued...
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A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from 1509 to 1660, with an introduction treating of the preceding periodA history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding periodThe creation of the modern Royal Navy has been variously attributed to Henry VII, to...
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20 years at sea: Leaves from my old log-booksTwenty years at sea: Leaves from my old log-booksIn the old days, fifty years ago, when I first went to sea, it was the custom in fine weather, in most ships, after supper had been leisurely discussed and pipes lighted, for both watches to...
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Instructions for the Management of Harvey's Sea TorpedoInstructions for the Management of Harvey's Sea TorpedoTo impart a thorough knowledge of the management of such an arm as the sea torpedo is a matter of easy accomplishment by personal explanation; especially so, when the arm is in the water, and practised with...
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The Men of the Merchant ServiceThe Men of the Merchant Service - Being the polity of the mercantile marine for 'longshore readersIt has been repeatedly represented to me by disinterested friends, that among the innumerable works of both fact and fiction dealing with the sea, there are none telling...
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The Nuclear Ship SavannahThe Nuclear Ship Savannah - First Atomic Merchant Ship, One of the World's Safest ShipsEvery appropriate safety device, factor, and technique were sought in the design and planning stage, and the ships construction has probably been more closely and intensively inspected, tested, and scrutinized...
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Robert Fulton and the SubmarineRobert Fulton and the SubmarineThat Robert Fulton devoted some attention to the possibility of an underwater boat during the years when his mind was laboring with plans for the propulsion of boats by steam, has been known since that time. Not, however, until 1896,...
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A Lost Chapter in the History of the SteamboatA Lost Chapter in the History of the SteamboatIn the spring of 1828, my law office was in the Athenum building, so called, afterwards destroyed by fire. My business was scant, for I had but recently been admitted to the bar. I was ruminating,...
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Submarine Warfare, Past, Present, and FutureSubmarine Warfare, Past, Present, and FutureThe natural attitude of the Naval mind towards submarines is the same now as that expressed by Lord St. Vincent when Fulton invented the notorious catamaran expedition. Fulton had been trying some experiments before Pitt, who favoured the project,...
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Army and Navy Uniforms and InsigniaArmy and Navy Uniforms and Insignia - How to Know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and Foreign CountriesHow to know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and...
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Ships and Ways of Other DaysShips & Ways of Other DaysIn Sailing Ships and their Story I endeavoured to trace the evolution of the ship from the very earliest times of which we possess any historical data at all down to the canvas-setting craft of to-day. In Fore and...
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Steam Navigation and Its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United StatesSteam Navigation and Its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United States WHEN the history of the nineteenth century comes to be written, not the least interesting chapter of it will be that which treats of the origin, the development, and the...
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