Ships Shipbuilding category: 835 books
The Liberty Ships of World War II
A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards,...
by Andrew C. Toppan
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Bath Iron Works was established by Gen. Thomas Hyde in 1884 and launched its first ship in 1891. Since then, the shipyard on the Kennebec River has built dozens of luxurious yachts, hardworking freighters, tugs, trawlers, lightships, and more than two hundred twenty warships for the U.S. Navy. Today,...
by K.S. Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans...
Ships for all Nations
John Brown & Company Clydebank 1847-1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Clydebank shipyard built some of the most famous vessels in maritime history – great transatlantic liners like Lusitania, Queen Mary and QE2, and iconic warships like the battlecruiser Hood, and Britain's last battleship, HMS Vanguard. Starting life as J & G Thomson in 1847, the business...
by Robert Maggio, Earlene O'Hare, Port Jefferson Free Library
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The history of Port Jefferson, a village on Long Island�s North Shore, is rich with the lore of ships and the sea. Once called Drowned Meadow because of flooding at high tide, the town was renamed Port Jefferson in 1836. Those same harbor waters, which overran their banks, would become the natural...
by Mark L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book is an account of the ships that have borne the name "Queen of the Lakes," an honorary title indicating that, at the time of its launching, a ship is the longest on the Great Lakes. In one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the maritime history of the lakes, Mark L....
by Gerald Sandvick
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
World War II hinged on the Allies having enough ships to both fight the enemy and to carry millions of tons of war goods across the world's oceans. Shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts built thousands of vessels, but America's sometimes forgotten Fourth Coast, the Great Lakes, built...
Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding
The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia.
Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated...
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria
The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
First published in 1768, this remarkable collection of sophisticated line drawings offers a fascinating look at the maritime world of the eighteenth century, documenting merchant and naval ships from various countries. Seventy detailed illustrations chart vessel dimensions, crew size, storage capabilities,...
The United States Merchant Marine in World War I
Ships, Crews, Shipbuilders and Operators
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along with the usual hazards of life at sea, and help was rarely close enough for swift rescues. Pre-war shipping in America depended mainly on foreign vessels,...
by Randall James Sasaki
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of Japan in 1281 CE, as well as the history of shipbuilding in East Asia. He has created a timber category database, analyzed methods of joinery,...
Maritime Manitowoc
1847-1947
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
From schooners to submarines, Manitowoc has been home to shipbuilders and their craft for over 200 years. Thanks to the vast collections of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Maritime Manitowoc: 1847�1947 uncovers the fascinating and colorful Golden Age of shipbuilding in the area. This book explores the...
Giants of the Clyde
The great ships and the great yards
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
There is barely a corner of the five great oceans where Clyde-built is not recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. As late as the 1950s, around a seventh of the total of the world’s sea going tonnage was built on the Clyde. It is not a particularly wide river, nor spectacularly long –...
by Robert McAlister
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The virgin forests of longleaf pine, bald cypress and oak that covered much of the South Carolina Lowcountry presented seemingly limitless opportunity for lumbermen. Henry Buck of Maine moved to the South Carolina coast and began shipping lumber back to the Northeast for shipbuilding. He and his family...