Victorian and Edwardian ships and harbours from old photographs

Engineering & Transportation

Basil Greenhill

Ann Giffard

Ann Gifford

Engineering

Batsford Ltd.

Merchant Schooners: A Portrait (2 Vol.) of a Vanished Industry, Being a Survey In Tw

Augustus M. Kelley

Boats and boatmen of Pakistan;

David&Charles

A Quayside Camera, 1845-1917

A quayside camera, 1845-1917

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

[publisher: Patrick Stephens, Cambridge] Large format. 100 black and white photographs from the Francis Frith Collection at the National Maritime Museum. Pp144.

Victorian Maritime Album: 100 Photographs from the Francis Frith Collection at the National Maritime Museum

Aztex Corporation

Steam, Politics and Patronage is an important new interpretation of that complete transformation of the Royal Navy which took place in the years between the Napoleonic and Russian wars, and it sets out to show how the Admiralty, far from being obstructive to the introduction of steam power grasped those opportunities which came with the industrial revolution. Faced with the combined threat, real or imaginary, of France and Russia, the Navy pressed ahead with inovations as fast as technical developments and financial stringency allowed. The birth of the steam warship is a complex subject and involves naval, political. social. industrial. financial amd merchant shipping developments, and to help in drawing together these different threada the authors have drawn particularly from the papers of Captain Henry Wells Giffard whose career illustrates perfectly many aspects of the subject covered in the book. His papers also give a fascinating insight into the workings of the Admiralty and brings to life the ships and people who are the protagonists of this story.

Steam, Politics and Patronage: The Transformation of the Royal Navy, 1815-54

History

Military

Conway Maritime

Describes the merchant sailing ships of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and depicts the life and experiences of their sailors

Seafaring Under Sail: The Life of the Merchant Seaman

Denis Stonham

Naval_Institute_Press

Merchant Schooners: v. 1 (Modern maritime classics reprints)

National Maritime Museum

Originally published in 1988, The Evolution of the Wooden Ship is a special tribute to the shipbuilding trade, not only because it traces its evolution and associated traditions, but also because it is in part based on the oral accounts of men who actually worked on the vessels. Basil Greenhill briefly traces the history of the wooden ship through her multiple forms and styles from her prehistoric beginnings to her demise shortly after the First World War.
 The four central chapters are devoted to describing in detail the building of the most common trading vessel, a simple 100-ton two-masted wooden schooner. Tom Perkins, a master shipwright of great experience, who rebuilt the West Country sailing barge Shamrock for Britain's National Trust and National Maritime Museum, adds technical details in the language of the trade and portrays the life of the men who worked in the yards. In addition, the building of different types of wooden vessels, three- and four-masted schooners and barques in different countries is discussed, from locations as varied as Wales, the Aland Islands of Finland, and Atlantic Canada. To complement the scholarly text by Dr. Greenhill, Sam Manning, a noted maritime illustrator, further explains many of the intricate processes of shipbuilding in his clear and accurate drawings and in his notes. These illustrations are an invaluable source of explanatory detail and are of great historical value.
 Dr. Basil Greenhill, director of the National Maritime Museum (U.K.) 1967 1983, was an internationally recognized authority on maritime aspects of historical studies. He was Chairman of Britain s Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites and of the project to restore and preserve the world's first modern ship, the SS Grew Brittan, in Bristol. He was the author of over forty books and numerous articles on maritime history. He best known book was his two-volume The Merchant Schooners. He also wrote Victorian and Edwardian Sailing Ships, Ships and Harbours, and Merchant Steamships.
 Sam Manning, who lives in Camden, Maine, is a former boat builder who has been described as one of the best artists in the marine field. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Part One: The background 1 Explanation 2 The evolution of the wooden ship Part Two: The building of a wooden ship 3 The slipway 4 The skeleton 5 The hull is completed 6 Fitting out and launching 7 Four other building traditions 1 Wales: small three-masted schooner 2 Finland: large three-masted schooner 3 Canada: three-masted barque 4 United States: four-masted schooner Tailpiece Glossary Index

The Evolution of the Wooden Ship

The Blackburn Press

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