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The
steam
launch
Mitchell, Richard M
1982 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
621.12
Salvage of
steam
launch
Dolly
Jackson, Gerry
1979 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available.
627.76(428.8)
Hull specification for a 52«-feet twin screw
steam
launch
for port and harbour service
Great Britain.-Admiralty
1904 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.12.011
Hull specification for a 52.5-feet single screw
steam
launch
for port and harbour service
1904? • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
626.12.011
A G Mumford, Limited : engineers, boiler makers,
launch
and yacht builders, makers of
steam
pumps, valves
Mumford, A G Limited
1912 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.12Mumford
Hull specification for a 40-feet
steam
pinnace
Great Britain.-Admiralty
1904 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.12.011
Hull specification for a 56-feet
steam
pinnace
Great Britain.-Admiralty
1904 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.12.011
Dreadnoughts : an illustrated history /Gerald Toghill
"Two things made the battleship possible: the harnessing of steam for propulsion and Britain's vast industrial power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With these two massive powerhouses available to ship designers, it was inevitable that change would come to the seas. For a short while France led the way with the launching of the Gloire, but Britain soon stole the limelight with the launch of HMS Warrior in 1863. The moment her keel hit the water the naval world was turned upside down and all other warships were rendered obsolete. But that event was as nought compared to the astonishing revolution in warship building caused by the launch in 1906 of the mighty Dreadnought. If Warriorhad caused a great upheaval, the impact of Dreadnought was positively Krakatoan. Such was her impact on the naval world that her very name became generic. All battleships built before her were classed as 'pre-Dreadnought' and all battleships built post-1906 came to be known as 'Dreadnoughts'. This is their story."--Provided by the publisher
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
623.821.3(100)
Pleasures of the Firth : two hundred years of the Clyde steamers, 1812-2012 /Andrew Clark.
"In August of 1812, the Clyde's first steamer was launched. Named 'The Comet' after a meteor that had caused quite a stir the previous year, she boasted a tall narrow funnel that doubled as a mast when required! This book celebrates a notable era on the river Clyde. Before the Comet, transport on the Clyde was by sail-boat and the trip from the Broomielaw to Helensburgh could take 5 or 6 hours if wind and tide were favourable but a couple of days if conditions were poor. In a time when pleasure traffic on the river seems to have all but disappeared, this is a much anticipated, detailed and beautifully photographed history of these iconic and much loved vessels. Pleasures of the Firth is set to become the most comprehensive study published of the steamers and ferries that have plied the Clyde from the earliest days of steam navigation in 1812. With over 450 illustrations and an exhaustively researched fleet list, giving details of every Clyde ferry and excursion boat, it will undoubtedly be the definitive work on the subject. Hardbound to become a treasured volume and due to be completed for a late summer launch."--From publisher.
2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
629.123.21(414)
100 years of specialized shipbuilding and engineering : John I Thornycroft centenary 1964 /K. C. Barnaby
Barnaby, K C
1964 • BOOK • 4 copies available.
629.12Thornycroft
Captain James Carlin : Anglo-American blockade-runner /Colin Carlin.
"Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833-1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy's blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin ventures behind the scenes of this perilous trade that transported vital supplies to the Confederate forces. An Englishman trained in the British merchant marine, Carlin was recruited into the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey Department in 1856, spending four years charting the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Married and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, he resigned from the survey in 1860 to resume his maritime career. His blockade-running started with early runs into Charleston under sail. These came to a lively conclusion under gunfire off the Stono River mouth. More blockade-running followed until his capture on the SS Memphis. Documents in London reveal the politics of securing Carlin's release from Fort Lafayette. On Carlin's return to Charleston, General P. G. T. Beauregard gave him command of the spar torpedo launch Torch for an attack on the USS New Ironsides. After more successful trips though the blockade, he was appointed superintending captain of the South Carolina Importing and Exporting Company and moved to Scotland to commission six new steam runners. After the war Carlin returned to the Southern states to secure his assets before embarking on a gun-running expedition to the northern coast of Cuba for the Cuban Liberation Junta fighting to free the island from Spanish control and plantation slavery."--Provided by the publisher.
2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92CARLIN
Before the battlecruiser : the big cruiser in the world's navies 1865-1910 /Aidan Dodson
"The battlecruiser is perceived by many as the most glamorous of warships, remembered for its triumphs and tragedies in both world wars. Often forgotten are its lineal ancestors, the big cruisers that were constructed as capital ships for distant waters, as commerce raiders, and as fast scouts for the battlefleet during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth. In this new book by bestselling author Aidan Dobson, the 200 or so big cruisers that were built for the world's navies from 1865 are described and analysed in detail. The type came into being in the 1860s when the French built a series of cruising ironclads to project its power in the Far East. Britain followed suit as did Russia. By the 1890s the general adoption of these fast, heavily-armed and moderately armoured vessels ushered in the golden age of the big cruiser. These great ships would go on to be key combatants in the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, the Japanese employing them within the battlefleet in a manner that heralded later battlecruiser tactics. In Britain, in reply to the launch of the big Russian Rurik in 1890, there was spawned the freakishly huge HMS Powerful and HMS Terrible, ships that underlined the public's view of the glamour of the 'great cruiser'. Indeed, the two ships' cap-tallies became ubiquitous on the sailor suits of late Victorian British children. In some navies, particularly those of South American republics, the big cruiser became the true capital ship, while the Italians built the Giuseppe Garibaldi as a more affordable battleship. By the beginning of the twentieth century the type became yet bigger and guns approached battleship size; with HMS Invincible the British created what was, in 1912, officially dubbed the 'battlecruiser'. Despite their growing obsolescence in the new century some had remarkably long careers in patrol and other subsidiary roles, the Argentine Garibaldi still sailing as a training ship in the 1950s. The design, development and operations of all these great vessels is told with the author's usual attention to detail and depth of analysis and will delight naval enthusiasts and historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Provided by the publisher.
2018. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
623.81.3(100)
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