Posts Tagged ‘ship’
Merchant Ship
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
What would be a good name for a merchant/passenger ship in the 19th century?
Another for a story/project. It would be one that travels place to place letting on and letting off passengers.
Mercury’s journey – Swift traveler – Rapid transit.
Merchant Ship in a Storm Force 10
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KitchenAid 5-Speed Blenders with Polycarbonate Jars $149.99 When entertaining, keep the smoothies and iced drinks coming with this 0.9 horsepower blender that’s built for back-to-back blending. The 56 oz. contoured pitcher slides ingredients into the blade for faster blending. Patented blade strikes at 4 planes for optimum performance. Commercial-grade polycarbonate pitcher is remarkably strong and lightweight and resists temperature extremes and scratches… |
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Lava Lite 2124-4002 14.5-Inch Silver Lava Lamp, Yellow Wax/Blue Liquid $13.29 Lavalicious! The enduring popularity of the bubbling LAVA® brand lamp has never shone so brightly as in this retro lamp. Blue liquid is paired with green wax that melts to become the hypnotic lava we all know and love…. |
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Rescue Heroes: Flashback to Danger (VHS) $3.50 Brand new in factory sealed box… |
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Remains of the Day [VHS] $2.70 This excellent film is probably best described as subtle elegance. Framed in the present, the movie deals with the lives inside an English country home just prior to World War II. Reunited with the filmmakers from Howards End are Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, the head housekeeper, and Anthony Hopkins as Stevens, the impeccable butler. The bittersweet story centers on Stevens and his dedication to … |
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Bee Gees – One Night Only [VHS] $13.99 Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, One Night Only trades on the Bee Gees’ shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundi… |
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Mermaid Avenue $6.16 A ghost, a band, a troubadour. Easily the strangest co-op project ever, and easily one of the finest and most evocative albums of the year. British socialist and folkie Billy Bragg was given unprecedented access to Woody Guthrie’s unrecorded lyrics. Teaming up with alt-country band Wilco and quoting from more than 50 years of country, folk, and rock music, Billy and company bring Guthrie’s politic… |
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Wipeout Pure $7.88 Wipeout Pure, the latest edition to the popular racing series for the PSP handheld entertainment system, provides an intense, combat racing experience as players choose from five different speed classes and race relentlessly around 16 futuristic, racing tracks. During both single and multi-player gameplay, racing fans will be able to enjoy challenging, action-packed gameplay modes that include Sin… |
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A Very Special Christmas 3 $3.29 Part three of a series of records that benefits the Special Olympics, A Very Special Christmas 3 from 1997 is as excitingly eclectic as its predecessors. Though it features the likes of R&B chart toppers and hip-hoppers Mase, Puff Daddy, and Snoop Doggy Dogg and alt-rockers No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins, , Blues Traveler, and others, the real standout performances belong to Jonny Lang, with his bawd… |
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Cheez-It Baked Snack Crackers, Original, 13.7-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 4) $10.37 Cheez-It Baked Snack Crackers, Original, 13.7-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 4) is a original baked snack crackers which is made of wheat, skim milk and soy ingredients. This contains 100% real cheese, salt and palm oil for freshness…. |
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Jane`s Merchant Ships 2011-2012 (Hardcover) $785.84 Description not available. |
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Architectura Navalis Mercatoria $10.31 First published in 1768, this remarkable collection of sophisticated line drawings offers a fascinating treatise for model builders, naval historians, and maritime enthusiasts. Documenting merchant and naval ships from various countries, it featur… |
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Sweet Water and Bitter (Hardcover) $18.36 In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly all the European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa where merchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their human property into ships` holds bound for the sug… |
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Sacred Hunger $9.76 A blasphemous outcast, Matthew Paris boards the Liverpool Merchant as ship’s doctor as it embarks on a mercantile voyage in the |
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Confederate Blockade Runner 1861-1865 $12.6 The lifeblood of the Confederacy, the blockade runners of the Civil War usually began life as regular fast steam-powered merchant ships. They were adapted for the high-speed dashes through the Union blockade which closed off all the major Southern port… |
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Dark Voyage (Paperback) $9.18 In another hair-raising black-and-white noir from Alan Furst, World War II is the backdrop, and preventing the enemy from sinking any more merchant ships is the point: in two years, the Allies have lost nearly 1600 vessels. A Dutch ship docked in Tangi… |
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An Act of Piracy (Paperback) $16.11 This historical account of the 1975 seizure of the SS Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge provides details on the capture in international waters as well as an insider`s look into the security sessions with Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld. Rem… |
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Falsa inocencia / Execution Dock (Paperback) $16.81 On the bustling docks along the River Thames, Great Britain`s merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade. The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips, … |
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The Voyage of the Rose City (Hardcover) $13.46 A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Dan… |
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Looking for a Ship (Paperback) $11.17 McPhee writes about the 42-day voyage of a merchant ship, from Charleston, South Carolina to the west coast of South America. |
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United States Merchant Marine Casualties of World War II (Paperback) $67.5 “Describes each recorded attack on American-flagged merchant ships, as well as an accounting of the men and the ships, which were a part of this worldwide conflict; depicts the exciting and often violent story of the hundreds of enemy attacks on convoy… |
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Way of the Ship $22.05 A refreshing, authoritative look at American maritime history In this engaging account of American maritime and merchant marine history from colonial days to the present, the esteemed authors show that from 1820 on, domestic shipping on Ame… |
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Britain`s Historic Ships (Hardcover) $20.48 Explores over 50 historic ships (including replicas) to illustrate our rich maritime heritage. This book is divided into chapters such as, The Sailing Navy, Merchant Sail, Coastal Sail, Transition from Sail to Steam, Early 20th-Century Navy, Passenger … |
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The Merchant of Venice (Paperback) $8.7 A gamble on trading ships at sea, a pound of flesh as the penalty, a contest to win the hand of a rich heiress, and the final rescue in a court of law–The Merchant of Venice has all the ingredients required which make it one of Shakespeare`s mo… |
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Two Years Before the Mast (Paperback) $7.08 Presents a personal narrative of life aboard an American merchant ship in the 1830s |
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Shipwreck – Captain Kidd (DVD) $16.91 The whereabouts of the Quedagh Merchant ship, purloined by legendary privateer William Kidd in the 17th century, has long been a mystery. After scuttling the ship to avoid prosecution, Kidd was executed for murder in London–taking its location with hi… |
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The Battle of the Hammer Worlds (Paperback) $6.98 Narrowly escaping a massacre by the Hammer that destroys his Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq and a fleet of merchant ships, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the other remnants of the Ishaq are confined to a prison camp, forced… |
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Reeds Maritime Meteorology $27.32 Provides descriptions of the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them. This book serves trainee deck officers, as well as those studying for certificates of competency in merchant ships and fo… |
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Player`s Ruse (Hardcover) $13.09 In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, relate their journey to Huckerston, a port town where dangerous bandits are raiding merchant ships. |
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The Golden Age of Pirates $6.26 “Describes the people and events of the Golden Age of Piracy. The reader`s choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a pirate, a navy sailor, and a merchant ship crew member”–Provided by publisher. |
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Henry Morgan $20.99 Chronicles the adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World. |
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Second to None (Paperback) $11.44 In the days immediately following Waterloo, the British fleet confronts a new threat: Algerian pirates preying on hapless merchant ships. Adam Bolitho, Admiral Richard Bolitho`s nephew and heir, finds himself in command of Unrivalled, a new kind o… |
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Refiner`s Fire (Paperback) $9.76 An orphaned immigrant`s experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley to Harvard, off to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. |
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Shipwrecked (Hardcover) $42.7 Part adventure story, part maritime archaeological expedition, part historical look into ninth-century Chinese economy, culture, and trade, Shipwrecked is a fascinating journey back in time.Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an … |
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The Dove of Death (Hardcover) $17.78 In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ship’s captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they h… |
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Blackbeard (Hardcover) $10.49 Climb aboard the Queen Anne`s Revenge and sail with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard! No one has struck terror into the hearts of men more than Edward Teach, whose big black beard gave him his name. From merchant ships to naval ve… |
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The Madman of Venice (Hardcover) $12.63 Journeying from London to Venice in 1602 to investigate pirate attacks on merchant ships, Master Ashby is entreated to find a Jewish girl who has disappeared from the Venice Ghetto amid a powerful countess`s accusations of witchcraft. |
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A Forest on the Sea (Hardcover) $50.94 Wood was essential to the survival of the Venetian Republic. To build its great naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat homes, Venice needed access to large quantities of oak and … |
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Defiance of the Patriots (Hardcover) $17.82 On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary… |
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Turning the Tide (Hardcover) $17.06 The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity… |
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Morning of Fire John Kendricks Daring Am (Hardcover) $17.46 Four years after the Revolutionary War, America`s independence was still in doubt. To survive, the new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In the back rooms of Boston, a daring plan was launched by a group of merchants and ship owners: t… |
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Priest in Deep Water (Paperback) $47.25 Charles Plomer Hopkins (1861-1922), born in America and educated in Falmouth, England, became a seamen`s chaplain in Burma, and then India, where he founded a seamen`s union and used the Merchant Shipping Acts to pursue erring captains and ship owners … |
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A Respectable Trade (Paperback) $9.79 Frances Scott`s aristocratic status leaves her little choice but to marry a Bristol shipping merchant who needs her valuable connections to make his fortune. She is plunged into the world of trade–sugar, rum, slaves–and finds herself in love with a s… |
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The Zeebrugge Raid 1918 (Hardcover) $34.16 The purpose of this raid was to attempt to block the submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsible for sinking a third of all Allied merchant shipping during World War I and in early 1918 there was a danger that the German submarine… |
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A Spy in the House (Reinforced Hardcover) $11.75 Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, orphan and thief Mary Quinn is invited to join a covert female investigative unit and poses as a lady`s companion to track down a wealthy merchant`s missing cargo ships. A first novel. |
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Looking for a Ship (Paperback) $11.17 McPhee writes about the 42-day voyage of a merchant ship, from Charleston, South Carolina to the west coast of South America. |
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At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II $20.98 In this astonishing untold account of heroism and history, two American Merchant Mariners board a burning and sinking ship in the Mediterranean and change the course of World War II.At All Costs is a gripping story reported in grand historic fashion. It is a tale of unimaginable personal courage and indomitable determination. |
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Looking for a Ship $3.48 This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins, Andy Chase, who holds a license as a second mate is looking for a ship. In less than ten years, the United States Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than two thousand ships to fewer than four hundred, and Chase faces the scarcity of jobs from which all American merchant mariners have been suffering. With John McPhee along, Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry Washburn. The journey takes them on a forty-two day run down the Pacific coast of South America, with stops to unload and pick up freight at such ports as Cartagena, Valparaiso, Balboa, Lima, and Guayaquil–an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage, they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. Through the journey itself and the tales told emerge the history and character of a fascinating calling. |
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Ship of Magic $3.98 Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships–rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship "Vivacia." For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her–a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea’s young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, "Vivacia" is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family–and the ship–may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles…and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will…. |
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Larry Young – Mother ship $9.99 Disponible en vraie qualité CD. Mother ship – Street scene – Visions – Trip merchant – Love drops / Lee Morgan, trompette – Herbert Mogan, saxophone ténor – Larry Young, orgue – Eddie Gladden, batterie |
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A Salem Shipmaster and Merchant $24.48 Publisher: The Four seas company Publication date: 1921 Subjects: Ship captains Salem, Mass Merchants Biography |
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Nuclear Propulsion for Merchant Ships $88.98 The book was written for anyone interested in the subject. It should be specially helpful to designers and builders of ships, marine engineers, operators, shippers, managers, government officials, lawyers, and underwriters. It will also appeal to others, including nuclear scientists and engineers, scientists and engineers in other fields, teachers, students, and writers. The first two chapters furnish orientation on the subject of nuclear ships, and the third provides technical background for readers with no background in nuclear science. Logically, the longest chapter in the book (Chap. 4) is devoted to the Savannah herself. Several succeeding chapters cover precautions taken in design, construction, and operation to ensure safety. In this aspect of the ship development, the history of nuclear central-station plants seems to be repeating itself: in unknown areas it is better to take many precautions that later will be found unnecessary than to run the risk of not taking the one safety measure that might prove essential. Fueling nuclear ships, very different from taking on fuel oil, is covered in Chap. 7, and the extensive training of the crew in nuclear technology and reactor operation is described in Chap. 8. Concluding chapters cover international aspects of nuclear merchant-ship propulsion such as handling in other ports, safety standards, and insurance; the suitability of different reactors; and economics. The last two chapters are devoted to nuclear tanker design, since it appears that the first economic application may be for large tankers operating long distances, and to nuclear ship activities elsewhere in the world including the Russian icebreaker Lenin. |
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The British Consul’s Manual, Being a Practical Guide for Consuls, as Well as for the Merchant, Ship-Owner, and Master Mariner, in $59.98 Title: The British Consul’s Manual, Being a Practical Guide for Consuls, as Well as for the Merchant, Ship-Owner, and Master Mariner, in All Their Consular Transactions Publisher: London, Longman Publication date: 1856 Subjects: Consuls Diplomatic and consular service Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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The Merchant $19.98 This is the original version of Arnold Wesker’s imaginative reworking of William Shakespeare’s "The Merchant of Venice." A part of the Methuen Student Edition series, this edition has notes and commentary by Glenda Leeming. |
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Gallant Ship, Brave Men $30.98 A spellbinding war memoir of a torpedoing and the fight for survival of 24 men in a lifeboat. Hank Rosen, Cadet-Midshipman aboard a Liberty ship, tells the dramatic story of 30 days adrift in the Indian Ocean."Gallant Ship, Brave Men" is an epic tale of heroism and sacrifice that builds suspense and proudly records the role of the Merchant Marine in World War II. "What an amazing story I found it completely engrossing. Couldn’t stop reading it, until I finished." Rear Admiral Joseph Stewart USMS, Superintendent United States Merchant Marine Academy |
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Ship Construction Sketches and Notes $66.48 This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "Ship Construction," and will prove indispensable to the student reader. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, shipyard practices, principles of construction methods, the design and construction of the various component parts of the ship, and the overall arrangement of different types of merchant and passenger vessels. |
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Roman Ship Model $14.48 When the apostle Paul was sent from Caesarea to Rome to be tried before Caesar, he traveled in a Roman merchant ship. This book helps children bring to life the journey of Paul with fascinating information about ships, sailing in New Testament times, and Paul’s eventful voyage. Children can also make their own Roman ship model using punch-out pieces stored in a pocket inside the back cover. |
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Way of the Ship $22.05 A refreshing, authoritative look at American maritime history In this engaging account of American maritime and merchant marine history from colonial days to the present, the esteemed authors show that from 1820 on, domestic shipping on America’s coasts, rivers, and lakes outweighed shipping overseas, and that shipping drove the American economic engine and helped shape American history. Part of a series sponsored by the American Maritime History Project, Inc., this book is essential reading for American and naval history buffs. The prestigious team of writers/historians includes Alex Roland (Durham, NC), Professor of History at Duke University, Jeffrey W. Bolster (Barrington, NH), Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, and Alexander Keyssar (Cambridge, MA), Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. All have authored acclaimed books. |
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Cruise Ship $41.98 Atlantic passenger liner, RMS Queen of Dalriada, embarks on a short cruise out of Southampton to Lisbon, Las Palmas on Gran Canaria, and Funchal, Madeira. The voyage goes well, if one can discount a bomb threat and a hit man stalking his victim, until the vessel departs from Funchal when an entity from Earth’s distant past imbues a young Scottish engineer’s mind. The consciousness of this Sasquatch or Bigfoot is displeased by the way Man has mismanaged our world. But our globe’s environment in January 1962 is too cold for the creature to set things to right – both with nature and the human race. Sixty years must pass before it will rise like a phoenix out of Saline Bay in the Bailiwick of Guernsey when a former engineroom rating recalls certain happenings on that ill-fated voyage. This novel, a sequel to Hang on a Second , gives the reader an insight to life aboard merchant ships during the early sixties. Ribald humour, romance, murder, and excitement carry this story along to its conclusion |
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The Ship That Would Not Die (Hardcover) $17.79 Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II—and one of the last five left afloat by war’s end—the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other hot spots in the Pacific theater. After the war, the ship became the SS Excambion, one of the “Four Aces” of American Export Lines: the only fully air-conditioned ships in the world at the time. In 1965, the versatile Excambion underwent yet another transformation—into a floating classroom. Recommissioned as the USTS Texas Clipper, the ship began a third life as a merchant marine training vessel with its home port in Galveston. For the next three decades the Texas Clipper would be home to merchant marine cadets, and by the time it was retired in 1996, it was the oldest active ship in the U.S. merchant marine fleet. Finally, the Texas Clipper, after protracted bureaucratic wrangling, was designated to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef to provide habitat for marine life. In 2009, the ship was towed to its final resting place, seventeen nautical miles off the coast of South Padre Island. Now, 136 feet below the surface, the venerable Texas Clipper lives on as the home to a wide variety of underwater species. Filled not only with meticulously researched technical and historical data about the ship’s construction, service record, crew procedures, and voyages, The Ship That Would Not Die also features lively anecdotes from crew members, passengers, and officers. More than 140 color and black-and-white photos illustrate the ship’s construction, its wide variety of shipboard life, the exacting process of making the Texas Clipper ready to become an artificial reef, and its final sinking in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Practical Ship Design $118.98 The ever-growing demand for commercial activities at sea has meant that ships are rapidly developing and that the rules governing their construction and operation are changing. "Practical Ship Design" records these changes, their outcomes and the reasoning behind them. It deals with every aspect of ship design and handles a wide range of both merchant ships and naval ships with authority. It provides coverage of cargo ships and passenger ships, tugs, dredgers and other service craft. It also includes concept design, detail design, structural design, hydrodynamics design, the effect of regulations, the preparation of specifications and matters of costs and economics. Drawing on the author’s extensive practical experience, "Practical Ship Design" is likely to interest everybody involved in the design, construction, repair and operation of ships. Students and the most experienced professionals will all benefit from the book’s vast store of design data and its conclusions and recommendations. |
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Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship $9.48 Imagine embarking on a two-month ocean adventure to some of the most storied and exotic places on earth: from Hamburg through the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, across the bottom of Asia to ports in South Korea and China, and back Or from Savannah, Georgia, across the South Pacific to Australia and New Zealand The world of maritime commerce unfolds before your eyes in bustling ports and historic sea lanes. Aboard ship is a small group of passengers who become part of the shipboard village, mingling with the ship’s officers and crew in their floating home away from home, reminiscent of the days when merchant ships carried a few paying passengers from port to port. In "Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship," Adrian Peetoom recounts his voyages aboard the container ships "Ville d’Aquarius" and "Sydney Star," Adrian and his wife, Johanna, had long been fascinated by cargo ship travel as a way to journey to foreign ports at a much more reasonable cost than the trips offered by large cruise ship companies. After Adrian retired from his publishing career, the couple embarked on two voyages. What Adrian and Johanna experienced will fascinate armchair travellers and those who may be interested in investigating container ship travel for themselves. Peetoom’s love of the sea informs his narrative, which is in many ways a spiritual, as well as a physical, journey. He reflects on his maritime heritage, instilled in him as a child in his Dutch homeland, and on the significant role his country played as a colonial merchant power. "Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship" includes an appendix with helpful tips and booking information for those readers inspired by thebook to make further inquiries about container ship travel. |
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A Shot Rolling Ship $16.48 Pressed into King George’s Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his Pelicans find themselves working aboard the HMS Brazen, sailing the Channel from Plymouth to Dover in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping: her task to stop them and, if possible, to capture or destroy them. Pearce has greater things on his mind–he must rescue his ailing father from the dangers of revolutionary Paris and to do that he must somehow leave the ship. He tries mutiny, the crew being readied by failure, but Captain Benjamin Colbourne is quick and smartly promotes Pearce to Midshipman. Pearce is thereby freed to leave the ship immediately–which appears to the remaining Pelicans as though their leader has deserted them. |
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Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage $3.98 Ship of Miracles is the incredible story of what has been called "the greatest rescue operation by a single ship in the history of mankind". Against all odds, Captain Leonard La Rue and his crew on the twelve-man merchant ship Meredith Victory transported 14,000 Korean refugees fleeing the Chinese army to safety. They steered the ship through sea battle, a 30-mile web of sea mines, and enemy shelling. At the fiftieth anniversary of this miraculous rescue, the story told in Ship of Miracles is as touching today as it was then. |
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Ship Handling: Theory and Practice $75.48 Suitable as a training manual and a day-to-day reference, Shiphandling is the comprehensive and up to date guide to the theory and practice of ship handling procedures. Its covers the requirements of all STCW-level marine qualifications, provides expert guidance on all the hardware that marine professionals will make use of in the control and operation of their vessel and offers a broad focus on many shiphandling scenarios. ? Covers all key shiphandling topics for nautical (merchant marine) students and more experienced mariners seeking trusted guidance ? Author David House is one of the best known marine authors; he has a wealth of experience, with over 30 years experience at sea and is author of 11 successful marine operations books ? Covers STCW requirements; is written for professional mariners, rather then amateur sailors; offers a highly practical professional development based approach to enhancing the reader’s skills and knowledge, with a focus on preparing them for higher rank. |
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Ship of Magic: The Liveship Traders $3.98 Robin Hobb’s acclaimed Farseer trilogy–"Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin’s Quest–"wove a spellbinding tale of magic, passion, and glory. Now, in the first book of a new trilogy set in the same world, she tells the magnificent story of a proud seafaring clan and the enchanted ships that carry them on far-flung, ferocious tides…. Not far from the Six Duchies lies Bingtown, hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships–rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Bingtown’s Old Traders, their wealth eroded by northern wars and the rapacity of southern pirates, now face an influx of upstart merchants who bring change to a complex society. The Vestrit family’s only hope of renewed prosperity is the "Vivacia," a liveship they have nurtured for three generations. Now, as old Captain Vestrit lies dying in Bingtown, the "Vivacia" cuts homeward through the waves, about to quicken into a living being. The ship carries Vestrit’s daughter Althea and the conniving son-in-law he has named as the "Vivacia"’s next captain. But lovely, wild-spirited Althea, sailing the "Vivacia" with her father since childhood and sharing its half-awakened memories and ocean secrets, has bonded with the ship in her deepest soul. Joined by Brashen–her father’s first mate, now demoted by the "Vivacia"’s new commander–she will stop at nothing in a bitter quest to claim its captaincy. Meanwhile, in the rocky cays known as the Pirate Isles, a ruthless man lusts after his own kind of power. The pirate captain Kennit, in his scheme to be king of this outlaw realm, has vowed that he will wrest a liveship from itsowners and turn it to his own use. His twisted ambition will bring him into a strange partnership with a boy-priest turned seaman–and into violent conflict with the wizardwood magic of Althea and Brashen. From the peculiar magic realm of the Others to the bawdy, raucous lair of the pirates, "Ship of Magic" sweeps a dazzling cast of characters into an epic of terrible beauty and mysterious sorcery. |
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Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep (2-CDs) $16.02 'Leave Your Sleep' is an inspired return for Merchant, her first studio album in six years – an effort long awaited by her considerable fan base. It also marks her 25th year as a uniquely successful major-label artist, one whose work has consistently enjoyed equal measures of commercial and critical success. Though she has regularly lent her talents over the last few years to the many nonprofit causes she supports, Merchant has actively returned to the concert stage in recent months, previewing material from 'Leave Your Sleep,' on a series of dates in England and continental Europe. A full U.S. tour is being planned for summer 2010. Disc 1:DISC 1:Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and ExperienceEquestrienneCalico PieBleezer`s Ice-CreamIt Makes a ChangeKing of China`s Daughter, TheDancing Bear, TheMan In the Wilderness, TheMaggie and Milly and Molly and MayIf No One Ever Marries MeSleepy Giant, ThePeppery Man, TheBlind Men and the Elephant, TheDisc 2:DISC 2:Adventures of IsabelWalloping Window Blind, TheTopsyturvey-WorldJanitor`s Boy, TheGriseldaLand of Nod, TheVain and CarelessCrying, My Little OneSweet and a LullabyI Saw a Ship a-SailingAutumn LullabySpring and Fall: To a Young ChildIndian Names |
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Newton Forster; Or, the Merchant Service (Dodo Press) $19.98 Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children’s novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to sea several times, he was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806, as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse. In 1829 he was commanding the frigate HMS Ariadne on a mission to search for shoals around the Madeira and Canary Islands. This was an uninspiring exercise, and between that and the recent publication of his first novel, The Naval Officer (1829) he decided to resign his commission and take up writing full time. Other works include The King’s Own (1830), Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service (1832), Peter Simple, and The Three Cutters (1834), Jacob Faithful (1834), The Pacha of Many Tales (1835), Japhet, in Search of a Father (1836), The Pirate (1836), The Phantom Ship (1839), Poor Jack (1840), Masterman Ready (1841), Percival Keene (1842), The Privateersman (1846) and The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa (1845). |
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Woody, Cisco, & Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine $13.48 Attorney and playwright Longhi recalls his three voyages as a merchant marine during World War II in the company of folk music legends Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston. Despite some occasionally stilted dialog, Longhi’s fast-paced memoir reads like a novel as the "seamen three" survive rough storms, crooked gamblers, and two torpedo attacks. Of the vivid cast of characters, the irrepressible Guthrie is the most compelling, though he sometimes drifts to the background as Longhi relates his own often hilarious exploits as ship’s baker and chairman of the crew’s union. (For a solid Guthrie biography, see Joe Klein’s Woody Guthrie, LJ 10/15/80, still available in paperback.) Still, Guthrie’s folksy persona looms above all others. With Guthrie and Houston long since dead, it is left to Longhi to tell stories that have only been hinted at in previous Guthrie biographies. Highly recommended.?Lloyd Jansen, Stockton- San Joaquin Cty. P.L |
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American Merchant Ships on the Yangtze, 1920-1941 $139.48 This work describes the activities of a handful of American companies and about eighty American captains who were trying to run ships on China’s great river during the treacherous days between the two world wars. The considerable physical dangers of the Yangtze itself were compounded by the greater human hazards imposed by constant fighting among warlords, piracy, brigandry, kidnapping, opium and munitions smuggling, corruption, seizures, and other forms of intimidation. The events recall–and surpass–anything of the "Wild West" in American frontier history. No American steamship company survived longer than twelve years in this environment, but Standard Oil, which was sheltered from the worst of the violence, was able to operate its ships throughout the entire period. More than a naval/military, or even economic, history, this book is also a commentary on a significant but largely unsuccessful American commercial venture overseas–one that was eventually scuttled by the actions of the Chinese and the American companies themselves. Ship buffs, maritime historians, students of the evolution of modern China, and those interested in American commercial history will find this study useful and entertaining. |
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Merchant Small Caps Condensed $24 Merchant Small Caps Condensed |
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The Ghost Ship & Others $27.48 Richard Barnham Middleton’s "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, "I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels." Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime. As soon as he was dead, he was "discovered." Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as "The Coffin Merchant," "On the Brighton Road," and "The Conjurer," which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived. |
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Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship $53.98 Liberty Ships were Cargo ships built by the Americans for the British to run cargo during World War 2. They were initially commissioned to replace those ships lost in early U-Boat raids.From 1943 until 1951, Ian Malcolm was a radio officer/purser with Alfred Holt and Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line and the Glen Line. The voyages on the Liberty Ships Samite and Samforth, described in the book, were made in wartime and followed by a year on the Samnesse: trading mainly between Italy and East Africa. Subsequent voyages were made to the Continent, Far East, Australia and Indonesia.His first ship was, on two occasions, prevented from passing through the Mediterranean. These incidents are, of course, described, but the book deals mainly with life on board his ships and how he spent the, sometimes, prolonged spells in port. The story begins with his entrance into the Merchant Navy as a radio officer and crossing to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth to join the Samite, in Baltimore. During the Samite’s fifteen-month voyage, she called at various ports in the USA and North Africa while his next ship, the Samforth, on her ten-month voyage, visited Canada, the USA, Egypt, Arabia, India, Mozambique, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Norway and Finland. |
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The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 $22.98 The history of shipping in America, as traditionally recounted, is based primarily on the fortunes of the American merchant marine. This book offers a global perspective and considers oceanic shipping "and" domestic shipping along America’s coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shaped the nation’s history. It features beautiful color images of paintings by today’s premier marine artist, John Stobart. |
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Ship $3.98 In Ship we join a group of underwater archaeologists as they search for a long-lost caravel in the reefs of the Caribbean Sea. A combination of drawings, maps, and diagrams details the ship’s recovery, and as clues to the past are pieced together, a story emerges – of the triumphant birth of the ship Magdalena from Spain, and its tragic voyage to a far-away continent. |
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The Merchant of Venice $3.98 Tragicomic drama of love, wealth and justice revolves around a Venetian moneylender’s bargain with a young merchant for "a pound of flesh." |
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Sailor Life on Man of War and Merchant Vessel $40.98 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. At sea at last?Hunting a mess?-Some’ account of the vessel and her crew. ON the 4th of June, 18?, we finally hoisted sail and steered through the Narrows, seaward bound. But we Were still destined to delay. Owing to our heavy draught (twenty-seven feet), we were obliged to take advantage of the highest or spring tides, to make our way out. While going along with a steamboat ahead, it was found necessary to hold her with the anchor a few moments, and the order was accordingly given: " Let go the starboard anchor." In the general confusion, no one being yet statiened, the chain stoppers were not sufficiently manned, and the tick- carrying the ship along with great force, the starboard chain ran out end for end, and was, with its anchor, lost overboard. The other anchor was immediately let go, and safely held her. This made an all night’s job of work for all hands, to pick up the lost chain and anchor. Besides this, the untoward accident was regarded by many of the old salts as an evil omen, and prophecies of future disasters, inaugurated by this, were not wanting on all sides. But we were too busied with the present to care much about the future. By daylight we had recovered our anchor and chain, and shortly after, the tide serving, we stood out to sea.As soon as the ship was fairly under weigh, the decks cleared, and the hurry and bustle over, I ventured on deck. My limbs were yet weak, nnd the dancing motion of the vessel, as she bounded along under a stiff topgallant breeze, made it hard work for me to get along. But by dint of clinging to the guns, the stanchions, and ladders, I at length succeeded in reaching the upper deck. As I saw the land gradually receding from view, and felt the fresh sea breeze fanning my wasted cheek, I first began to re… |
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Merchant of Venice $10.98 The Merchant of Venice in the popular Oxford School Shakespeare series, updated with a fresh new look. The Merchant of Venice is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. |
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Jacob Fugger the Rich: Merchant and Banker of Augsburg, 1459-1525 $22.98 A biography of the powerful and successful merchant. |
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Richard Henry Lee and Sister Ship 24×36 Giclee $72.56 Series: Merchant MarineArtist: Alfred T. PalmerPeriod: Source country: USASource Year: 1941Liberty ships. This is the bow of a new Liberty Fleet member awaiting its hose or template at a large Eastern shipyard. BethlehemFairfield Shipyards Inc. Baltimore Maryland24 inch by 36 inch Giclee print on standard paper.All files are stored digitally and are ready for reproduction. The quality is closely monitored to ensure professional results.This item is custom made per order. |
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Launching Another Victory Ship 28×42 Giclee On Canvas $428.79 Series: Merchant MarineArtist: Joseph PennellPeriod: Source country: USASource Year: 1918Sidewise launching of the 3500 ton S.S. Lady Janet at the Great Lakes Engineering Co. yard Ecorse Michigan July 4th 191828 inch by 42 inch Giclee print on Canvas.All files are stored digitally and are ready for reproduction. The quality is closely monitored to ensure professional results.This item is custom made per order. |
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Launching Another Victory Ship 12×18 Giclee On Canvas $77.63 Series: Merchant MarineArtist: Joseph PennellPeriod: Source country: USASource Year: 1918Sidewise launching of the 3500 ton S.S. Lady Janet at the Great Lakes Engineering Co. yard Ecorse Michigan July 4th 191812 inch by 18 inch Giclee print on Canvas.All files are stored digitally and are ready for reproduction. The quality is closely monitored to ensure professional results.This item is custom made per order. |
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Two Years Before the Mast (Paperback) $7.08 Presents a personal narrative of life aboard an American merchant ship in the 1830s |
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Natalie Merchant By Merchant, Natalie (COP) $30.84 Author: Merchant, Natalie (COP) Subtitle: Collected Songs 19852005 Publication Date: 2007/06/01 Number of Pages: 256 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 8.75 Height: 11.50 |
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With This Ship $12.78 Description not provided. |
