Tag: Boats

Free Download Messing About in Boats (Clarendon Lectures in English) by Michael Hofmann
English | May 3, 2021 | ISBN: 0198848048 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 1.7 MB
Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats.

Free Download Bryan Cooper – PT Boats
Ballantine Books | 1970 | ISBN: N/A | English | 164 pages | PDF | 132.67 MB
Ballantine’s Illustrated History of World War II, Weapons Book No 13

Free Download Chris Bishop – Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45 (The Essential Submarine Identification Guide)
Amber Books | 2006 | ISBN: 1904687962 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 150.85 MB
Although Germany had lost her fleet at the end of Word War I, by 1939 she had built up a formidable force of modern vessels. It was the Kriegsmarine’s submarines – the U-boats – that were to prove the most effective and deadly arm of the German navy in World War II. Built to harass Allied shipping, the U-boat ‘wolfpacks’ almost succeeding in bringing Britain to her knees in their campaign to restrict supplies and materiel from crossing the Atlantic. By the end of 1942, their most successful year, U-boats had sunk 1664 vessels – 7.26 million tonnes of shipping. Illustrated with detailed artworks of German U-boats, Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45 is a comprehensive guide to the submarine arm of the German navy in World War II. Divided by flotilla, this book offers a complete organizational breakdown of U-boat units, from the beginning of the war in the North Atlantic through to last days of the Reich. Each chapter includes a compact history of the U-boat flotilla’s role and impact on the course of the conflict, as well as unit markings, orders of battle, lists of commanders and numbers of kills. Every type of German submarine is featured. Each submarine profile is accompanied by specifications, as well as details of unit markings. Packed with profiles of every major type of German U-boat, Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939-45 is an essential reference guide for modellers, military historians and naval warfare enthusiasts alike.

Free Download Leonard C. Reynolds – Dog Boats at War: Royal Navy D Class MTBs and MGBs 1939-1945
The History Press | 2009 | ISBN: 075245045X | English | 308 pages | PDF | 163.3 MB
Built of plywood and measuring 115 feet long, powered by four supercharged petrol engines and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons, the ‘D’ Class Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) and Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) were better known as Dog Boats and played havoc with enemy shipping in home and foreign waters. During three years of war they engaged the enemy on more than 350 occasions, sinking and damaging many ships. Dog Boats at War is the authoritative account of operations by the Royal Navy’s ‘D’ Class MGBs and MTBs in the Second World War in Home, Mediterranean and Norwegian waters. As well as drawing on official records – both British and German – the author has contacted several hundred Dog Boat veterans whose eye witness accounts add drama to the unfolding story.

Free Download G.R. Duval – British Flying-Boats and Amphibians 1909-1952
Putnam | 1966 | ISBN: 0370000315 | English | 276 pages | PDF | 130.66 MB
Covers the entire production of this unique aircraft for over 40 years of military and civil aviation: over 100 flying boats and their amphibian derivatives are described in detail with photos, design features, construction and operational use. Includes specs and three-view drawings. Appendix lists serial numbers and civil registrations of all flying boats.

Free Download The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America (Audiobook)
English | March 25, 2014 | ASIN: B00IREMAE0 | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 18m | 401 MB
Author: Ed Offley | Narrator: Robertson Dean
On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701.
In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen’s rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane’s quest to bring him down. Since the beginning of 1942, German U-boats had prowled the waters of the Atlantic, sinking merchant ships and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from the United States to Great Britain. But when Kane and his crew spotted the silhouette of U-701 offshore that summer, the ensuing clash signaled a critical turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic-and the beginning of an unlikely friendship between the two rival commanders.

Free Download Model Boats – February 2024
English | 78 pages | PDF | 110.9 MB

Free Download Sailing the Sweetwater Seas: Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940 by George D. Jepson
English | December 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 1493072277 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 51.75 MB
The Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country’s middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War.

Free Download Sailing the Sweetwater Seas: Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940 by George D. Jepson
English | December 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 1493072277 | 200 pages | True EPUB | 51.75 MB
The Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country’s middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War.

Free Download Frank D. Johnson – United States PT-Boats of World War II in Action
Blandford Press | 1980 | ISBN: 071371025X | English | 168 pages | PDF | 132.26 MB
Details the development of the patrol torpedo boat, the myths and controversies surrounding its production, and its use in the Solomon Islands, the Mediterranean, New Guinea, and the Philippines.