Tag: Sailing

January 21, 2024

The Gathering Wind Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea

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Free Download The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea by Gregory A. Freeman
English | October 29, 2013 | ISBN: 0451465768 | 304 pages | PDF | 8.35 Mb
In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.

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January 16, 2024

The Gathering Wind Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea

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Free Download The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea by Gregory A. Freeman
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0451465768 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 7.2 MB
In October 2012, a replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth-century tall sailing ship, was on a collision course with a storm that would become the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic-a clash that would prove dramatic, tragic, perplexing, and ultimately one of the most unforgettable stories of Superstorm Sandy.

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January 5, 2024

Sailing the Sweetwater Seas Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940

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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.

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January 5, 2024

Sailing the Sweetwater Seas Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940

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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.

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January 3, 2024

Sailing the Graveyard Sea The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy’s Only Mutiny and the Trial That Gripped [Audiobook]

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Free Download Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy’s Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY3P74LS | 2023 | 8 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Richard Snow
Narrator: Jacques Roy
A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known event that cost three innocent young men their lives-part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian. On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had been hanged: Boatswain’s Mate Samuel Cromwell, Seaman Elisha Small, and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, whose father was the secretary of war, John Spencer. Eighteen-year-old Philip Spencer, according to Mackenzie, had been the ringleader who encouraged the crew to seize the ship and become pirates, raping and pillaging their way across the old Spanish Main.

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December 25, 2023

The Great Windships How Sailing Ships Made the Modern World

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Free Download The Great Windships: How Sailing Ships Made the Modern World by Brian Stafford
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1669888169 | 282 pages | PDF (Converted) | 26 Mb
The great merchant sailing ships were the original apparatus of globalisation. They brought the East and West together, carrying goods back and forth to the benefit of both, and turning world’s oceans into marine highways. Along them would travel all manner of goods in unheard of volumes – gold, silver, gems, spices coffee, tea and other foodstuffs – as well as ideas, attitudes, religion and disease. Besides their superior armament, the ships’ masters felt they were racially and religiously superior. Their vessels became instruments of colonial conquest, aiding the rise of the West over the much more populous East. They also enabled the opium and slave trades. For better and for worse, they made the modern world. The Great Windships tells an epic story that stretches from the fragile vessels of the Age of Exploration to the mighty windjammers of the late nineteenth century. It follows how the nations of the West participated in this great adventure – their triumphs and shortcomings and the contributions each made to the development of the sailing ship. Full of drama, deceit, high-seas adventure and knowledge, this is a book for anyone who’s ever gazed in awe at a mighty tall ship; or been curious as to their ability and the vital role in the evolution of the modern world.

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