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Free Download Richard Woodman – The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Conway Maritime Press | 2002 | ISBN: 0851779271 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 200.61 MB
Ships have been among the most powerful artefacts produced by the hand of man. They have transcended mere practical use and become instruments of great influence, furthering causes for good or evil, acting as manifestations of political power, of military puissance, or of commercial exploitation. The purpose of this new volume is to present the informed reader who has an interest in ships, with a full account of the development of this most fascinating, important and influential invention. The book in general follows the arguments propounded in Conway’s highly-praised twelve-volume History of the Ship series: these are underpinned with the author’s many years of sea-going experience and numerous writings on maritime topics. Whilst dealing with a hugely complex subject the author presents his truly international thesis in a highly readable manner. The book is complete with over 250 colour and black and white illustrations ranging from ship plans, engravings and diagrams to marine oil paintings and photographs of both ships and ship models.

Free Download Dr Binay Singh, "From College to Ship "
English | ISBN: 9392849478 | 2022 | 44 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A successful maritime entrepreneur and former seafarer, Dr Binay Kumar Singh has devoted himself to providing employment opportunities within the maritime sector and fostering a better life for everyone who devotes themselves to the sea. From College to Ship presents his take on some of the most daunting challenges seafarers are facing today, explaining how graduating cadets can navigate the job market and settle into rewarding careers.

Free Download Dreadnought: The Ship that Changed the World by Roger Parkinson
English | January 6, 2015 | ISBN: 1780768265 | 320 pages | MOBI | 6.80 Mb
The years leading to World War I were the ‘Age of the Dreadnought’. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of naval warfare and policy. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. The years before 1914 were characterised by intensifying Anglo-German naval competition, with an often forgotten element beyond Europe in the form of the rapidly developing navies of the United States and Japan. Parkinson shows that, although the advent of the dreadnought was the pivotal turning-point in naval policy, in fact much of the technology that enabled the dreadnought to be launched was a continuity from the pre-dreadnought era. In the annals of the Royal Navy two names will always be linked: those of Admiral Sir John ‘Jacky’ Fisher and the ship he created, HMS Dreadnought.

Free Download Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9WR9RVG | 2024 | 9 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 269 MB
Author: Brian Hicks
Narrator: Paul Woodson
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo-and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. The story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath. Brian Hicks reveals the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck.

Free Download The Titanic – The Unsinkable Ship’s Tragic Fate and Legacy (Famous Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters) by A.G. Taylor, History by the Hour
English | June 27, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5B5MDYZ | 70 pages | EPUB | 6.08 Mb
In this one-hour history book, discover how the unsinkable ship, the Titanic, met its tragic fate and the aftermath of this maritime disaster.

Free Download Matthew A Overlund, "Stop Pulling the Ship!: Go from Getting Things Done to Making Things Happen – Transform Yourself, Your Team, and Your Approach to Leadership"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1734341300 | EPUB | pages: 246 | 0.3 mb
Are you a new manager struggling to lead a successful team? Discover a straightforward blueprint to unlock the powerful leader inside.

Free Download Empire Javelin, D-Day Assault Ship: The Royal Navy vessel that landed the US 116th Infantry on Omaha Beach
by Philip Kay-Bujak
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1399035819 | 240 pages | EPUB | 7.19 Mb

Free Download Richard P. Klobuchar – The USS Ward: An Operational History of the Ship That Fired the First American Shot of World War II
McFarland & Company | 2006 | ISBN: 0786423846 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 139.13 MB
In 1940, with the threat of war in the Pacific imminent, the United States was forced to expand its fleet as quickly as possible. This included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy’s reserve fleet. It was here that the U.S.S. Ward came into her own, earning the distinction of firing the first shot in America’s war against Japan and serving three years in combat until it was sunk – with no loss of life – on December 7, 1944. From the first confrontation at Pearl Harbor through the Ward’s last mission in the Philippines, this history gives a detailed account of the life and times of the ship and her crew of 125 men, 82 of whom were naval reservists from St. Paul, Minnesota. On May 15, 1918, at Mare Island Shipyard in California, Master Shipfitter J.T. Maroney laid the keel of a hull designated simply as DD-139. In a record that still stands, Maroney had the hull ready for launching in only 17 days instead of the four months usually required. One of the last Wickes class destroyers built in the waning days of World War I, the Ward was commissioned too late to participate in the action for which it was ordered. Little is known regarding the ship’s World War I days because of lack of contemporary resources. The work provides a vivid description of the Ward’s service during World War II. Interviews with surviving crewmen and forewords by Kenneth C. Swedberg and Guy E. Thompson, former shipmates, are included. Other sources include information from the National Archives and the Naval Historical Center. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, a listing of amphibious landings and a roster of personnel.

Free Download Basil Greenhill – The Evolution of the Wooden Ship
Blackburn Press | 1988 | ISBN: 1932846190 | English | 244 pages | PDF | 127.56 MB
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.

Free Download Roy R. Behrens – Ship Shape: A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook: : An Anthology of Writings About Ship Camouflage During World War I
Bobolink Books | 2012 | ISBN: 0971324476 | English | 380 pages | PDF | 205.9 MB
This is an anthology of twenty-six all but unknown writings about World War I ship camouflage, published during and after the war. They were written by various authors, including the camouflage artists themselves. These are supplemented by brief eyewitness comments from the same era, and rare historic ship photographs, diagrams and news clippings. An unprecedented research collection, the book concludes with a 40-page camouflage bibliography, the largest ever compiled on that subject (not just ship camouflage). Most of the articles are about "high difference" or "disruptive" camouflage, a counter-intuitive method in which ships were painted in brightly colored abstract shapes, which made them conspicuous but difficult to aim at. This practice captured the imagination of the public. It became known by such names as "dazzle camouflage," "baffle painting," "jazz painting" and "parti-coloring." In publications at the time, it was frequently compared to Modern-era styles of art, including cubism, futurism, vorticism and surrealism. Wartime news articles claimed that dazzle camouflaged ships looked like crazy-quilts, "sea-going Easter eggs," barber poles, painted Jezebels-and even, the delirium tremens. Did dazzle camouflage actually work? It is often assumed that it did not, because, if for no other reason, there is supposedly no scientific evidence from World War I to prove it was effective. But among the documents in this new book is an account of postwar "laboratory experiments" at MIT that appear to confirm that-not only did it work-it worked far better than anyone thought.