Tag: Ships

Free Download Leo Marriott – Fighting Ships of World War II (Vital Guide)
Airlife | 2004 | ISBN: 1840374160 | English | 112 pages | PDF | 53.11 MB
This book includes the principal ships that were engaged in the war at sea between 1939 and 1945. The mighty battleships and cruisers that roamed the oceans, great aircraft carriers deployed in the Mediterranean and Pacific campaigns and the hard-pressed destroyers and U boats engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic are all described and illustrated. The book is divided into sections on battleships and battlecruisers, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Specifications include displacement, length, draught, power-plant, speed and range, complement and weapons.

Free Download Chris Ellis – Famous Ships of World War 2 in Colour
Arco Publishing Company | 1977 | ISBN: 0668042257, 0668042311 | English | 211 pages | PDF | 70.31 MB
The variety of ships featured are representative of the many types of classes of ship involved in WW2. The first part illlustrates in colour 71 different ships accompanied by brief details of the vessel concerned, and importantly, many of the pictures show the ships in their camouflage schemes. The second part gives a biography of each of the 71 ships illustrated, describing the ship’s design background, its armament, armour, machinery, and salient features, followed by its wartime history and fate. Further chapters deal with wartime colour schemes, and schematic camouflage patterns (line drawings).

Free Download Brian Lavery – Churchill’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1939-1945
Conway | 2006 | ISBN: 1844860353 | English | 291 pages | PDF | 250.9 MB
The history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War is an epic story of heroism and defiance, of stinging defeats but glorious triumphs. Typically books tend to concentrate on the battle history of the navy, and of course this book also examines this topic from convoys to amphibious war, from submarine operations to the last gunnery battles in the Atlantic. But it also looks at the ships themselves, recruitment, and the life and career paths of the officers that commanded and the men and women who served, the technical developments that influenced operations and tactics. It details the composition of the surface and submarine navy from the smallest torpedo boat to the massive battleships and aircraft carriers. This work will provide the most comprehensive assessment of all aspects of Churchill’s Navy.

Free Download Martyn Chorlton – British Aircraft Carriers of WW2 (Ships Illustrated)
Ships Monthly | I2014 | ISBN: 1909786276 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 101.31 MB
Each issue focuses on a theme or significant historic ship, their stories complemented with archive photography and artwork. A real collectors item and great read for anyone with an interest in the development of naval, passenger and transportation shipping.

Free Download Ian Marshall – Armored Ships: The Ships, Their Settings, and the Ascendancy That They Sustained for 80 Years
Howell Press | 1990 | ISBN: 0943231345 | English | 188 pages | PDF | 116.98 MB
An illustrated history of the armored ship which considers the captains and crews of the vessels, and gives accounts of the battles they fought.

Free Download The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRQNNL4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Steven Ujifusa
Narrator: Arthur Morrey
A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible. Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has been largely forgotten: Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships to carry them across continents and an ocean; and J. P. Morgan, mastermind of the International Mercantile Marine (I.M.M.) trust, who tried to monopolize the lucrative steamship business.

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.