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Ships Richard Humble

Ships By Richard Humble

Ships by Richard Humble


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This series presents a survey of popular topics from their earliest beginnings to the present day. They explain the development of the subject in relation to the needs, skills, and technologies of the people living at different periods of history.

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Table of Contents

Early ships - rafts, inflated cowhide, bundled reeds cedarwood ships, early funeral barge; Greeks - Greek trireme, "Hoplites", "Thranites"; Romans - Roman war galleys; the "corvus"; Vikings - Scandinavian longships, "Knorrs" clinker-built ships; the Middle Ages - warships, roundships, the "kamal" the "wa'a kaulua", merchant cogs; Columbus - "Nina:, "Pinta", "Santa Maria Astrolabe", magnetic compass; Mary Rose - first battleships, "Great Harry", carrack-type warships; 1588-1628: Spanish Armada, "Ark Royal" galleons, "Mayflower", "San Martin"; 18th Century: East Indiamen, "Prins Willem" "Witte Leeuw", "Slot ter Hooge"; The Pacific - Captain Cook's voyages, "Endeavour Resolution", Hadley's Quadrant; sail versus steam - "Savannah", tea clippers, "Sirius" paddlewheel tugs, "Great Eastern"; battleships: ironclads, "Gloire", "Warrior" "Bismarck", "Dreadnought", "Warspite"; submarines - German U-boats, HMS "Dolphin Hunley", nuclear submarines. Titanic: floating city, "Olympic", "Britannic"; aircraft carriers: Essex carriers, "Nimitz"; guided-missile warships - Sea Wolf SAM, "Devonshire"; Sporting craft: "Benotto", "Bagutta", windsurfing water-scooters, multi-hulled yachts; Hovercraft - "SeaCat", hydrofoils; luxury yachts - "Alfa III", cruising yachts; oil tankers; container ships, "Exxon Valdez"; the future: passenger submarines, solar energy depot carriers, multihulled ships.

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GOR003953411
9780749605483
0749605480
Ships by Richard Humble
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hachette Children's Group
1991-07-25
48
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