This is an excellent book backed up with some high quality photos and I would very highly recommend it to our readers.
Shipping Today & Yesterday
This is an excellent book backed up with some high quality photos and I would very highly recommend it to our readers.
Shipping Today & Yesterday
Every so often I find a book which is a sheer delight and the arrival of this particular work was such an occasion. This is a beautiful product with historic B&W pictures of the highest quality on almost every page. Overall, the book tells the story of different ship types through time and the way in which their design evolved. To support that story the author skilfully includes the right picture to match the text - at exactly the right time, often using whole or half-page images.
Suffice to say I really cannot recall ever having read such an educational and informative product about steel-hulled ships and the evolutionary process they underwent. In addition, I will never tire of looking at photographs of historic ships and this work had provided enough interest to last me a very long time indeed.
Ned Middleton
Every so often I find a book which is a sheer delight and the arrival of this particular work was such an occasion. This is a beautiful product with historic B&W pictures of the highest quality on almost every page. Overall, the book tells the story of different ship types through time and the way in which their design evolved. To support that story the author skilfully includes the right picture to match the text - at exactly the right time, often using whole or half-page images.
Suffice to say I really cannot recall ever having read such an educational and informative product about steel-hulled ships and the evolutionary process they underwent. In addition, I will never tire of looking at photographs of historic ships and this work had provided enough interest to last me a very long time indeed.
Ned Middleton
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
This is an excellent book backed up with some very good quality photographs, many of which are rare and seldom seen. I would very highly recommend this book to our readers.
Shipping –Today and yesterday April 2013
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
A magnificent volume. Packed with the most beautiful artist-drawn picture postcards from the Golden-Age – liners, interiors, advertisements - it is a sheer delight. I'd challenge any non-postcard collector not to be entranced with the book's illustrations. It will be a friend for life.
Picture Postcard Monthly
This is an excellent book on an often neglected part of our maritime heritage.
Shipping - Today and Yesterday,
This is an excellent book on an often neglected part of our maritime heritage.
Shipping - Today and Yesterday,
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Tramp Ships
The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence the tag 'tramp', though new tramps were built, often… Read more...
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A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner
From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was… Read more...
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Coastal Passenger Liners of the British Isles
At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger… Read more...
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A Century of Sea Travel
This book is a voyage through the life of the passenger steamship, a voyage described by travellers who sailed on these vessels, and it carries within it their thoughts and experiences, mirrored here in words and pictures. The pictures are memories of ships and places in times gone by, glimpses of steamship travel through the years. In memoirs and… Read more...