epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:William F. Stark [WILLIAM F. STARK]

* * * On June 11th, fourteen days after we’d sailed from Port Vic, we began to pick up what we hoped were the Roaring Forties. We were now well ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-09 | Author:Woodward, Hobson [Woodward, Hobson]

Plans to develop an upriver settlement were delayed by an event that occurred soon after the expedition returned to Jamestown. The colonists had long feared they would encounter the Spanish ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Thomas Farel Heffernan

Melville was wrong about which wife had been unfaithful—the story could hardly be told many times over without some error creeping in—but he may have been right about the rest. ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts [Thomas, Gordon]

Robert Hoffman found Purser Mueller in his office, explained that the captain had granted shore leave, and suggested that a launch filled with crew should go ashore that evening. “Would ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Johnstone-Bryden, Richard [Johnstone-Bryden, Richard]

The raised fo’c’sle became a distinctive characteristic of the destroyers that were built for the Royal Navy in the first half of the twentieth century. Cavalier ’s hull incorporates a ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Various

Mrs. C. E. H. Stengel, first-class passenger, writes as follows: “As I stepped into the lifeboat an officer in charge said: ‘No more; the boat is full.’ My husband stepped ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:John A. Fostik MBA

The 1940 photograph shows the US Army transport Republic at a New York pier just prior to sailing. The 17,910-gross-ton ship debuted in 1924 as the Hamburg-American liner President Grant, ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Erik Larson

IN LONDON, a mosaic of information had by now accumulated in Blinker Hall’s intelligence division and in Room 40 that showed that only one submarine was in the waters off ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Evans

Forty-One Initially, before any other food was brought, Ivan ordered his serving staff to take a hunk of bread from him to each man present, as a gesture both of ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Cassie Brown [Brown, Cassie]

The bridge was awash. In the chartroom, Captain Martin opened the wooden box where signal fights were kept, and was examining them with the aid of Sullivan’s flashlight. “Can we ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Jim Pipe

• At 1.45 p.m. from the Amerika : ‘Passed two large icebergs.’ Action taken: As this was a private message overheard by the wireless operators, it wasn’t sent to the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias & Douglas A. Campbell

CHAPTER NINETEEN PROBLEMS EVERYWHERE The entire crew on Bounty were diligently working—some individuals focusing on a single problem, others freelancing from one emergency to another as their effort was needed. ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:David K. Brown

Comparison with other navies Only three navies built destroyers in large numbers during the war, Britain, Germany and the USA.11 There were considerable differences in style between these navies but ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:R. C. Anderson

Fig. 139. English Spritsail Topmast Puttocks about 1625 Fig. 140. Possible method of rigging Spritsail Topmast Futtock Shrouds The spritsail topmast backstay was one of the places where the early ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Peter C. Smith

Celebrity Cruises When the North American public began flocking to cruise ships in ever-increasing numbers, there seemed to many existing shipping companies a perfect way to turn around their waning ...