Ship History
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Richard Davenport-Hines [Davenport-Hines, Richard]

Photos The spick-and-span drawing hall at Harland & Wolff’s Belfast shipyard. It was here that the plans for the Titanic were drawn with immaculate precision. (National Museums Northern Ireland / ...
( Category: Oceania March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Daniel Defoe

The dying Declarations of John Rose Archer, and William White, on the Day of their Execution at Boston, June 2, 1724, for the Crimes of Pyracy. First, separately, of Archer. ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Henry Dana

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Tom Clancy

Top deck view of the USS Wasp (LHD-1). JACK RYAN ENTERPRISES, LTD., BY LAURA ALPHER As you exit the island onto the flight deck, there is the feeling of leaving ...
( Category: Submarines March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

The three men get onto the raft in the mid-morning with such possessions as they have and wave goodbye to those who farewell them on the shore, waves that continue ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-11-16 | Author:Michael Schumacher

Marlys Mays is prepared neither for the news that her husband is one of the two survivors or for the rush of reporters turning up at her front doorstep. Before ...
( Category: Midwest March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Robert H. Patton

Twenty-four-year-old William Bingham excelled at what he called “the art of uniting war and commerce.” The vast network of privateers he managed in the West Indies unsettled Congress with its ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Marcus Rediker

In 1718, in his opening remarks in the trial of Stede Bonnet and crew in Charleston, Richard Allen, attorney general of South Carolina, explained that piracy “is a Crime so ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )