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A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty
epub |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty [Phillips, Richard & Talty, Stephan]

We climbed back to the bridge, sweltering in the afternoon heat. The pirates were getting hinky. Why couldn’t we find the crew? I just shrugged. “I don’t know where they ...
( Category: Ships August 6,2020 )
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Martin

4 BREAKING THE SEAL It’s a grey, overcast and occasionally wet day. I’m in the passenger seat of a pickup truck at London Thamesport in the south-east of England. Despite ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory August 6,2020 )
Tail Gunner by R. C. Rivaz
epub |eng | 2016-10-08 | Author:R. C. Rivaz [Rivaz, R. C.]

CHAPTER VI A FEW days after Leonard got back from America—on July the twenty-third, to be accurate—Braddles sent for me…“I’ve some news for you, Riv,” he said. “We’re on a ...
( Category: World War II August 5,2020 )
RMS Titanic by Peter Davies-Garner
epub |eng | 2005-08-14 | Author:Peter Davies-Garner

Bench seat. (Scale:1/48.) Poop deck jib stanchions. (Scale: 1/96.) The stream anchor To build the stream anchor, I began by cutting out the arms from 3mm (0.11 in) styrene with ...
( Category: Models August 5,2020 )
Stuka Pilot by Rudel Hans
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Rudel, Hans [Rudel, Hans]

Ju. 52 He has been informed that his colleague who has been given up for dead will shortly arrive in his birthday suit. I climb into a Ju. 52, and ...
( Category: World War II August 5,2020 )
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography by James Doolittle & Carroll V. Glines
azw3 |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:James Doolittle & Carroll V. Glines [Doolittle, James]

According to Potter and Braemer, however, they had not been in good friendly company when they landed. They had been discovered by a band of guerrillas, robbed, tied up, and ...
( Category: World War II August 2,2020 )
The Private Journal of William Reynolds by William Reynolds
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Reynolds

[CHAPTER 13: PORTENTS] [Returning from another exhausting tour of boat duty, we] saw a Ship at anchor close to Rock Island. First thought it must be Captain Belcher—then the Vincennes—but ...
( Category: Women in History August 2,2020 )
South by Ernest Henry Shackleton
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Henry Shackleton

Chapter X - Across South Georgia * The sun rose in the sky with every appearance of a fine day, and we grew warmer as we toiled through the soft ...
( Category: Classics August 1,2020 )
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale by Thomas Nickerson & Owen Chase & Nathaniel Philbrick & Thomas Philbrick
epub |eng | 2000-04-30 | Author:Thomas Nickerson & Owen Chase & Nathaniel Philbrick & Thomas Philbrick [Nickerson, Thomas]

[CHAPTER 4TH] I WILL HERE RELATE a laughable little circumstance which took place during this passage which ever after served to amuse us whilst we were togather[.] On going below ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2020 )
Mountain, Canyon, and Backcountry Flying by Amy L. Hoover
epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Amy L. Hoover

Years later, on a charter flight in a Cessna 206 with three large passengers, I was still ignorant. The locals (non-pilots) recommended I take off to the south, even with ...
( Category: Piloting & Flight Instruction July 31,2020 )
Deep Descent by Kevin F. McMurray
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-06-24 | Author:Kevin F. McMurray [McMurray, Kevin F.]

Over the winter Steve Bielenda attended a meeting of the Atlantic Wreck Divers Club, and one of the members reported the Seeker’s success in opening up the third-class area. Chatterton ...
( Category: History July 30,2020 )
Kingdom Hearts III: New Seven Hearts, Vol. 2 by unknow
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:unknow

Sora and crew headed back to the hall where they had first met Sulley, Mike, and Boo. Sora turned around toward Mike and Sulley, who had come to see them ...
( Category: Transportation July 28,2020 )
A Good Boy is Hard to Find by Suzanne Young
epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Suzanne Young [Young, Suzanne]

Everything about Aiden’s car was the same. The smell. The pile of uniforms and workout clothes scattered across the backseat. It made me feel homesick—that longing for another place. Another ...
( Category: Action & Adventure July 28,2020 )
Cruising the easy way by Bill Robinson
epub |eng | 1990-07-26 | Author:Bill Robinson

Boat Housekeeping Bunks I have already pointed out how important good bunks are, both in size and accessibility. Mar Claro, for example, at only 24 feet, had good 6'4" bunks ...
( Category: Transportation July 27,2020 )
Women of the Otherworld #11 - Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong
epub |eng | 2010-05-09 | Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]

twenty-two The officer took me through a narrow door beside the front desk that led into a makeshift cell. I dug in my heels, about to say I wasn’t going ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban July 27,2020 )

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