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 ...

epub |eng | 1998-06-14 | Author:Shelley Wachsmann [Wachsmann, Shelley]

Figure 11.5. Part of ships’ rigging (lateral strengthening cables [?]) depicted on relief fragments from the Eleventh Dynasty temple at Deir el Bahri (from Naville and Hall 1913: pl. 13: ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Hooper McCarty, Jennifer; Foecke, Tim

ROUND THREE Fractography of Charpy Results Fractography is the detailed study of the broken end of a failed part and provides another critical technique in metallurgical forensics. The patterns created ...

epub |eng | | Author:Boles, Frank [Boles, Frank]

CHAPTER 5 LOADING AND UNLOADING The thing which in my judgment most influenced the change in type and size of the bulk freighters on the lakes came about through the ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:peter d. jeans

T HE B ATTLE OF C OPENHAGEN "Time, off o' Cop'nhaïgn, Nels'n comed an' crep his waïy in—. . . we worn't n' more 'n skittleses, th' waïy they bowled ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dik Gregory & Paul Shanahan

Plans, goals and priorities An important aspect of being on target is planning. In most working situations, we have more things to do than it seems we have time to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:John Batchelor

49. U.S.S. MONITOR The clash of the Monitor and the Merrimack (Virginia) in March 1862 represented a turning point in naval history not only because it was the first battle ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:George Biddlecombe

SLINGS for Lower Yards are generally of chain (round the middle of the yard), with a shackle or slip, to connect it with the mast-head slings, which are also of ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Michael Schumacher [Schumacher, Michael]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Daniel Allen Butler [Butler, Daniel Allen]

No one ever knew how well or how poorly John Jacob Astor met his end. It would be nice perhaps to say that, like the Thane of Cawdor, “nothing in ...

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 ...