Naval
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Ujifusa

After making a series of frantic phone calls, William Francis and Frederic Gibbs grimly called a meeting with their decorators in September 1950. Dorothy Marckwald and Anne Urquhart, who had ...
( Category: Marine Engineering May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:C.H. Layman [Layman, C.H.]

Chapter 18 Foul Weather Defeats Them Wager Island, 15th December 1741. The 17 survivors set out in the two small boats to attempt the perilous crossing of the bay. Foul ...
( Category: Naval May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Neal Bascomb [Bascomb, Neal]

" Three Saints, what is keeping you?" Admiral Krieger telegraphed to Vishnevetsky at 10:10 A.M., spotting his second in command's squadron heading toward Tendra Harbor without the Potemkin at its ...
( Category: Naval May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Christopher Ward [Ward, Christopher]

HUME, ANDREW, born Dumfries 7th May 1864. Violinist, bassoonist, banjo player and composer. Pupil of M Sainton. Established in his native city as professor of the above instruments and teacher ...
( Category: Great Britain April 23,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Hough, Richard [Hough, Richard]

THE SEARCH FOR DECISIVE ACTION The new team at the Admiralty- Less inspiration, greater steadiness- .Jellicoe’s concern for his Fleet’s strength, his personal health and the health of his admiral’s- ...
( Category: Naval April 7,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:John R. Hale

THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION, 415-413 B.C. He went peacefully, leaving Nicias and Lamachus in charge of the expedition. At one of the landing places on the Italian coast, however, Alcibiades eluded ...
( Category: Naval April 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

One of four new screw sloops fresh out of the shipyards of Boston, Housatonic mounted thirteen guns, one of them a big rifled hundred-pounder. She displaced 1,240 tons and measured ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: History March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Roger Litwiller

Your airgraph letter arrived on board today. I note that the electric washing machine has been forwarded to Halifax. The procuring of this machine was indeed a praiseworthy achievement on ...
( Category: 20th Century March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Dean King [King, Dean]

William Richardson With Stopford in the Basque Roads 1808–1809 THIS PASSAGE CONTINUES THE story of William Richardson, who was impressed into the Royal Navy while in Calcutta in 1793. In ...
( Category: Naval March 21,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Erik Larson [Larson, Erik]

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 ...
( Category: History March 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Liz Mechem

A model of the Mary Rose The Spanish Armada MIGHT OF AN EMPIRE T he Spanish Armada was driven by three primary forces—politics, religion, and national wealth. In 1588, King ...
( Category: Pictorial March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:John Barratt

As Medina Sidonia himself admitted, there was a good deal of opposition amongst his senior commanders to the decision to anchor, but they can only have proposed one of two ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

Another problem for potential hunters of Russian SSBNs results from the manner in which they are employed and deployed. One of the early goals of missile designers in the former ...
( Category: Nuclear March 3,2015 )