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 ...

epub |eng | 1999-10-01 | Author:Sontag, Sherry [Sontag, Sherry]

Boris Bagdasaryan was commander of the Echo II that met Tautog. He called his sub the Black Lila. Captain James Bradley reached back to boyhood trips down the Mississippi to ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-26 | Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]

Mackinder’s stress upon the importance of the ‘heartland’, later taken up with enthusiasm by Haushofer and the Nazi geopoliticians, and somewhat discredited as a consequence, is probably too simple, one-sided ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Robert Southey

Before this occurred, and while the junction was as probable as it would have been formidable, Nelson was in a state of the greatest anxiety. "What a state am I ...

epub |eng | | Author:Elinor C. Sloan [Sloan, Elinor C.]

See: US Army, US Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Perhaps the most useful strategic direction for operational-level activities is found in ...

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 | 2015-01-29 | Author:Petersson, Lennarth [Petersson, Lennarth]

Profile & Deck Plan Belaying Plan Channels Shrouds Toprope Topmast Shrouds Forestay Backstay Bowsprit Guys Jib Outhaul & Inhaul Jib Halliard Lower yard Sling Topsail Yard Halliard Lifts Cluelines & ...

epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Brown

1. & 2. The Beauty of the Flow, at sunrise and sunset. Above: a winter dawn looking out from Stromness, 1960s; below: an evening view over Scapa Bay taken shortly ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Admiral Raoul Castex French Navy

1. Raoul Castex, Théories stratégiques, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Paris: Société d’Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1939): 291–313. 2. This chapter follows the chapters analyzing manoeuvres by Bruix in 1799, ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Lawrence Sondhaus [Sondhaus, Lawrence]

Japan and China Thus the Arturo Prat, commissioned in 1885 with the name Tsukushi, became the first steel cruiser in the Japanese navy. By that time, thanks to steps taken ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Martin J Brayley [Brayley, Martin J]

Although less common than the cotton dickey, the wool jersey was sometimes cut down to form a dickey with open tie-closure sides. The Class II wool jersey worn by an ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Andrew Faltum [Faltum, Andrew]

F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet The Navy had wanted a multirole aircraft to replace the A-4 Skyhawk, the A-7 Corsair, and the remaining F-4 Phantoms, as well to complement the ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Simon Wills [Wills, Simon]

Ships’ Logs Logs were kept by the vessel’s master, and a few survive in private hands or regional archives, dating back to the eighteenth century in some cases. However, from ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Waters, Conrad

Anti-Air Warfare: The core air defence capability of all the French FREMM variants will be provided by a combination of Thales’s Herakles radar and MBDA’s Aster surface-to-air missiles. A modern ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Christopher Deakes

Pamela Harvey ‘had a perfect four weeks on board the Mantua …we danced every night on deck by the light of the moon.’ Although many social changes had followed the ...