George F. Bosworth

Ships, Shipping and Fishing

With Some Account of Our Seaports and Their Industries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1915 volume traces the development of human ingenuity in shipping from the early dug-out boat to the Aquitania.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9781107693869
• ISBN-10: 1107693861
• Artikelnr.: 34450071

Inhaltsangabe

General preface
Editor's note
1. Early boats and ships - the Mediterranean
2. Early boats and ships - the North Sea
3. From sailing ships to steamships
4. Britain's maritime supremacy
5. The mercantile marine, and great trade routes
6. The building of a great ship
7. The Royal Navy
8. The Royal Dockyards
9. The fishing industry - ships and men
10. British fisheries and fishing ports
11. 'Lloyd's.' The plimsoll mark. A1
12. Trinity House and its work
13. Lighthouses and lightships
14. The Port of London
15. Great seaports and their industries
16. The Cinque Ports
Index.