Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Ships & Shipbuilding - Pictorial

Appendix U. Soviet Motor Torpedo Boats (Richard Worth)

Appendix V. Successes Of Soviet Torpedo Cutters (Mine Warfare Not Included)

Index of British MGBs

Index of British MTBs

Index of Commercial Vessels sunk by MTB, TKA, PT, MAS and S Boote

Index of Convoys

Index of German S-Boote

Index of Italian MAS Boats

Index of Items, Engines, Radars, Battles, and other Odds and Ends...

One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun.

The Royal Mail Ship Segwun is the oldest operating steamship in North America, a Muskoka icon, and one of Ontario s best-known tourist attractions. Built as a paddlewheeler in 1887, the RMS Segwun saw her initial career suspended in the 1950s when the ship ceased operations. Fortunately, she began a new chapter in 1974 when she was lovingly restored and magnificent sightseeing cruises were offered. Those who board the vessel step back...

The romance of the great inland sea in 32 additional pages and 30 new photographs.

Praise for the first edition:

"Lavishly photographed and romance-packed ... a visually stunning collection of photos, facts and lore about the captains, crews and thousand-foot ships that plough the Great Lakes... It's a great book for anyone who appreciates the machinery that pulls the Rust Belt together."
-- Cleveland Free Times

"Lake Boats belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who admires the strength and purpose of these magnificent ships."
-- The Great...

Friedman, a leading authority of U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts...

From river to harbor to ocean, tugboats are among the most ubiquitous but underappreciated craft afloat. Whether maneuvering ships out from between tight harbor finger piers, pushing rafts of forty barges up the Mississippi, towing enormous oil rigs, or just delivering huge piles of gravel to a river port near you, tugs exude a sense of genial strength guided by the wise experience of their crews. We can admire the precision of their coordination, the determination in their movements, the glow of signal lights at night, silently communicating their condition and intentions to vessels...