Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Ships & Shipbuilding - Pictorial

While this book is intended is intended for all who love boats, ships, history, and nautical lore, it is also designed as a definitive source of high-quality, royalty-free images for use by artists, graphic designers, desktop publishers, ad agencies, and more. This collection of 681 wood engravings includes striking examples of some of the world's most beautiful boats and ships. Among the many famous vessels in this volume are Columbus's ships, the "Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria; "King Henry's VIII's "Great Harry;" the Pilgrim Fathers' "Mayflower;" Henry Hudson's "Half Moon;" King Charles...

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...

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...