A Book of Famous Ships By Smith, C., Fox Originally published in 1924. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents include : - The ship and her story - The clipper ship "Lightning" - Across the western ocean - London pride - China tea - Wool - Epilogue : Days of sail

This volume is packed with facts about ancient Greek galleys, Viking longships, Spanish galleons, graceful clippers, ocean liners and much more.

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Description Undertake your own journey into Colonial American history with the A Day in United States History - Book 2. The volume includes both little and well known tales of the events and people that made up the building blocks of the United States. This frontier history includes the following stories: January 10, 1749 - Petition Filed To Repeal of the Ban Against Slaves February 27, 1717 - The Great Snow of 1717 March 10, 1753- Liberty Bell Hung April 3, 1735 - Georgia Bans Slavery May 12, 1777 - First Ice Cream Advertisement June 26, 1740 - Siege of Fort Mose - War of Jenkins Ear July 07, 1774 - Paul Revere Adopts Snake Device August 15, 1756 - Daniel Boone and Rebecca Married September 11, 1740 - First Mention of a Black Doctor in Colonies October 20, 1774 - Congress created the Continental Association November 05, 1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize December 21, 1767 - Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania journal, united states, this day in history, history stories, beginners, introduction

In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In the past three centuries the ship has developed from the relatively unsophisticated sail-driven vessel which would have been familiar to the sailors of the Tudor navy, to the huge motor-driven container ships, nuclear submarines and vast cruise liners that ply our seas today. Who were the innovators and builders who, during that span of time, prompted and instigated the most significant advances? In this new book the author describes the lives and deeds of more the 120 great engineers, scientists, philosophers, businessmen, shipwrights, naval architects and inventors who shaped ship design and shipbuilding world wide. Covering the story chronologically, and going back briefly even to Archimedes, such well-known names as Anthony Deane, Peter the Great, James Watt, Robert Fulton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel share space with lesser known characters like the luckless Frederic Sauvage, a pioneer of screw propulsion who, unable to interest the French navy in his tests in the early 1830s, was bankrupted and landed in debtor’s prison. With the inclusion of such names as Ben Lexcen, the Australian yacht designer who developed the controversial winged keel for the 1983 America’s Cup, the story is brought right up to date. Concise linking chapters place all these innovators in context so that a clear and fascinating history of the development of ships and shipbuilding emerges from the pages. An original and important new reference book.