Merchant Sail
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Commission merchants |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Commission merchants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Commission merchants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William L. Crothers |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786493992 |
This book describes the intricacies of the construction and fabrication more than 150 years ago of masts and yards installed in American merchant vessels, particularly those spars which were "built" or composed of multiple pieces bound together by iron bands. These were referred to as "made" spars as opposed to spars constructed from a single tree. It also contains instructions for developing the shape and proportions of various spars. Very little information is available on this subject. Generally, the external sizes of individual spars can be found but intimate details are sorely neglected. In addition, the book includes the spacing and location of masts in a ship, and the rake, and it discusses the types of wood that are most desirable in the construction of spars.
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598747426 |
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4179 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Commission merchants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Armstrong Fairburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Roy MacGregor |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Merchant ships |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817359656 |
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands The story has been passed through generations for more than two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End.