Ships For The Seven Seas

Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421436852
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships for the Seven Seas written by Thomas Heinrich and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.

Author : Thomas Heinrich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436868
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships for the Seven Seas written by Thomas Heinrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award Originally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron and steel industry, Philadelphia shipbuilders negotiated the transition from wooden to iron hull construction earlier and far more easily that most other builders. Between the Civil War and World War I, Philadelphia emerged as the vital center of American shipbuilding, constructing a wide variety of vessel types such as passenger liners, freighters, battleships, and cruisers. In Ships for the Seven Seas, Thomas R. Heinrich explores this complex industry from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley. He describes entrepreneurial strategies and industrial change that facilitated the rise of major shipbuilding firms; how naval architecture, marine engineering, and craft skills evolved as iron and steel overtook wood as the basic construction material; and how changes in domestic and international trade and the rise of the American steel navy helped generate vessel contracts for local builders. Heinrich also examines the formation of the military-industrial complex in the context of naval contracting. Contributing to current debates in business history, Ships for the Seven Seas explains how proprietary ownership and batch production strategies enabled late nineteenth-century builders to supply volatile markets with custom-built steamships. But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.

Author : Charles Graham (Author of Ships of the Seven Seas.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships of the Seven Seas. [With Plates.]. written by Charles Graham (Author of Ships of the Seven Seas.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Ships & how They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935) written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Ships of the Seven Seas written by Hawthorne Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis M. Powers
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589794486
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Seven Seas written by Dennis M. Powers and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant places, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bering Sea. Smell the salt in the air and hear the ocean's rush as the ship sails with hardened men, leaking seams, and shrieking winds.

Author : Mary Ellen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing the Seven Seas written by Mary Ellen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hawthorne Daniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Download or read book Ships of the Seven Seas written by Hawthorne Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Hawthorne 1890-
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314764260
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships of the Seven Seas... written by Daniel Hawthorne 1890- and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592281251
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas written by Peter Freuchen and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time.