The Coast Guard Under Sail

Author : Irving H. King
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast Guard Under Sail written by Irving H. King and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the US Coast Guard from its birth to its emergence from the Civil War. It shows how the service combined a spirit of enterprise with acknowledgment of individual freedoms to establish respect for the new constitution and the rule of law.

Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Cutter Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0578012901
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloodstained Sea written by Michael G. Walling and published by Cutter Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Told largely in the voices of the men who lived it, this unforgettable tale is peppered with humorous and ironic anecdotes about life aboard ship during wartime. You'll meet the liberty-craving crew members who painted their entire ship in less than an hour; the ship's mascot who became canine-non-grata in Greenland; and the crew whose vessel was mistaken for the German battleship Bismarck and attacked by the Royal Navy. Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to vibrant and pulsing life.

Author : Irving H. King
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast Guard Expands, 1865-1915 written by Irving H. King and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third in a series that, upon completion, will cover the history of the U.S. Coast Guard and its forerunners. The first and second books, George Washington's Coast Guard and The Coast Guard under Sail, offer complete accounts of the Coast Guard from 1790 to the end of the Civil War. This one picks up the story in 1865 and carries the history of the Revenue Cutter Service forward to 1915, when Congress united it with the U.S. Life-Saving Service to create the U.S. Coast Guard.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructions for United States Coast Guard Stations written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructions for United States Coast Guard Stations written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin P. Gilheany
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417568
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minding the Helm written by Kevin P. Gilheany and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  As a boy growing up in New York City, Kevin P. Gilheany had two dreams: to join the Coast Guard, and to play the bagpipes. But by the time he finished high school he was overweight, had a drinking problem, and couldn’t swim. Undeterred by the doubts of the folks at home, he decided to enlist in the Coast Guard anyway. With great determination, and some divine intervention, he passed the swim test and graduated from boot camp, thus beginning an eventful and diverse twenty-year career in the 1980s and 1990s Coast Guard. He set a goal for himself to get command of his own patrol boat, and along the way he was involved in capturing drug smugglers, rescuing hundreds of Haitian migrants at sea, recovering Space Shuttle Challenger debris, surviving a “hooligan navy” experience on a Coast Guard workboat, coordinating search and rescue during the famed “Perfect Storm,” and leading armed boardings of ships following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. When he was asked by one of his men, who was dying from brain cancer, to play bagpipes at his retirement ceremony, Kevin started down a new path to have bagpipers officially recognized as part of the Coast Guard. This ultimately led a boy who couldn’t swim to fulfill both of his childhood dreams and leave a lasting legacy by founding the U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616082437
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navigation Rules written by United States. Coast Guard and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook for you. Included are all of the official government rules and regulations that must be followed by anyone out on the water. This book will prepare you for head?on situations, avoiding collisions, using, distress signals, and will inform you of all the up?to?date water regulations. Whether you?re in a jam or just relaxing at sea, Navigation Rules will teach and prepare you for anything and everything you may encounter while on your boat.

Author : Charlie Wing
Publisher : Mcgraw-hill
ISBN 13 : 9780071603690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition written by Charlie Wing and published by Mcgraw-hill. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know you’ll pass before you take the exam. If you are planning to take paying passengers on your boat or you want to save money on your insurance, you’ll need to pass the U.S. Coast Guard captain’s ratings exams. Get Your Captain’s License is the quickest, easiest, and least expensive way to prepare for these tests. This complete study tool includes: The six-passenger “Six-Pack,” Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement 400 pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation PEARSoft’s new and improved interactive CD-ROM with all 14,000 questions and answers in the USCG database With its essential advice and unlimited opportunities for exam practice, this book is your sure course to passing the tests and securing your license. Please note: CD-ROM is compatible with PC only.

Author : Gordon McGowan
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skipper and the Eagle written by Gordon McGowan and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1960 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a U.S. Coast Guard officer sailed a German prize of war, a three masted bark, across the Atlantic through trade winds and a hurricane.

Author : Ace Landers
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338257862
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coast Guard to the Rescue (LEGO City) written by Ace Landers and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an unexpected storm hits, the LEGO® City coast guard must save the day in this hilarious storybook. The weatherman predicts a beautiful, sunny day in LEGO® City, so everyone heads to the beach. The weather is perfect for surfing or scuba diving -- even the coast guard crew is enjoying some fun in the sun. But when dark storm clouds roll in over the ocean, it's up to the coast guard to spring into action and save the day!