The Heyday Of Thames Pleasure Steamers

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144568070X
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heyday of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic collection of illustrations that capture the golden era of pleasure steamers on the Thames.

Author : N. S. Robins
Publisher : Silver Link
ISBN 13 : 9781857943184
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of Thames Pleasure Steamers written by N. S. Robins and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Thames pleasure steamers that begins in 1814, when the first steamer arrived in the river to ply her trade. This title uses period photographs, handbills to provide the full story of the boats that came out in the summer and flitted about, leading to their nickname of 'Thames butterfly boats'.

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624125
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers from 1935 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking memories of the steamers that once took thousands on their trips to the coastal resorts of Kent and Essex, Andrew Gladwell brings together a fascinating selection of images and ephemera of these now-lost vessels.

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848686946
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thames and Medway Pleasure Steamers From 1935 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the 1920s could be considered the Golden Age of pleasure steamers on the Thames and Medway. After the rigours of war, the fleets of the Belle Steamers, General Steam Navigation Co. and the New Medway Steam Packet Co. were once again busy with trade. Some of the ships had failed to return from war duties and new builds saw the fleets updated. Motor ships had begun to take over from the venerable paddlers which had sailed the rivers for decades. Golden Eagle, Crested Eagle, Royal Daffodil and the Medway are among the ships shown in the book. The steamers took Londoners away on their holidays and on day trips to the resorts of Southend, Clacton, Ramsgate and Margate as well as further afield to France and along the South Coast. After a resurgence at the end of the Second World War, by the late 1960s traffic had dwindled and many ships were sold or scrapped. Andrew Gladwell brings together a superb selection of images of the Thames and Medway pleasure steamers, with many illustrations of the ships and the piers they served.

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780752423517
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945 written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thames Pleasure Steamers from 1945

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445641720
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's Pleasure Steamers written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gladwell takes us on a journey down the water, exploring the story of the London pleasure steamer.

Author : Nick Robins
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147381328X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coming of the Comet written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Company’s wooden walls off the seas; it provided the all- important link with the Americas, and it offered emigrants to the New World a means of pushing westwards. In this fascinating new book Nick Robins analyses the remarkable impact of the paddle steamer and goes on to describe its development, both in terms of technology design and in relation to its effects on the transformation of nineteenth-century economies. He includes all Henry Bells disciples - the Burns brothers, Laird, Napier, Fulton, Syminton Cunard and Denny to name a few, and looks at their individual contributions. The impact of the paddle steamer on transport is difficult to overstate. It helped with the export of cotton from the American southern states, and with the transport of oil from Burma’s oil fields. The great stern wheelers of the Mississipi are legendary, but they also migrated to the Murray and Darling rivers in Australia, and to the Congo and Nile rivers in Africa, and the great rivers of Russia. This wonderful story of nineteenth-century ingenuity will appeal to shipping enthusiasts and those with a wider interest in industrial history.

Author : Andrew Gladwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445623307
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Steamer to the Kent Coast written by Andrew Gladwell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of steamer travel, people were taking day trips to the coast. Andrew Gladwell tells the story of steamers to the Kent coast.

Author : Ian McCrorie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869850005
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clyde Pleasure Steamers written by Ian McCrorie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Robins
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399009591
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From War to Peace written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted for commercial use. The most successful classes to transfer to the merchant service were the Hunt-class minesweepers of the Great War, Landing Craft, Tank, the salvage tugs of World War Two, and the wooden-hulled Fairmile launches which became familiar at seaside resorts in the 1950s and ‘60s; and, of course, the MFV classes that helped the fishing industry in the postwar years. The story includes the successful commercial conversions of many of the Flower and Castle Class corvettes and River Class frigates, notably the 1954 conversion of HMCS Stormont to a luxury yacht for the Greek shipping magnate Onassis. It describes why HMS Charybdis became a passenger liner in the Great War, and how HMS Albatross nearly became a luxury liner after World War Two, but in fact was transformed into a very unpopular emigrant ship and ended her days as a floating casino based at Cape Town. The author reveals the military antecedents of numerous commercial vessels that many would have thought were built especially for the service that they later maintained, and it illustrates just how many Royal Navy vessels ended up in private ownership. And the question is asked: if the military had not built so many ships that were eminently suitable for commercial adaptation, would the technical development of merchant shipping have progressed at a faster rate than it did? The answer is a definite ‘no’, and is illustrated in several ways. It was former naval vessels that promoted the early development of the Ro-Ro ferry; former naval ships introduced numerous design innovations, for example, the raised foredeck common for so many years on salvage tugs, and, above all, stripped of their military hardware, ex naval ships provided opportunities for modest investment where otherwise there would have been none. Copiously illustrated throughout, the book tells a fascinating story of invention and ingenious ship conversion, and of pragmatic adaptation in the financially stringent years after two world wars.