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British Paddle Steamers 1974

Author: Geoffrey Body
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715365960
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Languages : en
Pages :

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British Paddle Steamers 1974

Author: Geoffrey Body
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715365960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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British Paddle Steamers The Twilight Years

Author: John Megoran
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445672278
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
The former captain of the PS Kingswear Castle explores the final decades of paddle steamers in Britain.

Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918-1974

Author: P. Ward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230000967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
This book examines the range and complexity of unionist political identities, ideas and beliefs in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century. It discusses the careers of eight politicians from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and uncovers the varieties of unionism that held the multi-national UK together. Challenging the idea that Britain was in the process of breaking up, it argues that the Union provided a focus for loyalty in the United Kingdom that contributed to the continuing formation of identities of Britishness.

Ferries Across the Humber

Author: Kirk Martin
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526769484
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
Starting with an introduction about discovering the coal-burning paddle steamers of the Humber in the early 1970s the book continues with a brief history of the ferries of the Humber Estuary, the coming of the first paddle steamer, the Caledonia, in 1814 and the rapid expansion of steamers operating on the estuary. It includes personal memories of those who worked on, used and loved the Humber ferries. It especially looks at the paddle steamers, Tattershall Castle, Wingfield Castle and Lincoln Castle, which became the last coal-burning paddle steamers operating a regular service in the United Kingdom. An appendix lists over 80 paddle steamers from the Caledonia of 1814 to the last of the line the Lincoln Castle identified as working on the Humber Estuary from published and archive sources. It includes the diesel powered paddle vessel Farringford which saw out the service in 1981 and also other vessels associated with the Hull to New Holland ferry.

The Coming of the Comet

Author: Nick Robins
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 147381328X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
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.

PS Waverley

Author: Alistair Deayton
Publisher: Amberley Pub Plc
ISBN: 9781445633183
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Celebrate the Waverley s 40th year in preservation. Since 1974, the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world has been owned by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. Purchased from Cal-Mac for a pound, she has since been restored twice and still sails around the coast of Britain, reviving the hey-day of pleasure cruising in the Clyde, Bristol Channel, South Coast and the Thames. Now forty years in preservation, this is the story of the Waverley s successful career, for the Caledonian Steam Packet Co., Caledonian-MacBrayne and Waverley Excursions. It looks back at a career of some sixty-six years, forty of which have been in preservation. Using newly-published and rare images, the ship s career is recorded by two experts of the paddle steamer world."

A History of British Paddle Steamers

Author: Andrew Gladwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711037427
Category : Paddle steamers
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Andrew Gladwell explores the history of paddle steamers around Britain with a mixture of evocative photographs from the past, nostalgic period publicity material and other memorabilia, facts and figures about the paddle steamers and accounts of the experiences of those who travelled on them.