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Author: John McKay Publisher: Anova Books ISBN: 0851778941 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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Part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this volume explores the Frigate Pandora, best known for her voyage to Tahiti to bring back the Bounty Mutineers.
Author: John McKay Publisher: Anova Books ISBN: 0851778941 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 280
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Part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this volume explores the Frigate Pandora, best known for her voyage to Tahiti to bring back the Bounty Mutineers.
Author: Edward Edwards Publisher: ISBN: 9781409954965 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine class frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Adams and Barnard at Deptford, England and launched on 17 May 1779. She was deployed in North American waters during the American Revolutionary War but was put 'in ordinary' (mothballed) after 1783. She was best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her. She was wrecked on the return voyage in 1791. Captain Edwards and his officers were exonerated for the loss of the Pandora after a court martial. No attempt was made by the colonial authorities in New South Wales to salvage material from the wreck.
Author: Alaric Bond Publisher: Fireship Press ISBN: 1935585312 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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How do you maintain discipline on a ship when someone murders your first lieutenant—and a part of you agrees with their action? December 1796. It was a time of unrest and discontent for Britain, made even worse by the war with Revolutionary France and the possibility of imminent invasion. Fresh from the dockyard, HMS Pandora, a 28-gun frigate, is about to set sail to join the Mediterranean Fleet. For Captain Banks the harsh winter weather and threat of a French invasion are not his only problems. He has an untried ship, a tyrant for a First Lieutenant, a crew that contains at least one murderer, and he is about to sail into one of the biggest naval battles in British history—the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. “Alaric Bond has stepped into the first rank of writers of historic naval fiction.” The Second Book in the Fighting Sail Series
Author: Rif Winfield Publisher: ISBN: 9781845600099 Category : Frigates Languages : en Pages : 128
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Based on the latest research in original sources, this is an in-depth text covering the complete history of the 50-gun ship. Numerous tables of technical data covering dimensions, construction, armament and details are included.
Author: James P. Delgado Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190888024 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 352
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The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks are nameless, others from more recent times are remembered, honored even, as are the battles that claimed them, like Actium, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and Midway. Underwater exploration is increasingly discovering long-lost warships from the deepest parts of the ocean, revealing a vast undersea museum that speaks to battles won and lost, service, sacrifice, and the human costs of warfare. War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of humanity's naval heritage. It is also an account by the world's leading naval archaeologist of how underwater exploration has discovered these remains, thus resolving mysteries, adding to our understanding of the past, and providing intimate details of the experience of naval warfare. Arranged chronologically, the book begins with the warships and battles of the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, and then progresses through three thousand years to the lost ships of the Cold War. James Delgado, who has personally explored, dived, and studied a number of the wrecks and sites in the book, provides insights as an explorer, archaeologist, and storyteller. The result is a unique and compelling history of naval warfare. From fallen triremes and galleons to dreadnoughts, aircraft carriers, and nuclear submarines, this book vividly brings thousands of years of naval warfare to life.
Author: Netherlands. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Cultural Heritage Agency Publisher: UNESCO Publishing ISBN: 9231004271 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 517
Author: Donald A. Maxton Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476639744 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 201
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Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial--and the Matavy, a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from five men who endured these voyages. Presented in overlapping, chronological order are the first publication of a narrative by a member of Matavy's crew, who vividly describes a desperate struggle to survive with meager provisions among islands filled with hostile natives. A previously unpublished poem by an anonymous sailor on Pandora recounts the ship's sinking, the survivors' tortuous journey to the Dutch East Indies, and their return to England. The captain's unedited statement on the loss of Pandora is included and appendices summarize the Bounty and Pandora courts-martial and the later history of each narrator.
Author: Robert Gardiner Publisher: Seaforth Publishing ISBN: 1848321600 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types in this case, the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colour, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modellers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.
Author: Alexis Catsambis Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199336008 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 1234
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This title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.
Author: John McKay
Author: John McKay
Author: John McKay
Author: Edward Edwards
Author: Alaric Bond
Author: Rif Winfield
Author: James P. Delgado
Author: Netherlands. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Cultural Heritage Agency
Author: Donald A. Maxton
Author: Robert Gardiner
Author: Alexis Catsambis