Phil Carradice

Nautical Training Ships: An Illustrated History

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Produktbeschreibung

For well over a hundred years all around the coast of Britain there were located a series of nautical training ships. Often surplus navy wooden walls, the ships provided a means of educating boys and young men, while preparing them for a lifetime at sea. The more famous of the schools included HMS Conway, initially on the Mersey, and then at Menai; the TS Mercury, at Hamble, Hampshire; the Mars on the Tay, at Dundee; the Vindicatrix at Sharpness Docks on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal; the Worcester on the Thames and the Arethusa at Greenhithe. The Arethusa, converted from a sailing vessel, lasted until 1974 before she was purchased and sailed to America to be restored as a typical sailing vessel of the late nineteenth century. Phil Carradice tells the story of the training ships that helped keep Britain a maritime nation from their foundation to their demise as Britain's once-proud merchant marine declined in the latter years of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amberley Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781848686960
• ISBN-10: 184868696X
• Artikelnr.: 27963606