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"Sub Culture explores the crucial role of the submarine in modern history, its contribution to scientific progress and maritime exploration, and how it has been portrayed in art, literature, fantasy and film. Ranging from the American Civil War to the destruction of the Kursk, the book examines the submarine's activities in the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, and in covert operations and marine exploration to the present day. Citing the...
4183) Transatlantic Train: the untold story of the Boston merchant who launched Donald McKay to fame
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"Enoch Train rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most important maritime figures in nineteenth-century Boston: owner of the city's most successful transatlantic shipping line, and chief patron of its legendary shipbuilder, Donald McKay. In telling Enoch's story, Transatlantic Train also provides fascinating insights into many of the era's defining themes and events: The fierce rivalries between the United States and Britain, New York...
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"In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.S. Coast Guard served as the Alaskan 911. Known then as simply the Revenue Cutter Service, it was comprised of skilled navigators, judges and law enforcement specialists tasked with preventing the frontier from descending into anarchy, and securing its status as a "cash cow" for the mainland states. This is the history of the early U.S. Coast Guard, with special focus on its former whalers-turned-cutters,...
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"In May 1900, 56 American sailors and marines joined an international guard at Beijing's Legation Quarter. Their mission was to protect foreign diplomats from attacks by "Boxers," members of a secret society that aimed to rid China of foreign influence through violence. Tensions increased throughout the summer, culminating when the empress dowager of China declared war on the foreign powers and committed her imperial army to support the Boxers. For...
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"From the operatives in World War II to the present day, this book offers a timely visual history of the combat diver, illustrated throughout with rare and unusual photographs. Former Royal Marines Commando Michael G. Welham reveals the dangerous missions, unique equipment and secretive world that define the combat diver." --Back cover.
"The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day. Combat divers...
4187) The Dutch Naval Air Force against Japan: the defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942
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"Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch Naval Air Force--or Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (MLD)--played a significant but largely overlooked role in the opening months of the Pacific War. With 175 aircraft, the MLD greatly outnumbered the combined forces of its American and British allies. In three months of intense combat, the MLD lost 50 percent of its personnel and 80 percent of its aircraft, as the Netherlands' colonial empire was...
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"The 'Fabulous Flotilla', called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all its investors, management and ship's officers drawn from Scotland. Fascinating personalities emerge from Strachan's descriptions of Irrawaddy commanders and the flotilla's key players. Renamed Myanmar in 1997, Burma is Scotland's 'lost colony' and the...
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"This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States' oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. It is organized into three distinct sections: "Beginnings"-which includes a short overview of the US Revenue Cutter Service (the USCG's primary forerunner, established in 1790) and...
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"[Hard Aground] tells three interconnected stories which together highlight many of the challenges that the U.S. Navy faced in its strategic and material evolution following the end of the Civil War and through the First World War, with lasting consequences for how the navy would modernize itself further throughout the rest of the 20th century. One story concerns the reconstruction of the U.S. Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of...
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"The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center...
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"This is a centennial history of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV). It is organized by the individuals who had the greatest impact on OPNAV. Most of those individuals have been admirals, especially the Chiefs of Naval Operations. At times, however, a Secretary of the Navy, a Secretary of Defense, or a President has taken center stage, forcing the Navy's senior officers to react. In addition, the Navy obviously does not operate in...
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"On 18 May 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, "I am fighting for the Union." Since August 1861, when he joined the US Navy as a master's mate, at age twenty, he never wavered in his loyalty. He wrote to his family frequently that he considered military service a necessary and patriotic duty, and the career that ensued was a dramatic one, astutely and articulately documented by Wells himself in over 200...
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"The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration. Throughout the last 500 years, scholars have recognized this transforming event, and they have written extensively on the subject. To date, no American author has dedicated a book to Columbus's life before 1492. This book is a biography of Christopher Columbus prior to 1492, with a focus on those geographical experiences that...
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"In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America's emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them...
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"Container shipping is a vital part of the global economy. Goods from all around the world, from vegetables to automobiles, are placed in large metal containers which are transported across the ocean in ships, then loaded onto tractor-trailers and railroad flatbeds. But when and where did this world-changing invention get started? This fascinating study traces the birth of containerization to Port Newark, New Jersey, in 1965 when trucker Malcom McLean...
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"The career of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, unfolding on land and sea, offers a compelling account of a pivotal time in the history of the US Navy and maritime warfare generally. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1860, Schley learned quickly many aspects of Navy operations and policies and advanced in the ranks. After fighting in the Civil War, sailing the seven seas, and visiting many foreign countries, he played a vital part in the...
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"The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration-all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian...
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"World War II was over and the U.S. was still using the captured Japanese island of Okinawa as a major naval base. Hundreds of vessels dotted the numerous bays and inlets, and thousands of military personnel occupied the island. In October 1945, Typhoon Louise tore into Okinawa, slamming ships together and tossing them onto reefs and beaches. Terrible winds tore up tent cities and disintegrated corrugated tin Quonset huts. One hundred people died...
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