Format:
1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841508634
Content:
The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering. When the engineers of the early nineteenth century experimented with steamboats they chose the paddle wheel as the form of propulsion. Within twenty years the paddle steamers were at work on inland waters and short sea passages. They were graceful, elegant ships, but in the jet age too slow and uneconomical. In the 1950s they went to the breaker's yards in droves, and now there are only a few left. This book tells they story of the paddle steamers, and of the men who built, owned and sailed them
Content:
Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- List of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Pioneers -- Chapter 2: Ocean Paddle Steamers -- Chapter 3: The 'Great Western' -- Chapter 4: Paddle Steamers of the Thames and Medway -- Chapter 5: The 'Navvies' -- Chapter 6: The Big Sinking -- Chapter 7: Freaks and Failures -- Chapter 8: The Great Leviathan -- Chapter 9: The Power and the Glory -- Chapter 10: The Bonny Boats of Clyde -- Chapter 11: Paddle Steamers or the North-West Coast -- Chapter 12: West Country Paddle Steamers -- Chapter 13: South Coast Paddle Steamers -- Chapter 14: Tugs and Tugmen -- Chapter 15: Riverboats of America and Australia -- Chapter 16: Under the White Ensign -- Chapter 17: The Twilight Years -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index of Paddle Steamers -- General Index -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841508016
Additional Edition:
Print version Dumpleton, Bernard The Story of the Paddle Steamer Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2002 ISBN 9781841508016
Language:
English
