Sailing Barges - Couverture souple

Stammers, Michael

 
9780752446233: Sailing Barges
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0752446231 ISBN 13 : 9780752446233
Editeur : Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In the days before steam, sailing barges were a common sight on the British coast, its rivers, estuaries, broads and river navigations. The most well-known of these vessels are probably the Thames barges and Norfolk Wherries. Whole communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were based around the ownership of fleets of barges which were essential to the commercial infrastructure of the areas where they were from. The 1920s saw the gradual decline of the use of barges but they were far more in their whole than the articulated machinery that replaced them.

Sailing Barges of the British Isles describes the skills required for building and maintaining barges, as well as sailmaking, shipwrighting and sailmanship were spread across the maritime world in Britain and through generations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Stammers is curator emeritus at Merseyside Maritime Museum. He lives in Liverpool.

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Éditeur
Tempus Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0752446231
ISBN 13 
9780752446233
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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