Author: Alan E. Dinn
Publisher: Tiller Pub
ISBN: 9781888671261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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This fascinating and authoritative history of the Purdy Boat Company, one of the most famous makers of custom yachts and racing boats in the 1920s and 1930s, is based on official company documents and correspondence and on reminiscences of family members and boat owners, and augmented by many photographs and line drawings of classic Purdy boats. The name "Purdy" evokes a bygone era of classic race boats and cruisers, and contributions to this book from owners and former owners of Purdy boats, librarians and museum officials, classic-boat enthusiasts, family members, and others, make it a living testimony to Ned and Gil Purdy, designers and builders of some of the best raceboats and cruisers America has ever known.
Author: Scott M Peters
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map
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Pages : 926
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Author: Ellen L. Gustafson
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 1312514043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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A book of love, sex, greed and murder. What makes a woman who wouldn't kill a bug breakdown and kill a man? Over the years Evelina has pissed people off just trying to survive. Two have come back to haunt her life and destroy her loved ones and her future. Her plan is to survive. Just as she is getting back on her feet and about to marry husband number six, along comes hurricane Katrina.
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Pages : 184
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Author: T. D. Hallam
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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"The Spider Web" by T. D. Hallam is a story of the flying boats that were created to demolish German submarines during World War I. "During the war nothing was published about the flying-boats, partly because they worked with the Silent Navy, and partly because they were produced in the service. They were created to harry and destroy the German submarines, and were a manifestation of the genius of the English-speaking peoples for all things connected with the sea. There is a tang of salt in the adventures of the men who boomed out in them over the narrow waters, for they had to do with submarines and ships, and all that that implies. In their job o' work of bombing U-boats, attacking Zeppelins, fighting enemy seaplanes, and carrying out reconnaissance and convoy duties, there is as much romance as in any particular effort in the war. In the future, grown great in size, the boats will form the winged Navy, and will carry mails and passengers over the water-routes of all the world."
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Pages : 162
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Bill Bleyer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666601
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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For more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history. Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside oft-forgotten oddities such as Pan-American flying boats landing in Manhasset Bay in the early days of transatlantic flight. From the British blockade and skirmishes during the American Revolution to the sinking of merchant vessels by Germany in World War II, the sea brought wars to these shores. By the later part of the 20th century, Gold Coast millionaires commuted in high-speed yachts to Manhattan offices as the island's wealth grew. Historian Bill Bleyer reveals Long Island's nautical bonds from the Native Americans to current efforts to preserve the region's maritime heritage.
Author: Alan E. Dinn
Publisher: Tiller Pub
ISBN: 9781888671261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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This fascinating and authoritative history of the Purdy Boat Company, one of the most famous makers of custom yachts and racing boats in the 1920s and 1930s, is based on official company documents and correspondence and on reminiscences of family members and boat owners, and augmented by many photographs and line drawings of classic Purdy boats. The name "Purdy" evokes a bygone era of classic race boats and cruisers, and contributions to this book from owners and former owners of Purdy boats, librarians and museum officials, classic-boat enthusiasts, family members, and others, make it a living testimony to Ned and Gil Purdy, designers and builders of some of the best raceboats and cruisers America has ever known.
Author: Scott M Peters
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Author: Ellen L. Gustafson
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 1312514043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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A book of love, sex, greed and murder. What makes a woman who wouldn't kill a bug breakdown and kill a man? Over the years Evelina has pissed people off just trying to survive. Two have come back to haunt her life and destroy her loved ones and her future. Her plan is to survive. Just as she is getting back on her feet and about to marry husband number six, along comes hurricane Katrina.
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: T. D. Hallam
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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"The Spider Web" by T. D. Hallam is a story of the flying boats that were created to demolish German submarines during World War I. "During the war nothing was published about the flying-boats, partly because they worked with the Silent Navy, and partly because they were produced in the service. They were created to harry and destroy the German submarines, and were a manifestation of the genius of the English-speaking peoples for all things connected with the sea. There is a tang of salt in the adventures of the men who boomed out in them over the narrow waters, for they had to do with submarines and ships, and all that that implies. In their job o' work of bombing U-boats, attacking Zeppelins, fighting enemy seaplanes, and carrying out reconnaissance and convoy duties, there is as much romance as in any particular effort in the war. In the future, grown great in size, the boats will form the winged Navy, and will carry mails and passengers over the water-routes of all the world."
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Bill Bleyer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666601
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description
For more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history. Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are found alongside oft-forgotten oddities such as Pan-American flying boats landing in Manhasset Bay in the early days of transatlantic flight. From the British blockade and skirmishes during the American Revolution to the sinking of merchant vessels by Germany in World War II, the sea brought wars to these shores. By the later part of the 20th century, Gold Coast millionaires commuted in high-speed yachts to Manhattan offices as the island's wealth grew. Historian Bill Bleyer reveals Long Island's nautical bonds from the Native Americans to current efforts to preserve the region's maritime heritage.
