Description

Longmans [Published Date: 1964]. Hardcover, 137 pp. New Impression, 1964. Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Grey textured cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Light soiling to end papers. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1/2" or less chips and tears and light creasing along edges. Original price sticker on bottom of front jacket flap. Moderate overall scuffing and aging to jacket as well with the color scuffed off in several spots along edges, spine and back cover. Illustrations by Rosemary Grimble and Winston Megoran. Index. [From front jacket flap] Tells the story of the ship from the very earliest times of dug-out logs to the most modern turbine giants and nuclear marvels of today. Side by side with this story, the dramatic events of sea-history are retold. After seeing the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut sailing to Punt and the Greeks defeating the Persians at Salamis, readers of this book are taken aboard the Golden Hind to sail round the world with Drake in search of treasure and aboard the Victory with Nelson to watch preparations for the Battle of Trafalgar. The exciting story of naval warfare ends with the 'U' boats and submarines of the Second World War. For those interested in technical matters, the author tells how Phineas Pett built the famous seventeenth century warship Sovereign of the Seas and how Brunel constructed the first iron ship; he describes the invention of screw-propulsion and of the steam turbine and the work of modern designers on test tanks and models. The story of battleships is outlined and there is a separate chapter on nuclear-powered vessels including Nautilus, Dreadnought and Polaris. The last chapter is devoted to the growth of modern shipping lines [(including the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, the two newest and fastest ships to cross the Atlantic)].