Author: Frank D. Harrisson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: fire, shipboard
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-09-21
List price: $19.49
ISBN-10: 1420867261
ISBN-13: 9781420867268

Shipboard Fire is a manual on merchant ship types including Passenger carrying ships of various classes that ply the waters of the high seas and the lakes and rivers of all of the navigable waters. Any and all persons who are yachtsmen or who would take passage on a Cruise ship or other Merchant Vessel would find the first four chapters of special interest as these chapters dwell on not only the ship types but also that of the ship’s nomenclature (parts of the ship) and the language (names of the parts) used by the seamen on board. The manual also covers ship construction in that it expl

Author: David J House
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: marine, operations, shipboard, third, techniques, seamanship
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 0750663154
ISBN-13: 9780750663151

This third edition presents the most thorough revision of Seamanship Techniques since first publication in 1987. Already recognised as one of the leading texts for cadet and serving seafarers of all ranks, this new edition covers all the seamanship knowledge required by students and experienced seafarers alike. Ideal for Merchant Navy Officers from Cadet rank to Master Mariner, the new edition incorporates the 2003 amendments to the Collision Avoidance Regulations and new material covering regulations and practice on cargo operations, survival systems, GMDSS requirements, watch keeping duties,

Author: Rosemary Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: mystery, stories, shoreline, amp, deck, shipboard, murder
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-04-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195086031
ISBN-13: 9780195086034

The sea itself has always been a mystery--cold, dark, vast, and unfathomable--indifferent to human wishes and perilous to the ill-prepared. So what more appropriate setting for the ultimate human mystery, the seemingly unsolvable murder. In Murder on Deck! Rosemary Herbert proves that the opulence of the cruise ship and seaside resort has attracted some of the greatest writers in the genre. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Viola Brothers Shore to William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, John Mortimer, Susan Moody, and many others, Murder on Deck! ofers 25 stories that plumb the dept

Author: Andrew Hassam
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: century, british, emigrants, nineteenth, diaries, australia, shipboard, sailing
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1994-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0719045460
ISBN-13: 9780719045462

Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally, and one way of dealing with this appears to have been to write a diary. The surviving diaries offer snapshots of the lives of and experiences of many ordinary people who emigrated. In this study the author analyzes these journals and diaries to attempt to answer the question "how did writing a diary help diarists make sense of such a momentous and absolutely alien experience as emigration by boat to a continent bout which they probably

Authors:William F. Page, Heather A. Young, Harriet M. Crawfo
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: shipboard, hazard, defense, shad, project, health, effects, participation, term
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $34.75
ISBN-10: 0309102103
ISBN-13: 9780309102100

Book DescriptionMore than 5,800 military personnel, mostly Navy personnel and Marines, participated in a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents, Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), in the period 1962-1973. Only some of the involved military personnel were aware of these tests at the time. Many of these tests used simulants, substances with the physical properties of a chemical or biological warfare agent, thought at the time to have been harmless. The existence of these tests did not come to light until many decades later. In September

Author: Transportation Research Board National Research Co
Publisher: Transportation Research Board National Resear
Keywords: research, national, report, council, board, transportation, special, mariners, identification, automatic, system, displays, needs, meeting, shipboard
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2003-06
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0309085500
ISBN-13: 9780309085502

"TRB Special Report 273 - Shipboard Automatic Identification System Displays: Meeting the Needs of Mariners" assesses the state of the art in Automatic Identification System (AIS) display technologies, evaluates current system designs and their capabilities, and reviews the relevant human factors aspects associated with operating these systems. View report summary as published in TR News 232 May-June 2004.