The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many. This book takes a selection of the best models from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of wooden shipbuilding to describe and demonstrate the developm…
Brings the ship Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic
A history of technology
by Hall, A. R., Raper, Richard, Williams, Trevor I., Singer, Charles, Holmyard, E. J.
For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the 'perfect' market of classical economics. T…
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with, but this is an industry that remains obscured from view, until a wreck or a spill puts it briefly in the spotlight. Here, in the company of the merchant seamen who mak…