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  • SCOTLAND AND THE SEA
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    SCOTLAND AND THE SEA
    NICK ROBINS
    Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.Scottish engineering, ship-owning and operating, as well as business and entrepreneurial skills, played a major part in the success of the Merchant Navy, whi...

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  • THE COMING OF THE COMET
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    THE COMING OF THE COMET
    NICK ROBINS
    In August 1812 Henry Bell’s Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Company’s wooden walls off the seas; it provi...

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  • FROM WAR TO PEACE
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    FROM WAR TO PEACE
    NICK ROBINS
    From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted for commercial use. The most successfu...

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  • WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS
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    WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS
    NICK ROBINS
    In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the Allied strategy in both wars was a massive programme of merchant shipbuilding. This need gave rise to a series of standard designs with increasing emphasis on prefabrication and a pro...

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  • COASTAL PASSENGER LINERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
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    COASTAL PASSENGER LINERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
    NICK ROBINS
    At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger and cargo liner was in its hey...

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  • WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS
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    WARTIME STANDARD SHIPS
    NICK ROBINS
    In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the Allied strategy in both wars was a massive programme of merchant shipbuilding. This need gave rise to a series of standard designs with increasing emphasis on prefabrication and a pro...

    $279.00

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  • COASTAL PASSENGER LINERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
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    COASTAL PASSENGER LINERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
    NICK ROBINS
    At the beginning of the last century it was possible to sail from London to Glasgow via the south coast ports and Belfast, returning along the east coast from either Dundee or Leith for as little as five pounds. Those were the days when 300 passengers were landed twice weekly at Grangemouth or Dundee from the London boat, and the coastal passenger and cargo liner was in its hey...

    $329.00

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  • THE COMING OF THE COMET
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    THE COMING OF THE COMET
    NICK ROBINS
    In August 1812 Henry Bells Comet, a revolutionary paddle steamer, made her first journey on the Clyde. This marked the start of extraordinary developments that completely transformed shipping and transport in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The paddle steamer soon became the key link with Empire, pushing the Honourable East India Companys wooden walls off the seas; it provide...

    $329.00

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