Ξενόγλωσσα ναυτιλιακά βιβλία [Foreign maritime books]

[Nicholas Peppas]

No 28. Tim Gibbs, Alaskan Maritime, Schiffer Publishing Company, Atglen, PA, 1997

This is a book with a wealth of information about Alaskan Lines, the passenger ships, their trials and tribulations... Filed with about 250 pictures of mostly obscure passenger ships literally hanging from cliffs after bad storms, this is a must for true sailors! Paperback, 160 pages.

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The last passenger ship on the right is the SS Portland that played a large role in the gold stampede to Alaska and the Yukon when she arrived in Seattle, Washington in 1897 with the famous "ton of gold", a story that was flashed around the world.

[Nicholas Peppas]

No 29. E. Mawbray Tate, Transpacific Steam: The Story of Steam Navigation from the Pacific Coast of North America to the East and the Antipodes, 1867-1941, Cornwall Books, Cranbury, NJ, 1986.

This is a very difficult to find, yet quite worth the wait book. It contains the stories of many transpacific steamships, from the Pacific Mail Ecuador (1916-24) that came from the Netherlands to do the San Francisco-Yokohama trade (page 39) to teh wonderful Matson steamers (Lurline, Malolo) some of which became so well known to Greece. An extremely well written book with many less known ship, depicted in black and white photographs.

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Below, three Japanese steamers for the NYK Line, the Shinyo Maru (1908-11), the unlucky Chiyo Maru (1909-16) broke and a total loss on rocks, and the Taiyo Maru (1911-42),a former German ship under the name Cap Finisterre given to Japan after World War I. She was the last Japanese ship to approach Pearl Harbor before December 7, 1941 and was carrying Otto Kühn, a German spy and transplanted Hawaiian. Almost a year later she sank in Nagasaki.

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Below you see Matson's Lurline and Malolo.

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Below, lesser known vessels, the Thomas, the Dix and the St. Mihiel

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[Nicholas Peppas]

No 30. Arnold Kludas, Record Breakers of the North Atlantic: Blue Riband Liners, 1838-1952, Brassey's Inc, Washington, DC, 2000.

This great book of Arnold Kludas comes to fill a major gap in the field. It was originally published in German in 1999 under the title Das blaue Band des Nordatlantiks. It is an account of the famous Blue Riband competition, the "fight" to be the fastest ship in the Southampton-New York route. British and German ocean liners fought for this "Riband" (which was actually a long ribbon that the record holder could hang) until the legendary Normandie and the Italian Rex "won" the Riband and before the US United States shuttered the record. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Riband

This book has the usual standards of Arnold Kludas and some truly exceptional pictures!

On the cover the German Deutschland which held the Riband from July 6, 1900 to September 16, 1902

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Inside, the White Star Teutonic that held the Riband from August 13, 1891 to July 27, 1892

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Then a fantastic and rare picture of the boat deck of the first fast German ocean liner, the Elbe, in 1881.

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Then, a picture from my own collection showing the dining room in first class (yes, this is in a ship!) of my all time best ever passenger ship, the legendary Normandie

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And finally, another typical 2-page layout of the book discussing the prominent position of the Cunard Line

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[Nicholas Peppas]

No 31. Anthony Cooke, Liners & Cruise Ships-3: Further notable smaller vessels, Carmania Press, London, 2003.

Let me start by saying that the name Carmania Press means high quality. Their books are exceptionally well edited and illustrated. Here we have one of a series of paperbacks with lesser known (for some) ships. Here is the cover
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And some typical pages like this one showing the interior of the Prima and the Sydney....

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.... and teh French Lyautey that became Efthymiades' Lindos

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[britanis]

great books
is in any books more pictures from the IRPINIA?
in all of my books.........nothing

[Nicholas Peppas]

great books
is in any books more pictures from the IRPINIA?
in all of my books.........nothing

I am sure! I will check! 200 books on maritime things here...

[Nicholas Peppas]

The last 100 years , we have so many fantastic liner .........but many or forgotten
she is one of this

Please see what I posted on http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthr...652#post192652 about Irpinia

[britanis]

this picture is perfekt for my modell for the skin

[britanis]

thanks for your work and happy easter

[Nicholas Peppas]

thanks for your work and happy easter

Thanks. family is half Orthodox, half Protestant, so we celebrate two Easters, today and next Sunday!