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  1. #21

    Προεπιλογή N.16. Haws: Merchant Fleets: Messageries Maritimes

    N.16. Duncan Haws, Merchant Fleets, Messageries Maritimes, TCL Publications, England, 1999.

    it is difficult to describe Duncan Haws. He is a legendary figure of maritime writing. His books on "Mercant Fleets" are legendary and have been drawn mostly by him. I say "drawn" because his books contain his own drawings of the ships, a formidable task!

    This one presents my favorite "second Line" of France, the Messageries Maritimes that was coming to the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece very often. This one is No 36 (!!!) in his series of books.

    Look at just three volumes of his series and you can start ... salivating


    Volume 1: Includes: P & 0 Line, Orient Line, and the Blue Anchor Line
    Volume 2: Includes: American Line, Atlantic Transport Line, Cunard Line, Dominion Line, Inman Line, Leyland Line, Red Star Line, and the White Star Line
    Volume 3: Includes: Union Line, Castle & Union-Castle Lines, Allan Line, and the Canadian Pacific Line
    You get the picture!

    Below, you see the cover and a typical page of this book. The cover shows the legendary Eridan, a 6,100-ton, 1928 La Ciotat ship that was doing the Marseilles-Noumea (New Caledonia) route until 1956. See wonderful photographs of her in http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/eridan.htm

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  2. #22

    Προεπιλογή N.17. Butler & Williams: Tragedy at Sea

    N.17. William Butler and Douglas Williams, Tragedy at Sea, Butler, Kenney and Farmer, 1996.

    This is a small book that I bought recently for about $4 in my favorite "Half Price Bookstore". It is worth only its dramatic pictures from poor ships that failed to survive rough seas, bad lack or were simply to old to fight... The book is disappointing in that the text is minimal. Yet, I liked it. Here is teh cover page and another page. The second picture shows the end of the American tanker Pine Ridge in December 1960, outside of one of the worst storm spots in the world, Cape Hatteras of North Carolina


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  3. #23

    Προεπιλογή N.18. Kludas, Great Passenger Ships of the World

    N.18. Arnold Kludas, Great Passenger Ships of the World: Volume 1: 1858-1912, Patrick Stevens, Cambridge, 1975

    If you must have one book about ocean liners, this is it! But it is actually six volumes and each one costs about $50, so be prepared to shell about 220 euros! many people call these 6 books "the Bible of maritime history".
    Originally published as Die grosse Passagierschiffe der Welt, the book has been translated by Charles Hodge.

    Arnold Kludas
    is the No 1 maritime writer in the world!. A German of Lithuanian extract he has written authoritative books about ocean liners. The other five volumes are: Vol 2: 1913-23; Vol 3: 1924-35; Vol 4: 1936-50; Vol 5: 1951-76; Vol 6: 1977-86

    Each book has a description of 3-4 ships per double page with technical data and other tidbits (see below with Danish ocean liners)

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  4. #24

    Προεπιλογή N.19. Flayhart, The American Line, 1871-1902

    N.19. William Henry Flayhart III, The American Line, 1871-1902, W.W. Norton & Co, New York, NY, 1999.

    An exceptionally well written book that will take you hours if not days to go through, this book covers the story and ships of the famous American Line. The American Line of Philadelphia absorbed a number of other companies including the Inman Steamship Co, and the Red Star Line of Belgium. So, there is an extra reason for acquiring this book. Red Star had some truly glorious ships! Please look at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_Line http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_Line and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_Line Also other postcards can be found in http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/RedStar.html
    Eventually, American Line was named International Mercantile Marine Co and was dissolved in 1936. You may read a few pages of this book in
    http://books.google.com/books?id=rix...esult&resnum=1

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  5. #25

    Προεπιλογή No. 20 Patarin: Messageries Maritimes

    No 20. Pierre Patarin, Messageries Maritimes, Voyageurs et paquebots du passé, Editions Ouest France, Bordeaux, France, 1997

    This is a great boo about all the ships of Messageries Maritimes. Very important photographs. Wonderful reading

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  6. #26
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    Παράθεση Αρχική Δημοσίευση από Nicholas Peppas Εμφάνιση μηνυμάτων
    N.18. Arnold Kludas, Great Passenger Ships of the World: Volume 1: 1858-1912, Patrick Stevens, Cambridge, 1975

    If you must have one book about ocean liners, this is it! But it is actually six volumes and each one costs about $50, so be prepared to shell about 220 euros! many people call these 6 books "the Bible of maritime history".
    Originally published as Die grosse Passagierschiffe der Welt, the book has been translated by Charles Hodge.

    Arnold Kludas is the No 1 maritime writer in the world!. A German of Lithuanian extract he has written authoritative books about ocean liners. The other five volumes are: Vol 2: 1913-23; Vol 3: 1924-35; Vol 4: 1936-50; Vol 5: 1951-76; Vol 6: 1977-86

    Each book has a description of 3-4 ships per double page with technical data and other tidbits (see below with Danish ocean liners)
    A true bible indeed. It was supplemented arround 1992 with a 7th volume with all existing ships over 10,000 GRT and in-between additions.
    I heard that a 8th volume with updates and newbuildings was published more recently but only in German.

  7. #27

    Προεπιλογή N.18. Books by Arnold Kludas

    Παράθεση Αρχική Δημοσίευση από Ellinis Εμφάνιση μηνυμάτων
    A true bible indeed. It was supplemented arround 1992 with a 7th volume with all existing ships over 10,000 GRT and in-between additions.
    I heard that a 8th volume with updates and new buildings was published more recently but only in German.
    Yes indeed. On the Web I noticed a seventh volume with the most recent ships but it was published by a different publisher.

    It is interesting to note how many books Arnold Kludas has written... See the summary in the German Google! http://www.amazon.de/B%C3%BCcher/s?i...0Kludas&page=1

  8. #28

    Προεπιλογή No 21. Bonsor, South Atlantic Seaway

    No 21. N.R.P. Bonsor, South Atlantic Seaway, Brookside Publications, Jersey, Channel Islands, 1983.

    What a great contribution to maritime history! What an incredible research to identify the hundreds of obscure ships that traveled to and from South America, especially before 1900! I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and I keep going back again and again! If you find it, grab it... A bit pricey though... $75.

    Here is the cover

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    And here you see a typical two-page lay out. I selected these specific pages because they include a ship of some importance to the broader Greek history! On the right page you will note Guadalquivir of Messageries Maritimes. This was a 1888 transatlantic ship, just 2,598 tons that was doing the route Bordeaux to South America.

    In 1903 she was transferred to the Mediterranean route. Wrong decision! She found herself in Thessaloniki on May 31, 1903, but a revolutionary of the VMRO, the "Macedonian" (in reality Bulgarian) Comitat organization, set a bomb and fire that destroyed her http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/guadal2.htm
    Our friend Philippe Ramona has posted three photos from her burning in Thessaloniki http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/guadal.htm
    See also http://www.frenchlines.com/ship_fr.p...153&mode=print

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    Then, admire a page about an almost unknown Italo-Argentinian company

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    Lloyd Austriaco going to South America? Yes sir!

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    And a Spanish Line with very old ships... Notice how these ships had a huge cargo area

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  9. #29

    Προεπιλογή No 22. Newell and Williamson, Pacific Coastal Liners

    No 22. Gordon Newell and John Williamson, Pacific Coastal Liners, Bonanza Books, New York, 1959.

    I introduced this book in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthr...t=33119&page=5 Some of the things I said at that time are summarized here as well.

    The book is absolutely fascinating... On pages 136 and 137 it has 10 pre-1940 photographs of all the Princesses.... On page 136, (we find) the black smoke-producing black Angelika On the same page, the even more black smoke-producing Mediterranean On page 137 (we find) Aegaeon
    Then on page 141 there is this absolutely glorious picture of Aegaeon as Princess Alice with the impressive British Columbia mountains behind it... And on page 191 another one with the whole ship, soooooo long... Of course the black smoke is there!

    The book has numerous pictures of the other Canadian Pacific Princesses that were built in the late 1920s and 1930s and joined Typaldos the same time or later.

    In addition, the regular routes of the Princesses were: Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver with extensions to Port Angeles http://www.portangeles.org/ and Nanaimo http://www.vancouverisland.com/Regions/towns/?townID=58
    Some of them may have gone also to Prince Rupert, B.C., and the Alaskan ports of Ketchikan, Wrangel, Juneau (the capital) and Skagway.

    I just checked this morning and the book is available in http://www.oceanliners.us/catalog/item/333011/79765.htm
    http://www.high-lonesomebooks.com/cg...hlb/16333.html
    Clearly, this is a 1959 book that covers in great detail that US and Canadian ships that cover the routes from Baja California in Mexico to San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, Juneau and further north. the book has an incredible wealth of information (but not always technical data) about a large number of small and large ships unknown to the Greek maritime world... The authors have a fascination especially with wrecks and offer magnificent pictures of poor ships wind blown on the shores of Canada and Northern California.

    But the book becomes truly special when the authors start describing all the small boats that went to Alaska in the 1800s and the very early 1900s.
    During the gold rush, this was the way to go to Alaska! Some of these ships went all the way to Nome, AL in frigid weather... Guess what. All the boats, all the wrecks, are here to see! Incredible

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  10. #30

    Προεπιλογή N.22.

    No 22. Gordon Newell and John Williamson, Pacific Coastal Liners, Bonanza Books, New York, 1959.

    From the same book here is a fold out with ships that fought the seas in Nome, AL (and lost)!

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