The History Press, 2014. — 240 p. When a ship set out for the Americas in the 16th century, the crew faced a long voyage and a host of difficulties along the way. Ship-building, navigation, and provisioning were all crucial to the vessel actually arriving in the New World, which was by no means guaranteed. In order to reach her destination, both skill and luck played vital...
History Press, 2013. — 192 p. In the Medieval Period the English Channel was an especially perilous stretch of water. It had two distinct (and often conflicting) functions. It was a rich commercial seaway, on which the rising economy of the known world depended. At the same time it was a wide, lawless, political frontier between two belligerent monarchies, whose kings...
Cassell, 2002. — 224 p. — (History Of Warfare). — ISBN: 978-0304352630. The turn of the 16th century saw the start of a revolution in sea warfare--one long in the making but, once begun, remarkably swift. The driving force: gunpowder. The principal agents: galleys (long, low boats propelled principally by oars) and galleons (heavy, square rigged sailing ships). Suddenly,...
Campus Verlag, 2019. — 432 p. Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before the emergence of the nation-state, maritime societies were shaped equally by both sanctioned and...
Barcelona: Associació d'Amics del Museu Marítim de Barcelona, 2012. — 351 p. Documentación, función, diseño y construcción. Introdusion. Qué sabemos de los galeones del siglo XVII. . Documentación escrita. Yacimientos arqueológicos. Iconografía. Buques, armadas y flotas . Tipos de buques del siglo XVII. Tipos de buques regulados en las ordenanzas. Procedencia de los buques y...
Barcelona: Associació d'Amics del Museu Marítim de Barcelona, 2012. — 395 p. Aparejos, artillería y pertrechos. Apéndices. La arboladura y la jarcia firme . Introducción. Labrado de palos y vergas. Los palos machos de mayor y trinquete. El chapuz, la cofa y el tamborete del mastelero. Los masteleros. El bauprés. El palo de mesana. Mesas de guarnición. Generalidades sobre...
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994. — 236 p. During the Middle Ages in Europe, water transport was of vital importance, on inland waterways, along the coast and overseas. Archaeological discoveries made over the last few years are providing new insights into medieval ships and shipping. The great expansion in shipping activity during the medieval period was matched by...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 320 p. Since its discovery in 2002, investigations of the Newport Medieval Ship have completely transformed historians’ understanding of fifteenth-century ship technology. The most exciting underwater recovery in recent decades, the late-medieval merchant vessel was built c. 1450 in northern Spain, and it ultimately foundered at Newport twenty...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 320 p. Since its discovery in 2002, investigations of the Newport Medieval Ship have completely transformed historians’ understanding of fifteenth-century ship technology. The most exciting underwater recovery in recent decades, the late-medieval merchant vessel was built c. 1450 in northern Spain, and it ultimately foundered at Newport twenty...
Boydell and Brewer, 2011. — 260 p. During the fourteenth century England was scarred by famine, plague and warfare. Through such disasters, however, emerged great feats of human endurance. Not only did the English population recover from starvation and disease but thousands of the kingdom's subjects went on to defeat the Scots and the French in several notable battles....
Interpublishing, 1980. — 156 p. — (Architectura Navalis). A book on the building & embellishment, the rigging & armaments of the Vasa, the Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm Harbour in 1628. The book includes comparative studies of Danish, English & Dutch shipbuilding methods of the time. Ваза - один из самых невезучих кораблей в истории. Он утонул в...
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1981. — 59 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-112-90313-0. — The Ship series. Volume 3. This is the third of a series of ten short books on the development of the ship, both the merchant vessel and the specialised vessel of war, from the earliest times to the present day, commissioned and produced jointly by the National Maritime Museum and Her...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 108 p. — (BAR International Series 2904). This book, unlike most studies dealing with the Crusaders’ voyages by sea across the Mediterranean and their arrival at the shores of the Levant, looks at this feat from a seaman’s point of view. To this end, it examines the types of ships, the sails and rigging that were used at the time, drawing on the author’s...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 692 p. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire, and in all likelihood would have been overrun by the...
Wiley, 2005. — 272 p. In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read. -Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Sacrifice and All She Wanted In 1622, hundreds of people lost their lives to the curse of the Spanish galleon Atocha-and they would not be the last. Fatal Treasure combines...
Roli Books, 1999. — 152 p. An exploration of the dimensions of Indian seafaring from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the author describes the period of striking change and growth for trade across the Indian ocean. The vitality and resilience of Indian seafaring, attested by both tradition and historical experience, the interplay of colonial domination and indigenous...
Routledge, 2020. — 328 p. First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding, as well as new practices in shipping and fishing, from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. It seeks to show how these changes transformed the European economy and affected the relationship...
London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1958. — 696 p. For the past four thousand years the Art of Navigation has been one of the most important contributions to the development of civilization; for perhaps the greatest achievement of man in the ancient world was his realization that he could explore new territories as a source of new materials. But the caravan routes that he...
Springer Singapore, 2019. — 292 p. This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons’ era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators from the 16th to 19th centuries. The galleons sailed across the Pacific via the hub...
Казань, 1910. — Факсимильное воспроизведение издания. Старая орфография.
"Историко-географическое исследование Н. П. Загоскина, заслуженного Ординарного Профессора Императорского Казанского Университета. Издание Управления Внутренних Водных Путей и Шоссейных Дорог".
Без автора. — Пхеньян: Издательство литературы на иностранных языках, 2009. — 47 с. В конце XVI в. самурайская Япония совершила вторжение в Корею, и началась Имчжинская отечественная война. В те годы японцы намеревались одним махом захватить всю Корею во взаимодействии своих войск на море и на суше. Однако в этой войне корейский флот, завоевавший господство на Корейском Южном...
Ленинград: Издательство ЛГУ, 1949. — 148 с. Когда мы обращаемся к трудам по истории русского флота, принадлежащим дворянско-буржуазным историкам, то видим, что они начинают изложение с событий второй половины IX в. Так например, Ф. Веселаго начинает свою книгу «Краткая история русского флота» с утверждения, что «первый морской поход в Грецию совершен был овладевшими Киевом...
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