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Mayflower : The Pilgrim Fathers' historic voyage of 1620 (Haynes Maritime Manual)

Publicado para conmemorar el 400 aniversario del viaje del Mayflower en 1620 y el establecimiento de la primera colonia en Plymouth, Massachusetts, el Manual Mayflower de Haynes cuenta la historia de cómo los Padres Peregrinos zarparon de Plymouth en Devon hacia América, buscando establecer una nueva vida en el Nuevo Mundo libres de persecución religiosa.

Tras una agotadora travesía de 66 días por el Atlántico, el barco y sus 102 pasajeros desembarcaron en Cape Cod. Durante el crudo invierno que siguió, aproximadamente la mitad de ellos murieron a causa de enfermedades y desnutrición.
Finalmente, el grupo se decidió por un emplazamiento en Plymouth, Massachusetts, donde construyeron su colonia. Desde estos inicios llenos de dificultades, Plymouth se convirtió en la cuna de la América moderna.

El manual Haynes Mayflower examina las primeras colonias y los primeros colonos en América. La historia de la "colonia perdida" en la isla de Roanoke, Carolina del Norte. Qué motivó a los Padres Peregrinos a viajar al Nuevo Mundo. El histórico viaje del Mayflower. Cómo los marineros cruzaron los océanos en el siglo XVII. La vida de los primeros colonos en Nueva Inglaterra. La inspiradora historia de la réplica del Mayflower II en 1957 y su reciente renovación para las celebraciones del 400 aniversario en septiembre de 2020.

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The Lifeboat Service in England- The North East Coast - Station by Station

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea. Today, the volunteer lifeboat crews on the coasts of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire operate high-tech state-of-the-art lifeboats for the purpose of saving lives at sea.

The RNLI currently operates sixteen lifeboat stations along the north-east coast of England. This comprehensive book has details of every one, and covers their histories and the current operations.
It also includes details of old stations that have been closed, photographs of lifeboat memorials, and contains descriptions of some of the dramatic, courageous and daring rescues undertaken by the lifeboat crews from the region.

Author Nicholas Leach has amassed a wealth of information about the lifeboats and lifeboat stations of the North East, past and present, visiting every one to provide a complete and up-to-date record of lifesaving in the treacherous North Sea between Berwick-upon-Tweed in the north and Skegness.

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Britain's Historic Ships : A Complete Guide to the Ships that Shaped the Nation

This fully updated second edition explores 20 of the most celebrated and accessible British ships and offers a comprehensive history of each vessel's design, construction, active service and subsequent restoration and preservation.

Presented in order of each ship's launch date, each entry is written by the acknowledged expert on a particular vessel, gives full specification details and is sumptuously illustrated with contemporary photographs, historical illustrations and a full set of scale plans.

Principal vessels include: Mary Rose, HMS Victory, HMS Trincomalee, SS Great Britain, Cutty Sark, RRS Discovery, HMS Warrior, HMS Belfast, HMY Britannia, HMS Alliance, HMS Cavalier, Gypsy Moth IV and HMS Plymouth.

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Coastal Shipping Through Time

Before the development of canals, railways or metalled roads, the quickest and most effective means of transporting goods from one point to another in Britain was by the use of coastal shipping, shallow-draft boats travelling between the ports of the British Isles. With the development and improvement of the canals, railways and especially the road network, however, coastal shipping in the UK has decreased dramatically.

In this book, maritime author Ian Collard takes a look at the history of coastal shipping in the UK, examining in turn the ports of the English Channel, the North East, Scotland and the Irish Sea and the ships used to transport so much cargo and so many passengers.

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Coasters of South Wales

This volume looks at ports between Swansea in the west and Chepstow in the east. The industrial revolution saw a huge and rapid expansion of ports in this area, thanks largely to the insatiable appetite for coal and metals which could be supplied in abundance from South Wales. The latter half of the twentieth century saw an inexorable decline in the area's coal production and heavy industry with the inevitable result that large sections of port areas have declined in maritime importance.

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