Ike had a boat built in Sydney at Dunn's in Berry's Bay. He did some of the menial jobs himself, watching the shipwrights carefully to make sure they didn't skimp on the work. Although he was never formally trained, he learned enough to ...
Two decades after the defeat of the alien Hordes, aerosteamer pilot Lieutenant Michael O'Brien stumbles into the middle of a conflict between warring factions of the Kazan, a powerful alien empire that could threaten the human Republic.
His diary of this experience led me to the ports and people he so vividly described. This book integrates his observations with mine and details how I came to know and to love him.
The story of the swift but perilous Gloucester schooners and of the men who built, sailed, raced and fished them.
Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from two naval courts of inquiry, ships’ logs and action reports, personal letters, and diaries, ...
Onourfifth day out of the canal, the sea had calmed down to choppy swells, and there were signsof clearing. Thesun was trying to cut through the clouds and cast streaks ofyellow rays that reflected on the sea.
Down to the Sea
This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly ...
For those who go down to sea in ships life has always been exciting but ever dangerous.