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Coasting bargemaster / Bob Roberts.
By: Roberts, Bob [author]
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BookPublisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Seafarer Books, 2000Description: 173 pages : illustrations, plans, maps, plates ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0953818012 (paperback).Subject(s): Sailing barges -- England -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 387.224092
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 387.224092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00109297 |
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| 387.22 The windjammers / | 387.22 The twilight of sail / | 387.220941 Victorian and Edwardian sailing ships from old photographs / | 387.224092 Coasting bargemaster / | 387.2240941 The merchant schooners / | 387.232 Turmoil / | 387.232 The Lone Ranger story : from salvage tug to super yacht / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This account gives a vivid picture of the romance and realism of coastal trade, initially in a schooner, then in Thames spiritsail sailing barges before and during the war. The author tells of the havoc wrought by barges caught out in severe gales and the hazards of plying trade in wartime.
First published 1949.