The Making of a Sailor
Author: Frederick Pease Harlow
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick Pease Harlow
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James P Mcguane
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-10-29
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0393047490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From tar-ladles and snuffboxes to sailmaker's fids and carronades, this is a gorgeous photographic essay on Jack Aubrey's world in the Royal Navy. 280 color illustrations.
Author: Susan Cosentino
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2000-06-09
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1612515673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943, when he was wounded at the Battle of Tulagi. Peppered with the kind of vivid, authentic details that could only be provided by a participant, the book is the saga of a gallant fighting ship that earned a Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the Third Battle of Savo Island, where she took on a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer and was the last to leave the fray. Calhoun's gripping and colorful account tells what it was like to be there during those furiously fought, close-range engagements. When published in hardcover in 1993, the book was widely praised as a good read loaded with rich and interesting details.
Author: Cleveland O. Eason
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1644620030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do you want to know how to leverage time? Do you find yourself taking two steps forward and one step back? Are you seeking alternatives to the "school of hard knocks?" Then you have found your source! "A Sailor's Advice on Life" is a sailor's lessons learned for the journey called life. So, whether you are starting out, starting over, looking for the North Star, or trying to figure out where you are, this book is for you! I am a strong believer in critical thinking. I will challenge you to ask questions and to use the time in between the pages to do some self-reflection. As it is often said, it is not just the destination, but the journey that is the adventure! It is my sincere hope that this book will encourage you to navigate life with your eyes wide open and realize your fullest potential! Cleveland O. Eason is the son of a US Army First Sergeant, who completed two Vietnam combat tours and was a US Army boot camp drill instructor before retiring with 20 years of honorable service. Mr. Eason entered the US Navy at the height of the Cold War and obtained the rank of chief petty officer after just nine years of service. Mr. Eason obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander before retiring from active duty with 23 years of honorable service. While on active duty, Mr. Eason had tours in Asia Pacific, Southwest Asia and deployed on US Navy surface ships in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operations. Mr. Eason's military overseas and stateside assignments, ports of call and post-military retirement entrepreneur pursuits, contributed to his ability to have positive interactions with people from all walks of life. His introspective reflections of those interactions allowed him to gain key insights into human behavior. Mr. Cleveland O. Eason graduated from Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. Eason possesses a Bachelor in Applied Science from Troy University, Troy Alabama, a Master in Systems Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California and a Master of Business and Administration (MBA) from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Author: Theodore C. Mason
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-01-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1612511562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
Author: Gerry Smyth
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712353700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.