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New Zealand Maritime Images: The Golden Years
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| NZ$ 69.99 each |
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| Author: Emmanual Makarios |
| Published by: Transpress |
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This book contains 288 fabulous colour images of New Zealand maritime scenes from the collection of the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, and others, taken between the 1950s and 1970s. This was the era when conventional cargo ships still plied the waters, and people headed overseas still boarded passenger liners instead of aircraft. Included are large ocean going ships and smaller coastal traders, ferries, service vessels, ports large and small, and wharf scenes redolent with the atmosphere of the time before containerization changed everything.
Many of the ships are British, as can be expected in the period when over 40 percent of New Zealand’s foreign trade was with the ‘old country’, but ships from several other countries are represented also.
210 x 275 mm landscape format, 256 pages, hardcover
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Strait Crossing : The ferries of Cook Strait through time
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| Author: Victor Young |
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Publishing 15 December 2009
275 x 210 mm landscape format, 256 pages
Hardcover
The cargo and passenger vessels recorded in this book have provided regular and scheduled services across Cook Strait since the late 19th century, establishing and maintaining the vital link between Wellington and the South Island ports of Lyttelton, Picton and Nelson. Many will forever be a part of our nation's history. Most are forgotten in time. Described are the ships that, year after year, in war and peace, carried our commerce and families between north and south. They were our maritime 'household names'. Ships like the Tamahine, Hinemoa, Aramoana, the giant Kaitaki, and the pioneering Straitsman are among those featured in text and photos. Profiles recall crew and passenger memories, outline the ports, detail the historic 'boat trains', visit the loss of the Wahine and acknowledge the assistance of the harbour radio stations. Lavishly
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Building the Titanic
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| Author: Rod Green |
| Published by: Carlton Books |
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Conceived in 1907, Titanic was two years in design and 37 months in construction at the great Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was the biggest ship the world had ever seen, and thought by many to be indestructible. But she sank, tragically, just five days into her maiden voyage, en route to New York in 1912. Some 1500 people died.
This book, for the first time, takes the story of the ship right back to the beginning, and the decision to build it in the first place. From there we go into the shipyard, where 4,000 tradesman rivet by rivet, plate by plate, turned those plans and blueprints into a towering hulk of an ocean liner. Once the outer shell was complete, the luxurious passenger accommodation was fitted out – the dining rooms, squash court, gymnasium, libraries, smoking rooms and even Turkish baths.
This is an extraordinary story of modern engineering and also of human endeavour and,
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