Mersey Tugs Through Time

Download or read book Mersey Tugs Through Time written by Ian Collard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Mersey tugs have changed and developed since the late nineteenth century.

Download or read book Mersey Built: The Role of Merseyside in the American Civil War written by Robert Thorp and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mersey Built’ chronicles the little-known commercial battle that raged between North and South during the American Civil War. The South relied on Europe for its military supplies, which the North tried to stop with a naval blockade of all Southern ports. The South retaliated by destroying Northern merchant ships on the high seas, using war ships, secretly procured from British shipyards and smuggled out of Britain by sympathetic British captains using British crews. The Charleston-based business empire headed by George Trenholm provided a conduit for Confederate finance with its Liverpool branch acting as bankers for the Confederacy’s procurement agents. Merseyside, with its extensive docks and numerous shipyards quickly became the epicenter of Confederate operations in Europe. Several British businessmen bought ships specifically to run supplies through the Union blockade, leaving relationships between the United States and Britain strained, close to breaking point. The book relates the history of Trenholm’s commercial empire, its pre-war expansion into Liverpool and the pivotal role it played in supporting the Confederate war effort. The involvement of other Liverpool-based entrepreneurs and their successes and failures in blockade-running is described. Background histories of the Merseyside ship builders who constructed warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy are included as well as several mini-biographies of the Liverpool-based captains who smuggled out warships and braved the Union blockade. Details of each ship built on Merseyside for involvement in the Civil War are listed. The role of the United States consular service and its extensive, Liverpool-based, spy ring is described, as are the efforts of the United States ambassador in London to influence British government policy on neutrality. The author, a direct descendant of a Liverpool ship builder, and a blockade-running captain, brings new insights and previously unpublished facts to light in this fascinating chapter of history.

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Download or read book Minutes of Evidence and of Proceedings on the Liverpool and Birkenhead Dock Bills in the Sessions of 1848, 1850, 1851, & 1852 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Drancy - Journey's End written by Raymond Roscoe and published by R Roscoe. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Treatment Available to legitimate producers Brief Overview: At just 14 years old, a boy from Liverpool, England, borrows his older brother’s birth certificate to pursue a dream of adventure at sea. In 1937, he joined a ship owned by the Harrison Line, enjoying three years of life at sea before World War II erupted. In 1940, his unarmed cargo ship is attacked by a German Raider disguised as a Swedish vessel. The Raider’s crew mercilessly plunders the ship before sinking it, killing some crew members and taking the rest, including the young boy, as prisoners of war. Journey to Drancy: After months of captivity at sea, the boy and his fellow POWs are transported to occupied France and confined in Drancy, a concentration camp notorious for its inhumane conditions. There, they endure torture, starvation, and the constant fear of being sent to Auschwitz. Drancy is a place of horror, where the screams of tortured men, women, and children fill the night. After six agonizing months, the boy is transferred to various German POW camps, where he continues to struggle for survival amidst gruelling conditions and dangerous escape attempts. He remains a POW until six months after the war’s end, finally returning to a world that has drastically changed. Post-War Injustice: Forty years after the war, Germany established a compensation fund for those who suffered in the Drancy Concentration Camp, France. However, when a British MP seeks to secure the compensation that Germany awarded for the few British survivors of Drancy, the government tribunal refuses, dismissing Drancy as merely a "transit camp." This decision stands in stark contrast to overwhelming evidence from survivors, historians, and authorities in Germany, France, Israel, and beyond, who recognize Drancy's true nature as a concentration camp. A full twenty-page stenographer's transcript of the tribunal meeting is included in the book

Download or read book Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: