Название: Sail's Last Century: The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830-1930
Автор: Robert Gardiner
Издательство: Chartwell Books
Серия: Conway's History of the Ship
ISBN: 0785814167
Год издания: 2001
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 182
Формат: PDF
Размер: 214,1 MB

A period that is commonly presented as a long, drawn out battle between sail and steam, this volume - the sixth in an ambitious series - sets out to prove that this was not the case and that shipowners, far from seeing the two types as irreconcilable rivals, invested in one or the other according to the usual commercial evaluation of potential risks and rewards.