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| #1149529 in Books | Seaforth Publishing | 2014-02-19 | 2014-02-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.70 x.90 x10.30l,2.22 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | Seaforth Publishing||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great Overview of the Venerable Tramp Freighter|By James J. Bloom|Tramp freighters have a special niche in the lore and literature of the sea. This type of vessel, along with the tramp trade in general (carrying cargo around quixotic and exotic itineraries) has gone the way of the dodo. Of course, as the author acknowledges, the space limitation precludes accommodating everyone|About the Author|ROY FENTON is a full-time researcher and writer and the author of some 25 books on shipping history. His specialism is coastal trade in the steam era, and in 2005he was awarded a PhD for a thesis on the transition from sail to steam in the coa
The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence the tag ‘tramp’, though new tramps were built, often with the owner’s eye on chartering to the liner companies. In this new book by the well-known author Roy ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Tramp Ships: An Illustrated History | Roy Fenton.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
