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Bounty (Ship) --- Bethia (Ship : -1787) --- Bertha (Ship : -1787) --- H.M.S. Bounty (Ship) --- HMS Bounty (Ship) --- HMAV Bounty (Ship)
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Le véritable récit du naufrage de La Méduse Le 2 juillet 1816, la frégate La Méduse s'échoue sur un banc de sable au large de la Mauritanie avec, à son bord, quatre cents passagers. Cent cinquante sont abandonnés sur un radeau construit à la hâte qui dérive pendant treize jours. Sans provisions, les naufragés de la Méduse s'entretuent, les rescapés dévorant la chair des cadavres gisant à leur côté. Quinze seulement survivent. Quatre témoigneront de cette expérience hors du commun. Leur récit bouleverse et divise la France de la Restauration. À travers la mise en cause du capitaine, dont l'incapacité est avérée, c'est le gouvernement lui-même qui est attaqué. Au-delà de cette dimension politique, les Français découvrent avec stupeur cette aventure tragique et macabre qui touche les replis les plus sombres de l'âme humaine. Le souvenir des guerres de l'Empire rejaillit. La catastrophe de la Méduse, immortalisée par Géricault au salon de 1819, exprime un indicible refoulé depuis l'avènement de Napoléon. Partant des récits des témoins et d'archives inédites, Jacques-Olivier Boudon nous fait revivre l'odyssée des naufragés de la Méduse. Il nous raconte, d'une écriture alerte, les rebondissements de ce drame et explore les profondeurs d'une société qui solde alors le passif d'un quart de siècle de violences de guerre.
Méduse (Ship) --- Influence. --- France --- History
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Le transport fluvial est l'un des types de transport les plus sûrs, c'est pourquoi il est souvent utilisé pour le transport de matières dangereuses. Le transport de matières dangereuses par voie fluviale est régi en Europe par un accord appelé l'ADN. Selon cet accord, la capacité maximale d'un réservoir d'un navire citerne ne peut dépasser les 380 $ext{m}^3$, à moins qu'un calcul ne prouve que le dépassement de la capacité limite ne constitue pas un risque. Ce calcul est réalisé en suivant une procédure en 13 étapes décrites dans l'ADN. La première étape de ce calcul est la création d'une construction de référence satisfaisant les prescriptions de l'ADN. Ce navire de référence a d'abord été dimensionné et son échantillonnage a été réalisé en suivant les réglementations d'une société de classification, le Bureau Véritas. Lorsque cette procédure est appliquée, l'étude est réalisée pour un navire avec des citernes dont la capité maximale dépasse la limite autorisée. Cependant, la procédure a été appliquée dans ce travail en créant un navire alternatif à partir du navire de référence. La différence entre les deux navires est une partie de la structure se trouvant dans les doubles bords du navire, où les porques ont été remplacées par une structure innovante. La procédure nécessite l'étude par éléments finis de la collision entre les deux navires avec des autres bateaux. Cette étude a été réalisée sur le logiciel LS-DYNA. Différents scénarios de collision ont été modélisés et étudiés afin de connaître l'énergie absorbée pendant la collision avant la rupture de la citerne pour les deux types de navires. La fin de la procédure de l'ADN est l'évaluation de la probabilité de rupture de la citerne. Cette probabilité est calculée à partir des énergies de collision déterminées à différents scénarios grâce à l'étude par éléments finis. Cette procédure nous permet de pouvoir comparer objectivement l'efficacité d'une structure d'un bateau lors d'un impact, et de valider l'utilité de la structure innovante qui a été créée lors de cette étude.
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"From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States--a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, detailing everything from the identities of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African American culture"--
Slave trade --- Slaves --- Slave ships --- Merchant ships --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History --- Hare (Ship)
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Ship-railroads --- Railroads --- History. --- Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. --- Canadian Northern Railway Company.
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A study of the warships evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the fourth and third centuries B.C. and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Italians, Carthaginians and Romans in the fleet and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion; there is a section on the reconstructions by John Coates, and a discussion of crews, ships and tactics illuminated by the recent experiments with the reconstructed trireme Olympias.
Ships, Ancient --- Naval history, Ancient --- Ships --- Triremes. --- Naval tactics --- Ancient ships --- Naval warfare --- War, Maritime --- Tactics --- Galleys --- Conversion of ships --- Reconstruction of ships --- Ship conversion --- Shipbuilding --- Ancient naval history --- Reconstruction. --- History --- Olympias (Ship)
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Maritime Security, second edition, provides a practical "how-to-guide" for maritime security professionals and students. This book explains, in clear language, how commercial seaports and vessels function; what threats currently exist; what security policies, procedures, systems, and measures must be implemented to mitigate these threats; and how to conduct ship and port security assessments and plans. Whether the problem is weapons of mass destruction or cargo theft, Maritime Security provides invaluable guidance for the professionals who protect our shipping and ports.
Merchant marine --- Shipping --- Marine terminals --- Security measures. --- Ocean terminals --- Port terminals --- Ship terminals --- Harbors --- Terminals (Transportation) --- Mercantile marine --- Marine service
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The shipbuilding industry, from its inception to the present day, had evolved, and following the needs of the industry, classification societies were founded. They, as non-governmental organization, regulate the fabrication of new ships or offshore structures based on their own established codes, rules and standards. As, nowadays, the most widely used joining technique on shipbuilding activities is welding, these welded joints must be certified and ensured that accomplish the quality expected and allow repeatability for the specified material. Consequently, it required qualification of welding procedure which is driven by the rules of a selected Ship Classification Society. The European Standard EN ISO 15614-1 covers specification and qualification of welding procedure and is specifically applied to metallic material using arc and gas welding process. The entire title of the referred standard, Specification and qualification of welding procedures for metallic material – Welding procedure test – Part 1: Arc and gas welding of steels and arc welding of nickel and nickel alloys, clearly explicit it is one part of standard series which regulates welding procedure qualification and the method to be performed in this case is welding procedure test. This standard is used as guidance by Ship Classification Societies to set and establish their technical rules and standards. Due to numerous existence of Classification Societies and being shipbuilding a worldwide activity, shipyards eventually resort to most of them according to the project to be executed. So a great number of Welding Procedure Specification is generated and must be approved. For the welding engineers this is huge time consumed and for the company and/or project is a lot of money spent. According to all facts, adopting EN ISO 15614-1 as initial reference, a rereading of it is performed to in sequence draw a parallel among the rules associated with Welding Procedure Qualification of different Classification Societies. Resulting, then, on a paper pointing out differences and similarities on which further study could generate a more general document simplifying and shortening the process in terms of approval a new Welding Procedure Specification document.
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Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran afoul of arctic ice, leaving some of its crew stranded on an ice floe. Bessels and the others spent a second winter on shore in Northwest Greenland, where the drifting, disabled ship ran aground. Hall died suspiciously during the first winter, and Bessels is widely suspected of having poisoned him. Bill Barr has uncovered new evidence of a possible motive. Polaris includes considerable detail which does not appear elsewhere. It is the only account of the expedition which includes rich scientific information about anthropology, geology, flora and fauna. It provides much more information than other accounts on the Greenland settlements Polaris visited on her way north. Bessels' is the only published first-hand account of the second wintering of part of the ship's complement on shore at Polaris House, near Littleton Island, and of that party's attempt at travelling south by boat until picked up by the Scottish whaler Ravenscraig. The same applies to the cruise aboard the whaler, Arctic, after Bessels and his companions transferred to that ship.Essential reading for researchers and students of arctic exploration history, this book is also a compelling read for the interested general reader.
Bessels, Emil, --- Travel --- Polaris (Ship) --- United States North Polar Expedition --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- American. --- Hall, Charles Francis, --- HISTORY / Polar Regions.
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