10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAMP STEAMER»
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tramp steamer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Eight Bells and Top Masts: Diaries from a
Tramp Steamer
In this marvelous memoir Christopher Lee offers the diaries of a 'Lad' much like himself who, at the age of 17, took his first job aboard the tramp ship Empire Heywood.
2
Whither O Ship: Adventures in a
Tramp Steamer
The world was then a very different place, and some of the countries he visited no longer exist politically. This is a true story which celebrates the passi
Stanley Roger Green, 1989
3
Tramp Steamer and the Silver Bullet
The adventures and misadventures of two young boys, Tramp and Silver, as they become involved with haunted houses, eccentric ladies, spiders, meat-eating plants, and secret tunnels.
4
Sea Interludes: Rogue Adventure on A
Tramp Steamer
Andreas Braddan's Sea Interludes is a delightfully fresh approach to a novel.
5
Investigation of So-called Shipping Combine: Hearings Before ...
It is an inviting field for the individual tramp steamer Mr. FRANKLIN. And it is a
season's business. It is a business that the tramp steamer can very well engage
in to much better advantage than he can engage in any general cargo business ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1913
There were now but two mates for our big tramp steamer going a long and
arduous voyage which included the navigation for some months of narrow inland
waterways in the tropics. Our first mate, passing amidships where the Purser was
...
Henry Major Tomlinson, 1912
7
The Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas
Four novellas about the charismatic Maqroll follow him all over the world, finding gold in a South American mine, on a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, and back home caring for the son of a friend who died tragically.
8
Congressional Serial Set
them in humble submission and recognition of their great ability — our friends,
the railroad people, are about to put one over on the public on this water
transportation matter. I see that Mr. Clark discusses the subject of the tramp
steamer.
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August 20-September 15, 1919
That is based on the proposition that a common carrier is one that travels over a
fixed route, holding itself out to accept goods from whomsoever tenders them;
whereas the tramp steamer says that it does not travel over a fixed route, and it
does ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1919
10
Proceedings of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and ...
In this connection, I wish you would define a tramp steamer. Mr. Franklin. A tramp
steamer is a steamer that is owned by a firm or company that did not build that
steamer and is not operating her in a regular line. She is ready to go wherever
she ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Joshua Willis Alexander, Solomon Stephen Huebner, 1913
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAMP STEAMER»
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tramp steamer is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stick an IRBM in a tramp steamer, launch over Baltimore from far offshore. Boom! Most of the East Coast dissolves into chaos three days later. The extremely fast ... «CNET, Jul 15»
The sun sets on the thrill-packed life of a newspaper finance scribe
1-10-1933 – 11-6-2015. It was a dark and stormy night on a Greek island in the 1950s where the tramp steamer Trojan was preparing to depart. In a bar not far ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Book review: Jeremy Hutchinson's cases of history in the making
He took a gap year, travelling the world by tramp steamer, and stayed with Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles, where he spent a hectic summer. He went to one of ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
London in the Time of Cholera: Sunless Sea, The Order and the Act …
This rickety-yet-dependable vessel is a thing straight out of Alvaro Mutis's “The Tramp Steamer's Last Port of Call”: “The ruinous condition of this old servant of ... «Paste Magazine, May 15»
Somali pirates, aircraft carrier fires among sea stories to be spun in …
Cronin said his first working gig on a boat was as a cabin boy for a Scandinavian tramp steamer when he was 22 and searching for a cheap way to get to Europe ... «Bangor Daily News, Mar 15»
Sunless Sea review
The city rests at the edge of a vast uncharted underground ocean. As the captain of a tramp steamer, you attempt to make your name and protect your crew in the ... «PC Gamer, Feb 15»
Belle getting shipshape for anniversary
The vessel was used frequently as a tramp steamer with many owners over the decades. As the Avalon, through the 1950s, the boat was used chiefly for ... «The Courier-Journal, Sep 14»
Behind the Komagata Maru's fight to open Canada's border
It was an early Saturday morning, May 23, 1914, when the tramp steamer Komagata Maru sailed into Vancouver Harbour. She had been built in Glasgow in ... «The Globe and Mail, May 14»
Sunday Favorites: Shipwreck Preserves, a New Trend in Conservation
Vamar, tramp steamer, Port St. Joe, Fla. • Regina, screw steamer turned tanker, Bradenton Beach, Fla. • George Valentine, Barkentine, Stuart, Fla. So the next ... «The Bradenton Times, Apr 14»
Burnley defender Trippier has 40 per cent clause
First rat in a life jacket at Tramp Steamer Turf??? He has probably spotted the rocks ahead...and smelt big money outside the village....oh dear Yeah, I know 20 ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Mar 14»
