Today, am sharing some links on library archives on marine engineering. It is important to know the past as it will help every marine professional to understand daily concepts to be applied in all marine activities.
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- 2013 Malcolm McClaren's Construction of the BC Tug & Barge Fleet
- 2015 Histoire du Chantier Davie
- Sunoco Ships and Shipbuilding
- Engineers on the foundering Titanic
- Detroit Diesels North American diesel icon
- Robert Swanson blows his horns across the world
- Liberty ships - some history after the war
- Liberty Ships - A complete list
- Liberty Ships - a list of modified ships
- Flags and Gun Salutes - A guide
- On ship's names
- Russian icebreaker fleet development
- Legends of liners
- Birth of the bulker
- A word from the QE2's Chief Engineer
- Engineers at sea: exploring our roots
- Seasoned sailor terms
- Sailor's glossary
- Sailor's glossary - terms used in 1814
- Sailor's weather tips
- Denis Grifiths' British Marine Industry and Diesel
- 1944 CIA Engineering Sabotage
- 1954 Popular Science article on ships Running on Seawater
- Cunard Liners
- History of fuel injection
- The Greatest Liners in Detail
- The Greatest Transatlantic Shipping Lines
- White Star Liners
- 2006 Russia's Nuclear Icebreaker fleet
- 2006 Short history of the container
- Popular Science on the "new"Normandy
- 2004 History of undersea cables Part 1
- 1983 Nuclear Merchant Ship Savannah
- 2000 About Samuel Cunard
- 1939 NZ 1st Class ME Questions
- 1939 NZ 2nd Class ME Coastal Exams
- 1939 NZ 2nd Class ME Exam Questions
- 1939 NZ Local MS Exam Questions
Our most popular historical pages
- Biography of Rudolph Diesel - A condense version, with pictures and related files.
- Prime mover developments - A chronological timeline of important events in the development of the diesel engine, and other prime movers of ships.
Doxford opposed piston engine
- Main Area (short history, types, links, documents, etc)
- Pictorial of the Sunderland "Works"
- Damages resulting from various failures
- Technical drawings
- List of Doxford engines in Argentinean ships with pictures of the ships
- List of Doxford engines in Norwegian ships
- List of Doxford engines in Chinese ships
- List of Doxford engines in Australia ships
- 2010 Opposed piston renaissance
Historical Books from around the world
- 2013 Teekay_The_First_40 Years (pdf, 8.4 mb)
- 1964 Illustrated History of Ships and Boats (61 mb)
- 1980 The Seafarers - The clipper ships (33 mb)
- General Engineering Knowledge (steam primarily) from the 1940's, issued by the US War Shipping Administration :
- 1903 Life_in_the_mercantile_marine (EPub, 0.3 mb)
- 1868 Local_marine_board_examination (USA deck officers) (EPub, 0.4mb)
- 1916 Sothern Verbal Notes for Engineers (pdf, 48mb)
- History of Danish shipping company Rederiet M.H. Simonsen (pdf, 6.7mb)
- Hodder Tugs - Story of local Vancouver BC Tug company (pdf, 7.2mb)
Tom Bates, a contributor to the site, is the initial driving force behind these; he kindly submitted many old and interesting drawings, plans and was the seed for this area of the site. Thank you.
Other areas of the site which may be of interest to you
- The Ship's Library contains the bulk of our collection of articles, exam help, documents and such. One area, past accident reports, could also be of interest in historical sense, click here to see this area.
- Most of my original works is published on the blog, The Monitor. Over 2006 - 2012, over 500 blog entries have been made there.
- The Marine Picture Archive holds collection of images of ship pictures, both new and old, but most now reside on sister website, www.seafarermedia.com. The Video Library also has some interesting media to browse and download at will.
On the web - Interesting reading
- A large library of US warship ship drawings
- Brad sent us a link to his extensive archives on Woodwards controls
- Read about a massive typhoon that the US Navy unsuccessfully challenged in Dec 1944.
- Historical perspective of inventions are discussed at Engines of our Ingenuity
- Retired Dutch Engineer Verheijden compiled this website on the Doxford engine (available above, as well)
- Oil Rig Disasters are chronicled by Simon in the UK
- US Submarine propulsion diesel engines history and function explained
- Ocean Research Group has shipwreck stuff
- Old Tacoma Engines has some neat stuff on older engines
- Lardex offer Norwegian seafarer stories, I think, because its all in Norwegian
- Canadian Naval History is preserved by Naval Marine Archives
- UK museum Internal Fire - Museum of Power
- UK museum on Hovercrafts
- University of Washington's Waterfront Worker's History Project
- Tour the US merchant marine nuclear powered ship Savannah
- The SS John Brown is part of the Liberty Ship Project
- Engineering and Technology History Wiki site
- A fascinating blog on Shipyard Culture and history
- A compendium of ships built in Canadian and US shipyards
- Dawlish chronicles many interesting articles from the "heyday of empire"
- EMD's history from Utah Rail
- Norwegian whaling in Antarctic in the 1950's
- Pacific Marine Review, a 1917 review of technology of that era from Internet Archives
- A compendium of world shipwrecks
- nauticapedia.ca offers up (mostly) Canadian West Coast history
- Old Salt Blog offers a wide range of sea going topics, mostly more years past
- Bedroom workshop is not what it sounds like
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