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The Union-Castle Line: Sailing Like Clockwork [Audiobook] download free by Mike Roussel

The Union-Castle Line: Sailing Like Clockwork Audiobook download free by Mike Roussel
  • Listen audiobook: The Union-Castle Line: Sailing Like Clockwork
  • Author: Mike Roussel
  • Release date: 2016/8/10
  • Publisher: THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9780750962919
  • Rating: 9.67 of 10
  • Votes: 882
  • Review by: Priscilla Bolin
  • Review rating: 7.74 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/11
  • Duration: 2H21M31S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-01
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, MPEG4, WAV (compression LZMA, AZW4, RAR, AZW3, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 192
  • Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 16M26S (4.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: The Union-Castle Line's heritage spans over a century. It provided the mail service to South Africa for 120 years and established an unrivalled reputation for punctual schedules. From the middle of the nineteenth century it ran `like clockwork' until its demise in 1977, a victim of emerging competition from jet aircraft, increasing fuel costs and the containerisation of cargo.As a company, the Union-Castle Line used the latest technical innovations of the day, constantly striving to improve speed,reliability, customer comfort and safety. Its lavender-hulled ships were some of the most impressive vessels of the time. Yet the story of the Union-Castle Line is also one of people - the passengers and crew ensured that the line survived for so long. This book tells some of their fascinating stories, including tales of shipwrecks, war service, missing gold bullion, escaped wild animals and even the occasional murder on board.Utilising previously unpublished diaries, letters and photographs, this illustrated volume chronicles the shipping line from its glorious beginning to its tragic end. It is a multifaceted history of the Union-Castle Line, which examines some of the company's shipwrecks as well as the fond legacy of the line today.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Shipping Industries, Ships & Shipping, Transport Industries, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 35.94 USD
  • Dimensions: 226x248x15.24mm
  • Weight: 1,065.94g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Stroud, United Kingdom

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