VETERAN SHIPS OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

AUTHOR - Graeme Andrews

PUBLICATION - A.H. & A.W. Reed 1976

CONDITION - Good to very good condition, A4 landscape. Inside slight age discoloured, otherwise very good, binding very good. Dustwrapper is a little discoloured. Some bumping on the top and bottom of spine.

PRICE - $30

DESCRIPTION - In the early days of settlement Australia and New Zealand depended on ships for communications, supplies, passenger transport and trade and both countries developed as strong maritime societies. Advances in shipping technology, building techniques and power sources meant that progressive changes in types of vessels occurred. As a result, many of the types disappeared from the seas they sailed, particularly as steam replaced sail. In this book Graeme Andrews records the belated efforts on both sides of the Tasman to protect and preserve their maritime heritage, which was in any case largely a shared one. He has listed the ships and river craft under preservation, others that were possibilities for salvage or restoration and sadly, some that were probably beyond saving. It was thus a valuable reference for work and asperations for historic ship preservation - merchant, naval and riverine - as serious efforts in this cause were getting underway in the mid-1970s.

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