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Over a period of about forty years, world shipping has undergone huge changes. Up to the early 1960s it was dominated by vessels of well-established companies usually following regular routes at predictable intervals. The sixties, however, marked the start of the container 'revolution' and, with it, the redundancy of fleets of relatively modern, fast, cargo liners. The 'box ship' also precipitated the closure of many cramped city docks throughout the world. Change continues and, with the exception of bulk cargo carriers and tankers, versatile vessels that can accommodate cars, containers and general cargo are now commonplace. Merchant Shipping: 50 Years in Photographs is a collection of David Hucknall's superb black-and-white photographs, taken over a lifetime as a shipping enthusiast, and supported by well-researched captions. Including vessels from some of the foremost shipping companies and depicting a wide range of ships and ports across the UK and Europe - and also in locations as far apart as West Africa and Japan - it will fascinate and delight ship-lovers wherever they are.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A very interesting book packed out with Mr Hucknalls photographs, most are in black and white,a small colour section is included,some of the prints are spread over two pages-why do they do that,not to many though.A lot of the ships are long gone,we wont see anything like them again.Ports all around the world as well as Britain are featured, i would bet he spent some cold days in getting these photographs-that never shows on photographs that often though.A good book at a good price.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent book showing quality photographs of ships from the great days of the Merchant Navy. Certain to induce nostalgia in those who sailed on them.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I have plenty of shipping books that are just full of shipping photographs. Yet again I was tempted to buy this book, as soon as I discovered it on Amazon. I certainly wasn't disapointed and it was a refreshing changing seeing ships in some of the minor British ports and from some from far away places. Always good to see ships, in the book, that I have also seen to. Only a minor criticsm, it would have been nice to have an example of the Sunderland built SD14 in the book to.
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