Stock photo. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available.
Sailing Ship Elissa
by Patricia Bellis Bixel
ISBN: 0890968268
ISBN-13: 9780890968260
Format: Hardcover
|
Customer Reviews
Be the first to review this book!
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 8.75 x 11.5 inches
Weight: 1.65 pounds
Pages: 93
Publisher's Notes
For more than a hundred years the four-hundred-ton barque Elissa worked the world's waters, first as a sailing ship and then as a motor vessel. Built in 1877 when steam vessels were beginning to overtake large sailing ships as prime cargo careers, Elissa survived for more than a century on the strength of her hull and on the economic niche that ships of her size could fill. Stripped of her three masts and her sails, heavily modified, and in line for the salvage yard, Elissa was discovered in the 1960s in Piraeus, Greece. Coincidentally, the Galveston Historical Foundation began looking for a ship to restore as a working example of the heyday of sail along the Texas coast. In Sailing Ship Elissa, Patricia Bellis Bixel provides a complete history of the ship: her building and launching in Aberdeen, Scotland; her prime years of sailing under British, Norwegian, and Swedish flags; her decline as a Greek smuggler; and her eventual restoration as a tall ship for Texas. Included also is a view of the life of staff and crew on board the ship during a sailing season today. Photographs by Jim Cruz and others wonderfully illustrate Elissa's history and bring to life the difficulties of restoration, the labors of her crew, and the grace and beauty of a sailing ship whether docked or underway. Today, Elissa is an ambassador for Galveston and Texas whether moored at her home berth at the Texas Seaport Museum, making short training sails into the Gulf of Mexico, participating in parades of tall ships, or calling in Charleston, Annapolis, or New Orleans. With professional officers and a mostly volunteer crew, Elissa provides a means of understanding the life of a nineteenth-century sailor, arigorous world in which conditions could be miserable but the discipline, routine, and community of sea life had their own rewards.
Similar books
Anchors
by Betty Nelson Curryer
The anchor is one of the most important pieces of equipment on any vessel and one of the most common motifs and symbols on land -- appearing in heraldic designs, on pub signs, and in churchyard sculpture, among other places. This book explains how the first simple pierced stones developed into the modern devices of today that hold the heaviest super tankers. It begins with the archaeological discoveries of the earliest and simplest anchors and progresses to the time of the ancient Greeks, when the anchor had developed to the form we all now recognize. Developments over the next two thousand years are then described and analyzed. All of the various functions of anchors are discussed, from the smallest kedge anchor to the heaviest bower, as are their uses on different types of vessels and the significance of holding grounds. Tables of anchor sizes are included. The book also deals with related matters like anchor manufacture and handling, the introduction of chain cables, and the methods of testing and marking anchors. No nautical archaeologist, naval historian, modelmaker, yachtsman, or boatswain should be without this basic reference tool on the subject.
Queen Mary
by James Steele
James Steele, an architect by training and a keen observer by instinct, has produced an exhaustive history of the vessel, a must for marine and architectural historians as well as oceanliner buffs everywhere; 'definitive' is a risky qualifier but one that legitimately describes this volume. The author treads maritime holy ground: no more universally beloved vessel ever sailed the North Atlantic and no more ambitious a floating preservation has ever been attempted.
Schooners
by Robert Shipley
The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure
by Nigel Pickford
From the Americas to Australia, Scandinavia to southern Africa, the history, location, and treasures of more than 1,400 ships lost at sea are breached in a book offering a wealth of information uniquely presented in detailed, hand-drawn maps and lucid text. More than 300 illustrations and photos.
Best of Sail Magazine's Things That Work
by
Culled from "Sail" magazine's "Things That Work" column, these practical and ingenious boat improvements can make sailing easier, safer, and more fun. 130 illustrations.
|
|
Ready to buy this book?
Below are all of the copies of 0890968268 we currently have available for purchase, sorted by lowest price first. If you would like to refine your search, use the advanced options in the search box above.
|
|
1)
|
Sailing Ship Elissa
Bixel, Patricia Bellis
College Station: Texas A & M, 1998. 1st ed. Hardcover. 93 pages. . The story of The Elissa, a three-masted, 400-ton Scottish barque built in 1877, her life under various flags and current residence in Galveston, Texas after a loving restoration. B/w photos. As New/As New. A new copy. . ( more information) Offered by Schroeder's Book Haven (United States)
Favorite bookseller : you've previously added this bookseller to your favorites list.
|
|
|
3)
|
Sailing Ship Elissa
Bixel, Patricia Bellis
Texas A & M University Press, 1998 93 pp, 11 ¼" x 8 ¾", copy is in near-MINT condition, beautifully illustrated with bw photos and a few line drawings. This book tells the history of the barque Elissa, which found waiting its turn in a salvage yard and was completely restored by the Galveston Historical Society.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information) Offered by Red Sky Books (United States)
Favorite bookseller : you've previously added this bookseller to your favorites list.
|
|
|
0 items in cart
Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved. Some content for books is owned by Baker & Taylor, Inc. or its licensors and is subject to copyright and all other protections provided by applicable law.
