Overview
Tasmanians hold a special empathy with the sea and, in particular, their vintage and veteran boats. This book profiles over 300 vintage or veteran commercial and government vessels built prior to 1970 that are of significance to Australia's small island state across a wide range of types, sizes and locations and in various stages of condition. Categories include sea-going sail, motor ships, river steamers and motor ferries, excursion boats, waterman's boats, commercial launches and motor boats, as well as military and fishing vessels, and open boats. The book encompasses craft that are well loved with a secure future to those that are in peril. The large number of vessels highlighted herein is a far cry from the 150 craft profiled in the first edition of Those That Survive, published in 1996, and is indicative of not only the interest that these boats and ships now generate, but also the increased awareness of a specific vessel's history, singularly and as a collective amongst its cohort. In fact, the number of vintage and veteran craft still in existence of relevance to Tasmania has meant that the vessels have been split across two volumes. While this volume purely concerns commercial and government craft, a companion volume focusses on recreational vessels. Overall, the outcome is a robust summary of craft significant to Tasmania's maritime history.
Full Product Details
Author: Graeme Broxam ,
Nicole Mays
Publisher: Nicole Mays
Imprint: Nicole Mays
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 1.261kg
ISBN: 9780648725268
ISBN 10: 064872526
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 08 February 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Those That Survive: Tasmania's Vintage and Veteran Commercial and Government Vessels marks the sixth book Nicole Mays has been involved with. In 2021 she published Little Boats with Sails: The History of Australia's 21 Foot Restricted Class. Her first book, published in 2011, was on her great-great-great grandfather Jacob Bayly Chandler who was a boat builder of Battery Point between 1847 and 1901. This work was followed in 2014 by Spirited, Skilled and Determined: The Boat and Ship Builders of Battery Point (1835-1935). In 2016 Nicole was involved in the publication of Mike Swinson's Blood, Sweat & the Sea, the biography of John Muir and the company he established (Muir Engineering). In 2017 she published Industrious, Innovative, Altruistic: The 20th Century Boat Builders of Battery Point.
