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Pelican Of London
''Pelican of London'' is a sail training ship based in the United Kingdom. Built in 1948 as ''Pelican'' she served as an Arctic trawler and then a coastal trading vessel named ''Kadett'' until 1995. In 2007 an extended conversion to a sail-training ship was completed. History Built in 1948 in Le Havre, France, ''Pelican'' was originally a double-beam Arctic fishing trawler, one of five identical ships built in Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, the shipyard founded by the Normand family. She was sold to a Norwegian firm and spent the next 19 years fishing the Arctic. In 1968 ''Pelican'' was converted from a trawler to a coaster. Her owners renamed her ''Kadett''. She remained ''Kadett'' for 27 years until in 1995 she again changed hands. She was bought by ex-Naval Commander Graham Neilson who transformed her into a tall ship and renamed her ''Pelican of London''. He had already undertaken a similar project with the TS ''Astrid''. Working in Portland Harbour, Dorset, UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantiers Et Ateliers Augustin Normand
Chantiers et Ateliers A. Normand was a French shipyard in Le Havre. They were notable for building small warships in the early part of the 20th century. They also developed the Normand boiler Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships. They are compact and of high evaporative power, factors that encourage this use. Other boiler designs may be more efficient, although bulkier, an ..., an early design of three-drum water-tube boiler. Shipyards of France Le Havre {{mech-engineering-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City To Sea
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
