كتاب
Down amongst the black gang: the world and workplace of rms titanic's stokers.
| العنوان: | Down amongst the black gang: the world and workplace of rms titanic's stokers. |
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| المؤلفون: | De Kerbrech, Richard P. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Titanic (Steamship) -- History., Ocean liners -- History., Stokers, Mechanical., Marine engineering., History. |
| الوصف: | "Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the 'black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here de Kerbrech introduces the reader to dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers. Beginning with a journey around some of the major elements of machinery that one might encounter in the giant ships' engine and boiler rooms, the sheer skill and strength that a man in this employ must have had is brought to the fore.The human side of working for the Titanic and her contemporaries is also involved in an exploration of stokers' duties, their environment, and conditions: what it was like to be one of them"-- Back cover. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction to the power plant -- Engine room personnel, their duties and origins -- Coal, bunkers and bunkering -- About Scotch boilers -- Stokers, pokers and smokers -- main propulsion machinery -- Reputations, stereotypes and urban myths -- The low-pressure (LP) or exhaust turbine and condensers -- The black Gang's struggle to save Titanic -- Other labour-intensive auxiliaries to attend -- Aftermath and repercussions -- T he coming of oil-firing but coal burners steam on and on -- Appendix : List of Titanic's engineering Department including electricians, greasers, firemen an trimmers. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn863596536 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7524-9323-7 0-7524-9323-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014124540.9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780752493237 075249323X |
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