Название: Tramp Ships: An Illustrated History
Автор(ы): Roy Fenton
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
Год: 2014
ISBN: 978-1848321588
Страниц: 192
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 225 MB

The tramp ship was the taxi of the seas. With no regular schedules, it voyaged anywhere and everywhere, picking up and dropping off cargoes, mainly bulk cargoes such as coal, grain, timber, china clay and oil. It was the older and slower vessels that tended to find their way into this trade, hence the tag ‘tramp’, though new tramps were built, often with the owner’s eye on chartering to the liner companies. In this new book by the well-known author Roy Fenton, their evolution is described over the course of more than 100 years, from the 1860s, when the steam tramp developed from the screw collier, until it was largely replaced by the specialist bulk carrier in the 1980s.