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The Yard; Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works

The Yard; Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works

The Yard; Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
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The Yard; Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works

de Sanders, Michael S

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0060192461
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9780060192464
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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xiii, [3], 253, [3] pages. Illustrations. Figures. Index. Illustrated endpapers. The author is a former book editor and ghostwriter. This is his first book written as himself. Michael Sanders worked for a number of years for Poseidon Press, Simon & Schuster, and Pocket Books as an editor before turning to writing full time. He earned his living for several years with a combination of what he calls "utility outfield writing" -- for industry and a magazine article here and there -- and as an importer of rugs from Russia and Ukraine. After writing several novels based on his experiences doing business in those countries and his knowledge of the Russian community in Brooklyn, he moved to Maine. He worked as a bookseller for the years it took to write THE YARD, his first book, and has a profound respect for anyone in retail. Blue-collar shipyard workers at Bath Iron Works in Maine build and launch the USS Donald Cook. From a Kirkus review: "An unhurried, meticulous, character-rich portrait of the Bath Iron Works, where the navy's destroyers are built, is the subject of Maine writer Sanders's first book. The massive complex of ways, cranes, and hangars along Maine's Kennebec River, the Bath Iron Works, has been fashioning grand and enormous ships for over a century. It's more than just an economic mainstay of the state, as Sanders' history and tour of the works makes plain: it's an institution that has as much to do with the art and pride of shipbuilding as it does with employing 5,000 workers: pipe fitters, marine architects, braziers, draftsmen, tinknockers, riggers, anglesmiths, straighteners, and blasters. These days the works feels fortunate to be one of only six remaining active naval shipyards in the US-commercial ships are built at subsidized yards in Korea, Finland, Russia, and Japan-and as the navy downsizes, it's a precarious existence. Sanders follows the building of the destroyer USS Donald Cook, from first torch cut to commissioning, a massive enterprise where welders become performance artists, smithies pound red-hot steel in cavernous penumbral furnace buildings like something out of Norse mythology, crane operators nurse into position steel slabs weighing hundreds of tons, sometimes by increments of an inch and not by computer control, but by the delicate touch of experienced hands on levers. And as this ship is a fighting vessel, there is included a short course on modern warfare at sea, in which naval engagements are carried out at great, and what feel like anesthetizing, distances. Sanders chooses his words caringly, working with an engineer's precision, a formal elegance, whereas the comments he records from the shipbuilders are more casual and a relief. Sanders depicts the works as part of a remarkable and increasingly rare industry that fuses technological innovation with proud craftsmanship and a work ethic that makes a shipfitter's affectionate patting of a 9,000-ton hull a very natural gesture."

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Librería
Ground Zero Books US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
17923
Título
The Yard; Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
Autor
Sanders, Michael S
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Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Muy bueno
Estado de la sobrecubierta
very good
Cantidad disponible
2
Edición
First Edition. First Printing
ISBN 10
0060192461
ISBN 13
9780060192464
Editorial
HarperCollins Publishers
Lugar de publicación
New York
Fecha de publicación
1999
Palabras clave
Naval, Maritime, Bath Iron Works, Destroyers, Bath, ME, Maine, New England, USS Donald Cook, Shipyards, Shipbuilding, Hardings Fabrication Facility, DDG-51, DDG-75, Weapon Systems, Valarie Williams

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