Tramp Ships: An Illustrated History

by Roy Fenton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848321589
• ISBN13: 9781848321588
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.3" x 9.7"