MARC Record from Library of Congress

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020 $a9780915819416 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0915819414 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn846846892
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050 00 $aVM299.6$b.W55 2013
082 00 $a623.8092/274195$223
100 1 $aWinslow, Richard Elliott,$d1934-
245 10 $a"A race of shipbuilders" :$bthe Hanscoms of Eliot, Maine /$cRichard E. Winslow III.
246 30 $aHanscoms of Eliot, Maine
264 1 $aPortsmouth, N.H. :$bPortsmouth Marine Society,$c2013.
300 $avxii, 307 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPublication 33
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe Hanscoms congregate at Eliot, Maine, 1650/1783 -- Shipbuilding at the Hanscom Yard, 1783/1848 -- Gold promotes Hanscom-built clippers and naval bases, 1848/1850s -- William Leighton Hanscom at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1852/1859 -- The Civil War engulfs the Hanscoms: Building the Union Navy, 1860/1862 -- "Superior warfare in ships": A new union navy of iron, 1862/1865 -- "A new era in naval architecture": Isaiah Hanscom -- At the Portsmouth Yard, 1862/1863 -- "One of our most energetic young shipmasters": Captain John Hanscom of the American merchant marine, 1835/1863 -- "I am busy from morn until night": Isaiah at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1863/1865 -- "A true and staunch Republican": Simon Parker Hanscom, journalist and friend of presidents, 1819/1876 -- "One of the most successful naval architects": William L. Hanscom's obstructed post/Civil War career, 1866/1881 -- "The duties of constructor has [have] increased very much": Isaiah at the Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Boston Yards, 1865/1871 -- "Our commerce requires protection": Isaiah as chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1871/1875 -- "A constructor of first rate ability": Isaiah weathers the Congressional investigation storm, 1876/1880 -- "The biggest battleships show many of his ideas": Naval constructor John Forsyth Hanscom, 1842/1912 -- "Particularly well informed . . . in the construction of iron and steel vessels": Charles Ridgely Hanscom, 1850/1918 -- A promoter of aviation in Massachusetts: Laurence G. Hanscom, 1906/1941 -- Epilogue.
600 30 $aHanscom family.
650 0 $aShipbuilding industry$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aShipbuilding$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aNavy-yards and naval stations$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNavy-yards and naval stations$xOfficials and employees$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aNaval architects$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aMaine$vBiography.