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From a small silver medallion beautifully engraved by a First Fleet convict to the 119-metre Royal Australian Navy destroyer, HMAS Vampire, the Australian National Maritime Museum has an incredibly diverse collection of more than 130,000 items. Here, the museum's curators reveal the fascinating stories behind many amazing objects, including the fastest vessel in the world (Spirit of Australia), a boat made from 2,000 beer cans, the remarkable Saltwater Collection of bark paintings from Arnhem Land, and surfboards inspired by the Bra Boys and the 2005 Cronulla race riots. They tell of unforgettable people - both famous and lesser known - whose lives have been shaped by the sea.
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• Vorwort
• Kurs Kap Skagen
• Einklarieren an Bord
• Heimat für neun Wochen : das Schulschiff
• Es wird ernst
• Endlich in Fahrt
• Die Sund Passage
• In der Nordsee
• Helgoland querab
• Kurs Strasse von Dover
• In der Biskaya
• España olé
• Portugal an Backbord
• In der Strasse von Gibraltar
• Zwischenfall im Mittelmeer
• Die Mittelmeertaufe
• Die Strasse von Sizilien
• Das Leuchten des Meeres
• Kurs Nordost
• Im Ägäischen Meer
• Durch die Dardanellen
• Mitten durch Istanbul
• Kurs Sewastopol
• In Sewastopol
• Der letzte Tag
• Abschied von Sewastopol
• Kurs Adria
• Split, wir kommen
• In Split
• Es geht nach Hause
• Anhang
• Die Ausbildungsfahrten des Schulschiffes S61 Wilhelm Pieck
• Zahlen zur Reise
• Quellen
• Bildnachweis.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction
• Chapter 1. Adventure's Beginning
• Chapter 2. Underway
• Chapter 3. A Unique Culture
• Chapter 4. Fighting the War
• Chapter 5. Foreigner
• Chapter 6. Looking Back Epilogue: Parting Legacies Appendix A: Biographical Information Appendix B: US Submarine Losses (Cold War) Appendix C: Common US Navy Rates and Ranks Notes Bibliography Index.
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The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch: American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era offers the perspective of the submariners themselves-lending them a voice and paying homage to their service. Jonathan Li-Chung Leung provides an original glimpse into a world of unique challenges and characters, a life isolated and submerged, and a duty defined by the juxtaposition of monotonous routine and unparalleled excitement. These personal accounts of life below the surface offer readers a front-row seat to close encounters with Soviet submarines and the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as an intimate understanding of daily life onboard the vessels, the culture of military discipline, and the religious-like fervor exercised in honoring traditions big and small. By applying first-hand perspectives to a larger thematic overview, this book uses authentic narratives to deliver a lively and colorful picture of the Silent Service. Set against the backdrop of sobering geo-political disputes and their own role as the nation's defenders against a seemingly ambiguous super-enemy, these veterans focus on their responsibilities and reflect on careers built on the simple axioms of pride and service. This invigorating and unalloyed account is an unprecedented addition to the existing literature on naval and military history.
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• The shipping season begins
• Adventures in port
• Dad's first command
• I set sail
• Winter life
• Spring again
• November gales
• Our last trip
• Batchawana Bay
• Dad's last command.

• Becoming China Lakers
• A teenage weaponeer
• Dynamic instability
• The Cold War at home
• Anything can be a weapon
• Off target
• Life without weapons.

"A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles. The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper sketches in the belief systems--from Amway's get-rich schemes to propaganda in The Rocketeer to evangelism, along with fears of a Lemurian takeover and Charles Manson--that governed their lives. Her memoir is also a search for the truth of the past and what really brought her parents to China Lake with two young daughters, a story that reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. Finally, it recounts the crossroads moment in a young woman's life when she finally found a way out of a culture of secrets and fear, and out of the desert."--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• In the beginning
• The originals
• Sea rescues of yesteryear
• Rescue of the 1 800
• The boy on the beach
• A rough night on Robben Island
• Aground in Clifton
• The yo-yo man
• The sea was full of holes
• Drama in Sardinia Bay
• Mayday off the Wild Coast
• One lucky man
• Disaster off Duiker Island
• Another chance at life
• Close call on a Miller’s run
• Talking heads
• ‘’Excuse me, are you Wayne Bergstrom?’’
• The Kiani Satu saga
• The Italtile disaster
• Storms warning
• The other Cape of Storms
• Twelve men died that night
• The sea was chocolate
• South into darkness
• Squid pro quo
• Fire in St. Francis Bay
• A parent’s worst nightmare
• The longest hours of my life
• Trapped by a whirlpool
• My foot was in the shark’s mouth
• Rescue from the air
• Time to leave
• The angels had their hands full.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NSRI, here is a collection of daring rescues filled with drama and danger. From burning ships to shark attacks, sinking trawlers to hallucinating fishermen, these are the stories of man's constant battle with some of the most dangerous waters on earth. But there is one story in particular that gave rise to the creation of the NSRI... On 12 April 1966, four fishing boats put out to sea from Stilbaai on South Africa's southern coast. Soon they were all pulling in fish as fast as they could bait their hooks, and the boats were settling lower in the water. Shortly before sunset, skipper Gerhard Dreyer saw clouds building on the horizon. But the fishing was too good and they ignored the signs. Later that night a gale force wind slammed into them. 'I told the men to throw everything overboard, ' Gerhard remembers. An hour before midnight, Gerhard headed for deeper water to try and ride out the swells. As dawn broke, they saw for the first time the true extent of the night's damage: among the flotsam, one man in a lifebuoy. That man was the only crewman from the other three boats to survive the terrible storm. Seventeen men died that night. Simonstown schoolteacher Patti Price was horrified when she read the news. She began a media campaign and appealed to the president of the Society of Master Mariners. As a direct result of her efforts, the South African Inshore Rescue Service was founded in August 1966 (renamed the National Sea Rescue Institute in 1967). Today, the NSRI has 35 rescue bases and over 1 000 volunteers.

• Foreword / David Gergen
• Introduction: Non sibi sed patriae
• Four years by the bay / Inside the Gates of Annapolis
• The leadership laboratory, fleet tested
• Honor tested / Will Carr
• Selflessness from the ICU / Anita Susan Brenner and Rachel Torres
• Ship, shipmate, self / Mike Johnson
• Fulfilling a top gun dream / Meagan Varley Flannigan
• Find a way, or make one / Meghan Elger Courtney
• Courage under fire
• A lovely afternoon over Baghdad / Jay Consalvi
• Bad karma / Wes Pass
• We serve where we're needed / Johnathan Van Meter
• The real hurt locker / Eric Jewell
• Evacuating the injured / Rocky Checca
• From the cradle to the grave / Anonymous
• Dhow in distress / Pat McConnell
• From Fallujah to Now Zad / Ben Wagner
• Beyond battlefield bullets
• Military diplomats / Graham Plaster
• Shaking the hand of fate / Courtney Senini
• Visit, board, search, and seizure: unsung heroes / Jason Jackson
• Lending a hand in tsunami relief / John Cauthen
• Training with the enemy: Iraq and U.S. naval partnerships / Travis Bode
• UN peacekeeping in practice / Dave Augustin
• Casey v. the volcano / Casey Bruce
• Inland sailor / Joshua W. Welle
• Integrity, teamwork, and sacrifice
• Sacrifices for country / Alex Katauskas
• Sometimes dreams do come true / Carol A. Andersen
• Forward deployed to ... Louisiana? / Kevin Stepp
• Working where the land meets the sky / Kate Kranz
• On building submarines and building character / Lucas Adin
• Lost at sea / Glyndell Houston
• Dual military couples: twice the challenge / Brooke Waller
• When no one's watching / Matt Freeman
• The next great generation
• Wild and precious life / Joshua Awad
• Serving beyond the uniform / Elizabeth Kreft
• Rings of courage and love: fighting for gay rights in the military / Gary Ross
• Command, citizenship, and government / Seth Lynn
• Conclusion
• Epilogue / Adm. Mike Mullen
• In memory of fallen Naval Academy graduates since September 11.

Their stories needed to be told. And classmates working together, under a blanket of trust and friendship, was the only way to allow people to open up. It was a three year journey into the hearts and souls of America's youngest heroes to gather these important historical accounts, but it was worth every hour spent. They were walking to class on 9/11, wearing Naval Academy "summer working blues", when the towers were struck. The campus went to general quarters, battle stations. They would be the first class after this attack to graduate into a nation at war and would be faced, like so many past graduates, of rising to the challenge to keeping America great. President Bush and Vice President Cheney articulated a world at the crossroads, and the U.S. would preemptively seek enemies who threatened the national interest. America would not again be terrorised. In the Shadow of Greatness addresses issues that go beyond one USNA class; it explains the trials of most military veterans of this era. Understanding how a young person enlists to serve, deploys to the fight, and returns home is unknown to most Americans. Veterans pack up their uniforms, but never lose the call for service when the return to civilian society. The profiles in this book represent the "Next Great Generation" of American leaders. Men and women who lost their innocence in battle and their youths to a decade of deployments, throughout which they never gave up hope. In exchange for down range scars, they gained an unbreakable sense of purpose to America's ideals-freedom, equality, and democracy. The compilation is the most authentic and raw narrative to emerge from the Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. The reader enjoys a spectrum of stories, each patriotic and honourable. The narratives are meant to inspire, educate and reveal a world many don't understand. Its contents are readable and easy to appreciate. The Class of 2002-and more broadly, the one million veterans of the Long War-are America's leaders of tomorrow. Read this book to learn what they endured and why they are prepared.
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