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Synopsis
History of the ships that made up the United fruit Company's Great White Fleet - also a chronicle of the growth of the banana industry in the western hemisphere. During peace times the Great White Fleet worked in the banana industry but, during both World Wars and the Vietnam War most of the ships making up the "Great White Fleet" were given over to government service.
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- PublisherVantage Press
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0533021766
- ISBN 13 9780533021765
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages275
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Vantage Press, 1976
ISBN 10: 0533021766
ISBN 13: 9780533021765
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket edges are lightly tattered, binding tight, internally clean. 275 pages, illustrated with black an white photos. This scrupulously researched and adroitly organized volume records the histories of the ships that made up the United Fruit Company's Great White Fleet. It is also a chronicle of the growth of the banana industry in the tropical regions of the West-ern Hemisphere, an important footnote to social history, and a compendium of short sketches dealing with adventure on the high seas. During most of the peacetime years of this century, the Great White Fleet was engaged in the banana trade, making runs be-tween various Central American ports of call and the continental United States, and in ferrying affluent tourists in high style. During both world wars and, to an extent, during the Vietnam conflict, most of the craft in the Fleet were given over to government service, carrying men and material into combat zones. In times of war and peace, the Fleet was confronted with the eternal vagaries of nautical lifestorms, celestial phenomena, collisions, hair's-breadth rescues, and the like. Author John H. Melville documents all of the significant wartime and peacetime activities of the Fleet, while providing statistics and specifications on the craft in-volved. Various contributors to his account include Fleet captains and other personnel, who relate their sailing experiences with graphic immediacy. Mr. Melville's eye for telling detail and his meditations on the decline of ocean-going transport would no doubt win him the praise of another chronicler of the sea who shares his surname. Seller Inventory # 240812003
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