Ocean Shipping

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Excerpt from Ocean Shipping: Elements of Practical Steamship Operation No lesson of the past five years has been more sharply driven home to us than the complete dependence of commercial nations upon their facilities for ocean transportation. England by immense effort preserved her water routes, and emerged victorious, despite traditional "muddling." Germany, driven from the high seas at the outset, went down to defeat, although victorious on land for nearly four years. Austria, shut out from all ocean access, was in a state of collapse long before her stronger ally was obliged to confess defeat. Even the neutral mountain republic of Switzerland, with no ocean traffic of her own, was obliged to throw herself upon the mercy of the belligerents for the necessities of existence. Our own country was driven to construct a vast fleet of ships regardless of cost, of time, or of economy, regardless, in fact, of everything save the imperative necessity of somehow keeping our commerce going, and with the return of (comparatively) peaceful conditions we must now provide for the future of the war-time shipping left on the hands of the federal government. The task is no easy one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.