A new hardback, 226 page book by Society member Nick Tolerton, marking a century and a quarter of refrigerated shipping, with 317 B&W and 24 colour photographs, 16 sets of plans/profile drawings, and an index of nearly 900 ships. It has chapters on the major reefer operators (most of whose ships have been familiar callers to New Zealand ports) including Lauritzen, Salen, P&O, Blue Star, Geest, Maritime Fruit, United Fruit, Fyffes, Erikson, Laskaridis, and Seatrade, and fleet lists for the major classes and designs including the Drammen standards and MFC. Other features include a gallery of the classic reefers of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and a look at West European, East European, and Japanese reefer shipbuilding.
Fast and graceful, reefer ships have always stood out from the other cargo ships plying the world's sea lanes.
This magnificently illustrated book looks at the evolution of pure refrigerated ships and fruitships, and at the histories and fleets of the major owners involved in the reefer trades, including Lauritzen, Salen, Maritime Fruit Carriers, P&O, Blue Star, Geest, Seatrade, United Fruit and Fyffes.
This decade there has been enormous restructuring within this sector and some of the most famous operators have withdrawn making the publication of this book very timely.
As well as being a valuable reference book for ships in service today, this book takes a nostalgic look at the classic reefers of the 1950's and 1960's, many of them regarded as among the most beautiful merchant ships ever built.
This book includes more than 350 mostly previously unpublished black and white and colour photographs and plans and profile drawings.
