Category: History - Other
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It is not difficult to imagine how mankind first conceived the idea of making use of floating structures to enable him to traverse stretches of water. The trunk of a tree floati...
8. CHAPTER V.The naval wars which followed the establishment of the Commonwealth contributed in a very large degree to the progress of shipbuilding. In 1652 war broke out with the United Pro...
7. CHAPTER IV.In the times of the Norman kings of England both the war and the mercantile navies of the country were highly developed. William the Conqueror invaded this island without the as...
6. CHAPTER III.Outside the Mediterranean it is known that some of the northern nations had attained to very considerable skill in the arts of shipbuilding and navigation. Caesar gives a genera...
4. CHAPTER I.A museum relating to Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding is of the utmost interest to the people of Great Britain, on account of the importance to them of everything that bears...
2. PART I.To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller from WYMAN & SONS, Ltd., Fetter Lane, London, E.C.; or OLIVER AND BOYD, Edinburgh; or E. PONSONBY, 116, Grafton Street...
3. CHAPTER V.The illustrations marked * are published by kind permission of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Those marked + are taken from "The History of Merchant Shipping and A...
1. PART I.