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Title: Ancient and Modern Ships.
Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships

Author: George C. V. Holmes

Release Date: July 6, 2010 [EBook #33098]

Language: English

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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
SCIENCE HANDBOOKS.

ANCIENT AND MODERN

SHIPS.

PART I.

[Illustration]

BOARD OF EDUCATION, SOUTH KENSINGTON.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.

ANCIENT AND MODERN
SHIPS.

PART I.
WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS.

BY
SIR GEORGE C. V. HOLMES, K.C.V.O., C.B.,

HON. MEMBER I.N.A., WHITWORTH SCHOLAR.
FORMERLY SECRETARY OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS

WITH SEVENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

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(_Revised._)

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1906.

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PREFACE.

An endeavour has been made in this handbook, as far as space and
scantiness of material would permit, to trace the history of the
development of wooden ships from the earliest times down to our own.
Unfortunately, the task has been exceedingly difficult; for the annals
of shipbuilding have been very badly kept down to a quite recent period,
and the statements made by old writers concerning ships are not only
meagre but often extremely inaccurate. Moreover, the drawings and
paintings of vessels which have survived from the classical period are
few and far between, and were made by artists who thought more of
pict