Shipbuilding - Early works to 1800
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The ship-builders assistant: or, Some essays towards compleating the art of marine architecture Viz. I. A general introduction, wherein is consider'd the solid of least resistance, so far as relates to the formation of a ship's body, &c. II. Observations for regulating the price of timber, taken from the proportion of its different dimensions; with estimates of the value of oak timber, and several other materials relating to naval stores. III. Rules for building the hull of any sort of ships. To which is added the scantling or measuring of ship-timbers, and some directions about moulding them. IV. A new method for finding the tunnage of any ship. V. Rules for proportationing the rigging. To which is annexed, an explication of the principal terms used in this art. The whole illustrated with many schemes proper to each part, most of them from copper plates. By William Sutherland, shipwright and mariner.
Sutherland, William.Date: 1711- E-books
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An enquiry into the legality and expediency of increasing the Royal Navy by subscriptions for building County Ships. Being the correspondence on that subject between Arthur Young & Capel Lofft, Esqrs. with a list of the subscribers to the Suffolk man of War. to which are added, Observations on the State of the Taxes and Resources of the Kingdom on the Conclusion of the Peace
Arthur YoungDate: [1783]- E-books
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Convention nationale. Séances du mois de Novembre
Date: [1794]- E-books
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A complete theory of the construction and properties of vessels , with practical conclusions for the management of ships, made easy to navigators. Translated from Théorie complette de la construction et de la manoeuvre des vaissaux, of the celebrated Leonard Euler, by Hen Watson, Esq.
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- E-books
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An address in behalf of merchants who have purchased prize ships of government
Date: 1788?]