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The art of making masts, yards, gaffs, booms, blocks, and oars, as practised in the Royal Navy, and according to the most approved methods in the merchant-service. Including a description of an improved rule for mast-makers: also a new method by which large yards may be made from small trees, and repaired when sprung in the slings, &c. Illustrated with large engravings and numerous figures.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Pictures
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Boer War: The Duke of Connaught raising the Union Jack on the masthead of a hospital ship, an official Committee and line of soldiers in attendance. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson after D. Macpherson, 1899.
MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951.Date: 1899Reference: 23557i