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Up and down the Eastern seaboard during the 1850s, American
shipyards constructed numerous large wooden merchant sailing
vessels that formed the backbone of the commercial shipping
industry. This comprehensive volume appraises in minute detail the
construction of these ships, outlining basic design criteria and
enumerating and examining every plank and piece of timber involved
in the process, including the keel, frames, hull and deck planking,
stanchions, knees, deck houses, bulworks, railings, interior
structures and arrangements. More than 150 illustrations illuminate
the size, shape, location and pertinent specifics of each item.
Complete with a glossary of contemporary industry terms, this
reference represents the definitive study of the mid-nineteenth
century's great American-built square rigged ships.
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