Ancient and Modern Ships, Part I. Wooden Sailing-ships
by Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir, 1848-1926
- Title
- Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- VM: Naval science: Naval architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine engineering
- Subject
- Sailing ships -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33098
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33098
- Release Date
- July 6, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM SCIENCE HANDBOOKS.
- 2.A N C I E N T A N D M O D E R N — S H I P S. — WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS. — BY SIR GEORGE C. V. HOLMES, K.C.V.O., C.B., — PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.ANCIENT AND MODERN SHIPS. — Part I. — WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — Shipbuilding in Egypt. — Shipbuilding in Ancient Greece and Rome. — Ancient Merchant-ships. — Details of the Construction of Greek and Roman Galleys. — CHAPTER III. — ANCIENT SHIPS IN THE SEAS OF NORTHERN EUROPE. — CHAPTER IV. — MEDIÆVAL SHIPS. — CHAPTER V. — MODERN WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS. — APPENDIX. — Description of a Greek Bireme of about 800 b.c. — FOOTNOTES: — INDEX. — END OF PART I. — PRINTED BY WYMAN AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND READING.
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