| Description |
256 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 251. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Free trade 1850-1875 -- Changing patterns in shipbuilding -- The Australian gold-rush -- Repeal of the Navigation Acts -- Sail versus steam -- Square rigged ships of over 300 tons 1850-1860 -- Appraisal of cargo carrier design --Alexander Stephen & Sons of Dundee and Glasgow -- The iron barque Edmund Preston -- Shipbuilding on the Clyde -- Shipbuilders on the Wear and Tyne -- Deck fittings of the Ravensworth -- Shipbuilders of north-west England -- Mersey shipbuilders and the Aphrodita -- James Hodgson of Liverpool -- Shibuilders of southern England -- Donald McKay of Boston and William Webb of New York -- Shipbuilders of Saint John, New Brunswick -- Blackwall passenger frigates -- Ship design in the 1850's -- James Laing aqnd the Dunbar -- Alexander Stephen's frigates -- End of the frigates -- Small square riggers and fore-and-aft 1850-1865 -- Brigs and brigantines -- J&J Hair of Newcastle -- John Gray of Newhaven -- Alexander Stephen's iron and composite brigs and schooners -- Small barques -- Design of schooners -- Matthew Simpson's schooners and the Express -- Three-masted schooners -- Three-masted two-topsail schooners -- Barquentines -- Jackass barks or barquettas -- Ketches, sloops and barges -- Square rigged ships of over 300 tons 1860-1875 -- Jones, Quiggin & Co of Liverpool and the Formby -- Shipbuilding in northern Europe -- Alexander Stephen & Sons of Glasgow and Dundee -- Barclay, Curle & Co and other shipbuilders on the Clyde -- Shipbuilders at Aberdeen -- William and John Pile in north-east England -- Other shipbuilders in Great Britain -- Shipbuilding in America -- Dismasting of large iron sailing ships -- Small square riggers and fore-and-aft 1865-1875 -- Some brigs compared -- Brigantines -- Small barques and the Belle of Lagos -- William H Nevill of Llanelly -- Schooners -- Three-masted schooner Metero -- J & W A Upham of Brixham -- Barquentines -- Jackass barques listed -- Ketches, sloops and barges. |
| Subject |
Merchant ships -- History -- 19th century.
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Sailing ships -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
0870219510 |
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9780870219511 |
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