Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships

PART I.

_WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS._

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

A museum relating to Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding is of the utmost interest to the people of Great Britain, on account of the importance to them of everything that bears on the carrying of their commerce. Every Englishman knows, in a general way, that the commerce of the British Empire is more ext...