Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships
by George Charles Vincent Holmes
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- VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM SCIENCE HANDBOOKS.
- 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.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 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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