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These ships used two types of sail of their invention, the junk sail and tanja sail. Large ships are about 50–60 metres (164–197 ft) long, had 5.2–7.8 metres (17–26 ft) tall freeboard, [35] each carrying provisions enough for a year, [36]: 464 and could carry 200–1000 people. The Chinese recorded that these Southeast Asian ships were ...
Modern Ship Design, Second Edition, U.S. Naval Institute Press (1970, revised 1975) Cruising designs from the board of Thomas C. Gillmer , Seven Seas Press (1975) Introduction to Naval Architecture , with Bruce Johnson, Naval Institute Press (1982), ISBN 0-87021-318-0
HMS Beagle Survey Ship Extraordinary, 1820–1870: Karl Heinz Marquardt 1997 ISBN 0851777031: The Cruiser Belfast: Ross Watton 1985 (Reprinted 2003) ISBN 0851779565: The 74-Gun Ship Bellona: Brian Lavery 1985 (Reprinted 2003) ISBN 0851773680: The Schooner Bertha L. Downs: Basil Greenhill, Sam Manning 1995 ISBN 0851776159: The 20-Gun Ship Blandford
Ancient boat building methods can be categorized as one of hide, log, sewn, lashed-plank, clinker (and reverse-clinker), shell-first, and frame-first. While the frame-first technique dominates the modern ship construction industry, the ancients relied primarily on the other techniques to build their watercraft. In many cases, these techniques ...
In 2005 Anova Books bought Conway Maritime Press. Around this time the publisher was renamed Conway Publishing. Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modelling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.
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The technique of composite ship construction (wooden planking over a wrought iron frame) emerged in the mid-19th century as the final stage in the evolution of fast commercial sailing ships. Construction of wrought iron hulled vessels had begun in the 1820s and was a mature technology by the time of the launch of the SS Great Britain in 1843.