Glossary Of Shipbuilding And Outfitting Terms

Author : James Douglas MacBride
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282382384
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding written by James Douglas MacBride and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding: With a Glossary of Terms Practical shipbuilding deals primarily with Ship building, i.e., the work on and around the shipways. The allied trades in the shops (machine, pattern, joiner, black smith, etc.) are distinctly separate trades, as they are also employed in many other kinds of commercial enterprises. Therefore the details of that work do not interest the reader of this volume, rather, only the work which specially per tains to ship construction. The first edition has been thoroughly overhauled. N o repairs were made, but considerable was done in the way of additional information under some of the former chapters and new material has been added in the form of Chapters XII and XV. Shipbuilding is an extensive industry and the more one knows of the immense amount of detail in it, the more one realizes that such is really the case. It is impossible to go into details in a volume of this size, therefore it is the endeavor of the writer to deal only with those everyday things which the men on the shipways should know. In building a small book of this kind it is more difficult to know what to leave out than it is to know what to put in it. It is like a camouflaged ship, the viewpoint is differ ent, according to each person who looks at it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.