Shipbuilder's Repository; or, A Treatise on Marine Architecture : wherein are contained the principles of the art, with the theory and practical parts fully explained; and every instruction required in the building and completing a ship, of every class, from the forming of the draught, to the launching into the water. Calculated to the capacity of young beginners: compiled and digested in a manner entirely new, and laid down different from what was hitherto appaered on the subject. The whole being intended as a Complete Companion for those Naval Architects, desirous of attaining a competent knowledge of that important art.
TitleThe Shipbuilder's Repository; or, A Treatise on Marine Architecture : wherein are contained the principles of the art, with the theory and practical parts fully explained; and every instruction required in the building and completing a ship, of every class, from the forming of the draught, to the launching into the water. Calculated to the capacity of young beginners: compiled and digested in a manner entirely new, and laid down different from what was hitherto appaered on the subject. The whole being intended as a Complete Companion for those Naval Architects, desirous of attaining a competent knowledge of that important art.
Place of publicationLondon
Publisher[printed for the author]
Year of publication[1780s]
Period18th century
Paginationviii, 472 p.
Illustrationsillus. fold., tables
Dimensions21.5 x 25.5 cm
Materialbook
Class numberVM145 [1780s]
NotesIncludes letters of correspondence from the British Museum, the National Maritime Museum and Maggs Bros. regarding the date of the publication; letters now removed from publication.
Leather bound; fragile.
Leather bound; fragile.
Subjectnaval architecture, shipbuilding