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"How Wooden Ships Are Constructed: A Practical Writing On Modern American Wooden Ship Construction With A Supplement On Laying Off Wooden Vessels" by H. Cole Estep.

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc 1983.
ISBN: 0393032884.


"Files the techniques of American wooden shipbuilding in the early 1900s and offers insights into the building of earlier wood sailing boats." Lots of black & white photos and line illustrations (concentrating on wood watercraft building in the northwest Seatle and Port Angeles area) An unusual pictorial and an essential reference record. "Anyone with an interest in shipbuilding, wood watercrafts, or joinery will certainly discover right here a mine of detailed information that is not typically readily available." Papers the last fantastic boom in wood shipbuilding in America when the U. S. Federal government contracted for some 7 hundred wooden freight boats as it got in War of the nations I.

98 pages plus index. Very limited reprint of the initial 1918 publication f the very same title.200 pictures and drawings.

Dirt jacket shows some minor wear, web pages inside are as new. Out of print.

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