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Excerpt from An Introductory Outline of the Practice of Ship-Building, &C. &C Tns Ahthor of this Introductory Outline of the Con struction of a Ship, in the execution of his duty, has to instruct the Students at the School of Naval Architecture at Ports mouth, in the Practice of Ship Building; he also gives occa sional explanations on the same subject to the Students at the Royal Naval College. He has printed the following Outline under the hope that it will prove useful to both Establishments to the former, as afl'ording some little assistance in overcoming the first steps in the practical part of their profession; and to the latter, as containing probably sufficient for their present information. In the first part, he has explained the general connexion of the several principal parts of a ship, from the keel upwards. Secondly, he has entered somewhat more at large into the de scription of the different timbers which compose the vaxious parts, and the manner. In which they are put together and fastened, both in the old and new modes of building. And lastly, he has added a short Vocabulary of the principal English terms used in ship-building, together with the corresponding terms in other languages, which last he has thought may prove useful to oflicers on foreign stations. 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.