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£95.00
William H. Webb: Shipbuilder
Dunbaugh, Edwin L. & Thomas, William duBarry
New York, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, 1989.
a fine book on the life and work of one of the greatest American shipbuilders of the 19th century, both in sail and steam.
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£50.00
Rees’s Naval Architecture
Rees, Abraham
David & Charles, 1970.
the extracts from the 1819-20 Cyclopaedia dealing with shipbuilding and naval architecture and comprising nearly 200 pages of text and numerous folding plans.
a fascinating insight into early 19th-century shipbuilding.
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£250.00
The Steam Engine
comprising an account of its invention and progressive improvement; with an investigation of its principles, and the proportions of its parts for efficiency and strength:
detailing also its application to Navigation, Mining, Impelling Machines, etc. and the results collected in numerous tables for practical use.
illustrated by twenty plates, and numerous wood cuts.
Tredgold, Thomas
London, printed for J.Taylor, 1827.
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£15.00
European Shipbuilding, one hundred years of change
proceedings of the third Shipbuilding History Conference at the National Maritime Museum, April 1983
edited by Fred M. Walker & Anthony SlavenWalker
Marine Publications, 1983.
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£5.00
Improvements in Steam Engines – Patent Specification
by Thomas Mudd
London, 1895.
Thomas Mudd was recruited in 1883 by the West Hartlepool shipbuilders William Gray & Co. to set up the marine engine building side of the Business, the Central Marine Engineering Works.
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£45.00
Cook, Welton & Gemmell
Shipbuilders of Hull and Beverley 1883-1963
by Thompson, Newton, Robinson & Lofthouse
Hutton Press, 1999.
history of the Yorkshire shipbuilding yard and record of ships built over eighty years – mostly fishing vessels.
a substantial volume, well researched and extensively illustrated.
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£5.00
Build the Ships
by V.S. Pritchett
HMSO, 1946.
the official story of the shipyards in wartime.
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£48.00
Shipbuilding and Repairing in Dublin
by John Smellie
Glasgow, [1923].
a scarce record of work carried out by the Dublin Dockyard Company, 1901-1923