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This overview looks at ships and boats built after 1840. Principally drawing on archaeological, technological and historical sources, it describes vessels used on English inland and coastal waters and in the open sea. The evidence of wrecks and abandoned vessels is drawn on, as well as extant vessels.
At the height of the War of the American Revolution, British naval authorities set aside the findings of more than a decade’s research and development on sheathing ships’ bottoms with copper. They turned instead to a risky and little- tried method of sheathing that eventually, and at great cost, had to be abandoned. 1.
reached outward and upward from the keel to define the shape of the ship's bottom and sides. This transverse structure was covered, internally and externally, with fore-and-aft planking that provided both a skin for the hull and also much of its longitudinal strength.
The report of the Naval Constructor, dated December 23, 1794, on the progress made in the building of the frigates, made special note of the advantages that could be expected from copper sheathed ships: Their bottoms always clean and ready for any expedition; if they were not coppered, their guns, and stores of every kind, must be discharged ...
18 lis 2016 · Beginning in mid-October, Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston ship restorers and a group of USS Constitution sailors began installing the new copper sheathing.
Prior to 1700, major naval powers fought their fleet actions in European waters, during the summer months, and never far from a friendly port. Firepower was everything, and ships were loaded with as much ordnance as possible, to the detriment of their handling and weatherlyness.
This book offers a global perspective and considers oceanic shipping and domestic shipping along America''s coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship.
