Shipbuilding and the forests of Prince Edward Island : an analysis of the types and amounts of wood used in Island ships -- based on the surveyors' reports of the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping /by Douglas Sobey.

"The surveyors' reports of the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, housed in the National Maritime Museum in London, and listing the woods used in from 18 to 28 structural components of each vessel surveyed, represent an unexplored source for the types of wood used in ships built on Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century."--Summary, p. i.