The shipwright's trade / by Sir Westcott Abell.

"Sir Westcott Abell, an Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Naval Architects and a past Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, has here packed into 200 pages an account of shipbuilding from the 'dug-out' and the ancient river ships of Egypt to the great shaping-time in England under the Tudors and Stuarts when the basic technique was finally set down and established; thence to the coming of iron, steam and steel in the nineteenth century; and to mass-production in the twentieth century, to meet the needs of two world wars. Illustrated with 19 plates and 53 figures."