The Shape of Ships: Being the Story of the Development of Ships from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

18th century Admiralty American amidships armour Atlantic Atlantic record bigger boat boilers bottom bowsprit Britain British ships Brunel building built cable cargo carried carved Charlotte Dundas clippers Clyde craft Cunard Company curve cylinders deck decorated diameter early enemy England English feet beam feet long fleet fore frigate Fulton funnels galley guns horsepower hull idea inches iron ironclad keel knots lateen later launched Leif Ericsson length liner lines machinery mast Mauretania Mediterranean merchant ships Mizen naval navigation Navy oars paddles passengers planking plates ports propelled Queen Mary ram ships rope rudder sailing ships screw Second World War shaft shape ship design ship's shipbuilding shipwrights side speed square sail staysail steam propulsion steamship stern strake submarine Taeping timber topgallant sail topsail torpedo trade turbine Turbinia turret turret ship type of ship vertical vessel voyage warships waterline weight wooden ship yards