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Read Ebook: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Volume 05 (of 17) by Burton Richard Francis Sir Translator
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INTRODUCTION 1
ANCIENT SHIPS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND RED SEAS 5
ANCIENT SHIPS IN THE SEAS OF NORTHERN EUROPE 55
MEDIAEVAL SHIPS 65
MODERN WOODEN SAILING-SHIPS 112
DESCRIPTION OF AN ARCHAIC GREEK BIREME 157
INDEX 161
FIG. PAGE
+4. EGYPTIAN BOAT OF THE TIME OF THE FOURTH DYNASTY 13
+14. PROBABLE ARRANGEMENT OF OAR-PORTS IN ANCIENT GALLEYS 48
++70. THE "BAZAAR." AMERICAN COTTON-SHIP. 1832 149
++71. THE "SIR JOHN FRANKLIN." AMERICAN TRANSATLANTIC SAILING-PACKET. 1840 151
++72. THE "OCEAN HERALD." AMERICAN CLIPPER. 1855 152
++73. THE "GREAT REPUBLIC." AMERICAN CLIPPER. 1853 154
ANCIENT AND MODERN SHIPS.
INTRODUCTION.
A museum relating to Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding is of the utmost interest to the people of Great Britain, on account of the importance to them of everything that bears on the carrying of their commerce. Every Englishman knows, in a general way, that the commerce of the British Empire is more extensive than that of any other state in the world, and that the British sea-going mercantile marine compares favourably in point of size even with that of all the other countries of the world put together; but few are probably aware of the immense importance to us of these fleets of trading ships, and of the great part which they play in the maintenance of the prosperity of these isles. The shipping industry ranks, after agriculture, as the largest of our national commercial pursuits. There is more capital locked up in it, and more hands are employed in the navigation and construction of ships, their engines and fittings, than in any other trade of the country excepting the tillage of the soil.
The following Table gives the relative figures
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