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The one type of ship which is likely to survive the centuries is the oldest of all the fishing-boat. The need to garner the sea's living harvest was the reason for man's first venturing upon it, and the ships he will still need to catch his fish may be the last surface-ships to cut a furrow in salt water.'
So the author, looking into the 'foreseeable future', completes the full cycle of the Story of the Ship.
This is an astonishingly detailed history for so small a book, but it gives no feeling of great compression. It is a book by a writer, always interesting, as vivid as it is authoritative. – From the dust jacket
CONTENTS
1 The Birth of Seamanship
2 Ships-of-War
3 The First Liners
4 The Medieval Ship
5 The Opening of the World
6 The End of the Galley
7 The Floating Gun-platform
8 The Three-decker
9 The Passing of Sail
10 Mechanical Metal Ships
11 Early Steam Warships
12 The Modern Capital-ship
13 The Peak of Ships
14 The Foreseeable Future
Glossary
Index
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