How Wooden Ships are Built Document

[Castos]

Good Day

 

I came across this article How Wooden Ships Are Built https://www.woodenboat.com/sites/default/files/library-content/binder1-final.pdf

 

Is this significant in the research to assist in scratch building?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Andre

[trippwj]

That looks like the 1919 by Davis.  A very good overview but, and this is the key to using any reference, the value depends on the degree of historical accuracy you desire.  The higher the level of period accuracy desired, the more important contemporary records and resources become.

 

This is a good reference for general wooden shipbuilding, though not specific to period, nation or vessel.

[pontiachedmark]

Gidday Andre,

I am a big fan of historical literature for Ships and Automobiles. This is fascinating.  It is relevant but obviously is on a hugely different scale. I often wonder where all that machinery is today.  I don't suppose we have the timber supplies left anyway. 

Regards,

Mark

[John Cheevers]

The author is H. Cole Estep. It was published in 1918 by The Benton Publishing Company, publisher of the Marine Review, Cleveland, Ohio.

[Castos]

I came across the webpage www.forgottenbooks.com. You register and subscribe ($9 per month) and have access to a very huge range of books, for example 'The Elements of Wood Ship Construction by W.H. Curtis' These are old books which can be used as a reference for model ship building.

[druxey]

It is a good document for early 20th century American shipbuilding practice. 

[Roger Pellett]

It is also explains why large wooden ships were obsolete by the end of the Nineteenth Century (but temporarily resurrected to meet WW I shipping needs).  The huge wooden keelsons required to reinforce these long inherently flexible structures seriously reduce space to haul cargo.

 

Of interest is a midships section of a design by Frank Kirby, the preemenant Naval architect on the Great Lakes at the time.  Kirby’s design uses steel to reinforce critical areas of the structure.

 

Roger Pellett