item: #1 of 12
          id: 13510
      author: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)
       title: Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.
        date: None
       words: 11364
      flesch: 85
     summary: This is a secure and easy method of fastening ropes together and it allows the rope to be handled more easily, and to pass around a winch or to be coiled much more readily, than when other knots are used. The history of ropes and knots is so dim and ancient that really little is known of their origin.
    keywords: crown; end; ends; fig; hitch; illustration; knot; rope; splice; standing; strands
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 21749
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships
        date: None
       words: 54161
      flesch: 71
     summary: A sloop of 40 tons burden is what we ordinarily call a _little_ ship, and one of 100 tons is by no means a big one. Doubtless the _first_ boats must have been constructed by the _first_
    keywords: board; boat; bow; canoes; captain; course; craft; crew; cut; deck; eastern; end; engines; feet; fore; form; good; great; half; hour; iron; keel; lifeboat; little; man; mast; means; men; night; north; ocean; point; round; sail; sea; ship; size; south; steam; stern; time; tons; vessel; war; water; way; wind; world
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 29064
      author: Yates, Raymond F. (Raymond Francis)
       title: Boys' Book of Model Boats
        date: None
       words: 36029
      flesch: 84
     summary: A suitable power motor for small boats, which will run with either one or two dry-cells, is shown in Fig. Of course, steam is a more powerful agency in the propulsion of small boats and thereby greater speed is attainable by its use.
    keywords: boat; brass; center; cut; cylinder; deck; end; engine; fig; hole; hull; illustration; inch; inches; line; model; piece; place; propeller; shape; steam; stern; tube; water; wood
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 30983
      author: Jutsum, Captain
       title: Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging
        date: None
       words: 10330
      flesch: 88
     summary: The part of rope extending from 1 to 2 is known as the standing part which we will call _a_, the portion included between 2 and 3 following round the loop by _y_ and _ Then tuck the strands of rope a into the rope _b_ in a similar manner to that described in an eye splice, and similarly tuck the strands of _b_ into _a_ (Figs. 84 and 85).
    keywords: end; fig; illustration; knot; rope; strand
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 33098
      author: Holmes, George Charles Vincent, Sir
       title: Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships
        date: None
       words: 44390
      flesch: 72
     summary: What is more natural than to suppose that the genius and science which enabled them to build the Pyramids and their vast temples and palaces, to construct huge works for the regulation of the Nile, and to quarry, work into shape, and move into place blocks of granite weighing in some cases several hundreds of tons, should also lead them to excel in the art of building ships? 27.--One of William the Conqueror's ships. 1066 A.D.] It must not be supposed that the art of building ships of larger size, which was, as we have seen, well understood by the Romans, about the commencement of our era, was forgotten.
    keywords: b.c; banks; boats; british; century; deck; dimensions; east; english; expedition; fig; fleet; french; galleys; greek; guns; henry; illustration; king; length; merchant; naval; navy; number; oars; period; reign; royal; sea; shipbuilding; ships; size; time; tons; upper; use; vessels; war; water; year; | |
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 35015
      author: Stephen, Vincent
       title: Wrinkles in Electric Lighting
        date: None
       words: 19595
      flesch: 73
     summary: _ 8vo, cloth, 15_s._ _Foundations and Foundation Walls for all classes of Buildings_, Pile Driving, Building Stones and Bricks, Pier and Wall construction, Mortars, Limes, Cements, Concretes, Stuccos, &c. _64 illustrations_. _Standard Practical Plumbing_; being a complete Encyclopædia for Practical Plumbers and Guide for Architects, Builders, Gas Fitters, Hot-water Fitters, Ironmongers, Lead Burners, Sanitary Engineers, Zinc Workers, &c. _
    keywords: 8vo; arc; c.e; cloth; construction; contents; copper; crown; current; dynamo; edition; electric; engineers; fig; figs; gas; illustrations; iron; lamps; leads; light; lighting; means; plates; ship; speed; steam; time; treatise; use; water; wire; work
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 42255
      author: Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler)
       title: A Little Fleet
        date: None
       words: 4308
      flesch: 83
     summary: --_A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured._ Here, palpably, was a hint for somebody, who has turned out to be Mr. Jack B. Yeats. But in Mr. Jack B. Yeats we recognise the makings of a dramatist of an older order; a writer of plays that are written in the intimate speech of the folk-ballad.
    keywords: fleet; illustration; jack; net; river; round; yeats
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 44228
      author: Beard, Daniel Carter
       title: Boat-Building and Boating
        date: None
       words: 50960
      flesch: 82
     summary: Fig. 187½, R. A timber-hitch; when tightened the line binds around the timber so that it will not slip. Fig. 187½, S. Commencement of simple lashing knot.
    keywords: bark; boards; boat; bow; cabin; canoe; canvas; craft; cross; cut; edge; end; ends; feet; fig; fit; hand; illustration; inches; inside; knot; line; little; log; loop; mast; nail; piece; place; sail; shows; sides; stern; use; water; wind
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 46219
      author: Walker, John Bernard
       title: An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat
        date: None
       words: 23536
      flesch: 59
     summary: The use of transverse coal-bunkers must be regarded as one among many instances, in which the safety of passenger ships is sacrificed to considerations of economy and convenience of operation. DIAMETER OVER TIPS OF BLADES IS 18 FEET] The purpose of the present chapter is to show how successfully the methods of underwater protection employed in naval ships may be applied to passenger ships of the first class; and the _
    keywords: = =; bulkheads; compartments; construction; deck; eastern; feet; fire; great; hull; illustration; line; passenger; protection; safety; sea; ship; skin; time; titanic; water; watertight; | |
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 46382
      author: Lake, Simon
       title: The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its Possibilities
        date: None
       words: 91818
      flesch: 58
     summary: The next war may be largely a contest between submarine boats. On the other hand, in submarine boats _when submerged_
    keywords: air; argonaut; board; boat company; boats; buoyancy; cargo; carrying; coast; company; compartment; construction; control; country; course; crew; day; depth; design; devices; distance; diving; door; enemy; engine; experiments; fact; feet; government; holland; illustration; line; man; means; method; naval; navy; new; power; present; pressure; run; sea; ship; speed; states; submarine; submarine boat; submarine navigation; submarine torpedo; submarine vessel; submarine work; surface; surface vessel; tanks; time; torpedo; type; united; use; vessels; war; water; way; years
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 46731
      author: Evans, Cerinda W.
       title: Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia
        date: None
       words: 27664
      flesch: 77
     summary: The grounds upon which this order was based were (1) the injustice of granting privileges to Virginia ship owners, not enjoyed by the owners of English vessels, trading in Virginia waters; (2) the success of the navigation laws would be impaired by creating a Virginia fleet, able to transport tobacco, without the assistance of English vessels; and (3) owners of English ships might be tempted to order them as belonging to Virginians. Teste, Joseph Billups, Jr. Various statistics were given by different writers for the number of Virginia owned vessels in the period just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
    keywords: bbl; boat; building; captain; century; cleared; colony; corn; county; creek; england; feet; ferries; george; hhd; james; james river; john; june; land; landing; london; march; new; norfolk; number; point; pounds; river; schooner; ship; shipbuilding; sir; sloop; thomas; tobacco; tons; use; vessels; virginia; west; william; york; york river
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 54667
      author: Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.
       title: Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock
        date: None
       words: 37388
      flesch: 72
     summary: | tons | tons | miles | tons | knots | I.H.P. ---------+------+------+------+--------+--------+-------+------------- 15 | 1.60 | 918 | 822 | 3,447 | 10,298 | 10.85 | 3,713 | 1.58 | | | | | | 3,900 16 | 1.59 | 923 | 834 | 3,403 | 10,289 | 10.80 | 3,951 | 1.64 | | | | | | 3,775 | 1.63 | | | | | | 3,668 17 | 1.50 | 924 | 836 | 3,469 | 10,499 | 10.40 | 3,949 | 1.53 | | | | | | 3,796 18 | 1.50 | 847 | 775 | 3,441 | 10,563 | 11.10 | 3,937 | 1.50 | | | | | | 3,720 19 | 1.44 | 837 | 760 | 3,423 | 10,570 | 10.85 | 3,909 | 1.43 | | | | | | 3,813 20 | 1.50 | 780 | 707 | 3,312 | 10,641 | 11.50 | 4,107 | 1.32 | | | | | | 3,817 21 | 1.56 | 846 | 766 | 3,330 | 10,651 | 10.60 | 3,909 | 1.44 | | | | | | 3,870 | 1.46 | | | | | | 3,746 ---------+------+------+------+--------+--------+-------+------------- Totals | | 6075 | 5500 | 23,825 | 73,511 | | Averages | 1.51 | 868 | 786 | 3,404 | 10,501 | 10.87 | 3,848 ---------+------+------+------+--------+--------+-------+------------- The China Navigation Company of London, for whom the Scotts began building in 1875, have had in the thirty years sixty-four vessels, which have been an important factor not only in the development of trade in China, but also in the advancement of British interests in the Far East. Waterloo_ | 200 | 60 | 9 |Largest steamer of | | | | | 1819.
    keywords: boilers; clyde; company; compound |; diameter; engines; greenock; horse; hour |; illustration; iron |; john; length; long; machinery; minute |; page; plate; power |; pressure; scotts; service; ships; square; steam; steamers; time; tons |; tube |; vessels; work; years; | +; | coal; | expansion; | lb; | piston; | speed; | steel; | type; | weight; | |; | |loader; |ditto |
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