The Art of Boat & Ship Building

This is a collection of 12 classic books (in PDF format) on The Art of Boat & Ship Building. Each PDF Reprint is an electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in around 1900s.

PDF Reprint #1

228 Pages

Wooden Ship-Building

This book places at the disposal of builders of wood ships some much needed information about construction and equipment. Each principal part of a vessel's construction is explained, the information being arranged in such a manner that the reader can either use the book for reference purposes and quickly obtain from it desired information about any selected part of hull or equipment, or he can read the book as one continuous story covering the construction and equipment of a vessel.

PDF Reprint #2

229 Pages

The Elements of Wood Ship Construction

This textbook is intended for the use of carpenters and others, who, though skilled in their work, lack the detail knowledge of ships necessary for the efficient performance of their work in the yard.

PDF Reprint #3

200 Pages

Boat-Building and Boating

This is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, houseboats, skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motorboat, and there it stops.

PDF Reprint #4

264 Pages

Canoe and Boat Building

A Complete Manual for Amateurs

This book contains plain and comprehensive directions for the construction of canoes, rowing and sailing boats and hunting crafts. With numerous illustrations and fifty plates of working drawings, it is a manual designed for the practical assistance of those who wish to build their own canoes.

PDF Reprint #5

762 Pages

Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction & Operation

This is a book of reference for shipowners, ship officers, ship and engine draughtsmen, marine engineers, and others engaged in the building and operating of ships. It has been compiled with the purpose of assembling in a single publication in convenient form, practical data for everyday reference.

PDF Reprint #6

326 Pages

Iron Ship-Building with Practical Illustrations

This book contains the early history and the progressive stages of the science of Iron Shipbuilding, written in a form easily understood by all who desire to consider the subject, while the practical operations required in producing the ship are carefully described and illustrated.

PDF Reprint #7

358 Pages

Treatise on Iron Ship Building

Its History and Progress

As comprised in a series of experimental researches on the laws of strain; the strengths, forms, and other conditions of the material; and an inquiry into the present and prospective state of the Navy, including the experimental results on the resisting powers of armour plates and shot at high velocities.

PDF Reprint #8

453 Pages

Theory and Practice Blended in Ship Building

Illustrated with More Than 50 Engravings

This book is designed to form the connecting link between science and practice, with a view to the elementary instruction of those who have not previously studied the principles of science in modelling and building ships. But while it is designed as the novitiate's guide, it will be found to contain much information adapted to all branches of maritime enterprise; not only the elementary principles, but all the departments of this science will be distinctly explained and illustrated by plates and diagrams.

PDF Reprint #9

327 Pages

Stem to Stern, or Building the Boat

The writer finds it quite impracticable to give as minute directions for the building of a boat as a few of his young readers may desire, for the entire volume would hardly afford sufficient space for all the details of planning and constructing a yacht. But he has endeavoured to impart some information in a general way in regard to shipbuilding, and has indicated in what manner the ambitious young boat-builder may obtain the amplest instruction in this difficult art.

PDF Reprint #10

179 Pages

Ancient and Modern Ships

Wooden Sailing-Ships

This handbook endeavors to trace the history of the development of wooden ships from the earliest times down to the early 20th century, as far as space and scantiness of material would permit.

PDF Reprint #11

28 Pages

History & Description of
The Steam-Ship Great Britain

PDF Reprint #12

204 Pages

Ship-Building in Iron & Wood
and
Steam-Ships

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