Modern shipbuilding and the men engaged in it

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Macleod and Macdonald Engraver Glasgow
A REVIEW OF RECENT PROGRESS IN STEAMSHIP DESIGN AND CON- STRUCTION, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NOTABLE SHIPYARDS, AND STATISTICS OF WORK DONE IN THE PRINCIPAL BUILDING DISTRICTS.
DAVID POLLOCK,
NAVAL ARCHITECT.
With Portrait and Biographical Notes of Eminent Shipowners, Shipbuilders, Engineers, and Naval Architects; also, Views of Notable Ships.
London: E. & F. N. SPON, 125 Strand.
New York: 35 Murray Street.
1884.
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The great activity in shipbuilding and marine engineering during recent years, and the substantial progress, both in science and practice, which has marked the period, have often formed the subject of articles in the technical and daily press, and of papers read before professional institutions. So far as I am aware, however, no single work dealing historically with modern shipbuilding in a way at once trustworthy and popular, and in a form handy and accessible, has yet been published. The present work aims at supplying this want. In undertaking it originally, I felt encouraged by the acceptance which various articles, contributed to the columns of the Glasgow Herald , The Engineer , The Steamship , Iron , &c., had met with from many whose good opinion I had reason to value highly. With the kind permission of the proprietors of the above journals, I have made use to some extent of the articles in question—but largely amplified and corrected—in preparing the following pages.