Transcriber’s Notes

This e-text is based on the three-volume book ‘Shipbuilding from Its Beginnings,’ from 1895. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been retained; punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected.

The first volume, which provides the descriptive text for the illustrations in the present book, is available on https://gutenberg.org under the book number [74360].

SHIPBUILDING
FROM
ITS BEGINNINGS