[8] Cases were known where ships, unfit for sea, completed their voyage in safety, to fall to pieces immediately on being taken into dock and deprived of that continual support which they derived from the water when afloat (Charnock).
[9] Chief-constructor D. W. Taylor, U.S.N.
[10] Creuze: Shipbuilding.
[11] Manwayring.
[12] Navy Records Soc.: 1918. Edited by W. G. Perrin, Esq., O.B.E.
[13] Captain John Smith’s Sea Man’s Grammar also appeared in the early part of this century.
[14] Sir J. Knowles, F.R.S.
[15] Willett: Memoirs on Naval Architecture.
[16] It has been suggested that the restricted draught given to the Dutch ships, owing to the shallowness of their coast waters, had the result of necessitating a generous breadth, and therefore made them generally stiffer than vessels of English construction.
[17] Derrick in his Memoirs refers to this ship us having been built of burnt instead of kilned timber, and as having special arrangements for circulating air in all its parts.