Rudimentary Treatise on Masting, Mast-making, and Rigging of Ships
Year: 1864 Language: English Author: Kipping R. Genre: Manual Publisher: Virtue Brothers & Company Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 210 Description: In offering to the British public this rudimentary work, or outline of the Practice of Masting, Mast-Making, and Bigging of Ships, the author has no apology to offer for its production. It was composed in the hours of relaxation from official duties, during the period of his employment in one of the largest private Naval and Commercial Dock Establishments in the north of England, where he had frequent occasion to direct his attention to the mode of making masts and spars of various forms and dimensions, and witnessing other extensive works of rigging and equipment of ships. In addition to this, he devoted his evening hours to the perusal of the latest eminent publications on these subjects, and procured information from every possible source, with a view of rendering this work useful for elementary and practical purposes; he has, it is presumed, collected some valuable materials, and cast the result into one mould. A book of larger proportions and of greater price might have been drawn up with far less intellectual labour; this, however, would not have tended to accomplish the purpose which the publisher had in view, in issuing this Budimentary Series, namely, to accord with the often limited resources of students. By adopting a small type and a full page, and joining together an immense quantity of tabular matter, the author has been enabled to attempt more, within the same number of pages, than has previously been effected in other works on the same subject. The result of this undertaking is humbly submitted, trusting that it will meet with indulgence for any faults that may be contained therein; as, with the needful application to his profession, the author has no leisure to cultivate a literary style. Since this work was written, Mr. Weale requested the insertion in these pages of Dimensions of Masts and Yards of some of H.M. ships, which were not originally intended. The author not wishing to disturb the work after it was arranged for the press, and yet being anxious to cooperate with the publisher to meet the suggestion and wishes of numerous applicants, it was proposed between them to add an Appendix to this work, which it is hoped will give satisfaction to the public.
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Rudimentary Treatise on Masting, Mast-making, and Rigging of Ships
Language: English
Author: Kipping R.
Genre: Manual
Publisher: Virtue Brothers & Company
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 210
Description: In offering to the British public this rudimentary work, or outline of the Practice of Masting, Mast-Making, and Bigging of Ships, the author has no apology to offer for its production. It was composed in the hours of relaxation from official duties, during the period of his employment in one of the largest private Naval and Commercial Dock Establishments in the north of England, where he had frequent occasion to direct his attention to the mode of making masts and spars of various forms and dimensions, and witnessing other extensive works of rigging and equipment of ships. In addition to this, he devoted his evening hours to the perusal of the latest eminent publications on these subjects, and procured information from every possible source, with a view of rendering this work useful for elementary and practical purposes; he has, it is presumed, collected some valuable materials, and cast the result into one mould. A book of larger proportions and of greater price might have been drawn up with far less intellectual labour; this, however, would not have tended to accomplish the purpose which the publisher had in view, in issuing this Budimentary Series, namely, to accord with the often limited resources of students. By adopting a small type and a full page, and joining together an immense quantity of tabular matter, the author has been enabled to attempt more, within the same number of pages, than has previously been effected in other works on the same subject.
The result of this undertaking is humbly submitted, trusting that it will meet with indulgence for any faults that may be contained therein; as, with the needful application to his profession, the author has no leisure to cultivate a literary style.
Since this work was written, Mr. Weale requested the insertion in these pages of Dimensions of Masts and Yards of some of H.M. ships, which were not originally intended. The author not wishing to disturb the work after it was arranged for the press, and yet being anxious to cooperate with the publisher to meet the suggestion and wishes of numerous applicants, it was proposed between them to add an Appendix to this work, which it is hoped will give satisfaction to the public.
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