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Excerpt from An Outline of Ship Building: Theoretical and Practical IN offering this work on ship-building to officers of the naval service and to others of my profession, the author has no apology to make for its production. Information on this subject has been sought from every available source, with a view of rendering this work useful for the purposes of elementary instruction as well as to the practical builder. The result of the undertaking is hum bly submitted, trusting that it will meet with indulgence for such faults as it may contain. The First Division has been compiled chiefly from Rankine's ship-building, Theoretical and Practical. Credit for articles taken from other authors is given in foot-notes. The Second Division is based upon the actual practice of the public and private ship-yards of this country but the treatises on this subject, of Rankine, Scott Russell, Knowles, and Fin cham have been freely used and portions incorporated whenever it seemed desirable to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.