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The ship-builders assistant: or, some essays towards compleating the art of marine architecture: viz. I. A general introduction, wherein is consider'd the solid of least resistance, so far as relates to the formation of a ship's body, &c. II. Observations for regulating the price of timber, taken from the proportion of its different dimensions; with estimates of the value of oak timber, and several other materials relating to naval stores. III. Rules for building the hull of any sort of ships. To which is added the scantling or measuring of ship-timbers, and some directions about moulding them. IV. A new method for finding the tunnage of any ship. V. Rules for proportioning the rigging. To which is annexed, an explication of the principal terms used in this art. The whole illustrated with many schemes proper to each part, most of them from copper plates. By William Sutherland, shipwright and mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: 1711- Books
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The ship-Builder's assistant; or, marine architecture. Containing I. The Method of Extracting the Square and Cube Roots, Geometry and Mensuration: Wherein all the rules necessary for measuring Plank, Timber, and finding the Tunnage of ships, are laid down in a very plain and conspicuous Manner; and illustrated by proper Examples. II. Observations on the Nature and Value of Timber; with a New Method of procuring it in the necessary Forms for Ship-Building. III. The Method of Drawing the Plans of Ships, and moulding their Timbers; together with all the practical rules necessary to be observed in Building the Hulls of all Sorts of Ships. To which is added, the Scantling or Mensuration of Ships Timbers. IV. Directions for making the Masts and Yards of a just Proportion to the Ship, and also to one another, both with regard to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to the New Establishment. V. The Boatswains art: Shewing the Method of finding exactly the Length and Thickness of every rope; Also Cable and Cordage tables, shewing by Inspection the Weight of any rope, whose Length and Thickness are given. With some Directions for Cutting out sails. The Whole illustrated with a great Variety of figures and draughts, Engraven on Copper-Plates. By William Sutherland, Shipwright and Mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: 1755- Books
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Britain's glory: or, ship-building unvail'd. Being a general director, for building and compleating the said machines. By William Sutherland, Author of The Ship-Builder's Assistant.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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Britain's glory: or, ship-building unvail'd. Being a general director, for building and compleating the said machines. By William Sutherland, Author of The Ship-Builder's Assistant.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector, for readily laying down and delineating ships, whether of similar or dissimilar forms. Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts, of difference of latitude and departure, of logarithms, and of artificial sines, tangents, and secants. With an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, mem. of the R. Acad. of Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society of London, and Surveyor General of the French marine. To which is now added a supplement. Containing a translation of what M. Bouguer, another French author has written on that subject: and M. Duhamel's method of finding the center of gravity, with some remarks by the author. The whole illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates. By Mungo Murray.
Murray, Mungo, -1770.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]