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The art of making masts, yards, gaffs, booms, blocks, and oars, as practised in the Royal Navy, and according to the most approved methods in the merchant-service : Including a description of an improved rule for mast-makers: also a new method by which large yards may be made from small trees, and repaired when sprung in the slings, &c. Illustrated with large engravings and numerous figures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steel, David
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for David Steel, at his Navigation-Warehouse, No. 1, Union-Row, Little Tower-Hill, M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]
Subjects:	Masts and rigging. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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