Table of Contents:
  • The origin of practical shipbuilding methods
  • The growth of scientific shipbuilding in Great Britain
  • Practical shipbuilding develops in the United States
  • The golden era of urban American shipbuilding
  • Building iron ships in a wooden shipbuilding culture
  • A clash of cultures : the failure of theory in a practical shipbuilding world
  • An American naval renaissance and the introduction of theoretical ship design to the United States
  • The new American style of shipbuilding
  • Conclusion: building an American ship in the twentieth century.