Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance

A shipyard manual on building large wooden vessels: moulding and framing, keelsons, planking, fastenings, caulking and launching. Richly illustrated with construction plans and details.

Charles Desmond

A practical treatise on modern wooden ship construction, with a supplement on laying off. Large plans and photographs show every stage of building a wooden hull.

H. Cole Estep

A clear step by step guide to wood ship construction: timber, keel and frames, horning and assembling, planking, ceiling and fastenings. Written for workers new to the shipyard.

W. H. Curtis

Written for carpenters and woodworkers who want to build boats and ships, and used as a school textbook. It explains lofting, bevelling, framing and planking with simple methods and many diagrams.

Richard M. Van Gaasbeek