Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHIP.
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galley, as used by the ancient Greeks, and
contributed to the shipbuilding press an article
in which the fallacy of many long-prevailing
ideas concerning the construction of this type
of ship was clearly demonstrated.
The honour of designing and building the
first ships
worthy of the
name in Brit-
ain undoubt-
edly belonged
to Alfred the
Great. His
ships, accord-
ing to his-
torians, were
longer and
had better
sailing quali-
ties, includ-
ing more
“ freeboard ”
(height of
side out of
the water),
than those
belonging to
his enemies,
the Danes,
whom he de-
feated in sev-
eral naval
encounters.
Perhaps one
of the most
important
links between
ancient and mediaeval shipbuilding which has
been preserved for us was the Viking ship
discovered near Sandefjord in
1880. This vessel, which was
of oak, clinker-built, and 78
showed that her builders were
in ship construction, and that
they possessed more than an elementary
THE FULL-SIZED MODEL OF COLUMBUS’S FLAGSHIP, THE “ SANTA
MARIA?’ ON HER WAY TO THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
{Photo, Rischgitz Collection.)
Viking
Ship.
feet long,
no novices
knowledge of the problems of ship resist-
ance.
The fleet with which. Christopher Columbus
sailed across the then unknown
and perilous Atlantic Ocean c°lurnbus s
• i.no • .) x Flagship,
in 1492, m order to discover
a new route
to the Indies,
consisted of
three vessels,
the Santa
Maria (flag-
ship), the
Pinta, and
the Nina.
All three
were small
craft even
for that pe-
riod, as it
should be
borne in
mind that
for a number
of years pre-
vious to the
departure of
the discov-
erer on his
memorable
voyage Spain
possessed a
fleet of ships
of consider-
ably larger
tonnage. The
Spaniards
probably regarded Columbus’s voyage as
far too hazardous for them to risk their
larger and more costly vessels. It will be
within the recollection of some of our readers
that the Santa Maria, the largest of the little
fleet, was reconstructed in Spain in 1892, and
sailed over the Atlantic for the Chicago Expo-
sition of 1893. As reproduced, the ship had