Forty famous ships : their beginnings, their life histories, their ultimate fate

Author(s)

• Culver, Henry B. (Henry Brundage), b. 1869
• Grant, Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Forty famous ships : their beginnings, their life histories, their ultimate fate

by Henry B. Culver ; the whole accurately, and instructively delineated, partly in color and partly in line according to contemporaneous portrayals or verisimilar representations thereof by Gordon Grant

Garden City Pub., c1938

Note

"Being a collection of short, pleasant and diverting dissertations anent the several vessels therein comprehended, all of which have played their parts, some large, some small, in the great world drama of the sea, in acts of strife & in peaceful scenes, from the early Christian era to the present day. How and why they gained their great reputations; and sundry facts relative to their dimensions, rigging furniture, etc., etc., etc.; based upon the accounts of reputable and reliable authorities, both ancient and modern, and devoid of technical or tiresome refinements"

Illustrated lining-papers; tail-pieces

Details

• NCID: BA87190598
• LCCN: 39001134
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 320 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : VM15
  • DC : 623.809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ships