Identifier: romanceofshipsto00chat (find matches)
Title: The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
Subjects: Ships Shipbuilding
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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at its top aswell as by an overhanging rich carpet. Flat-bottomed,long, and narrow, these vessels sometimes reached a lengthof three hundred feet, and their speed, either when run-ning before a wind or when propelled by oars, must havebeen anything but slow. As the Egyptian influence had been handed on to thePhoenicians and modified, so the Phoenicians handed onto Greece and Rome the ship as they had left her.We have abundant information as to Greek and Romanvessels, not merely from the writings of classical authors,but from most interesting discoveries that have beenmade in Greece, Italy, and Northern Africa. In the year1834, for instance, in the Piraeus were unearthed somehighly important records of the Athenian dockyardsuperintendents, containing inventories of the Athenianarsenals of the fourth century b.c. These have sincebeen elucidated and supplemented by further research. As early as the thirteenth century b.c, Greek vesselswere sailing over the sea, and five hundred years 38
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