New method of joining ribs of a merchant ship Finish:Rolled in Sheffield

in Sheffield

including a boy collecting water at a pump and a man in foreign dress on the right

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions are on the table

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New method of joining ribs of a merchant ship Finish:Rolled in SheffieldPlate 9 figure 4 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy', by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 133 143. Two illustrations to show shorter timber components for each rib connected by dowels. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1820