Ribs and chocks in merchant ships mb-width 3107 View of the Old General

View of the Old General Post Office on the east side of St Martin's le Grand

Map of London during the Saxon period

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Ribs and chocks in merchant ships mb-width 3107 View of the Old GeneralPlate 8 figures 1 2 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 showing the curvature of timber and a chock or wedge piece positioned to join a vessel's rib. Original: ink on paper. 1820