shipbuilding

Traces the building of boats, from the first dugout to the latest submarines and steamships, describing new principles incorporated into the vessels to improve navigation and safety.

A chronicle of the fictional whaleship, Ulysses, describing the details of her building from design to launching.

Find out how the world's largest construction projects are designed and built.

Traces the evolution and associated traditions of wooden shipbuilding with detailed explanatory illustrations.

Discusses the history of shipbuilding and explains how modern ships are built from design through construction to testing and sea trials.

A shipbuilder tells his daughter Dawn how he once nursed a Canada goose with a broken wing, and how soon thereafter the young woman who would become his wife and Dawn's mother came to help him make sails.

Disappointed when his parents go off to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and leave him behind with his Great Aunt Hortense, young Walter encounters mystery and intrigue when he meets Old Zeb, a shipbuilder with a secret dream.