British Treatises

Attwood, Edward L.

1917     Warships: A Textbook on the Construction, Protective, Stability, Turning, Etc., of War Vessels.     Longmans, Green and Co., London, England.

Baker, Matthew

1585     Fragments of English Shipwrightery. London, England.

Blanckley, Thomas Riley

1750     A Naval Expositor. Printed by Owen in Warwick Lane, London, England.

Brown, David K.

2005     The Way of the Ship in the Midst of the Sea: The Life and Work of William Froude. Periscope Publishing, Cornwall, England.

Bushnell, Edmund

1669     The Complete Shipwright: Plainly and Demonstratively Teaching the Proportion Used by Experienced Shipwrights, According to Their Custom of Building; Both Geometrically and       Arithmetically Performed. Privately Printed for George Hurlock, London, England.

Costell, George

1856     A Treatise on Ships’ Anchors. Privately Printed by John Weale, London, England.

Cummings, David Charles

1905     A Historical Survey of the Boiler Makers’ and Iron and Steel Ship Builders’ Society. R. Robinson & Co., London, England.

Cunningham, Brysson

1908     A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering. Charles Griffin & Co., London, England.       

Evers, Henry

1878     Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. William Collins, Sons & Co., London, England.

Fairbairn, William

1860     The Strength of Iron Ships. N.P., London, England.

1865     Treatise on Iron Shipbuilding: Its History and Progress. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England.

Falconer, William

1780     An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases. Printed for T. Cadell, London, England.

Fingham, John

1851     A History of Naval Architecture: An Introductory Dissertation in the Mathematical Science to the Art of Naval Construction. Whittaker and Co., London, England.

Fishbourne, E. Gardiner

1874     Our Ironclads and Merchant Ships. E. and F. Spon, London, England.

Grantham, John

1858     Iron Shipbuilding With Practical Illustrations. John Wheale, London, England.

Hedderwick, Peter

1830     A Treatise on Marine Architecture, Containing the Theory and Practice of Ship Building.                                Edinburgh, Scotland.

Holmes, George O. Y.

1906     Ancient and Modern Ships. Part II: The Era of Steam, Steel, and Iron. British Stationary Office,   London, England.

Holms, A. Campbell

1918     Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on Structural Design and Building of Modern Steel. Longmans, Green and Co., London, England.

Institution of Civil Engineers

1885     The Theory and Practice of Hydro Mechanics. Published by author, London, England.

Lavery, Brian

1981     Deane’s Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670. Conway Maritime Press, London, England.

Lloyd Register of British and Foreign Shipping

1862     Anchors and Cables. Published by Author, London, England.

Mainwayring, Henry

1667     The Sea-Man’s Dictionary or, An Exposition and Demonstration of All the Parts and Things Belonging to a Ship. Privately Printed by W. Godbid, London, England.

Mason, Herbert B.

1908     Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping. The Shipping Enclyclopedia, London, England.

Moore, J. J.

1805     The Midshipman’s Or British Mariner’s Vocabulary. 2nd Edition. Vernon and Hood, London, England.

Murray, Andrew and Robert Murray

1863     Shipbuilding in Iron and Wood & Steam-Ships. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Murray, Mungo

1754     A Treatise on Shipbuilding and Navigation. Privately Printed by D. Henry and R. Cave, London, England. 

Murray, Robert

1861     The Theory and Practice of Ship-Building with Portions of the Treatise on Naval Architecture. Adam and Charles, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Naval and Marine Engineering Exhibition 

1881     Lectures on Naval Architecture and Engineering, with Catalogue of the Exhibition. W. Collins, Sons, & Co. Glasgow, Scotland.

Petty, William

1693     What a Complete Treatise of Navigation Should Contain. Philosophical Transactions (1683- 1775) 17:657-659.

Reed, E. J.

1869     Shipbuilding in Iron and Steel. John Murray. London, England.

Ripper, William

1895     Steam: New Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, England.

Scotts at Greenock

1906     Two Centuries of Shipbuilding. Office of Engineering, London, England.

Seaton, Albert Edward

1909     The Screw Propeller: And Other Competing Instruments for Marine Propulsion. Charles Griffin & Co., London, England.

1918     A Manual of Marine Engineering. Charles Griffin & Co., London, England.

Sennett, Richard

1885     The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy. 2nd Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England.

Sennett, Richard and Henry J. Oram

1899     The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy. 4th Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England.

1904     The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy. 7th Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England.

1918(1913)        The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers    of the Royal Navy. Reprinted 11th Edition. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England.

Smith. John

1627     Sea-Man’s Grammar and Dictionary, Explaining All Difficult Terms in Navigation and the             Practical: Navigator and Gunner. London, England.

Smith, P. G. L.

1879     Notes on Building Construction, Part III: Materials. Rivingtons, London, England.

Smith, Thomas

1869     The Handbook of Iron-Shipbuilding. E & F. N. Spon, London, England.

Stalkartt, Marmaduke

1781     Naval Architecture or the Rudiments and Rules of Ship-Building. London, England.

Stanworth, June and David Humphreys

2015     Bottom–up: A Mathematical Model of the UK Shipbuilding Industry, 1889–1914. International   Journal of Maritime History. 27(3): 434-459.

Steel, P.

1805     The Shipwright’s Vade-Mecum. Privately Printed by C. Whittingham, London, England.

Stikeman, I and Kelly 

1839     Steels Ship-Masters Assistant and Owner’s Manual. Longman, Orme, Green and Longman, London, England.

Stuart, Robert

1824     A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine. Knight and Lacey, London, England.

Sturmy, Samuell

1669     The Mariner’s Magazine. London, England.

Sutherland, William

1711     The Ship-Building Assistant; or Marine Architecture. London, England.

Ritchie, L.A. (ed.)

1992     The Shipbuilding Industry. Manchester University Press, Manchester, England.

Thearle, Samuel J.P.

1874     Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and Composite Ships.       Reprinted in 1876. William, Collins Sons. London, England.

Steel, David (Printer)

1797     The Art of Making Masts, Yards, Gaffs, Booms, Blocks, and Oars, as Practised in the Royal Navy.                 Privately Printed for David Steel, London, England.

Walton, Thomas

1899     Know You Own Ship: A Simple Explanation. 4th Edition. Charles Griffin and Co., London, England.

1904     Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance. 3rd Edition. Charles Griffin and Co., London, England.

1908     Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance. 4th Edition. Charles Griffin and Co., London, England. 

Watson, Thomas H.

1898     Naval Architecture: A Manual of Laying-off Iron, Steel, and Composite Vessels. 2nd Edition.         Longmans, Green, & Co., London, England.

White, Horace

1958     Fossets: A Record of Two Centuries of Engineering. Fawcett Preston & Co., Bromborough,           England.

White, William H.

1877     A Manual of Naval Architecture. John Murray, London, England.

1900     A Manual of Naval Architecture. Fifth Edition. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, NY.