Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8688
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Frame, chocks and joins in merchant ships
Date
1820
Creator
Robert Seppings (1767 - 1840, British) , Naval architect
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 234mm
width (drawing): 197mm
width (drawing): 197mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 8 figure 3 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 frame curvature with chocks and the method of tying timber planks to the keel at the garboard strake. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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