Steel: The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture. Illustrated with a series of Thirty-Eight Large Draughts and Numerous Smaller Engravings, 1805.

Plates:

1. Draught of a Ship proposed to carry Eighty Guns upon two Decks.
2. Disposition of the Frame of a Ship of Eighty Guns.
3. The Planking Expanded of the Eighty Gun Ship.
4. Profile of the Inboard-Works of the Eighty Gun Ship.
5. Plans of the Gun Deck and Orlop of the Eighty Gun Ship.
6. Plans of the Quarter Deck, Forecastle, and Upper Deck of the Eighty Gun Ship.
7. Main-Jear Capstan of the Eighty Gun Ship. Windlass &c. for a Ship of from 400 to 500 tons.
8. Midship Section of a 74 Gun Ship as built in His Majesty's Yards.
   Midship Section of a 74 Gun Ship as proposed by Mr. Gabriel Snodgrass.
   Midship Section of a 36 Gun Frigate, as built in His Majesty's yards.
   Midship Section of a 36 Gun Frigate, as proposed by Mr. Gab^l Snodgrass.
   Sketches of a new plan proposed for Framing Ships, &c. of the best mode of adopting Iron
   Work in the Construction.
9. Sheer Draught and Plans of a Forty Gun Frigate, with Launch &c.
10. Sheer Draught, Half Breadth and Body Plans of a Sloop of War.
11. Draught of the Dart and Arrow, Sloops, as designed by Gen. Bentham.
12. A Brig of War of 18 Guns as Built in the Year 1804.
13. Inboard Works of a Brig of War as built in the Year 1804.
14. Plans of the Upper Deck, Lower Deck, and Platforms of a Brig of War. Built in the Year 1804.
15. His Majesty's Yacht, Royal Sovereign, launched in the Year 1804.
16. Yacht built for the Prince Royal of Denmark.
17. Plans and Section of the Interior of a Fire Ship.
18. The Draught and Plans of a Bomb Vessel.
19. A Cutter, upon a New Construction with the mode of Fitting Sliding Keels.
20. Sheer Draught, Half Breadth and Body Plans of an East Indiaman.
21. Sheer draught, Half Breadth and Body Plans of a West Indiaman.
22. A Collier Brig of 170 Tons.
23. A Virginia Built Boat, Fitted for a Privateer.
24. A Fast Sailing Schooner.
25. A Virginia Pilot Boat.
26. A Berwick Smack.
27. A Sloop of Sixty Tons, in the London trade, particularly distinguished for her Capacity and Velocity.
28. A Southampton Fishing Hoy.
29. The Long Boat of an Eighty gun Ship, showing the nature of Construction by Whole Moulding.
30. Boats, Plate 2.
    Launch, 30 Feet 0 In. Long.
    An Eight Oared Cutter, 30 Feet 0 In. Long.
    Pinnace, 28 Feet 0 In. Long.
    Yawl, 26 Feet 0 In. Long.
31. Boats, Plate 3.
    A Wherry, 25 Feet 0 In. Long.
    A Whale Boat, 32 Feet 9 In. Long.
    The Life Boat as Constructed by Mr. Greathead of South Shields, 25 Feet 9 In. Long.
    A Gig or Swift Rowing Boat, 37 Feet 1 In. Long.
32. Laying off Plate 1.
    Fig 1. Plan of the Fore Body.
    Fig. 2. Sheer and Half Breadth Plan of the Fore Body.
    Moulds belonging to the Square Bodies.
33. Laying off. Plate 2.
    Fig. 1. Plan of the After Body.
    Fig. 2. Sheer and Half Breadth Plans of the After Body.
34. Laying off. Plate III.
    Sheer and Half Breadth Plans of the After Cant Body.
    Sheer and Half Breadth Plans of the Fore Cant Body.
35. Laying off. Plate 4.
    Horizontal Transoms.
    Cant Transoms.
36. Laying off. Plate 5.
    Square Tuck.
    Round Aft Tuck.
37. Laying off. Plate 6.
    Fig. 1. Hawse Pieces standing perpendicular with their sides as seen from afore.
    Fig. 2. Hawse Pieces, tapered at the Heels.
    Fig. 3. Cant Hawse Pieces.
38. Laying off. Plate VII.
    Laying off of the Stern: Plan of the Stern. Sheer plan
    Laying off of the Harpins: Body Plan. Sheer Plan.
    Laying off of the Head: Sheer Plan.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius

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