Forty famous ships; their beginning, their life histories, their ultimate fate; being a collection of short, pleasant and diverting dissertations anent the several vessels therein comprehended, all of which have played their parts, some large, some small, in the great world drama of the sea, in acts of strife & in peaceful scenes, from the early Christian era to the present day. How and why they gained their great reputations; and sundry facts relative to their dimensions, rigging, furniture, etc., etc., etc.
Subtitle: based upon the accounts of reputable and reliable authorities, both ancient and modern, and devoid of technical or tiresome refinements...
By: by Henry B. Culver; the whole accurately and instructively delineated partly in color and partly in line according to contemporaneous portrayals or veri-similar representations thereof by Gordon Grant
Contributors: Grant, Gordon, 1875-1962
Publisher: Doubleday, doran & company, inc.
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Ships
Notes: Tail-pieces

"This edition is limited to 501 copies of which this is no 224" Signed: Henry B. Culver

"First edition."