The History of the Ship
Subtitle: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Edition: 1.00 edition
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781585746217
Subjects: Maritime History; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History; Transportation
First sentence: The first English word relating to ships on record is 'keel' (found in a Latin history of 545 AD), from which one may infer the ship in its primitive form was an object useful to man from earliest times.