The History of the Ship
Subtitle: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781558216815
Subjects: History; Travel; Marine Engineering (General); Water Transportation; Transportation; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Navigation; Ships
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.