Excerpt from Modern Shipbuilding Terms, Defined and Illustrated: Including a Series of Photographs Showing the Progressive Steps of Construction Together With an Appendix on Electric Welding In this edition of Modern Shipbuilding Terms Defined and Illustrated an attempt is made to explain the more common words and phrases used in building a steel ship at the present time. The illustrations in nearly every case are taken from ships just built or now building, and the arrangement is such that, if studied in order, they will convey a fair idea of the modern system of shipbuilding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.