The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 78
GREAT HARRY. It is 115 feet in length, and weighs not less than1500 tons. How the great English war-ship Harry Gracea Dieu could ever have stood upright under sucha mass of lofty cabins and top-hamper as she ispictured with is a marvel; the drawing* of herbow alone, shown upon this page, indicates… … HARRY GR.\CE A DIEU. of the large ships of that age show any more sea-worthiness. The Greek and the Roman galleys when com-pared with the ships of the middle ages shownot only greater stability but fitness for manyuses besides that of merely cutting the water. Inone we find at the waters edge a…
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