History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 112
the large steam-ships of our own time ; but the depthis so great and so much out of proportion to thelength and breadth, that there is no doubt a mistakein the figures. The depth was much more likely tohave been twenty-eight cubits, for which forty-eighthas, through some misapprehension, been… … MERCHANT SHIPPING. 63 ancients had frequently very high poops or enormouscastles erected aft, a practice which prevailed up tothe seventeenth century, it is hardly possible to con-ceive that the highest portion of the poop of Ptolemysship was fifty-three cubits, or about eighty feet abovethe water.…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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