History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 563
suppose the palm to have been nineinches ; for then the mast would be nine feet in circum-ference, or equal to that of a first-class modern line-of-battle ship. However imperfect the drawings which have beenpreserved, the reader will by these form a moreaccurate idea of what the vessels were than… … made for imperfection of the drawings, we may forma tolerable idea of the ships of that period.vol. i. H 514 MEKCHANT SHIPPING. Throughout the whole of the middle ages, andeven until the seventeenth century, every vessel wasprovided with trumpets and bugles, which were played during fetes and…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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