Four-masted barques were the workhorses of the last days of commercial sail. This article considers how different they were from their predecessors, and how their development included a final boom in square rig shipbuilding. It also discusses the degree to which they benefited, or not, from technical developments in the maritime world.
The Austin Farrar Memorial Article
Technology and the Four-masted Commercial Sailing Ship, 1875–1950
The Mariner's Mirror ; 98 , 4 ; 409-420
01.01.2012
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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