Frame, chocks and joins in merchant ships Finish:10-pack 22nd November 1986

22nd November 1986

It was one of the 'Waterloo churches' built with money allocated by Parliament in commemoration of the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

and members of the Court of Common Council and high officers can be seen wearing their official robes

Alfred the Great dividing his loaf with the pilgrim

Frame, chocks and joins in merchant ships Finish:10-pack 22nd November 1986Plate 8 figure 3 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy', by Robert Seppings, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 133 143. Two illustrations showing the frame curvature with chocks and the method of tying timber planks to the keel at the garboard strake. Original: ink on paper. 1820