AUNT’S 80 TON HOMEMADE SCHOONER MADE OF NAVY SURPLUS STEEL, HAS BEEN STUCK ... TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MOVE THE SHIP, BUT HE ENDED UP HELPING HAROLD FINISH THE HULL. HE ALSO BOUGHT A PIECE OF ...
Whitby has had a fishing fleet since at least the 14th century but became Britain’s third largest boat building centre in the 1800s - here is the history of ship and boat building in the Yorkshire ...
Technology changed — building ships by welding replaced riveting ... The tugboat was built to be strong and tough, a steel hull, 151 feet long powered by a 1,000-horsepower oil-burning steam ...