Papers and Discussions on Iron Ships.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Number 10 in the Navy Scientific Papers series. Discussions of modern iron technology include "Unseaworthiness in Merchant Steamers;" "Passenger Steamers on the Long Ferry;" "Cellular Construction;" "Wave-making Resistance of Ships;" "Russian Yacht Lividia;" and "Injuries Sustained (by the wreck of the Lividia)." Bound as issued in pebbled blue flexible boards stamped in gilt. Call number on backstrip and no other markings.. 23 cm. 176 pp. 13 b/w folding plates.