Faster! Faster!: The Quest for Sailing Speed
- ISBN-10
- 0688023894
- ISBN-13
- 9780688023898
- Category
- Naval architecture
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Hearst Books
- Author
- David F. Pelly
Description
Perseverance was finally rewarded when Howland and Aspinall commissioned Griffiths ' employers Smith and Dimon to build them an experimental ship along the lines he proposed . She was the Rainbow of 750 tons , often called the first of ...
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