18th Century Shipbuilding: Remarks on the Navies of the English and the Dutch from Observations Made at Their Dockyards in 1737
Year: 1992 Language: english Author: Blaise Ollivier Genre: History Publisher: Jean Boudriot Publications ISBN: 978-0948864117 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 287 Description: In 1737, Blaise Ollivier, Master Shipwright at Brest, was ordered by Maurepas, the French Minister of the navy, to go to Engnand and Holland in order to find out everything possible about how ships were build there, and what France might usefully imitate. Ollivier's secret mission lasted nearly five months, during which time he visited all the major naval dockyards of both country except Plymouth. At the conclusion he wrote a 360-page report entitled "Remarks on the navies of the English and the Dutch", discussing everything he had seen in meticulous details, evaluting English and Dutch practices and comparing them with techniques used in France, illustrating his findings with 13 sheets of drawings and plans. Blaise ollivier's report provides a remarkable insight into shipbuilding in the 1730's, a period about which relatively little is know.
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18th Century Shipbuilding: Remarks on the Navies of the English and the Dutch from Observations Made at Their Dockyards in 1737
Language: english
Author: Blaise Ollivier
Genre: History
Publisher: Jean Boudriot Publications
ISBN: 978-0948864117
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 287
Description: In 1737, Blaise Ollivier, Master Shipwright at Brest, was ordered by Maurepas, the French Minister of the navy, to go to Engnand and Holland in order to find out everything possible about how ships were build there, and what France might usefully imitate. Ollivier's secret mission lasted nearly five months, during which time he visited all the major naval dockyards of both country except Plymouth. At the conclusion he wrote a 360-page report entitled "Remarks on the navies of the English and the Dutch", discussing everything he had seen in meticulous details, evaluting English and Dutch practices and comparing them with techniques used in France, illustrating his findings with 13 sheets of drawings and plans.
Blaise ollivier's report provides a remarkable insight into shipbuilding in the 1730's, a period about which relatively little is know.
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