TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. The fifteen ‘Portraits and Biographical Notes’ have been moved to the end of the main text, in front of the Footnotes and book catalog. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book, after the Portraits. All changes noted in the ERRATA have been applied to the etext. A superscript is denoted by ^x, for example C^o or Nath^l. A subscript is denoted by _{x}, for example B_{1} or D_{3}. Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 1/1000 or 5/16. The tables in this book are best viewed using a monospace font. Many minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: S.S. “CITY OF ROME”—ANCHOR LINE. Macleod and Macdonald Engraver Glasgow] MODERN SHIPBUILDING AND THE MEN ENGAGED IN IT: A REVIEW OF RECENT PROGRESS IN STEAMSHIP DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, TOGETHER WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NOTABLE SHIPYARDS, AND STATISTICS OF WORK DONE IN THE PRINCIPAL BUILDING DISTRICTS. BY DAVID POLLOCK, NAVAL ARCHITECT. With Portrait and Biographical Notes of Eminent Shipowners, Shipbuilders, Engineers, and Naval Architects; also, Views of Notable Ships. LONDON: E. & F. N. SPON, 125 STRAND. NEW YORK: 35 MURRAY STREET. 1884. (_All rights reserved._) PREFACE. The great activity in shipbuilding and marine engineering during recent years, and the substantial progress, both in science and practice, which has marked the period, have often formed the subject of articles in the technical and daily press, and of papers read before professional institutions. So far as I am aware, however, no single work dealing historically with modern shipbuilding in a way at once trustworthy and popular, and in a form handy and accessible, has yet been published. The present work aims at supplying this want. In undertaking it originally, I felt encouraged by the acceptance which various articles, contributed to the columns of the _Glasgow Herald_, _The Engineer_, _The Steamship_, _Iron_, &c., had met with from many whose good opinion I had reason to value highly. With the kind permission of the proprietors of the above journals, I have made use to some extent of the articles in question—but largely amplified and corrected—in preparing the following pages.