Naval Architecture

Abstract

SINCE the revival of shipbuilding in the United States and the construction of the “New Navy,” courses of instruction in naval architecture have been arranged at several of the universities and technical institutes. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken a leading position in this matter, and has provided classes for those intending to enter the profession of shipbuilding, as well as a post-graduate course in naval architecture especially arranged for assistant constructors whose preliminary training is at the Naval College, Annapolis. For many years the Navy Department of the United States had to send their assistant constructors to Europe for instruction. The first students who so came were entered at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich; in later years many young American naval architects have been students at Glasgow University. Others have been sent to the French School of Naval Architecture. For the future, it would appear that the United States intend to supply their own educational wants in this as in other branches.

Naval Architecture.

By Prof. C. H. Peabody. Pp. v+616. (New York: Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1904.) Price 31s. 6d. net.