Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fastened without nails : the sewn boat
  • 2. The advent of metals
  • 3. Metal fastenings on the sewn-plank boat
  • 4. Fastened with metal and wood
  • 5. Clinker shipbuilding
  • 6. Carvel building in northern Europe
  • 7. The manufacture of fastenings
  • 8. Sheathing : the key to copper and copper-alloy fastenings
  • 9. The advent of Muntz Metal through to the composite ship
  • 10. Registers, treatises, and contemporary accounts
  • 11. The archaeological evidence
  • 12. Iron and steel ships
  • 13. Modern terminology
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : explanatory notes on metallic fastenings
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.