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South Seas Companion
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Shipwright |
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A shipwright was a workman skilled in building ships. From the early seventeenth century ship-building was a specialist trade with its own guild, the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, founded in 1612. Shipwrights generally learnt the trade through a lengthy apprenticeship to a master shipwright. |
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Published by South Seas, 1 February 2004 Comments, questions, corrections and additions: Paul.Turnbull@utas.edu.au Prepared by: Paul Turnbull Updated: 28 June 2004 To cite this page use: href="paul.turnbull/project/southseas/companion/P000038 |