A MAN AND HIS SHIP:AMERICA'S GREATEST NAVAL ARCHITECT AND HIS QUEST TO BUILD THE S.S. UNITED STATES

摘要

This new book is a very well-researched and detailed biography of William Francis Gibbs and his lifelong dream to build the Big Ship. Here, the life of Gibbs is told through his ships. It opens with the christening of the steamship St. Louis at Cramp's Philadelphia shipyard in November 1894. William Warren Gibbs took his sons, William Francis and Frederic, to witness the launching of the new transatlantic liner; beginning their lifetimes of ship design and shipbuilding.