Composition, “Old Ironsides,” a great 49-gun frigate, offers a good example of the fresh fledgling navy’s need for hemp
Composition, “Old Ironsides,” a great 49-gun frigate, offers a good example of the fresh fledgling navy’s need for hemp The newest You.S.S. She carried many square feet off canvas (hemp cloth) sails and more than 60 many hemp rope rigging, together with a point cable a couple base in the width (more than seven» diameter) […]