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In terms of their design quality and construction, 18th-century French ships were widely acknowledged as the best in the world, and French shipbuilders were regarded as the most highly skilled. The British Royal Navy utilized several captured French vessels in their fleet, and American shipbuilders implemented
French construction techniques in creating . their young nation’s navy. New Orleans, as a colonial port, supplied shipbuilding materials such as lumber and sap, and served as a transfer point for goods and people traveling by sea to and from Europe—a vital component of the New Orleans economy. THNOC’s library recently acquired a French work on shipbuilding that was printed in Amsterdam in 1719. L’art de Batir les Vaisseaux, et d’un Perfectionner la Construction .... (The art of building vessels and improving their construction), by Nicolaas (or Nicolaes) Witsen and Carel Allard, draws heavily from the third edition of Allard’s shipbuilding tome Nieuwe Hollandsche Scheepsbouw, originally published in 1695. Consisting of three parts published in one volume, L’art de Batir contains more than 200 detailed images, information on how to design and rig a vessel, descriptions of tools, machinery, and navigational instruments, and a section on identifying ships and flags of other countries. Immensely practical and widely used in the 18th century, the title is quite scarce today in its original form. For general use in our Reading Room, a 1990 reprinting of the first two volumes of this important nautical work was also acquired (2014.0280). —PAMELA D. ARCENEAUX
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