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Original version in French found at PT/10/25. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/8.

Subject: Engineering

Published in French in Philosophical Transactions as 'De la structure des vaisseaux Anglais, considérée dans ses derniers perfectionnements'.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 19 December 1816.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/8
Earliest possible date
1816
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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Pierre Charles Francois Dupin

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Pierre Charles Francois Dupin, Paper, 'On the construction of ships, considered with regard to the improvements lately introduced in England' by Charles Dupin, 1816, PT/11/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_8/paper-on-the-construction-of-ships-considered-with-regard-to-the-improvements-lately-introduced-in-england-by-charles-dupin, accessed on 06 February 2026

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