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In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic d

At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in