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Sunday, 23 June 2019

New method of making ship masts at Portsmouth according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 28 July 1823

London, 23 July. From Portsmouth arrived a tiding that there recently a new method of making masts for ships was developed with large profits. Main profits were that the masts for the largest ships were to cost just a quarter of the common costs and that the used materials were more sustainable.