title: Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models
author:  Brian Lavery 
description: "If you like ships, especially wooden military ones, this book will teach you a great deal. A high-quality book which is recommended to all ship historians and modellers" - <i><b>Military Modelling</b></i>
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  # THE BRIDGE TO FRANCE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### EDWARD N. HURLEY
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  FOREWORD
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER I. LAUNCHING WOODROW WILSON
  
  
  CHAPTER II. APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
  
  
  CHAPTER III. PROVIDING A WAR FLEET
  
  
    
  THE SHIPPING BOARD IS CREATED
  
  
    
  THE EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION IS CREATED
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE SHIPPING BOARD AND THE EMERGENCY
  
  
  FLEET CORPORATION
  
  
    
  THE DENMAN-GOETHALS CONTROVERSY
  
  
    
  THE BOARD RECONSTITUTED
  
  
    
  ASSUMING MY DUTIES ON THE SHIPPING BOARD
  
  
    
  WE COMMANDEER THE SHIPYARDS AND THEIR HULLS
  
  
  CHAPTER V. WE SEIZE THE INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS
  
  
    
  HOW WE ACQUIRED ENEMY SHIPS INTERNED IN NEUTRAL
  
  
  PORTS
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. SEIZING AMERICAN SHIPS IN SERVICE
  
  
    
  IMPRESSING LAKE STEAMERS INTO OCEAN SERVICE
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION BEGINS
  
  
  ITS WORK
  
  
    
  WHAT TYPES OF SHIPS SHOULD WE BUILD?
  
  
    
  THE FABRICATED STEEL SHIP—-HOW CONCEIVED AND HOW
  
  
  BUILT
  
  
    
  WOOD SHIPS W