The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Draught

Shipbuilding

The drawing or design of the ship upon paper, describing the different parts, and from which the ship is to be built. It is mostly drawn by a scale of one-quarter of an inch to a foot, so divided or graduated that the dimensions may be taken to one inch.

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