Written on the back: In 1670, the Frenchman Arnould on behalf of Colbert made a study trip to shipyards in England and Holland. In his report, he described in words and drawings, how in Holland at the shipbuilding began with the shell and when the shell for the subhull became finished, the man was laid to the spire after this. In England as in France, however, the trellis began and was carried out in the second building stage on the finished trellis. Drawing of Arnould in Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.

Hasslöf, Olof

Written on the back: In 1670, the Frenchman Arnould on behalf of Colbert made a study trip to shipyards in England and Holland. In his report, he described in words and drawings, how in Holland at the shipbuilding began with the shell and when the shell for the subhull became finished, the man was laid to the spire after this. In England as in France, however, the trellis began and was carried out in the second building stage on the finished trellis. Drawing of Arnould in Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.