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Hull Materials Authority List
| Type | Detail |
|---|---|
| Plastic | A synthetic mixture of plastics. |
| Wood | |
| Steel | |
| Glass Reinforced Plastic | A synthetic mixture of resin and glass fibre. (see also fibreglass) |
| Iron | |
| Composite | An amalgam of materials such as plastic, carbon fibre, kevlar, glass and other materials. |
| Concrete | |
| Other | Any material not included in this authority list. |
| Aluminum | |
| Fibreglass | A synthetic mixture of resin and glass fibre.(see also Glass Reinforced Plastic) |
To quote from this article please cite:
MacFarlane, John M. (2012) Hull Materials Authority List. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Dict_Vessels_hull_material1.php
Site News: March 24, 2025
ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 95,326 vessel histories (with 16,457 images and 14,217 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,600 entries (with 4,003 images).
My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Thanks to John Spivey who is in his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database, one-by-one.