Murray Cukier's composite ships light up, making them look as if parties are going on inside.

It is an example of a dwindling number of composite ship constructions.

Composite ships were therefore some of the fastest ships afloat.

The iron frames meant that composite ships could carry large amounts of canvas sail.

Before this, all composite ships were labelled by Lloyds as being "Experimental".

MacGregor suggests that she was the last composite ship to be built on the Thames.

The big composite ship was now a dozen big pieces in a cloud of hundreds of smaller ones.

Had the passenger capsule been attached to the composite ship, a ship-wide alarm would have been sounded.

For example, the frame spacing on the City of Adelaide is much closer together than seen on other composite ships.

Pile built more than a hundred wooden ships, a similar number made of iron, and a number of composite ships.

Apartment buildings had been around for thousands of years, aircraft carriers and trains- there were plenty of examples of composite ships out there.

Ten ships were built in iron, 6 were composite ships and 3 were built in steel.

"Building composite ship structures takes a very unique skill-set and work ethic, and the men and women in Gulfport have done an outstanding job.

The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 before Lloyd's Register recognised and endorsed composite ships in 1867.

An idea of the proportion of composite ships built can be gained from the statistics for vessels constructed on the Clyde (and tributaries thereof) in 1869.

Western India Shipyard Limited is a composite ship repair company based in Goa, India.

It can be used to construct composite ship structures that are cheaper, stiffer, stronger and more fatigue resistant than structures made using the conventional wet lay-up process.

Taeping was the first composite ship built by Robert Steele & Co (the third from this yard out of the five ships listed here), being launched in 1863.

In 2013, TaraTari, in association with F.A.O and Watever, organized the training of 15 students in composite ship repair.

The second chamber, much larger than the first, was a shipbuilding bay and contained the fully functional composite ships that had attacked the runabout, plus four others in various stages of construction.

Unlike iron ships, where copper would cause corrosion in contact with the iron, the timber bottoms of composite ships could be sheathed with copper to prevent fouling.

The technique of composite ship construction (wooden planking over a wrought iron frame) emerged in the mid-19th century as the final stage in the evolution of fast commercial sailing ships.

Having been built in the years prior to Lloyd's Register publishing their rules for composite ships, the City of Adelaide is an important example in the development of naval architecture.

It would be a few years before Lloyds would formalise the rules for constructing composite ships, the rules used for the design and construction of the Composite Clipper ship Cuty Sark.

The surviving clipper ships of the world as of 2015, such as the Cutty Sark, are clipper-built composite ships; no true extreme clipper or medium clipper ships are known to survive.