ويليام دوسن لورانس هو مهندس وسياسي كندي، ولد في 16 يوليو 1817 في المملكة المتحدة، وتوفي في 8 ديسمبر 1886 في كندا.[1][2][3]
- ^ This claim is made by Frederick Wallace (1924) in his book Wooden Ships and Iron Men and Canada's national magazine Macleans (1957). There were larger wooden ships built before 1874, but they were no longer in operation. At the time, there was also a larger vessel from New York which is discounted as a sailing ship because it was converted from a steamer.
- ^ "William D. Lawrence" Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Frequently Asked Questions نسخة محفوظة 2013-05-15 على موقع واي باك مشين.
- ^ Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The story of the square-rigged merchant marine of British North America, the ships, their builders and owners, and the men who sailed them, London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1924 (reprinted by White Lion (London) in 1973).
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