Show First Firt Iron Vesse It Is 18 not recorded who first t disco red ered that an Iron Iroll vessel vesel would float n at as easily as a wooden one OIe It Is recorded that an nn Iron boat was built anti and launched on the River Foss FOils In Yorkshire York Yorkshire shire England as 8 early url as 1777 but the date of the Invention of Iron as liS B a recognized material for fot ship construction construction tion Is often given g as 1818 when the lighter Vulcan was built bull on the Monk Monk- and canal l. near row Glasgow Scotland |