These links all have as a theme the structural strength and design of wooden vessels, mostly from nautical archaeology.

From the familiar ....
Construction of Australian-built colonial-period wooden vessels
wwwehlt.flinders.edu.au/archaeology/research/publications/PDF%20Theses/Rick%20Bullers%202005.pdf

To the exotic ...
Reconstructing a Portuguese India Nau
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/Index-indianau.htm

To the Out There ...
(I won't comment ... except to say, its a great intro to naval engineering)
http://www.worldwideflood.com/ark/st...calculator.htm