The Sailing Frigate

The Sailing Frigate PDF Author: ROBERT GARDINER
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612519474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. Many of the models are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. Now available in paperback, this book tells the story of the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. It includes a large number of model photos all in full-color as well as close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, The Sailing Frigate weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modelers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will be attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.

Hen Frigates

Hen Frigates PDF Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.

The 50-Gun Ship

The 50-Gun Ship PDF Author: Rif Winfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845600099
Category : Frigates
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Based on the latest research in original sources, this is an in-depth text covering the complete history of the 50-gun ship. Numerous tables of technical data covering dimensions, construction, armament and details are included.

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy PDF Author: Ian W. Toll
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333032X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585

Book Description
From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli to the war that shook the world in 1812, Toll tells the grand tale of the founding of the U.S. Navy.

The Sloop of War

The Sloop of War PDF Author: Ian Mclaughlan
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This is the first study in depth of the Royal Navy's vital, but largely ignored small craft. In the age of sail they were built in huge numbers and in far greater variety than the more regulated major warships, so they present a particular challenge to any historian attempting a coherent design history. However, for the first time this book charts the development of the ancillary types, variously described in the 17th century as sloops, ketches, brigantines, advice boats and even yachts, as they coalesce into the single 18th-century category of Sloop of War. In this era they were generally two-masted, although they set a bewildering variety of sail plans from them. The author traces their origins to open boats, like those carried by Basque whalers, shows how developments in Europe influenced English craft, and homes in on the relationship between rigs, hull-form and the duties they were designed to undertake. ??Visual documentation is scanty, but this book draws together a unique collection of rare and unseen images, coupled with the author's own reconstructions in line drawings and watercolour sketches to provide the most convincing depictions of the appearance of these vessels. By tackling some of the most obscure questions about the early history of small-boat rigs, the book adds a dimension that will be of interest to historians of coastal sail and practical yachtsman, as well as warship enthusiasts.

American Sailing Ships

American Sailing Ships PDF Author: Charles Gerard Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246582
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
An anecdotal, highly personal course through America's nautical history features nearly 140 images of ships from the 18th through 20th centuries: quoddy boats, fishing schooners, clippers, packet ships, frigates, and other vessels.

The Blackwall Frigates

The Blackwall Frigates PDF Author: Basil Lubbock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3954274566
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
The Blackwall frigates form a connecting link between the lordly East Indiaman of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P and O liners of the present day. They were first-class ships. Well-run, happy ships, and the sailor who started his sea life as a midshipman aboard a Blackwaller looked back ever afterwards to his cadet days as the happiest period of his career. If discipline was strict, it was also just. The training was superb, as witness the number of Blackwall midshipmen who reached the head of their profession and distinguished themselves later in other walks of life. Fifty years ago, the lithographs of the celebrated Blackwall liners to India and Australia could be bought at any seaport for a few shillings. Nowadays, those old ship portraits are cagerly snapped up by a growing group of collectors. We therefore hope that the illustrations in this book will be appreciated.

Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars

Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars PDF Author: Robert Gardiner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781861762924
Category : Frigates
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This illustrated text details the development of the frigate from 1793 to 1815, the time of the Napoleonic wars. The work will be of interest to historians, modellers and enthusiasts, as well as those who enjoy naval history.
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