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THE BOATS OF "MEN OF WAR"
by Commander W E May.(Director of the National Maritime museum, Greenwich 1951-68.
H/B 130pages
A very informative book dealing with Longboats, Pinnaces, Yawls, Schalops, barges, Jolly boats etc.. from the 17th Century through to the 19th century and the age of steam.
Definitely recommended, one for your Maritime Library.
by Commander W E May.(Director of the National Maritime museum, Greenwich 1951-68.
H/B 130pages
A very informative book dealing with Longboats, Pinnaces, Yawls, Schalops, barges, Jolly boats etc.. from the 17th Century through to the 19th century and the age of steam.
Definitely recommended, one for your Maritime Library.
Really a very interesting book
If members are interested, please take also a look at the book review we have here in SOS:
Book review - THE BOATS OF MEN-OF - WAR by M.E. May
THE BOATS OF MEN-OF-WAR by M.E. May Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: Naval Inst Pr; Revised edition (April 1, 2000) Language: English Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 0.8 x 10 inches, 19,7 x 1,9 x 25,4 cm Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds on abebooks in moment available for less than 1 GBP so appr. 1,-...
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The Essential Visual HMS Victory by AJ Noon
I just purchased The Essential Visual HMS Victory by AJ Noon on Kindle (Amazon). I occasionally buy a book or two on Kindle but much prefer having a hard copy in my hands, call me old fashioned. However, the book is heavy in graphical detail so being able to zoom in is, at times, an advantage over a hands-on printed copy. There’s a lot of written information and excellent graphics and photographs.
The following information is copied from Amazon, which I assume was written by the author:
“Take a guided tour through HMS Victory, over 250 years old and a marvel of Georgian engineering. This book takes you up close and personal with the ship, detailing her key features, life onboard, and much more. Let me walk you through the ship deck by deck, telling you what you are looking at and how it was used. This second edition contains details of the current restoration programme that is being undertaken on the ship.
This is your own personal tour of HMS Victory, told in a way to engage the reader as if they had me alongside you through the ship.
If you are a fan of Horatio Nelson, Hornblower, and Master and Commander, this book needs to be in your library.
For every copy sold a donation will be made to the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, England, who maintain this amazing ship.”
AJ Noon is the founder and editor of 'The Trafalgar Times', a quarterly Age of Sail newsletter that raises funds to send books parcel out to schools. Buying this book will also help this effort.
I just purchased The Essential Visual HMS Victory by AJ Noon on Kindle (Amazon). I occasionally buy a book or two on Kindle but much prefer having a hard copy in my hands, call me old fashioned. However, the book is heavy in graphical detail so being able to zoom in is, at times, an advantage over a hands-on printed copy. There’s a lot of written information and excellent graphics and photographs.
The following information is copied from Amazon, which I assume was written by the author:
“Take a guided tour through HMS Victory, over 250 years old and a marvel of Georgian engineering. This book takes you up close and personal with the ship, detailing her key features, life onboard, and much more. Let me walk you through the ship deck by deck, telling you what you are looking at and how it was used. This second edition contains details of the current restoration programme that is being undertaken on the ship.
This is your own personal tour of HMS Victory, told in a way to engage the reader as if they had me alongside you through the ship.
If you are a fan of Horatio Nelson, Hornblower, and Master and Commander, this book needs to be in your library.
For every copy sold a donation will be made to the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, England, who maintain this amazing ship.”
AJ Noon is the founder and editor of 'The Trafalgar Times', a quarterly Age of Sail newsletter that raises funds to send books parcel out to schools. Buying this book will also help this effort.
Hello everyone, another book has found a place on my bookshelf. I was lucky, exactly 2 copies in Germany, the first edition from 1932 and the one from 1970 Steel's Elementes of Mastmaking, Sailmaking and Rigging. The 5 plans for 100, 74 and 36 Gun ships are also included. In the book, which is originally from 1794, the masts, sails and ropes are described in detail. This is very important for my research for an English frigate from 1799.
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There is online a version available from the 1800 book of Steel. You can find that here: http://www.maritime.org/doc/steel/index.htm
I've used that a lot to study rigging of ships. The 1794 version is strange enough not online available only here: https://archive.org/details/steelselementsof0000clau/page/n9/mode/2up but you need an account to borrow this book. Why I find this strange is because copyright is no longer a point to this book and the younger version is available.
But besides this fact, these books are a treasure for the riggers under us.
edit: here is more: https://archive.org/search?query=title:(rigging) AND creator:(Steel)
I've used that a lot to study rigging of ships. The 1794 version is strange enough not online available only here: https://archive.org/details/steelselementsof0000clau/page/n9/mode/2up but you need an account to borrow this book. Why I find this strange is because copyright is no longer a point to this book and the younger version is available.
But besides this fact, these books are a treasure for the riggers under us.
edit: here is more: https://archive.org/search?query=title:(rigging) AND creator:(Steel)
Hello Stephan, yes I also printed out the book in German, but for me the plans of the masts were important, which you cannot print out or which do not reflect the scale correctly.
I have three copies of Scantlings of Royal Navy Ships 1719-1805 (don't ask) signed by the author and looking to sell two of them. The book includes scantlings in two sections, the first being from the Establishments of 1719, 1745, and 1750. The second section includes scantlings from The Ship Builder's Repository 1788 and scantlings from David Steel's The Elements and Practices of Naval Architecture. These are all done in a folio format. There are also indices and drawings identifying various parts of a ship. Anyone interested in these at a good price please PM me. These are virtually new as I only use one copy. 
Allan
Allan
I have three copies of Scantlings of Royal Navy Ships 1719-1805 (don't ask) signed by the author and looking to sell two of them. The book includes scantlings in two sections, the first being from the Establishments of 1719, 1745, and 1750. The second section includes scantlings from The Ship Builder's Repository 1788 and scantlings from David Steel's The Elements and Practices of Naval Architecture. These are all done in a folio format. There are also indices and drawings identifying various parts of a ship. Anyone interested in these at a good price please PM me. These are virtually new as I only use one copy.
Allan
Hi Allan ,if you want to sell them you have to create a thread here in the sales section
Sell, Give away: Kits, Tools, Books, and Other
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Good morning Christian, I don't have the second part as a book. Stephan posted a link in his article that I discovered a year ago, it is automatically translated by Google Translate and I printed out both parts and filed them away. As I said, the plans were interesting for me, the background to this is that I had a very detailed conversation with Ed Tosti who recommended this book to me. As I am planning to build the Naiad at some point and Ed does not show any masts in his books.
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The Naiad books I have only. In 1/48 the frigate will be really big, so I am not sure if it will be more tha a project. With my three sloops I have also a lot to do in the following years.
Thank you. Still learning my way around the site. Your help is very much appreciated.
For downloads take also a look here:
Book review - "The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship" 1794, by David Steel (and others)
Some years ago our member @DaveC found this already on an other web-page (see herefore the post from 2016: https://www.shipsofscale.com/sosforums/index.php?threads/the-elements-and-practice-of-rigging-and-seamanship.995/ ). In order to archivate this in this area as a reference I make this...
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Those links don't work. I discovered this last time. Bad the version I downloaded there had a very good search index.
Many thanks for mentioning this - I corrected the link in my old topic
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You know this book https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aztFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false there you can read that a gunner was more then a sailer, he had to know mathematics to do his job. Interesting read.
VASA - A Swedish Warship by Fred Hocker