Some addition books and references I have in my library

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1 Construction:
Ship Modeling From Scratch by Edwin B. Leaf
How to Build First-Rate Ships From Kits by Ben Lankford

2 Rigging:
Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture 1670
A Treatise on Masting and Rigging by Finchman
Nares Seamanship 1862
Rigging Period Ship Models by Lennarth Peterson
The Planking and Rigging of Ships (2 volume set) by Harold A. Underhill

3 Specific Ships:
RMS Titanic by Davies Garner
The Cutty Sark by C Nepean Longridge
The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships by C Nepean Longridge
Sovereign of the Seas by James Sephton
The Frigate Constitution and Other Historic Ships by F. Alexander Magoun
Any of the Anatomy of Ship Series books

4 Reference:
First Rates by Rif Winfield
Great Ships by Frank Fox
The Line of Battle Sailing Warships 1650 - 1840
All Color World of Ships by Jhonathan Rutland
Tall Ships of Today by Frank O. Braynard
Sailing Ships of War by Dr. Frank Howard
The Art of Ship Modeling by A. Frank Mansir
Knots & Lines Illustrated by Paul and Arthur Snyder

5 Models:
Watercraft of the Mystic Seaport Museum
Classic Sailing Ship Models in Photographs
Henry Huddleson Rogers Collection of Ship Models
Navy Board Ship Models by John Franklin
 
Gary -
that is a fantastic list of reference material. there is a lot more out there than I thought --

I might have to get a few of these for myself.

Thank you very much for posting this info.

Donnie
 
Absolutely. "The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships" by C. Nepean Longridge is about building the HMS Victory model which is now in the British National Museum. His rigging of the ship is more than worth the value of the book. Another one that is worthwhile is in the Anatomy of the Ship series called "The 100 gun Ship Victory" by John McKay. It has exact dimension for many items including masts, blocks etc. Also, it has many pictures of the actual vessel.
 
I'll need to get those books that's a great help ! Someday when I get good enough I want to maybe go Scratch built Victory ! I will need very good references for that . I saw a guy had drawings to scale of the victory and found out the corel kit was slightly off . I wonder if that is the book he found the scale drawings in ? And rigging is a huge adavntage to have Thanks GaryM that is so helpful information !
 
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