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Book Shipwright  2013

Download or read book Shipwright 2013 written by John Bowen and published by Conway. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of the acclaimed full-colour annual focusing on all facets of 'scratch-built' model shipbuilding, as well as related articles on restoration, archaeology, historical research and marine art. Twenty articles describe, explain, inform and inspire, illustrated with modelmakers' own photographs, archival plans, prints and artworks. The annual succeeds Model Shipwright, the quarterly journal which ran to 144 issues spanning 36 years. This edition includes new research and builds, plus additional sections including a Modeller's Draught, Book News and an image gallery. Fully international in scope, Shipwright is an essential volume for any dedicated ship modeller or maritime enthusiast.

Book The Master Shipwright s Secrets

Download or read book The Master Shipwright s Secrets written by Richard Endsor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2020 Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Master Shipwright's Secrets is an illustrated history of Restoration shipbuilding focused on the Tyger, one of the smaller but powerful two-deck warships of the period. It examines the proceedings of King Charles II in deciding the types of ship he wanted and his relationship with his master shipwrights. This fascinating book reveals the many secrets of Charles II's shipwrights through an analysis of John Shish's plans for the Tyger, revealing innovative practical calculations which differ significantly from the few contemporary treatises on the subject and the complicated process of constructing the moulds necessary to make the ship's frame. All the other duties performed by the master shipwrights, such as repairing ships, controlling their men and keeping up with the latest inventions are also discussed in detail. The Master Shipwright's Secrets is replete with beautiful and detailed illustrations of the construction of the Tyger and explores both its complicated history and its complex rebuilding, complete with deck plans, internal sections, and large-scale external shaded drawings. The title also explores associated ships, including another fourth-rate ship, the Mordaunt, which was purchased into the Navy at the time and underwent a dimensional survey by John Shish. A rare contemporary section drawing of another fourth-rate English ship and constructional drawings of Shish's later fourth-rate ship, St Albans, are also included.

Book The Master Shipwright s Secrets

Download or read book The Master Shipwright s Secrets written by Richard Endsor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2020 Inspired by the recent discovery of mathematically calculated digital plans for a fourth-rate ship by the Deptford master shipwright, John Shish, The Master Shipwright's Secrets is an illustrated history of Restoration shipbuilding focused on the Tyger, one of the smaller but powerful two-deck warships of the period. It examines the proceedings of King Charles II in deciding the types of ship he wanted and his relationship with his master shipwrights. This fascinating book reveals the many secrets of Charles II's shipwrights through an analysis of John Shish's plans for the Tyger, revealing innovative practical calculations which differ significantly from the few contemporary treatises on the subject and the complicated process of constructing the moulds necessary to make the ship's frame. All the other duties performed by the master shipwrights, such as repairing ships, controlling their men and keeping up with the latest inventions are also discussed in detail. The Master Shipwright's Secrets is replete with beautiful and detailed illustrations of the construction of the Tyger and explores both its complicated history and its complex rebuilding, complete with deck plans, internal sections, and large-scale external shaded drawings. The title also explores associated ships, including another fourth-rate ship, the Mordaunt, which was purchased into the Navy at the time and underwent a dimensional survey by John Shish. A rare contemporary section drawing of another fourth-rate English ship and constructional drawings of Shish's later fourth-rate ship, St Albans, are also included.

Book The Shipwright s Trade

Download or read book The Shipwright s Trade written by Sir Westcott Abell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1948 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shipwright s Vade mecum  a clear     introduction to the principles and practice of Ship Building      Illustrated with four large draughts     and numerous smaller figures

Download or read book The Shipwright s Vade mecum a clear introduction to the principles and practice of Ship Building Illustrated with four large draughts and numerous smaller figures written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shipwright s Vade mecum  a Clear     Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Ship Building      Illustrated with Four Large Draughts     and Numerous Smaller Figures

Download or read book The Shipwright s Vade mecum a Clear Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Ship Building Illustrated with Four Large Draughts and Numerous Smaller Figures written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic  1600   1800

Download or read book The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic 1600 1800 written by Phillip Reid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.

Book A Treatise on Ship building and Navigation

Download or read book A Treatise on Ship building and Navigation written by Mungo Murray and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Model Shipwright

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bowen J Staff
  • Publisher : Brassey's
  • Release : 1982-05
  • ISBN : 9780851772318
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Model Shipwright written by Bowen J Staff and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1982-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Ship Models

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arnold Kriegstein
  • Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-30
  • ISBN : 1399009788
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book Historic Ship Models written by Arnold Kriegstein and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of quality, historical significance and sheer numbers, the Kriegstein family’s ship model collection in the United States is the finest in private hands anywhere in the world. Principally made up of official 17th- and 18th-century models in the Admiralty or Navy Board style, the collection is unrivalled by any museum outside the British national collection at Greenwich. As the models are not on public display, this book fills the need for a detailed catalogue and visual reference with superb colour photos of all the models, both overall portraits and multiple close-ups. Apart from lengthy descriptions of these magnificent artefacts, space is devoted to how they were identified, and the valuable research done by Arnold and Henry Kriegstein, the identical twins whose shared passion brought this all together. Beyond the technicalities of the ships, the story has a human dimension in the brothers’ adventures in pursuit of every model and their dogged determination to secure them against official obstruction and dubious antiques-trade practices. This is an entirely new and revised edition of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Ship Models first published in 2007, now expanded to include the additions to the collection since that date.

Book The Shipwright s Vade Mecum  by D  Steel

Download or read book The Shipwright s Vade Mecum by D Steel written by David Steel and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to shipbuilding is the perfect resource for shipwrights and naval enthusiasts. With detailed instructions and illustrations, it provides a comprehensive look at the construction, maintenance, and repair of wooden ships. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Elements of Wood Ship Construction

Download or read book The Elements of Wood Ship Construction written by William Henry Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shipwright s Vade mecum

Download or read book The Shipwright s Vade mecum written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ghost Ship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Hicks
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2004-06-01
  • ISBN : 0345478355
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Brian Hicks and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.

Book Kalmar Nyckel  The Tall Ship of Delaware

Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel The Tall Ship of Delaware written by Samuel W. Heed, Esq. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in Wilmington in 1997, Kalmar Nyckel--The Tall Ship of Delaware--is one of the region's great educational resources, a floating classroom and inspirational platform for a broad array of land-and sea-based programs. An accurate replica of the original Swedish naval vessel that launched the colony of New Sweden in the Delaware Valley in 1638, today's Kalmar Nyckel voyages over 2,000 nautical miles and reaches more than 30,000 students, passengers, and visitors a year. A photographer's dream wherever she goes, Kalmar Nyckel embodies America's maritime heritage and has become one of Delaware's defining treasures. Samuel W. Heed, Esq., is the senior historian and director of education at the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, where since 2008 he has been developing the programs, exhibits, articles, and documentaries that bring the Kalmar Nyckel story to life and give it meaning. Heed serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Council of American Maritime Museums. The Kalmar Nyckel Foundation archives provided the primary resources for this book.

Book A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies

Download or read book A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies written by George Hodgkinson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study to be written on the history of ship launches and their ceremonies. Throughout history, man has been performing rituals at the launch of a new ship to seek supernatural or divine protection for his ship and those who will sail in her. The form of the ritual varies according to local custom and religion: from the breaking of a coconut, to the release of doves, to the role of astrologers in choosing an auspicious day for the launch. But the sentiment that lies behind all launching ceremonies is fear. At the moment of launching a new ship a seafarer is alert to any sign that his ship is not sound. He is superstitious and seeks reassurance that his ship and those who will sail in her will be protected. The rites of blood sacrifice and libations performed by the ancient Babylonians and Greeks are well evidenced. The evolution of this practice into today’s tradition of breaking a bottle of wine against the bow of a ship before launch, still symbolising sacrifice, is explored as well as the now widely practised custom of inviting ladies to name and launch new ships.

Book Advanced Ship Modelling

Download or read book Advanced Ship Modelling written by Brian King and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles advanced theory and practice for the maritime modeller and the author's own philosophy on model-making. Largely based on the author's own complicated modelling projects, including Victorian warships, 20th century warships, as well as scale model RNLI lifeboats.