Research Catalog

Title

Wooden warship construction : a history in ship models / Brian Lavery.

Author

Lavery, Brian, 1945-

Publication

• Barnsley, S Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

"The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or by the shipbuilders themselves. They range from the mid-seventeenth-century to the present day and represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, these models offer more detail than even the most detailed plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that the finest marine painter could not. This book takes a selection of the best models from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the end of wooden shipbuilding to describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity. For this purpose, it reproduces a large number of photos, all in full color, and includes many 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 book weaves the illustrations into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history."--

Subjects

• Ship models
• Warships > Models
• National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
• Ships, Wooden > Design and construction > History
• Warships > Design and construction > History
• Ships, Wooden > Models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 128).

Contents

Labour and materials -- Starting the ship -- Frames -- Outside planking -- Inside the hull -- Fittings -- In the water.

ISBN

• 1473894808
• 9781473894815 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781473894822 (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library