The Master Shipwright's Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Master Shipwright's Secrets write by Richard Endsor. This book was released on 2020-03-05. The Master Shipwright's Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Restoration Warship
The Restoration Warship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Restoration Warship write by Richard Endsor. This book was released on 2009. The Restoration Warship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transportation/ Ships & Shipbuilding/ Pictorial
First Rate
First Rate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Rate write by Rif Winfield. This book was released on 2010-09-13. First Rate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the sailing era First Rates were the largest, most powerful and most costly ships to construct, maintain and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They were the very embodiment of national power, and as such drew the attention of artists, engravers and printmakers. This means that virtually every British First Rate from the Prince Royal of 1610 to the end of sail is represented by an array of paintings, drawings, models or plans.This book is a celebration of these magnificent ships, combining an authoritative history of their development with reproductions of many of the best (and least familiar) images of the ships, chosen for their accuracy, detail and sheer visual power in an extra-large format that does full justice to the images themselves. It also includes comparative data on similar vessels in other navies, so it is a book that everyone with an interest in wooden warships will find both enlightening and a pleasure to peruse.
HMS Victory
HMS Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook HMS Victory write by Alan McGowan. This book was released on 2003. HMS Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text covers the career and reconstruction of HMS Victory. There are over 200 drawings of how she was in 1805, making this a detailed technical manual on the construction and fitting, and the alterations and restoration of an 18th century man-of-war.
The Warship Anne
The Warship Anne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Warship Anne write by Richard Endsor. This book was released on 2017-05-23. The Warship Anne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you go down to the shore at Hastings on the UK's south coast at low tide you will come upon an amazing sight. There, revealed by the receding waves are the remarkably complete mortal remains of a seventeenth century warship. The Anne was launched in 1678 and was lost in 1690 at the battle of Beachy Head. As she lay beached, she was torched to prevent her from falling into enemy hands. Today the wreck is owned by the Shipwreck Museum at Hastings and in the past few years there have been some intriguing attempts to bring the ship back to life using advanced simulation and modeling techniques. Ship's historian and draughtsman Richard Endsor has written a history of this wonderful and accessible ship, bringing the ship fully back to life using his beautiful and accurate drawings and paintings. Richard Endsor's previous book, The Restoration Warship inspired the locals at Deptford to plan a full size replica of Lenox, the warship covered in that book.
