ENGLISH WARSHIPS

ENGLISH WARSHIPS in the days of sail

A Brief Historical Guide for Model Makers

by A. Guy Vercoe

Published 1933 by Percival Marshall & Co. Limited, London

Condition: A blue cloth, faded grey in places, bound book - Illustration mounted on front board some light acid staining to front and back end papers and a little foxing throughout but pageblock otherwise clean, tight and bright - ink inscription dated 1935 top of ffep. - condition VERY GOOD.
A few pencilled notes

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1. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NAVY
2. HENRY THE EIGHTH'S NAVY .
3. SHIPS THAT FOUGHT THE ARMADA
4. SHIPS OF THE STUARTS
5. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1690-1760)
6. SHIPS OF THE FRENCH WARS (1760-1816)
7. LAST FIFTY YEARS OF SAIL
8. ANACHRONISMS AND PITFALLS

APPENDIX A. COLOURING OF WARSHIPS

APPENDIX B. TABLES OF ORDNANCE

List of Illustrations

• A THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH SHIP
• RECONSTRUCTION OF THE "MARY FORTUNE" OF THE REIGN OF HENRY VII
• PROBABLE APPEARANCE OF THE "HENRY GRACE A DIEU " (1514)
• MODEL OF THE "GOLDEN HIND" .
• DRAWINGS OF THE " GOLDEN HIND," BY MR STANLEY ROGERS
• HOW THE WHIPSTAFF STEERING-GEAR WORKED
• MODEL ELIZABETHAN WARSHIP "ELIZABETH JONAS"
• MODEL WARSHIP OF THE REIGN OF JAMES I .
• FORECASTLE OF MR H. P. JACKSON'S MODEL JACOBEAN WARSHIP
• STERN OF MR  H. P. JACKSON'S MODEL JACOBEAN WARSHIP
• THE "SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS" .
• THE "PRINCE," OF 1670, ONE OF THE FINEST SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MODELS SURVIVING
• A 64-GUN SHIP OF THE LINE, 1720
• A 24-GUN FRIGATE, 1745
• WOODEN-STOCKED ANCHOR
• BENDING A CABLE TO AN ANCHOR.
• A 32-POUNDER LONG GUN, AS MOUNTED IN A SHIP OF THE LINE
• A CARRONADE
• HULL-MODEL OF A SNOW-RIGGED SLOOP-OF-WAR, ABOUT 1750
• PRISONER-OF-WAR MODEL OF " FOUDROYANT," 1790
• H.M.S. "BOUNTY," CONVERTED MERCHANTMAN
• SECTION SHOWING DECKS OF A THIRD-RATE, ABOUT 1760
• SKETCH-PLAN OF THE DECKS OF A '74, ABOUT 1760
• PRISONER-OF-WAR MODEL OF AN 80-GUN SHIP PRISONER-OF-WAR MODEL WITH ALL SAIL SET
• FIRST-RATE SHIP OF 100 GUNS, ABOUT 1715
• MODEL OF H.M.S.  "VICTORY," 1765
• CHANNELS AND CHAINS OF A BATTLESHIP
• STERN OF A SLOOP OF WAR
• CAPSTAN OF A FIRST-RATE
• SIDE ELEVATION OF SYMOND'S ELLIPTICAL STERN FOR A LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP
• BOW OF THE " V I CTORY," 1805
• BOW OF THE MODEL OF THE "VICTORY." THIS MODEL FORMERLY BELONGED TO H.M. THE KING
• PROPOSED   RECONSTRUCTION OF " VICTORY " AFTER TRAFALGAR
• STERN OF THE "VICTORY," 1805. NOTE ALTERATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGN AS SHOWN ON THE MODEL IN PLATE XVIII
• A TRAINING BRIG, 1903. LAST TYPE OF WOODEN SAILING SHIP IN SERVICE IN THE NAVY
• TWO-DECK ER " IMPLACABLE," FORMERLY FRENCH "DUGUAY-TROUIN," BUILT IN 1800 AND STILL AFLOAT. THE APPEARANCE IS THAT OF A SHIP ABOUT 1840
• U.S.S. CONSTITUTION," TYPICAL LARGE FRIGATE OF EARLY NINE-TEENTH CENTURY .
  
  

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