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The Royal Navy armed and fitted out literally thousands of wooden warships between 1600 and 1815. and virtually every item or process was the subject of alteration and improvement during this period. For the first time, in this book the precise details of these developments are set out, wherever possible with exact information on sizes and scantlings based on reliable contemporary sources. This makes the book an indispensable guide to all historical ship modellers, but it also provides a wider analysis of technological development which will be of great value to maritime historians and industrial archaeologists.

This book now completes the detailed technical coverage of the wooden warship begun by James Lees' Masting and Rigging and Peter Goodwin's Sailing Man of War.

Contents

Steering Rudders • Tiller and Whipstaff • The Steering Wheel • Navigational Fittings Anchors and Capstans Anchors • Capstans • Cables and Accessories • Anchor Tackle Underwater Protection Graving and Paying • Wood and Lead Sheathing • Copper Sheathing Pumps Pumps and Drainage • The Improved Chain Pump and the Brake Pump

Guns The Supply of Guns • Materials: Brass and Iron • The Shape of Guns • The Proportions of Guns • Types of Gun • Carronades • The Distribution of Guns Early Armaments • The Establishments • Types of Ship • The Age of the Carronade

Gun Equipment Gun Carriages • Powder, Shot and Stores • Gun Tackle and Equipment • Magazines
Accommodation General Layout • The Layout of Cabins • Captains and Admirals The Structure and Fitting of Cabins • Hammocks • The Messes

Internal Fittings Stowage of the Hold • Store Rooms • Cooking • Sanitary and Medical Arrangements
The Ship's Boats The Uses of Boats • The Construction of Boats • Types of Boat • Boat • Fittings Boat Establishments • The Stowage of Boats Deck Fittings Hatches and Ladders • Rails and Nettings • Awnings and Gangways

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Appendix

Extensive Selection of Contemporary Sources

Brian Lavery is one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing warship. Apart from contributing numerous articles to magazines and journals, he edited and introduced Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670, the earliest full treatise on the subject in English. He is also the author of the highly successful two-volume history of sailing battleships, The Ship of the Line — described by one authority as 'a successful merging of large format, profusely illustrated books with an authoritative and sophisticated text'. His contribution to the Anatomy of the Ship series, The 74-gun Ship Bellona establishes him as a draughtsman as well as historian.

Cover illustration: a perspective section of Victory by Ross Watton.

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