Tuesday 20 September 2022

Books on 18th Century Shipbuilding

 


Books on Shipbuilding in the 18th Century.

Post under Construction.



Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, 1768, by Fredrik Henrik Chapman,(1721 - 1808).

see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Henrik_af_Chapman




https://www.sjohistoriska.se/en/collections/archives/ritningar/fredrik-henrik-af-chapman


https://www.finemodelships.com/ship-plans/Chapman_Architectura_eng.htm

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The Ship-Builders Assistant : or, some essays towards compleating the art of marine architecture. Sutherland, William 1711. see -

https://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/library/AE4UUGBR/pageimg&start=1&viewMode=images&pn=105&mode=imagepath


The Mariners Jewel: 

Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688: The Mariners Jewel; or, A Pocket Companion for the ingenious Being of more general use for officers, seamen, carpenters, boatswains, pursers and stewards, then any thing yet published. Containing an alphabetical dictionary of all the naval terms; a general pay table; with a table of boatswain stores for each rank of shop; the proportion of prizes, with many other useful things both decimal and vulgarly demonstrated from a manuscript of Sir John Narbrough's and methodiz'd by James Lightbody, P.M. (London : printed for Robert Whitledge, and sold by Alexander Sims at the Bible in Beet-street in Hatcliff High-Way, 1695),

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The de Colbert Album.


See - https://www.intmaritimeengineering.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/808/37





Rigging Early to mid 19th Century.

Thursday 8 September 2022

The Betsy - Scuttled at Yorktown, Virginia.

 


The Brig Betsy - Scuttled at Yorktown, Virginia, 1781.



https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4148&context=etd


Whilst there is yet no proof, it is distinctly possible that the Betsy came from a Cumberland ship yard owned by a member of the Wood family.

The Kelsick Wood Journals.

  The Kelsick Wood Journals. (post in preparation).