Sea-Room:   100 Gun Ship Victory; The by John McKay, --Forever associated with Nelson's last battle at Trafalgar, Victory is one of the most famous ships of all time. An example of the ultimate sailing warship--the three-decker First Rate--Victory was the most popular and successful 100-gun ship of the period, the flagship of half a dozen famous admirals. First published in 1987 in the Anatomy of the Ship series and now updated, this volume provides the most detailed description and illustrations of the Victory available anywhere. A pictorial section contains numerous clear photographs emphasizing close-up and on-board views of ship equipment and spaces. Three hundred perspective and three-view drawings, with fully descriptive keys, illustrate every detail of the ship, including hull construction, masts and yards, armament, rigging, decoration and fittings. These accurate and totally comprehensive drawings offer ship buffs, historians, and model makers a full view of the ship and her position in the development of the First Rate. . Naval Institute Press, 2000, Many photos, drawings., 10.3 X 9.8. H, List Price $44.95, Your price $33.70, Book Number B00513. Go top. 50-gun Ship; The by Rif Winfield, --By the end of the sailing era the 50-Gun ship was regarded too small to stand in the line of battle but too slow to serve as a frigate and dismissed by many as a naval dinasaur. Winfield reveals the crucial role played by the 50-gun ship in the British development of both the battleship and the frigate and explains the enduring role that ensured the survival of the type into the nineteenth century. An in-depth history; numerous data tables, original draughts, models, paintings, and drawings; John McKay's eye-pleasing perspective and cutaway drawings; and a separate set of large scale plans. The infamous Leopard of 1790 recorded in the novels of Patrick O'Brian gets significant attention.. Naval Institute Press, 1998, 4 Cutaway Drawings, 9.5 X11.5. H, List Price $49.95, Your price $37.45, Book Number B00474. Go top. Bomb Vessel, Shore Bombardment Ships Of The Age Of Sail; The, by Chris Ware, --In the Horatio Hornblower stories, the bomb vessel represented a specialization of the warship into a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets. How was the structure and architecture of these ships specialized? How were explosive shells handled and stored? What special means were needed to train and elevate these massive mortars?. Naval Institute Press, , 100 Illust., Rigging, Armament., 10.7X 10.75. H, List Price $45.00, Your price $33.70, Book Number B00367. Go top. Bomb Vessel Granado 1742; The, Out of Print. by Peter Goodwin, --Many drawings, plans, model photos. Useful to both the scratch-build modeler and the reader of Forester who wants to know more about bomb vessels. Provides insights about Jack Aubrey's first command, since the Sophie was also a 14 gun, brig-sloop with a quarterdeck and stern windows.. Naval Institute Press, , Many Drawings, Plans, Model Photos., 9.5 X 10.5. H, List Price $39.95, Your price $29.95, Book Number B00117. Go top. Captain Cook's Endeavour by Karl Heinz Marquardt, --The Endeavour, made eternally famous by Captain Cook's first voyage in her in 1768-71, was originally the collier Earl of Pembroke and was chosen by Cook for his voyage because of her strong construction. She was purchased by the Royal Navy at Whitby and then converted to an exploration ship at Deptford. After her voyage she was sold out of service in 1775, and finally condemned sometime in the 1790s. This revised edition features accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive drawings. In addition to these, a colour representation of Endeavour on the jacket provides a useful painting guide, on the back of which is a beautifully folded large scale plan of the ship. . Naval Institute Press, , , 9.5 X 11. H, List Price $39.95, Your price $29.95, Book Number B00208. Go top. 24-Gun Frigate Pandora; The Out of Print. by John McKay and Ron Coleman, --The Pandora was a 24-gun Sixth Rate built at Deptford in 1779. The 20- and 24-gun classes were the smallest regularly commanded by a Post Captain and they were consequently known as post ships; they were also the smallest frigate-built ships on the Navy List. The Pandora is best known for her voyage to Tahiti which was undertaken to bring back the Bounty mutineers. Fourteen of them were captured at Tahiti but four of them were drowned when Pandora ran aground on 29 August 1791 on the Great Barrier Reef on her return journey. The surviving ten were eventually brought back to Portsmouth and court-martialled. Three of them were hung. The site of the wreck was discovered and has been extensively excavated by a team led by Ron Coleman. The 'Anatomy of the Ship' series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history. John McKay is an architectural draughtsman who lives in Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada. He is also a ship enthusiast and modelmaker who has turned his professional skill to good use in the service of his hobby. Ron Coleman is Curator of Maritime History and Archaeology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. He oversaw several seasons' excavation on the wreck site of the Pandora.. Conway, 2003, 40 Illust., 305 drwgs., 10X9. H, List Price $34.95, Your price $26.20, Book Number B01216. Go top. Armed Transport Bounty; The by John McKay, --Made eternally famous by the mutiny against Captain Bligh in 1789, Bounty was a small merchant ship purchased and converted into a naval transport to transplant breadfruit to the plantations of the West Indies. Thanks to good surviving documentation, this book can depict the ship when purchased as the mercantile Bethia and also as fitted out for her unusual naval employment. This revised edition features accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive drawings. In addition to these, a colour representation of Bounty on the jacket provides a useful painting guide, on the back of which is a beautifully folded large scale plan of the ship. The 'Anatomy of the Ship' series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history. John McKay is an architectural draughtsman who lives in Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada. He is also a ship enthusiast and modelmaker who has turned his professional skill to good use in the service of his hobby. . Conway, 2003, 30 Illus., 300 Drwgs., 10.9. H, List Price $36.95, Your price $27.70, Book Number B01217. Go top. CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate Raider by Andrew Bowcock, --Provides a complete anatomy in words, pictures, and drawings of the famous Confederate commerce raider of the Civil War capturing sixty-five Federal mechant ships and sinking USS Hatteras in a two year cruise. Eventually sunk by the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg on 19 June 1864. Having been built in great secrecy, little was know of the Alabama until this superb complilation of drawings, photos, and tables about her construction, masting, rigging, armament, engines, and internal arrangements. Detailed plans point out the arrangement of everything from belaying pin layouts, sail construction, and frame structures. Based on the latest research, including archaeological work on the recently rediscovered wreck, this book provides a complete anatomy in words, pictures, and drawings of one of the most famous ships of all time, the Confederate commerce raider Alabama of 1862. The sloop-of-war was known worldwide for her phenomenally destructive campaign against Union shipping that extended from coastal Texas to Cape Town, South Africa. Winning prizes estimated at $6 million, the ship was eventually tracked down and sunk off the coast of Cherbourg by the USS Kearsarge. Despite enduring interest in the ship, many details of her structure and fitting are still a matter of debate. The ship's clandestine construction and delayed arming produced often contradictory evidence. For this book, the author sifted through every known contemporary photograph, painting, model, and plan to produce the most detailed set of drawings of the Alabama ever published. With more than 250 illustrations, plans, and line drawings, the work will delight naval historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and model-makers alike. . Naval Institute Press, 2002, 30, 9.8x11.8. H, List Price $45.00, Your price $33.70, Book Number B01098. Go top. Frigate Diana; The by David White, --The eighteenth century equivalent of the cruiser, the frigate was used for a wide variety of roles from fleet reconnaissance to patrolling sea lanes. Built in 1793, Diana was a typical British frigate of the period, whose long and active career spanned virtually all of the Frenh Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wasrs. In 1815 she was sold to th eDutch navy, which she continued to serve until destroyed by an accicental fire in 1839. First published i 1987, this populare volue includes a new large-scale plan of the ship on the reverse of the extended fold-out jacket and over 100 perspective and three-dimensional drawing accompanied by in-depth descriptive keys and photos. Both accurate and impressively detailed, this volumen is an essential reference of age of sail entusiasts and modelers alike.. Naval Institute Press, , 24 photos, 300 line drawings, 10.5X9.5. H, List Price $41.95, Your price $31.45, Book Number B01190. Go top. Naval Cutter Alert; The, by Peter Goodwin, --Built to supplement the British fleet between 1763 and 1835, the Alert Was one of 15 cutters ordered for the Royal Navy during 1777 and 1778 and was built at a private yard in Dover, England. Goodwin's drawings of the lines are based on the draught of the hull of the Rattlesnake, an identical cutter built at the same ship yard in 1777, and the model is currently on display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. This volume features a full description of this armed cutter, its concept, origins, design details and wartime service. With over 100 perspective and 3-view drawings, accompanied by in-depth descriptive keys and photos. This revised edition features a large-scale plan of the vessel on the reverse of an extended fold-out jacket. A title in a series that has established a substantial following in its specialist field. These small swift vessels were generally employed in minor roles such as conveying dispatches, routine patrol work and reconnaissance. Alert was captured by the French in July 1778 while acting as escort for Keppel's fleet off Ushant. The 'Anatomy of the Ship' series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details, photos and a record of the ship's service history. Peter Goodwin has been interested in wooden shipbuilding since his days as an engineering apprentice. He has written two other 'Anatomy of the Ship' volumes, The 20-Gun Ship Blandford and The Bomb Vessel Granado. His other Conway books include Nelson's Ships, and The Construction and Fitting of the Sailing Man of War 1650-1850. He has been the Keeper and Curator of HMS Victory for over ten years. . Conway, 2004, 30 Photos, 250 Line Drawings., . H, List Price $36.95, Your price $27.70, Book Number B00252. Go top. Schooner Bertha L. Downs; The, by Basil Greenhill And Sam Manning, --One of the many large four-, five-, and six-masted schooners built on the banks of the Kennebeck River at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These huge wooden vessels were almost universally employed in the coastal trade, chiefly taking coal from Virginia to New England. Contains superb drawings and much new material about the life of the vessel. Part of the popular Anatomy of the Ship Series, these popular books each contain over 200 keyed line drawings as well as full descriptions of their design, construction, operational history, and much more. . Naval Institute Press, , 250 Illustrations, 9.5 X 10.25. H, List Price $42.95, Your price $32.20, Book Number B00051. Go top. 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution; The by Karl-Heinz Marquardt, --The Constitution was one of the first frigates built by the fledgling U.S. Navy, ordered in 1794 as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Heavily built but fast, she was rated as a 44-gun ship but mounted thirty 24-pounder and twenty-two 12 pounder cannons. Her most famous encounter came in 1812 when she successfully fought against HMS Guerriere, earning the nick name "Old Ironsides" when the British round shot could not penetrate her walls. Built in Boston where she has been berthed for the past seventy-one years, she is considered to be the oldest commissioned warship in the world. Teh internationally acclaimed draftsman and author Karl-Heinz Marquardt worked closely with the team at the Constitution to ensure that the book is accurate and up to date. Dozens of photographs and some 100 perspective and 3-view drawings are included along with fully descriptive keys and a large scale foldout plan on the reverse side of the jacket.. USNIP, 2005, , 10.5X9.5. H, List Price $42.95, Your price $32.20, Book Number B00185. Go top.