Sea-Room:  Ship Types American Clipper Ships 1833-1858 Vol 1&2 by O. T. Howe & F.C. Matthews, --Fully illustrated, encyclopedic review of 352 clipper ships from the period of America's greatest maritime supremacy--from the Ann McKim (1833) to the Star of Peace (1858). Prints and plans for the Great Republic, Northern Light, Ocean Rover, Phantom, Queen of the Pacific, Southern Cross, Typhoon and many other tall ships. Nautical details describe dimensions, tonnage, cargo capacity, speed, and lenght of voyages. One book divided into two volumes.. Dover, , 25, . P, List Price $24.00, Your price $20.40, Book Number B00530. Go top. American Clipper Ships 2 1833-1858 Vol 2 by , --Sell Amercan Clipper ships as one. Dover, , , . P, List Price $0.00, Your price $0.00, Book Number B00531. Go top. American Heavy Frigates 1794-1826 by Mark Lardas, --By 1805 the 44-gun frigate was probably viewed as a failed experiment. Ten years later every navy was building 44-gun frigates and today it is viewed as the symbol of the Napoleonic-era cruiser. This remarkable transformation resulted from the performance of three ships - the Constitution, United States, and President--44 gun frigates built for the United States Navy between 1794 and 1799. Their victories in the naval War of 1812, as well as their success against the Barbary Pirates, caught the imagination of the world. This book examines the construction of the American heavy frigates and outlines the factors that spurred all navies into re-examing this class. . Osprey, 2003, , 7.3X9.8. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $12.70, Book Number B01180. Go top. American Merchant Ships 1 1850-1900 Vol 1 by Frederick C. Matthews, --Classic study by famed marine historian recounts sailing histories of 322 19th-century commercial vessels: voyages, cargoes, tonnage, builders, shipboard life, etc. Author provides harrowing accounts of ships fighting fierce winds and turbulent waters, crashing through ice floes, sitting out long ocean calms, dodging icebergs, suffering equipment failure and navigating the perilous passage around the Horn. Scores of dramatic illustrations of magnificent vessels and photgraphs of sturdy sea Captains.. Dover, , 25, . P, List Price $11.95, Your price $10.15, Book Number B00533. Go top. American Merchant Ships 2 1850-1900 Vol 2 by Frederick C. Matthews, --See Vol 1.. Dover, , , . P, List Price $11.95, Your price $10.15, Book Number B00534. Go top. American-Built Clipper Ship 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, Details by William L. Crothers, -- The American-Built Clipper Ship presents in exquisite detail 152 clippers that comprise the culmination of the shipbuilders' art. Every facet of clipper ship design and construction is covered, including wood species, scantlings, fastenings, midship sections, interior living areas, and details of scarphs, keels, stem- and sternpost assemblies, frames, timbers, and bracing-all included in some 160 intricately drawn illustrations by a man whose unequaled work has earned him a national following among modelers and maritime museum directors. This is possibly the most complete reference on clipper ship construction ever published. No other single source covers so many vessels in such detail. With the sweep of its bow, its graceful lines, and its clouds of canvas, the clipper ship sparked a romance with the American public that still endures 150 years later. The public fervor surrounding locally built clippers generated intense intercity rivalries. Pushed by their masters, clippers reached speeds that were previously unheard of. Crothers presents in this book over 35 years of research, exquisite detail about 152 clippers. An invaluable resource for historian, modeler, and artist.. International Marine, , Many illus., tables, glossary, index, 8.5 X 11. P, List Price $39.95, Your price $31.95, Book Number B00815. Go top. Atlantic Schooners by Rear Admiral Hugh Pullan, --In this slim volume are the secrets to rigging and sail plans of vessels like the Bluenose. Includes explanations of the type of vessels, the construction techniques and shape of the hulls. Intricate drawings and appropriate descriptions explain the lore and the language of vessels.. DownEast Books, , drawings, 10 X6.8. P, List Price $6.95, Your price $5.90, Book Number B00635. Go top. British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-line by Angus Konstam, ill., Tony Bryan, --The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars encompassed a period when rival European fleets vied for naval supremacy, and naval tactics were evolving. The British Royal Navy emerged triumphant as the leading world sea power, and the epitome of Britannic naval strength was the Ship-of-the-Line. These 'wooden walls' were more than merely floating gun batteries: they contained a crew of up to 800 men, and often had to remain at sea for extended periods. This book offers detailed coverage of the complex vessels that were the largest man-made structures produced in the pre-Industrial era.. Osprey, 2001, index, illustrations, 7.3X9.8. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $12.70, Book Number B01151. Go top. Coasting Schooner, The Four-masted Albert F. Paul by Robert H. Burgess, --Published for the Mariners Museum by the University Press of Virginia. Lovers of sailing schooners will meet in this book a man, James S. McCullough, whose love for them provides much of the meat of this book. McCullough's photos and drawings add much to the enjoyment, appreciation, and experience the schooner. In Appendix C, we have the paint scheme for the Albert F. Paul in 1933, In one section of Appendix D we learn the measurements of the Purnell T. White (Taffrail 34 inches high, Break of Poop to coach house 5 feet 6 inches, cabin trunk side to taffrail 4 feet, steering wheel diameter 4 feet 8 inches.) What McCullough intended for his collection of data, sadly, had to be done by others.. Mariners' Museum, 1978, 30, 6.25X 9.5. H, List Price $17.50, Your price $13.10, Book Number B00127. Go top. Last Grain Race; The by Eric Newby, --A seafaring tale of the first rank. Newby captures the excitement of a young man on his first adventure, brings alive the colorful crew members of the Moshulu and recounts the mechanics and hardships of crewing a square rigger in rough conditions headed twice 'round the Horn. In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque,Moshulu, now floats on the Delaware in Philadelphia as restuarant. Eric Newby's sharp eye for detail teaches this generation much about the technical details of sailing square-riggers as well as the hardships, dangers, squabbles, companionship and sheer joy o shipboard life. Compare this true story to Joseph Conrad's Youth and Irving Johnson's Around Cape Horn.. LON, 1999, , 6 X9. P, List Price $12.95, Your price $11.00, Book Number B00665. Go top. Pride of Baltimore: The Story of the Baltimore Clipper by Thomas C. Gilmer, -- The beautiful, rakish Baltimore clippers had an influence on American history and naval architecture far out of proportion to their brief life span. Pride of Baltimore tells the whole story of the Baltimore clippers - from their birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore through their fall from grace to their rebirth in the 1970s along the shores of Baltimore's renovated waterfront, including the true account of the tragic loss of the replica schooner Pride of Baltimore, and the building of her new, larger sistership, Pride of Baltimore II.. Tiller, , , 7.5x9.5. P, List Price $15.95, Your price $13.55, Book Number B01186. Go top. Sail's Last Century: The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830-1930 by Basil Greenhill, --Charts the sailing ships course, the development of the schooner, and the sailing ship's transition from wood to iron and steel construction as sail attempted to compete with steam.. Naval Institute Press, , , 9.25X 11.5. H, List Price $47.95, Your price $35.95, Book Number B00113. Go top. Schooner, The by David R. Macgregor, --The schooner rig has always been associated with speed and elegance, and with the romance of privateers and illicit trade; but it has also been employed in just about every conceivable seafaring role over four centuries and across the world's seas and oceans. This book offers a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated history of the schooner from its Dutch origins through to its present renaissance in the world of luxury charter. My dad spoke of the lumber schooners on the west coast as "hell-ships" where every penny of labor was wrung from the seaman as the last of sail attempted to compete with steam. He also spoke of the bow doors which were used to load and unload lumber. Bow doors? See for yourself. . Naval Institute Press, 1998, 30, . H, List Price $42.95, Your price $32.20, Book Number B00441. Go top. Schooner: Design and Development; The by David R. MacGregor, --From its emergence in Holland in the early seventeenth century to its present renaissance as a luxury charter vessel, the sleek and elegant schooner has emmariner-bodied the romance of the seas. It has been used in just about every seafaring role from modest coastal craft navigating narrow inland waterways to high speed clippers plowing the world's oceans. Though schooners in Britain, America, and Canada were primarily cargo carriers, they were also used as Grand Banks fishing schooners, pilot boats, Baltimore clippers, colonial schooners, and yachts. This comprehensive history describes in detail the development of the beautiful rig and gives examples of all if its variations. Heavily illustrated with plans, paintings, and photographs, this new paperback edition will delight every maritime enthusiast. David MacGregor, a leading authority on merchant sail, is the author of numerous books on sailing ships. He lives in Bath, England. . Naval Institute Press, 2001, 225 illus., 8 X 10.5. P, List Price $29.95, Your price $25.45, Book Number B00909. Go top. Tea Clippers: Their History And Development; The, by David R. Macgregor, --Famous ships of the tea trade described in detail using lines, drawings, paintings, sketches, photos, authoritative text.. Naval Institute Press, , , 8.5 X 11. H, List Price $36.95, Your price $27.70, Book Number B00055. Go top. USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War. by Geoffrey M. Footner, --This well-documented study offers what many believe to be the final word on the Constellaton's provenance including details of its evolution as a warship and four rebuilds. 25 illus. 16 line drawings, Map, Notes, Bibliog, index.. Naval Institute Press, 2002, 30, 7.2x10.2. H, List Price $39.95, Your price $29.95, Book Number B01097. Go top. Warships of the Napoleonic Era by Robert Gardiner, --The wars of 1793-1815 are widely regarded as the apogee of the sailing man-of-war. Many seapowers became involved in the conflict, and at some point virtually all aligned themselves against Great Britain. Thanks to its superiority, the Royal Navy took many of its enemy ships in battle and developed the habit of drawing plans of the ones they captured. This book reproduces a representative selection of these plans for the main protagonists--French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Russian and American--and for the British themselves. All of the principal types of warships employed during the conflict are included, from huge three-deckers down to gunboats and even the support craft on which every dockyard depended. The narrative describes the function of each of the bewildering variety of rates, concentrating on their technical development and how they were used in action. An appendix lists other relevant plans available. For ship modelers and age-of-sail enthusiasts, the book offers essential reference material that showcases the incomparable collection of original ships' plans at the National Maritime Museum.. Naval Institute Press, , The Blueprint Series, 9.8 X11.8. H, List Price $49.95, Your price $37.45, Book Number B00785. Go top. Warships of the World to 1900 by Lincoln Paine, --Captures the history of sea warfare in descriptions of over 200 of the most famous or significant fighting ships through history frm triremes to the Great White Fleet of the Spanish American War.. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000, index, many photos, exstensive bibliography., 7 x 9. P, List Price $17.00, Your price $14.45, Book Number B00883. Go top. Whale Ships and Whaling: A pictorial survey by George F. Dow, --The emphasis is "pictorial." Over 200 vintage engravings, drawings, photographs of barks, brigs, cutters, other vessels. Also harpoons, lances, whaling guns, many other artifacts as well as a vivid account of the New England whaling industry. Comprehensive text by a foremost authority and graphics that make everything clear.. Dover, 1985, 35, 6 X9. P, List Price $10.95, Your price $9.30, Book Number B00535. Go top. Wooden World: An Anatomy Of The Georgian Navy; The, by N. A. M. Rodgers, --Meticulously researched and most revealing account of the mighty Georgian Navy and British naval society of the 18th century. Indispensable for fans of naval and English history and the Patrick O'Brian novels.. W. W. Norton, 1996, 8 Pages Of Illustrations, 6 X9. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $12.70, Book Number B00235. Go top. Yankee Whaler; The by Clifford Ashley, --One of the finest, most colorful and definitive studies of whaling every published. Describes the whaling trade, rigging, gear and handicrafts; construction and outfitting of ships, with fascinating details and anecdotes about whales and whaling, waters, whaling men, methods of attack, crafts and routines.. Dover, , 25, 6.5 X 9.25. P, List Price $10.95, Your price $9.30, Book Number B00539. Go top.