
The Ship of the Line
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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve.
The Ship of the Line is the second of a new series that takes selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types-in this case, the evolution of the ship of the line, the capital ship of its day, and the epitome of British seapower during its heyday from 1650-1850. This period also coincided with the golden age of ship modelling.
Each volume depicts a wide range of models, all shown in full color, including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, and the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing a unique form of technical history.
The series is of particular interest to ship modellers, but all those with an enthusiasm for the ship design and development in the sailing era will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.
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Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Which They Served (2008), Churchill's Navy (2006), and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas (2010). Brian lives in London.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1: The Origins Of The Ship Of The Line
- Chapter 2: The Wars With The Dutch 1652 - 1674
- Decoration: The Figurehead
- Rigging about 1670
- Chapter 3: French Wars In Europe 1674 - 1714
- The Rating System
- Chapter 4: Stagnation 1714 - 1739
- Block Models
- Rigging about 1730
- Decoration: The Stern
- Chapter 5: World Wars 1739 - 1782
- Dockyard Models
- Guns and Carronades
- Ships' Boats
- Chapter 6: Revolutionary Wars
- Seppings' Braces
- Rigging about 1815
- Round and Elliptical Sterns
- Chapter 7: The Long Peace
- Decoration: The Broadside
- Further Reading
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