The 1794 Edition of Steel's Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship

[cardely]

http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/steel/index.htm, this is the early version of the famous textbook.

 

It seems there's nowhere else to find it.

 

As I can recall, someone had mentioned in passing this edition in a reply to the debate on the royal sails...

[Blue Ensign]

The online version of Steel's work is one of the most useful reference works available to us ship modellers.

 

but.... a large printed version can be obtained from DN Goodchild in the USA.

 

Here's the link

 

http://dngoodchild.com/divide_for_square_rig.htm

 

When I found this I couldn't resist buying the hard copy it is a beautifully produced book, although I still regularly use the online reference.

 

B.E.

[cardely]

Thanks, good link~ I will try to spare more money....

[Marcus.K.]

The links above don´t work anymore - but there is a 1822 version in here:

https://archive.org/details/elementspractice00stee/page/n17/mode/2up

 

And here is an even 1812 version:

https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Elements_and_Practice_of_Naval_Archi/TWsmw-QqvmAC?hl=de&gbpv=1

 

I am looking for a good digital copy of plate I - which seems to show details of the hull´s structure and provides a nomenclature for those elements. I found that in the many AotS books I own the authors use very different and sometimes even conflicting names for the same elements. So I looked for advice in contemporary books. 

 

But plate 1 of David Steels "Elements and .." seems to be a foldable wider page - which as it seems may have been published in an extra "booklet" or folder - and which seems to be not scanned.

 

I found one photo of that page I was from a rare 1977 reprint of that book - including the plates - but unfortuantly not readable in this photo:

Source: https://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t6107f1246-Steel-David-Elements-and-Practice-of-Naval-Architecture-England.html#msg239479

 

 

I found a scan in another of Steels book .. it may be the same content as this Plate 1 - but obvously it wasn´t scanned unfolded:

Its from modelshipbuild.com ´s collection of old books: Steel´s Vade Mecum of 1805.

https://modelshipbuilder.com/publications/pd/PD_vade-mecum_steel.pdf

 

 

Does anyone have a clear readable digital copy of this plate he can share with me?

Edited October 27 by Marcus.K.

[druxey]

A less expensive book is the facsimile reprint of Rees' Naval Architecture. While slightly later, the plates are copies of those in Steel. eg:

 

https://www.abebooks.com/Reess-Naval-Architecture-Rees-Abraham-David/31527245291/bd

 

Although the plates are half the scale of those in Steel, they are still too large for a home scanner.

[Kris Avonts]

An even less expensive source is the cyclopedia of Abraham Rees, that you can find on the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rees's_Cyclopædia.

At the bottom of that page, you can find the section 'digitised copies' where you can find also images of the plates.

I attach here plate I so you can see what to expect.

 

 

I also found an even larger copy but that is a bit too large (40MB) to show it here and apart from a more flat scan of the plate, the readability of text is the same.

 

Best regards,

   Kris

[Marcus.K.]

Why didn´t I notice this one !? 

 

THANKS a lot Kris ! This is what I needed to see!! 

As I wanted just to learn the names of things I don´t care about the lines. So the poor flatness does not matter to me. 

 

THANKS A LOT ! 

[Marcus.K.]

I just noticed, that I misused the wrong thread here - this is about Steels "masting and rigging" while I looked for Plates in Steels "Elements and Practices of Naval Architecture" - another of Steels obvoiusly many books about naval affairs.. 

 

Nevertheless: let me point on another interesting finding: 

 

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002007406/page/XV/mode/2up

 

What you see directly is above´s plate - which Kris so kind shared. The following pages showing more interesting details of british Men-o-war - including a development of the ships hull planking .. VERY interesting stuff. 

 

These seem to be plates similar / comparable to Steels plates in above mentioned Steel´s "E & P of Naval Architecture" - but collected by a Rev. Abraham Reed. 

His Encyclopedia can be found here - and in the bottom of that article you will find links to "digital copies" of many of his collection!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rees's_Cyclopædia

 

Enjoy!