Geek1945 Posted January 17, 2017 #1 Posted January 17, 2017 Here's a list of naval related books available from Project Gutenburg all are without copywrights and maybe downloaded for your interest. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sail+shiphttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=wood+shiphttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=building+shipshttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=british+war-shipshttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46094http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48179http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25749http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29285http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25544 The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model by Howard Irving Chapelle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31179 Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard Irving Chapelle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23861 The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) by Churchill, Miller, and Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46215 The Battles in Flanders From Ypres to Neuve Chapelle by Edmund Dane http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6721 The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26509 Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Parry http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4673 Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life by Arthur E. Knights http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31910 Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp by John Shipp http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10542 The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24880 The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13830 The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21531 Woodwork Joints: How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22107 Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12299 The Mechanical Properties of Wood by Samuel J. Record http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20846 Handwork in Wood by William Noyes http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27238 Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43604 Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs by Charles G. Wheeler http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43574 Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42650 The Boy Craftsman by A. Neely Hall http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26598 Seasoning of Wood by J. B. Wagner http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52902 A Naval Expositior by Thomas Riley Blanckley http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36776 Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/725 Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11368 Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50475 The Young Ship-Builders of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7947 The Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44228 Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23601 The U-boat hunters by James B. Connolly http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53900 Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20483 Artillery Through the Ages by Albert C. Manucy http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43799 Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms by Greener http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38961 Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18941 The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 by Ralph Delahaye Paine http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52942 The Year after the Armada by Martin A. S. Hume http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52472 Captain Cuellar's adventures in Connaught & Ulster A.D. 1588. by Hugh Allingham http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22942 Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3334 Drake's Great Armada by Walter Bigges http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42604 Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. Freeman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32166 Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder by Shan F. Bullock http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29685 Submarine Warfare of To-day by Charles W. Domville-Fife http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26641 The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33438 Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26040 Log-book of Timothy Boardman by Timothy Boardman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45583 Scapa and a Camera by C. W. Burrows http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21404 From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by Kingston http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36136 Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45011 The Logs of the Serapis--Allance--Ariel, Under the Command of John Paul Jones, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46788 The Story of the "Britannia" by Edward Phillips Statham http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40847 A Short History of H.M.S. Victory by W. J. L. Wharton http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21389 Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by Kingston http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34489 Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40689 Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame by Kingston Enjoy Ed grsjax, KevinR, Canute and 6 others 9 Quote
dafi Posted January 18, 2017 #2 Posted January 18, 2017 Thank you very much! But unfortunately, most of the links do not work with me ? Was there a problem with copy-paste in the link or is it me? XXXDAn Quote To victory and beyond! http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/76-hms-victory-by-dafi-to-victory-and-beyond/ See also our german forum for Sailing Ship Modeling and History: http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/ Finest etch parts for HMS Victory 1:100 (Heller Kit), USS Constitution 1:96 (Revell) and other useful bits. http://dafinismus.de/index_en.html
trippwj Posted January 18, 2017 #3 Posted January 18, 2017 Thank you very much! But unfortunately, most of the links do not work with me ? Was there a problem with copy-paste in the link or is it me? XXXDAn There are extra spaces included in each hyperlink - when you click them, you get something which looks like this (not I have cut off the www so the full URL shows as text not a URL): .gutenberg.org/ebooks/21389%C2%A0%C2%A0 Everything after the 21389 is superfluous - the work around I found was to click the link, then click in the address bar and backspace to remove the %C2%A0%C2%A0 So to get to Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, the actual link is http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38961 (NOTE - this is Volume 1 of 3 published 1838) dafi, mtaylor, donfarr and 2 others 5 Quote WayneNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.Epictetus
Mike Y Posted January 30, 2017 #4 Posted January 30, 2017 Thank you, some good finds there! Canute, mtaylor and -Dallen 3 Quote Current build: Beavers Prize - POF 1:48 (Hahn style) Side builds: Schooner Polotsk by Master Korabel 18th Century Longboat by MS Finished: 21ft English Pinnace by MS
Landlocked123 Posted February 4, 2017 #5 Posted February 4, 2017 Wayne, I, too, appreciate Ed's putting together this list. When I try to open any of the links in Chrome, I get the error message "404 Not Found". When I look at the url, I don't have any additional characters after the 5 digit ID. I hope you might be able to help, some of those titles look intriguing. Thanks. Best, John Canute and mtaylor 2 Quote Member: Connecticut Marine Model Society Nautical Research Guild Model Ship World "So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past" F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby "If at first you don’t succeed.......skydiving is probably not for you”
trippwj Posted February 4, 2017 #6 Posted February 4, 2017 Wayne, I, too, appreciate Ed's putting together this list. When I try to open any of the links in Chrome, I get the error message "404 Not Found". When I look at the url, I don't have any additional characters after the 5 digit ID. I hope you might be able to help, some of those titles look intriguing. Thanks. Best, John Unfortunately, can't help with Chrome. I know in Firefox the extra characters show, and I suspect that they are there in Chrome as well but not showing. They are a couple of spaces after the text which appear to be included in the link. Try putting your cursor at the end of the address when you get the 404 error and then hitting back space until you get to the last number of the actual link and see if that helps. mtaylor, Canute and donfarr 3 Quote WayneNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.Epictetus
Mumin Posted February 4, 2017 #7 Posted February 4, 2017 Chrome sees them as spaces. Just click inside the url (address) bar and press ENTER. Canute, trippwj and mtaylor 3 Quote
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