"Wooden Warship Construction" by Lavery

[Moab]

I recently purchased this book on Amazon. The contents may be of little interest and very basic to the "old salt scratch builders" on this forum. The book clearly describes the steps required to build a ship of the line in the late 18th to the early 19th century. It does this in both words and visuals. The copyright date for the book is 2017.

[davyboy]

Hi Moab

Interesting,I wonder if it's an updated/reissued version of his book "Building the Wooden Walls" published by Conway in 1991. The design and construction of the 74 gun ship Valiant. I have this book,the contents sound very similar.

 

Dave  

[Moab]

Dave; I checked the copyright and the initial pages and there's no reference to the 1991 book. The publisher is Seaforth...Moab

[Jaager]

It is a new book.  It is a showcase of the NMM model collection to demonstrate ship construction.

Just selected examples of their vast inventory, but it is impressive to see what those Old Boys could do

with just hand tools.

[dvm27]

It's a nice little book with beautiful color photographs but hardly comprehensive. Those wishing a more complete treatise on the subject would could do no better than Englishman of War 1600-1850  by Peter Goodwin or Arming and Fitting the English Ships of War 1600-1815 by Brian Lavery

[davyboy]

Thanks for that info Moab. Looks like I'll be spending some money again

 

Dave  

[Moab]

Dave; you can't beat spending money on tools or books...Moab