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I remember that there used to be a sticky post with some links to books on 18th/19th century shipbuilding and seamanship, so to start again here are some download sites :

From Google books Pdf download:

A treatise on marine architecture - Peter Hedderwick 1830

A treatise on masting ships and mastmaking - John Fincham 1843

A treatise on shipbuilding and navigation - Mungo Murray 1754

The shipwright vade-mecum - P. Steel 1805

The young officer's sheet anchor with additions by GW Blunt  - Darcy Lever 1853

 

http://hnsa.org/doc/steel/index.htm for The elements and practice of seamanship by David Steel 1794

 

Hope it will be of some use

 

All the best to everybody

Zeh

 

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There are a number of additional downloads listed in my post "Nautical and Model Building Resources"  

under the Book and Magazine reviews and Downloads. Questions and Discussions for Books and Pubs forum here.

Wayne

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus

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Thank you trippwj for the update, I reckon it should have gone into that forum, but it seemed to me here would be a good place to start.

Anyway just for the sake of continuity here goes a link to Chapman's Architectura Navalis Mercatoria drawings

 

http://www.sjohistoriska.se/en/Collections/Archives/ChapmanNet/ChapmanNet/Drawings/?pressimagepage=1

 

Enjoy

Zeh

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I moved it here to the book sectiion where it's more appropriate.

Mark
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  • 3 weeks later...

I just wanted to advise users of Google books for pdf downloads that I've found some books that weren't available for download on the English language Google site were available on the German language site and probably on other language sites as well.  

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