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HMS Warrior 1860 : By Andrew Lambert
Ref: K1286
HMS Warrior 1860- Victoria's Ironclad Deterrent- : By Andrew Lambert.

One of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s most iconic attractions, Warrior was a revolutionary ship and the supreme symbol of British naval might in the Victorian age. This lavishly illustrated book outlines her design, career, subsequent history and the extensive restoration programme that eventually restored the ship to her former glory. Built to underline Victorian Britain’s supremacy at sea, HMS Warrior was the world’s first iron-hulled, armoured warship. In 1979 she was rescued from ignominy as an oil jetty in Milford Haven to become the subject of an ambitious restoration programme, and for the last twenty years has been open to the public at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The story of her revolutionary design, career history and the strange twists of fate that enabled her to survive into an age when her significance in naval architecture would be fully recognised, is described in detail together with the meticulous research that went into faithfully restoring every aspect of the ship. Complete with archival illustrations and photographs, specially commissioned photography, lines plans and diagrams, this is a comprehensive and elegantly produced commemorative volume of a remarkable ship.

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Captain Cook's Endeavour by Karl Heinz Marquardt
Ref: K418
Captain Cook's Endeavour by Karl Heinz Marquardt: His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, was made eternally famous by Captain James Cook's first voyage of exploration in the South Pacific, 1768-1771.

First published in 1995, this revised edition of Captain Cook's Endeavour now includes a large scale plan on the reverse of the jacket.

This volume features: An introductory text describing the ship, her build and rig, based on the author's fresh research, and an outline of her career. Photographic section depicting various models as well as the famous Australian replica. A guide to the vessels colour scheme and decoration on the jacket. More than 200 perspective and 3-view drawings, with in-depth descriptive keys, of every detail of the ship hitherto misunderstood.

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The Restoration Warship By Richard Endsor:
Ref: K0883
The Restoration Warship By Richard Endsor:

A comprehensive and expertly illustrated history of HMS Lenox, a 70-gun third rate of Charles II’s Navy. Laid down in 1677, Lenox represents the pinnacle of English shipbuilding practice and, in many ways, typifies all third-rate ships of the period, which were by far the most numerous class of warship in the seventeenth century, and formed the backbone of the English fleet.
Lenox was ordered as the first of the King’s “Thirty Ships” building programme, a series of beautiful and powerful warships that were intended to reflect the glory and majesty of the monarch. Their graceful lines and ornate decoration made these ships ideal subjects for study - sketches were made, for example, by the famous artist Van de Velde, one of the fathers of the marine painting genre. Unsurprisingly, they remain a source of fascination for ship modellers today, and their construction in a time of huge international significance, during the Anglo-Dutch Wars of 1660-1685 and midway through Louis XIV’s massive expansion programme for the French Navy, means there is great interest in this subject amongst historians. Employing extensive primary research, author Richard Endsor has produced one of the most detailed building and career histories of any vessel, in turn making a major contribution to modern understanding of English shipbuilding practice during the Restoration period. Every aspect of Lenox is covered in great detail, from initial design and construction to armament, fitting out and her later career.
The book provides a broad picture of the day-to-day workings of Deptford dockyard, including the techniques, trade and tools of the shipwrights, sail-makers and rope-makers. It simultaneously demonstrates a very keen insight into the workings of naval administration. Construction of Lenox and her sisters was largely down to Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist and Secretary to the Admiralty, who considered the Thirty Ships programme to be “the greatest achievement of my career”. Pepys figures as a key character in the context of Lenox’s design, construction and build, and indeed such human interest is woven throughout. Employing original documents, individuals are shown to have influenced many aspects of the ship, which in turn, through this work, has now reserved its own place in maritime scholarship. The Restoration Warship will justifiably enter the canon of standard reference works on shipbuilding practice in the age of sail.

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The Frigate Surprise By Brian Lavery
Ref: K746
The Frigate Surprise By Brian Lavery: There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of sea stories. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had a most eventful true historical career serving in both the French and then Royal navies and which included capture by the Inconstant in 1796 the much celebrated cutting-out action on the mutinous crew of HMS Hermione. Surprise was decomissioned in 1802 and delivered into the fictional captaincy of Jack Aubrey. This sumptuous new volume, written by acclaimed naval historian Brian Lavery, not only reveals the complete career history and commentary of HMS Surprise in both its guises, but also presents an all-embracing construction and fitting history of the Fifth Rate including some 30 line drawings as well as historical artworks and detailed photographs. The book is presented in full colour throughout and additionally includes a series of specially-commissioned sketches and some 30 paintings by co-author Geoff Hunt RSMA, the acclaimed artist of the Patrick O’Brian cover artworks and related prints. Geoff Hunt also contributes a most illuminating chapter on his experiences in, and challenges faced, when illustrating this ship. The detailed line and isometric plans are being drawn by prolific marine draughtsman Karl Heinz Marquardt.

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Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland
Ref: K167
Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland Numerous successful reprints of contemporary works on rigging and seamanship indicate the breadth of interest in the lost art of handling square-rigged ships. Modelmakers, marine painters and enthusiasts need to know not only how the ships were rigged but how much sail was set in each condition of wind and sea, how the various manoeuvres were carried out, and the intricacies of operations like reefing, or ‘catting’ an anchor. Contemporary treatises such as Brady’s Kedge Anchor in the USA or Darcy Lever’s Sheet Anchor in Britain tell only half the story, for they were training manuals intended to be used at sea in conjunction with practical experience and often only covered officially-condoned practices.
This book, on the other hand, is a modern, objective appraisal of the evidence, concerned with the actualities as much as the theory. The authors facility in a remarkable range of languages has enabled him to study virtually every annual published over a period of nearly four centuries. This gives the book a completely international balance and allows the author to describe for the first time the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world.
In order to explain even the most complex evolution clearly and concisely, over 350 line drawings were specially commissioned from Mark Myers not only one of the very best of the present generation of marine artists, but an authority on sailing ships in his own right. The result of this close collaboration is a work which is a superbly produced, and uniquely valuable, contribution to the history of sail.

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The Battleship Bismarck by Jack Brower
Ref: K982
The Battleship Bismarck by Jack Brower : The Bismarck is probably the most famous warship in the world. The German battleship, 45,000 tons, was completed in early 1941 and went on to sink the 'Mighty Hood', pride of the Royal Navy, during one of the most sensational naval encounters ever. After a dramatic chase around the North Atlantic, involving many units of the Royal Navy, Bismarck was finally dispatched with gunfire and torpedoes on 27 May, less than five months after she was completed. Her wreck still lies where she sank, 4800m down and 960km off the west coast of France.

The Battleship Bismarck is the finest documentation of this famous ship ever published. What makes this and all 'Anatomy of the Ship' volumes unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details, photos and a record of the ship’s service history. Complete with an extended ship's plan on the reverse of a fold-out jacket.

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Miniature Merchant Ships. A Guide to Waterline Ship Mod
Ref: K590
Miniature Merchant Ships. A Guide to Waterline Ship Modelling in 1:1200 Scale by John Bowen : Building 1/1200 scale waterline ship models is a fascinating branch of ship modelling. Among other things it has the advantage that a varied collection of models; demonstrating many different aspects of design and construction, can be displayed in a comparatively small space. In the first part of this book, the author leads the reader through the importance of research, useful tools and materials,;where to obtain data and plans, and describes in detail the construction of these models. Each stage is illustrated with explanatory photographs and diagrams, many of which come from the author's own collection. The second part contains thirty sets of plans for 1/1200 models, each accompanied by one or more photographs of the ship, a brief history, notes on aspects of building the model, and details of the colour scheme. The ships range from the Cunard liner Campania (1893) to the Great Lakes bulk carrier Selkirk Settler (1983) and include Aquitania (1914), Titanic (1912), Troopship Devonshire (1939), Minnesota (1904) of the Great Northern Steamship Company (USA), Nieuw Amsterdam (1938), Royal George (1910), Orcades (1937), and several types of cargo ship. Through the detailed step-by- step guide in Part One and the information and plans given for the thirty very different ships in Part Two, the reader, whether beginner or experienced, will find this title an essential tool for successful 1/1200 modelling.

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