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09-15-2014, 10:11
By C Nepean Longridge, Published by the Naval Institute Press, Anapolis MD, 1961
Contains over 158 drawings, 12 fold out plans and 76 plates. 283 pages with index.
Mr Longridge is a model ship builder would built the model of the HMS Victory that now resides in the Science Museum at South Kensington. He was present during the restoration of the Victory and the book includes photos of it and the HMS Implacable (the pictures were taken just before it was scuttled). No detail is too small for this book, right down to how to make the knots on the Reef nettles. The level of detail is simply staggering. This book shows exactly where every sheet, buntline, clew, halyard, brace, stay, shroud, and lift was fitted and how they were belayed on deck. It shows every block and every piece of tackle. It shows how every piece of wood on the ship was fashioned and how to recreate it in a model. It simply is the best book I have ever seen on how a ship of the line actually operated and why you needed 400 crewmen. 11606116071160811609
Contains over 158 drawings, 12 fold out plans and 76 plates. 283 pages with index.
Mr Longridge is a model ship builder would built the model of the HMS Victory that now resides in the Science Museum at South Kensington. He was present during the restoration of the Victory and the book includes photos of it and the HMS Implacable (the pictures were taken just before it was scuttled). No detail is too small for this book, right down to how to make the knots on the Reef nettles. The level of detail is simply staggering. This book shows exactly where every sheet, buntline, clew, halyard, brace, stay, shroud, and lift was fitted and how they were belayed on deck. It shows every block and every piece of tackle. It shows how every piece of wood on the ship was fashioned and how to recreate it in a model. It simply is the best book I have ever seen on how a ship of the line actually operated and why you needed 400 crewmen. 11606116071160811609