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The Royal Yacht "Caroline" 1749 (Anatomy of the Ship)
By Sergio Bellabarba, Giorgio Osculati

Publisher:   Conway Maritime Press Ltd
Number Of Pages:   129
Publication Date:   1989-06-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0851774962
ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780851774961

Description:
This book has been written principally for makers of ship models. In  
fact
the research which forms the bulk of the material contained here was  
begun
many years ago with the sole purpose of building a model of Royal  
Caroline,
with Plate XLIX of Chapman's Architectura Navails Mercatoria as the only
available item of information.

In addition to the most detailed plans, we have sought to provide as  
much
information as possible concerning the ship's history and, within the  
limits
of the available space, the contemporary construction techniques and
fitting-out procedures, with particular reference to rigging. Given the
quality of British specialist publications (recently in particular) on
British seamanship and individual ships, it is unusual for foreign  
authors
to venture into a subject like this for such a demanding public. The  
fact
is, however, that once our initial orientation difficulties were  
overcome,
the existence in Great Britain of institutions which are a model of
efficiency, such as the Public Records Office, the National Maritime  
Museum
and the Royal Archives, have made our research much easier. We wish once
more to express our gratitude to these institutions, as we did in the
Italian edition of the book, and particularly to: NAM Rodger of the  
Public
Records Office, DJ Lyon, James Lees and Alan McGowan of the National
Maritime Museum.

Finally we wish to explain why we have made some use of the metric  
system in
dealing with a subject like this where the old systems of measurement  
are
still widely used by model-makers in English-speaking countries. This
particu larly concerns the thickness of the rigging, which contemporary
writers expressed in inches of circumference. We had laboriously  
converted
these to diameters in the metric system for the Italian edition and it
seemed a cumbersome and perhaps misleading operation to reverse the  
process.
References to practices in Continental navies and to the development of
rigging were much more plentiful in the text and footnotes of the  
Italian
edition. English language readers have a wealth of specialised works
available on this matter which anyone wishing to widen his knowledge of
naval history can consult. We will refer the reader to them, but we  
wish to
mention expressly those which we have found most useful in our work,  
namely
Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War by James Lees and  
Seamanship in
the Age of Sail by Harland and Myers.