The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. Many of the models are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. Now available in paperback, this book tells the story of the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. It includes a large number of model photos all in full-color as well as close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features.

Although pictorial in emphasis, The Sailing Frigate weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modelers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will be attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.

• Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models
• The Ship of the Line (A History in Ship Models)
• Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-O-War, 1600-1860
• The Ship Model Builder's Assistant
• The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' (Anatomy of The Ship)
• Historic Ship Models
• Planking Techniques for Model Ship Builders
• Marine Art of Geoff Hunt
• Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits
• Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern