Relying on his own experience in the U.S. Navy and consulting his contemporaries in the maritime profession, midshipman John Murphy published this book to provide an accurate portrait of a ship's rigging and spars (masts or yardarms supporting or extending a ship's sail). An important book in maritime history, the study describes every improvement made in seafaring equipment up to 1849. The thorough text is accompanied by more than 200 clear illustrations and diagrams of period equipment that cover everything from anchors, bowlines, bobstays, booms, lift blocks, and cat-head stoppers, to a flying jib, jackstays, top-gallant rigging, halliards, nippers, and topsail buntlines.An authentic look at the nautical world of the mid-nineteenth century, Spars and Rigging is an ideal reference for ship model builders, naval historians, and armchair sailors.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486429892
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95494096
Product Key Features
Author
John M'leod Murphy
Language
English
Dimensions
Item Height
297mm
Item Width
192mm
Item Weight
408g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
John M'leod Murphy
Book Title
Spars & Rigging:From Nautical Routi: from Nautical Routine, 1849
