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The Shipbuilders Repository; or, a Treatise on Marine Architecture. Wherein are Contained the Principles of the Art, With the Theory and Practical Parts Fully Explained; And Every Instruction Required in the Building and Completing a Ship, of Every Class, from the Forming of the Draught, to the Launching into the Water. Calculated to the Capacity of Young Beginners: Compiled and Digested in a Manner Entirely New, and Laid Down Different from What has Hitherto Appeared on the Subject. The Whole Being Intended as a Complete Companion to Those Naval Architects, Desirous of Attaining a Competent Knowledge of That Important Art.
Published by 1788 rp 1992 in a limited edition of 50 copies Rotherfield, 1788
Seller: Anthony J. Simmonds - Naval & Maritime, London, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
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Add to basket(vi), iv + viii + 472 + iiipp, 15 large folding plans, teg, large format (25cm x 21cm), coloured endpapers, attractive production, half calf with marbled paper over boards, a very good copy. Catalogue of Books on Naval Architecture, European Magazine, 1792: This book contains dimensions of the ships of the Royal Navy, very exact, with some judicious remarks on their property and an exact draught of an eighty gun ship. The author intended adding a draught of each class. He was brought up in a Royal Yard, was very industrious; but was discharged for copying draughts, and having papers in his possession. Such is the jealous infatuation that the superior officer in our establishment does not wish any workmen to be possessed of more knowledge than to handle and know the use of his tools; this is done under the pretence of secrecy, in keeping our arts from our enemies; which pretence is carried so far as to exclude a Briton admittance without especial orders and porter to attend him, while foreigners of any nation, if cloathed in an officers uniform, find ready admittance. AJS: There is a four page foreword by Mr David Roberts, the publisher, who places the book in context with other works of the period. The publisher included a number draughts from Admiralty sources, and although there is no list of plates as such, we list these below as follows: Page 146. Draught of a Ship proposed to carry 80 guns, undated, double-page foldout plate. Page 203. Royal Sovereign, 100 guns, undated, folding plate. Page 205. Impregnable, 90 guns, undated, folding plate. Page 207. Brunswick, 74 guns, 1785, folding plate. Page 209. Standard, 64 guns, 1782, folding plate. Page 211. Roebuck, 44 guns, 1776, folding plate. Page 213. Latona, 38 guns, 1779, folding plate. Page 215. Flora, 36 guns, 1780, folding plate. Page 217. Solebay (amended to Cleopatra), 26 guns, Page 219. Enterprize, 28 guns, 1778, folding plate. Page 221. Porcupine, 24 guns, 1777, folding plate. Page 225. Childers Brigantine, 14 guns, folding plate. Page 229. Yacht Caroline (drawing refers to vessel of 1749), folding plate. Page 231. Yacht Prince Royal of Denmark, 1784, folding plate. Page 233. Orestes Brig, 22 guns, 1782, folding plate.
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