The last of the windjammers.

Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1949. 2 volumes. Original blue cloth gilt, with dust-jackets. With numerous plans and photographic plates. XIV,518; XV,448 pp. First edition 1927. - A windjammer is a type of sailing ship with a large iron hull, usually used for cargo in the nineteenth century until the 1930s. They were only produced from the 1870s to the 1890s and were the grandest of cargo sailing ships, with between three and five large masts and square sails, giving them a characteristic profile.