CONSTRUCTION AND FITTING OF THE ENGLISH MAN-OF-WAR 1650-1850 by PETER GOODWIN, 1987, HARDBACK, 288 PAGES, 100 PHOTOS, 300 ILLUSTRATIONS, 9.75 BY 11.5 INCHES, $49.95. A delightfully authoritative study that provides precise and detailed information on hull frame construction, hull planking, bulkheads and internal layout, machinery, beams, knees, and internal stiffening.

THE MASTING AND RIGGING OF ENGLISH SHIPS OF WAR, 1625-1860, 2ND EDITION BY JAMES LEES, 1984, HARDBACK, 212 PAGES, 93 PHOTOS, 540 ILLUSTRATIONS, 10 BY 12 INCHES, $59.95. A definitive reference and treasure house of facts and figures with sixteen new pages of tabular data providing the most specific dimensions available anywhere on nine-teenth-century masts, rigging, and spars.

THE ARMING AND FITTING OF ENGLISH SHIPS OF WAR, 1600-1815, BY BRIAN LAVERY, NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS, 1988, 288 PAGES, 170 PHOTOS, 270 LINE DRAWINGS, APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX, 9.75 X II, $59.95. From the beginning of the sailing warships' supremacy to the advent of steam, this comprehensive volume covers every aspect of fitting out and arming wooden warships in the Royal Navy. Hundreds of line drawings and photos illustrate fitting procedures and equipment.

SEAMANSHIP IN THE AGE OF SAIL: AN ACCOUNT OF THE SHIP HANDLING OF THE SAILING MAN-of-WAR 1600-1860 BY JOHN HARLAND, ILLUSTRATED BY MARK MYERS, 1984, 200 PAGES, 350 ILLUSTRATIONS, 10X12 INCHES, $59.95. A modern, objective appraisal of the shiphandling of square-riggers that is as concerned with the practical aspects of the subject as it is the theoretical. International in balance, it provides a historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world. The many drawings are both browsable and informative. Though not a square-rigger's best side, the many bird's eye drawings of a ship during such maneuvers as heaving to in which you look straight down on the masts make it much clearer about the setting of the yards.

MODELING

THE PERIOD SHIP HANDBOOK 2 BY KEITH JULIER, 208 PAGES, 199 ILLUSTRATIONS, 8.25 X 11.7, PAPERBACK, $37.95. Follows the popular Period Ship handbook, this second volume provides more information to both beginners and more-experienced modelmakers. Providing suggestions on expanding the modeler's basic tool kit without having to develop a full workshop, the book applies these tools to commercially available kits. The book describes the construction of ten models selected for their skill-developing diversity. Models included the royal Caroline, the clinker built Holly.

SHIP MODELER'S SHOP NOTES, EDITED BY MERRITT EDSON, NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD PAPERBACK, 216 PAGES, 11 BY 8.5 INCHES. $19.95. Drawings, photos, 9 hull lines. Contains articles, drawings. photographs, illustrations, ships plans and construction tips collected from past issues of the Guild's Nautical Research Journal.

NAVY BOARD SHIP MODELS, 1650-1750 BY JOHN FRANKLIN, NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS, 1989, 192 PAGES, 150 PHOTOS, 150 LINE DRAWINGS, 16 COLOR PLATE, 9.75 x 11.5, $36.95. Provides the background and use of the official "Admiralty" or "Dockyard" ship models, considered the most sophisticated expression of the ship modeler's art, and what their purpose might have been over two centuries ago. There is detailed analysis of materials, construction techniques, and decoration, as well as an entire section devoted to the controversial framing style.

THE ANATOMY OF THE SHIP SERIES

Of particular interest to serious readers, historians. modelers, marine researchers, and those who want to "see" their fiction.

THE 24-GUN SHIP PANDORA BY JOHN MCKAY, ANATOMY OF A SHIP SERIES, 30 PHOTOS, 275 LINE DRAWINGS, 128 PAGES, $37.95. A 24-gun Sixth Rate Ship built in 1779, this vessel is best known for her voyage to Tahiti which was undertaken to bring back the Bounty mutineers. Fourteen of them were captured but four of them drowned when Pandora ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef on August 29, 1791. The wreck site of this ship was recently discovered and has been extensively excavated. The author is a ship enthusiast and modeler.

THE 32-GUN FRIGATE ESSEX BY PORTIA TAKAKJIAN, ANATOMY OF A SHIP SERIES, 300 LINE DRAWINGS, 127 PAGES, $39.95. The author used both U.S. and British sources to reconstruct many previously undetermined details of the ship. Contains conventional 3-view type plans as well as explanatory perspective views with fully descriptive keys. These drawings are accurate, visually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs. historians and model makers a novel insight into the technicalities of this ship.

HMS VICTORY BY JOHN MCKAY, ANATOMY OF A SHIP SERIES, 26 PHOTOS, 120 PACES, $39.95. Includes a full description of the ship and her position in the development of the First Rate. More than 300 perspective and 3-view drawings with in-depth descriptive keys of every detail of the ship as presently restored. A highly graphic publication which complements the older Nepean Longridge HMS Victory book.

THE NAVAL CUTTER ALERT BY PETER GOODWIN, ANATOMY OF A SHIP SERIES, 30 PHOTOS, 250 LINE DRAWINGS, 128 PAGES, $39.95. Built to supplement the British fleet between 1763 and 1835, the Alert Was one of 15 cutters ordered for the Royal Navy during 1777 and 1778 and was built at a private yard in Dover, England. Goodwin's drawings of the lines are based on the draught of the hull of the Rattlesnake, an identical cutter built at the same ship yard in 1777, and the model is currently on display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. England.

TUE 20-GUN SHIP BLANDFORD BY PETER GOODWIN. NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS, ANNAPOLIS, 1988. HARDBACK, 119 PAGES, 9.5; INCHES HIGH BY 10.5. $37.95. Drawings, plans, model photos. Provides superb graphics. The Blandford, while not quite the same size, is a 5th rate like the Surprise and the book gives tile detailed drawings of the ship's hull, deck arrangement, and rigging. Invaluable to modelers, too.

THE BOMB VESSEL GRANADO 1742 BY PETER GOODWIN. NAVAL INSTITIUTE PRESS, ANNAPOLIS, 1989. HARDBACK, 125 PAGES, 9.5 INCHES HIGH BY 10.5. $37.95. Many drawings, plans, model photos. Useful to both the scratch-build modeler and the reader of Forester who wants to know more about bomb vessels.Provides insights about Jack Aubrey's first command, since the Sophie was also a 14 gun, brig-sloop with a quarterdeck arid stern windows.

THE ARMED TRANSPORT BOUNTY BY JOHN MCKAY, NIP, 1989, 120 PAGES, MANY PHOTOS, DRAWINGS, PLANS, AND DETAILED SKETCHES, $37.95. Superb graphics. Thanks to a reproduction built in Australia. the hook has many photos as well.

CAPTAIN COOK'S ENDEAVOR by KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT, 138 PAGES, HARDBACK, 224 ILLUSTRATIONS,$37.95. The Endeavor, made famous by Captain Cook's first voyage on her in 1768-71, was chosen by Cook because of her strong construction. The author describes her build and rig based on information found in the Endeavor's journals, a mine of previously unused, primary-source information.  THE SCHOONER BERTHA L. DOWNS BY BASIL GREENHILL AND SAM MANNING, 1995, HARDBACK, 128 PAGES, 250 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9.5 BY 10.25 INCHES. NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS, $37.95. One of the many large four-, five-, and six-masted schooners built on tile banks of the Kennebeck River at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These huge wooden vessels were almost universally employed in the coastal trade, chiefly taking coal from Virginia to New England. Contains superb drawings and much new material about the life of the vessel.

SHIP TYPE SERIES

THE BOMB VESSEL,SHORE BOOMBARDMENT SHIPS OF TUE AGE OF SAIL BY CHRIS WARE, 1995, HARDBACK, 128 PAGES,100 ILLUSTRATIONS, 10.75 BY 10.75 INCHES. CONWAY SHIP TYPE SERIES, $38.95. In the Horatio Hornblower stories, the bomb vessel represented a specialization of the warship into a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets.

THE FIRST FRIGATES BY ROBERT GARDINER, 128 PAGES, $38.95. This first volume in the new Ship Types series of monographs which outline the development of specific ship types deals with the revolutionary change that came over the Royal Navy in the mid-I 8th Century: the introduction and development of a radical new type of cruising ship, known as the frigate.The early classes of frigates were all armed with 9-pounder or 12-pounder guns. Although a few were built as late as 1805, this essentially is the story of British cruiser design between 1740 and 1785.

TUE HEAVY FRIGATE, EIGHTEEN-POUNDER FRIGATES: VOLUME 1,1778-1800 by ROBERT GARDINER, 1995, HARDBACK, 128 PAGES, 80 ILLUSTIIATIONS,10.75 BY 10.75 INCHES. CONWAY SHIP TYPE SERIES, $38.95;. The first of two volumes specifically devoted to the large single-decked cruising ships armed with 18-pounder guns.First introduced during the American Revolution, the frigates grew rapidly in size, number, importance and becoming the typical frigate of the Nelson era that we read about Patrick O'BRIEN's Aubrey Maturin series.