Plates by Joseph Wheatley
Text by Stephen Howarth
This special, large format book presents magnificent colour artwork by Joseph Wheatley and text by the leading naval historian Stephen Howarth. Combining full-colour, large-scale images with a narrative which lucidly presents the rise, development and fall of the sailing ship, this is a delightful book and a wonderful testament to man's maritime achievements.
For more than five thousand years men have harnessed the wind to sail the sea for trade, commerce, exploration and conquest. Historic Sail covers the key period in the history of the sailing ship from the Middle Ages to the end of' the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the golden age of sail during the years of exploration and discovery (1450 to 1700).
The vessels covered include merchantmen, trading vessels and warships, and Historic Sail sets the famous - such as the Mary Rose, Revenge, Ark Royal, Vasa, Mayflower, Endeavour and Victory - alongside the unusual and extraordinary. This superbly illustrated book is a brilliant panorama of some of the most elegant ships ever built and an essential addition to literature on this captivating subject.
Joseph Wheatley has spent more than thirty years researching and illustrating the history of sailing vessels. He currently acts as a Volunteer guide aboard the HMS Endeavour. Stephen Howarth is a leading expert on maritime history and the author of numerous books, including an acclaimed biography of Nelson.
Historic Sail (ISBN 1-85367-399-4) will be Published in April, measuring 319 x 326mm and priced £ 40.00. It has 208 pages, 91 colour plates and ten other illustrations.
List of plates featured in Historic Sail
1 . Danish cog, 13th century
2. Cinque Ports cog, 1300
3. Venetian Merchantman, 1300
4. Milano Votive Carrack, 14th
century
5. Bremen cog, 1380
6. Argosy
7. Venetian carrack, after Fabriano
8. Tagus carrack
9. Mataro votive carrack
10. Carrack, after W.A., 1470
11. Earl of Warwick's cog, after Rouse,
1480
12. Caravela latina
13. Sections of a caravel
14. Adriatic nao, after Carpaccio,
1480
15. Barcelona carrack, 1480
16. Venetian war galley, 1480
17. Great galley of Venice
18. Hansa merchantman
19. Barca pantafola
20. Sao Catarina do Monte Sinai
21. Tagus galley, 1520
22. Tudor great ship, 1520
23. Northern bark
24. Spanish galley
25. Great Barke
26. Iberian nao
1-7. Iberian caravel
28. Mary Rose, 1536-45
29. Tudor athwart section
30. Henry Grace a Dieu
31. Galliasse Antelope
32. Spanish/Flemish galleon, after
Bruegel
33. Spanish/Flemish carrack, after
Bruegel
34. Flemish warship
35. Triumph, 1561-91
36. White Bear, after Visscher, 1560-
90
37. Venetian naval galley
38. Detail of Venetian galley
39. Elizabethan light galleon, Golden
Hind
40. Revenge
41. San Martin, Iberian, 1588
42. Ascension
43. Golden Lion
44. Spanish carrack of the Azores
patrol
45. Sao Felipe
46. Enflish oared warship
47. Large Elizabethan galleon
48, Race-built English warship
49. Ark Royal, 1588
50. Patache
51. Armada merchant carrack
52. Armada fighting carrack
53. Neapolitan galeass, 1588
54. Portuguese Armada galleon
55. Spanish galleon
56. Fluyt
57. Detail of fluyt
58. Dutch jacht, 1596
59. Dutch pinnace, 1597
60. Spanish galleon, 1620-50
61. Prince Royal, 1610-51
62. Mayflower, 1620
63. Saint Louis, 1623
64. Swedish Vasa, 1628
65. Vasa (interior)
66. Sovereign of the Seas
67. Dutch staten jacht and sprit
smack
68. Venetian merchantman, 1640-90
69. Venetian galleasse
70. Genoese merchantman, mid-17th
century
71. Swedish naval hukare
72. Brandenburg frigate, 1650-1690
73. Triumph, 1654
74. Naesby or Royal Charles
75. Dutch brigantine, 1660
76. Zeven Provincien, 1683
77. Resolution, late 17th century
78. Royal yacht, 1680
79. Frigate, 1685-1715
80. Dutch hooker
81. Dutch boyer
82. Britannia, first rate, 1700
83. British 60-gun ship, 1715
84. Falmouth, 1752
85. Victory. 1765
86. Endeavour, 1768
87. British 74-gun ship, 1803
88. British 46-gun frigate, 1820
89. Baltimore clipper
90. Mercantile brig, 1850
91. Scottish tea clipper, 1870
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