Spars and Rigging: From Nautical Routine, 1849 (Dover Maritime)

Spars and Rigging: From Nautical Routine, 1849 (Dover Maritime)

<div>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.<br>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.<BR>An authentic look at the nautical world of the mid-nineteenth century, <I>Spars and Rigging</I> is an ideal reference for ship model builders, naval historians, and armchair sailors.</div>