Product Description

Celebrated as one of the most handsome, fast, and versatile sailing rigs, schooners plied the trade winds of the world for more than two hundred-fifty years. This comprehensive new history traces the evolution of the ship through Europe and the United States and offers a new hypothesis, based on primary source material, on the schooner's English origins in 1697. The historical record is brought to life by examining four types of schooners that typify the major variations of the ship: the Baltimore clipper Berbice, the Coast Guard vessel Elgen, the gunboat Axel Thorsen, and the merchant schooners The Schooner of Port Jackson and Enterprize. The author includes full specifications, illustrations, model photographs, and detailed line drawings for each vessel and general details on the construction, fitting, masting, rigging, and armament of both merchant and naval schooners. This copiously illustrated volume, containing 143 large-scale drawings and an additional 97 plans, photographs, and art works, is sure to please both modelers and schooner enthusiasts alike. 256 pages. 240 illustrations. Hardcover. 8 3/4 x 11 inches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #647077 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
"Monographs about schooners are common but Marquardt's beatiful volume complements the rest." -- International Journal of Maritime History, December 2003

About the Author
Karl Heinz Marquardt is an internationally known modeller and marine artist who has models in some eleven European museums as well as in Australia where he has lived since the 1960s. He is an exceptional draughtsman and is a regular contributor to the Conway journal Model Shipwright. He has also written a number of titles including his earlier German work on the schooner Schoner in Nord und Sud together with a number of books on the Conway list including Captain Cook's Endeavour and HMS Beagle in the 'Anatomy of the Ship' series and the highly-successful Eighteenth Century Rigs and Rigging.

Customer Reviews

Excellant Reference for Model Makers
Great book for ship model makers. Numerous black and white scaled drawings showing hull, mast and sail plans. Well written and useful for those interested in schooners.