Название: The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models
Автор: Robert Gardiner
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 184832295X
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 44,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types - in this case, the evolution of the cruising ship under sail.