Description » From Model Ship Builder - The purpose of this article is not to have an exhaustive look at all woods but rather to have a look at some of the most common woods used in model ship building so that you have a general understanding of their make-up and uses. As we will see, some woods are naturally suited to model ship building, while others are not.

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Description » The Ship Modeling Forum's Affiliate with Best Scale Models for Ship's Plans and Drawings

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Description » A site focusing on Pirate's and thier biographies. Featured on the History Channel. The site covers a wide variety of subjects particular to pirate's their vessels and weaponry.

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Description » This book originally published in 1780 and often referenced in various ship modeling books has been reprinted. It covers everything dealing with the general construction of brass and iron guns, mortars and howitzers used by sea and land. It shows dimensions of all carriages used in artillery with numerous charts and illustrations. It contains a wealth of information for the model ship builder intent on making their own cannons and carriages or who is simply interested in learning more about the construction of period ship guns. By John Muller

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Description » The website offers CD's for modern US Navy warships drawn from thousands of archived photographs, from personal, private and official USN sources.

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Description » The anchor is one of the most important pieces of equipment on any vessel and one of the most common motifs and symbols on land--appearing in heraldic designs, on pub signs, and in churchyard sculpture, among other places. This book explains how the first simple pierced stones developed through the killick into the modern devices of today that hold the heaviest super tankers. No nautical archaeologist, naval historian, modelmaker, yachtsman, or boatswain should be without this basic reference book on the subject. By Betty Nelson Curryer

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Description » LISTS OF SHIP NAMES AND PASSENGER LISTS

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Description » HMS SHIPS

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Description » The Museum of America and the Sea | Explore American maritime history firsthand as you climb aboard historic tall ships, stroll through a re-created 19th-century coastal village or watch a working preservation shipyard in action. Home of the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaleship in the world. The maritime collections at Mystic Seaport include more than a thousand full-rigged models, eight hundred ship builders half models, and seventy "models in bottles." Also included are forty shadowbox models and thirty tow tank models.

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Description » A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by Author's Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, and J. Worth Estes

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