New images from The Restoration Warship now available to view in the gallery
Conway’s lavish new volume on the construction and career of Lenox, the first of the Thirty Ships of 1677, is a fascinating study of seventeenth-century shipbuilding methods and practices. Although a key period in the Age of Sail and in the development of the ship-of-the-line, this is a little-understood area of scholarship in which – until recently – there was a dearth of reliable published work (with the notable exception of Frank Fox’s Great Ships, a classic Conway reference which first appeared in 1980). The release of Richard Endsor’s beautifully illustrated and extensively researched book therefore constitutes one of the most important contributions to seventeenth-century maritime scholarship in recent years. We are now proud to showcase some of the imagery that appears in the book – please visit the image gallery to see a selection of the author’s superb illustrations. The book features hundreds of diagrams, scale drawings and artworks including: • A reconstructed draught of Lenox on the reverse of the jacket and hull lines in 1:72 scale on the frontispiece• Contemporary seventeenth century drawings and sketches of the thirty ships by artists such as the Van de Veldes, reproduced in excellent detail• Dockyard progress drawings at every stage of the ship’s construction with drawings of her frames, futtocks, timbers and their assembly• Detailed drawings of Lenox’s masts, yards, tops and sails• Detailed drawings of Lenox’s ordnance and ammunition, including her unique gun establishment• Photographs of models from the Rogers Ship Collection at the USNA Museum• Drawings of Lenox’s boats, anchors, bulkheads and objects & equipment she carried• Charts and views of the Thames, Deptford dockyard, moorings at Chatham and on the Medway• Annotated drawings of her pumps and steering mechanism, deck arrangements, bulkhead and head construction• Two double gatefold pull-outs with1:72 scale drawings of all Lenox’s decks, longitudinal and midship sections and broadside view A fully referenced text, drawn from original research conducted from contemporary sources explains and illuminates every aspect of the ship and the social and historical context of the period. In addition, comprehensive appendices reproduce Lenox’s principal dimensions, supplier contracts, the building reports of master shipwrights at Deptford, Lenox’s building list and correspondence relating to the discovery of her rotting timbers only four years after her construction.
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