The sailing frigate: a history in ship models

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. This book is the first in a series which will use selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types. Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colo...

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1. Verfasser: Gardiner, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Barnsley Seaforth Publishing 2016
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Zusammenfassung:The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. This book is the first in a series which will use selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types. Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full color, including many close-up and detail views. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history of the sailing frigate. 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. This book takes a selection of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 128)
Beschreibung:128 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm
ISBN:9781848322950