Basil Greenhill 1988 The Merchant Schooners British Coastal Trade Sailing Craft

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The Merchant Schooners

by

Basil Greenhill

Hardcover. 4to. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1988.  310 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates.

DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in  cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Artist Lionel Willis joins forces with the then Director of the National Maritime Museum in order to present a study of British sailing craft in coastal trade over a period of a thousand years. Illustrated with 45 coloured plates in five-colour detailed and scaled paintings, plus 53 black & white illustrations that illuminate aspects of the source material ; each plate is fully described with particulars of rigging, fittings, hull structure, etc. The pictures are divided into four sections _ coastal vessels, local vessels, fishing vessels, and working boats. The types are too numerous to list but they include the Graveney Boat, a Hulk, the Earliest Three-Masted Ships, and a Hoy of the 18th century. Also the Frigate UNICORN of 1748, an 18th century Revenue Cutter, a Leith Smack, an Armed Transport of the War of 1812 and a 19th century Collier Brig. Others include a Merchant Schooner, the Barquentine WATERWITCH, a London River Sailing Barge of the 18th century, a Mersey Flat of the 19th century, an early Thames Bawley, a Penzance Lugger of the 19th century, a Brixham Trawler of the late 19th century, and a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter of the same period. This book unites up-to-date scholarship and the latest archaeological evidence, with the brilliant artistic technique developed by Lionel Willis.