The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy
Understanding the Seventeenth-Century Warship
The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy
Understanding the Seventeenth-Century Warship
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Description
A comprehensively researched and beautifully illustrated history of the design of the ships of Charles II's Navy, using reconstructed architectural plans based on contemporary records.
The Royal Navy of the late seventeenth century was the greatest enterprise in the country, and in 1677, with Samuel Pepys as Secretary of the Navy, the House of Commons voted to fund the building of 30 new ships, the largest single shipbuilding project up to this point. This new history by award-winning naval historian Richard Endsor describes the history of this great endeavour, and seeks to recreate architectural plans of these ships based on detailed measurements and calculations left behind by Edmund Dummer, an assistant to master shipwright Sir Anthony Deane and later Surveyor of the Navy from 1692 to 1699.
Using Dummer's surviving notebook, supported by the official specification dimension list for the ships, large-scale, artistic drawings and several surviving models, The Lost Ships of Charles II's Navy contains dimensioned and accurate architectural plans for several named ships alongside numerous other illustrations, including contemporary Van de Velde drawings of the ships.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gloucester
Chapter 2: London
Chapter 3: The Thirty New Ships
Chapter 4: Captain
Chapter 5: Windsor Castle
Chapter 6: Dutchess
Chapter 7: Grafton
Chapter 8: Essex & Kent
Chapter 9: Berwick
Chapter 10: Burford
Chapter 11: Elizabeth & Hope
Chapter 12: Dummer's Last Surveys
Chapter 13: The History of Dummer's Ships
Chapter 14: Shipbuilding
Chapter 15: Thomas Fagge's Third-Rate Ship
Appendix: Scantling List
Endnotes
Index
Product details
| Published | Jun 04 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781472866707 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | More than 200 ships' plans and colour illustrations. |
| Series | General Military |
| Short code | GNM |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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