Proper Deadeye setup
Masthead
The masthead of the HMS Victory in Portsmouth, England, UK.
HMS Victory Main Mast Rigging
Okay, not ALL of the drawings in the 2010 reprint of "The 100 Gun Ship Victory" are poor-quality reprints. This illustration, showing a cross-section of the ship at the main mast and depicting all of the rigging associated with the mast, it's yards, and it's sails, is a prime example of John McKay's talent as a draughtsman.
HMS Victory
Construction du H.M.S. Victory
Indigenous Boats
There are strong but superficial similarities between The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia, a new book by Harri Luukkanen and William W. Fitzhugh, and the 1964 classic The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chapelle. Obviously, there is the title, clearly meant as a respectful acknowledgement of the older work. The two books have the same publisher (Smithsonian), and the same format, both being oversize, printed in black and white…
Painting. [Model of HMS Victory, 1744]. - Oil on canvas, Unsigned, undated, no name cartouche. - Perspective painting at [not 45] degree angle. - In collection of King George III, but not a part of the series of ship model paintings he himself later commissioned. - Ship Establishment design proposed 1733; built Portsmouth Dockyard; technically a rebuild from frames of previous ship Royal James restarted 6 March 1726; launched 23 February 1737; 100 guns 1st Rate; lost in Casquets, English…