Books With Ship Plans Included

[exwafoo]

Hi  All,

There's been a bit of talk over plans, their availability, cost and so on. I thought I'd start this thread to help out. I've listed a few books with plans in them, some are only page sized, others are full blown pull outs. The Authors are all well respected and some quite famous in the modelling world for their drawings. A search of the various pre-loved book sites (Abe books, Book Depository, The Wordery, etc,) may help locate them. Brown, Son and Ferguson still publish a number if Santa can help.

Title	Author	Publisher	Plans, etc
How to Make Old Time Ship Models	EW Hobbs	Brown, Son & Ferguson	Full Size Water Line Carrack circa 1450 Full Size Ark Royal, Flagship of Walter Raleigh Full Size Royal Albert, circa 1700
How to Make Clipper Ship Models	EW Hobbs	Brown, Son & Ferguson	Large detailed plans of Loch Torrens (4 masts) Waterline plans for Cutty Sark
Masting & Rigging the Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier	Harold A Underhill	Brown, Son & Ferguson	Numerous Illustrations of Clippers and rigging Plans
Deep-Water Sail	Harold A Underhill	Brown, Son & Ferguson ISBN 0-85174-172-X	Numerous Illustrations of Clippers and Pull Out Plans by the Author
The Last of the Windjammers	Basil Lubbock	Brown, Son & Ferguson	Vol 1 – 126 Illustrations, 17 Plans Vol 2 – 174 Illustrations 16 Plans Plans are ‘Pull out’
The Merchant Schooners	Basil Greenhill	Conway	Numerous Illustrations and Plans, well suitable for working at SIB scale
The Tea Clippers – Their History and Development 1833-1875	David R MacGregor	Naval Institute Press	Numerous Illustrations and Plans, well suitable for working at SIB scale
The Schooner – Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present	David R MacGregor	Chatham Publishing	Numerous Illustrations and Plans, well suitable for working at SIB scale

 

 

Alan

Edited November 26, 2016 by exwafoo

[Shipbuilder]

Also:

The sailing ship series by David R MacGregor.    (Late 1700s to 1875, in several books)

Schooner Sunset by Douglas Bennet.   (Numerous plans of ketcches, schooners, brigantines and barquentines).

Most of these old books can be found on http://www.bookfinder.com

Bob

[Landlubber Mike]

Some other recommendations:

The Story of Sail from Laszlo and Woodman is a great book for basic plans of ships throughout history (dozens of plans).  Great resource for ship in bottle modelers, as at the SIB scale, you don't need as much detail as found in 1:48 plans.

A.F. Chapman's Architectura is a treasure trove of great plans.

Howard Chapelle's books are fantastic with lots of plans.  

The SeaWatch books are great too.  Sometimes harder to find them used, but if you don't mind spending retail, the books are fantastic.  I recently bought the one on Dutch ships, which has plans for a number of vessels:

https://www.seawatchbooks.com/ItemDisplay.php?sku=114003

[Shipbuilder]

I have seen the Laslo book, got one from the library just to see what it was like.   But as far as the 19th century sailing ships were concerned, their hull shapes left a lot to be desired, so if they got them wrong, they may well have got the earlier ones wrong as well, but I don't know much about medieval types, so couldn't say!       Same with the Hobbs book, his plan of the Loch Torrens, known to be based on the Loch Torridon, is way out!       David R. MacGregor books are really superb, as most of the plans are from shipbuilders, or copied directly from them, and are all first class.    Harland & Wolff book by Tom McLuskie is also very good, but sadly, a lot of the plans are printed across the central spine, thus rendering them almost useless.

Bob