The Anatomy of the Ship series of book

Book

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s are comprehensive treatments of the design and construction of individual ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s. They have been published by Conway Maritime Press (now Conway Publishing

Conway Publishing

Conway Publishing, formerly known as Conway Maritime Press, is a division of Anova Books, a London-based independent publishing group.- History :Conway Maritime Press was founded independently in 1972...

) since the 1980s, and republished in the US by the Naval Institute Press.

About the series

Each volume begins with a general history of the vessel, as preface to a set of detailed scale drawings showing every part of the interior and exterior, from keel to masthead. Black-and-white photographs and engravings, including of ship model

Ship model

Ship models or model ships are scale representations of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding people....

s for older types, round out the description. Since 1998, each volume has carried a large-scale plan on the reverse of the fold-off dust jacket.




According to its producers, the series ‘aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship’s service.’




The ships chosen are a mix of famous vessels, such as HMS Victory

HMS Victory

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....

 and Yamato

Japanese battleship Yamato

, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing...

, and less-famous ships that are well-documented representatives of their class (HMS Bellona

HMS Bellona (1760)

HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century...

, Lawhill

Lawhill

The Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the topgallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century...

).

Classification

The series is divided into two distinct – yet broadly encompassing – categories, identified by colour coding. Firstly, those presented in a yellow-and-silver themed dust jacket relate to ‘non-motor-propelled’ ships. This group tracks the development of ship design from The Ships of Christopher Columbus, through to the end of the age of sail (those designed or constructed approximately up until the 1860s), such as the HMS Beagle: Survey Ship Extraordinaire, 1820-70, by Karl Heinz Marquardt.




Ships thereafter, powered by steam and screw propulsion, are represented in silver-and-blue themed dust jackets. These include submarines, the Japanese World War II vessel, The Battleship Yamato, by Janusz Skulski, and The Aircraft Carrier Victorious, by Ross Watton.

Index

Title	Author	Year	ISBN
The Flower Class Flower class corvette The Flower-class corvette was a class of 267 corvettes used during World War II, specifically with the Allied navies as anti-submarine convoy escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic...  Corvette Agassiz HMCS Agassiz (K129) HMCS Agassiz was a of the Royal Canadian Navy. She was ordered from Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. in North Vancouver, British Columbia and laid down on 29 April 1940. She was launched on 15 August 1940 and commissioned on 23 January 1941...	John McKay and John Harland	1993	ISBN 0851779751
The Naval Cutter Alert, 1777	Peter Goodwin	2003 (Revised Edt. 2004)	ISBN 0851779689
The Submarine Alliance HMS Alliance (P417) HMS Alliance is a Royal Navy A-class, Amphion class or Acheron class submarine, laid down towards the end of the Second World War and completed in 1947...	John Lambert, David Hill	1986	ISBN 085177380X
The Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni Bartolomeo Colleoni was an Italian Condottieri class light cruiser, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. It was named after Bartolomeo Colleoni, an Italian military leader of the 15th century....	Franco Gay, Gay Valerio	1987	ISBN 0851774539
HMS Beagle HMS Beagle HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom in which...  Survey Ship Extraordinary, 1820–1870	Karl Heinz Marquardt	1997	ISBN 0851777031
The Cruiser Belfast HMS Belfast (C35) HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum....	Ross Watton	1985 (Reprinted 2003)	ISBN 0851779565
The 74-Gun Ship Bellona HMS Bellona (1760) HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century...	Brian Lavery	1985 (Reprinted 2003)	ISBN 0851773680
The Schooner Bertha L. Downs	Basil Greenhill, Sam Manning	1995	ISBN 0851776159
The 20-Gun Ship Blandford	Peter Goodwin	1988	ISBN 0851774695
The Armed Transport Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny that occurred aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789, and has been commemorated by several books, films, and popular songs, many of which take considerable liberties with the facts. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the...	John McKay	1989 (Reprinted 2001)	ISBN 0851775022
The Destroyer Campbeltown HMS Campbeltown (I42) HMS Campbeltown was a "Town"-class destroyer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was originally an American destroyer , and, like many other obsolescent U.S. Navy destroyers, she was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. Campbeltown...	Al Ross	1990 (Reprinted 2004)	ISBN 0851779972
The Royal Yacht Caroline, 1749	Sergio Bellabarba, Giorgio Osculati	1989	ISBN 0851774962
The Ships of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...  (Niña Niña La Niña was one of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage towards the Indies in 1492. The real name of the Niña was Santa Clara. The name Niña was probably a pun on the name of her owner, Juan Niño of Moguer... , Pinta, Santa María Santa María (ship) La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción , was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage. Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa.-History:... )	Xavier Pastor	1992	ISBN 1844860140
The Frigate Diana HMS Diana (1794) HMS Diana was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794.On 7 March 1815 HMS Diana was sold to the Dutch navy for £36,796...	David White	1987	ISBN 0851773567
The Battleship Dreadnought HMS Dreadnought (1906) HMS Dreadnought was a battleship of the British Royal Navy that revolutionised naval power. Her entry into service in 1906 represented such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of...	John Roberts	1992 (Reprinted 2001)	ISBN 085177895X
Captain Cook's Endeavour HM Bark Endeavour HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771....	Karl Heinz Marquardt	1995 (Revised Edt. 2003)	ISBN 0851778968
The Destroyer Escort England USS England (DE-635) USS England , a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign John C. England , who was killed in action aboard the battleship during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941...	Al Ross	1985	ISBN 0851773257
The 32-Gun Frigate Essex USS Essex (1799) The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a 36-gun or 32-gun sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War, and in the War of 1812, during which she was captured by the British in 1814 and served as HMS Essex until sold at public auction on 6 June...	Portia Takakjian	2005	ISBN 0851775411
The Fairmile D Fairmile D motor torpedo boat The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British Motor Torpedo Boat designed by Bill Holt and conceived by Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy....  Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Torpedo Boat was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the Royal Navy, and the Royal Canadian Navy.The capitalised term is generally used for the Royal Navy boats and abbreviated to "MTB"...	John Lambert John Lambert (naval historian) John Lambert is a naval illustrator and historian. He specialises in naval boats up to destroyer size. The information he presents and his detailed drawings of warships and their weapons systems are referenced from official naval and shipbuilder sources....	1985 (Revised Edt. 2005)	ISBN 184486006X
The Battleship Fusō Japanese battleship Fuso The Japanese battleship Fusō , was a part of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the lead ship of the Fusō-class. She was laid down by the Kure Kaigun Koshō on 11 March 1912, launched on 28 March 1914 and completed on 18 November 1915...	Janusz Skulski	1998	ISBN 0851776655
The Escort Carrier Gambier Bay USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) USS Gambier Bay was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was sunk in the Battle off Samar after helping to turn back a much larger attacking Japanese surface force....	Al Ross	1993	ISBN 1557502358
The Bomb Vessel Granado, 1742	Peter Goodwin	1989	ISBN 0851775225
The Battlecruiser Hood HMS Hood (51) HMS Hood was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. One of four s ordered in mid-1916, her design—although drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction—still had serious limitations. For this reason she was the only ship of her class to be...	John Roberts	1982 (Reprinted 1989,2001)	ISBN 085177900X
The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid USS Intrepid (CV-11) USS Intrepid , also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle...	John Roberts	1982	ISBN 0851779662
The Four Masted Barque Lawhill Lawhill The Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the topgallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century...	Kenneth Edwards, Roderick Anderson, Richard Cookson	1996	ISBN 0851776760
The 24-Gun Frigate Pandora HMS Pandora (1779) HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her... , 1779	John McKay & Ron Coleman	2003 (Revised Edt.)	ISBN 0851778941
The Liner Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...	Ross Watton	1989	ISBN 0851775292
The Destroyer The Sullivans USS The Sullivans (DD-537) USS The Sullivans is a Fletcher-class destroyer. She is the first United States Navy ship to be named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on...	Al Ross	1988	ISBN 0851774768
The Susan Constant Susan Constant Susan Constant, captained by Christopher Newport, was the largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company on the 1606-1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia.-History:Susan Constant was rated at 120 tons. Her keel length is estimated at 55.2 feet... , 1607	Brian Lavery	1989	ISBN 0870215833
The Heavy Cruiser Takao Japanese cruiser Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers, designed to be an improvement over the previous Myōkō-class design. The Myōkō had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Takao design....	Janusz Skulski	1994 (Reprinted 2004)	ISBN 0851776280
The Type VII U-boat	David Westwood	1984 (Reprinted 1986)	ISBN 0851773141
The Type XXI U-boat	Fritz Kohl, Eberhard Rossler	2002	ISBN 0851779220
The Aircraft Carrier Victorious HMS Victorious (R38) HMS Victorious was the second Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme. She was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939...	Ross Watton	1991 (Reprinted 2004)	ISBN 0851779964
The 100-Gun Ship Victory HMS Victory HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....	John McKay	1987 (Reprinted 1995)	ISBN 0851777988
The Battleship Warspite HMS Warspite (1913) HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the British Royal Navy. During World War II Warspite gained the nickname "The Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943....	Ross Watton	1986 (Reprinted 2004)	ISBN 0851779212
The Battleship Yamato Japanese battleship Yamato , named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing...	Janusz Skulski	1988	ISBN 0851774903
The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution USS Constitution USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...	Karl Heinz Marquardt	2005	ISBN 1844860108
The Battleship Bismarck German battleship Bismarck Bismarck was the first of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the German unification in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched nearly three years later...	Jack Brower	2005	ISBN 0851779824
The Athenian Trireme Trireme A trireme was a type of galley, a Hellenistic-era warship that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.The trireme derives its name from its three rows of oars on each side, manned with one man per oar...	Doug McElvogue	(not published)	ISBN 1844860256
The Mary Rose Mary Rose The Mary Rose was a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a...	Doug McElvogue	(not published)	ISBN 1844860388