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(More customer reviews)Richard Endsor's The Restoration Warship is the result of a decade's research and writing. Endsor is a trained aerospace engineer with long experience in analyzing technical issues. He also has been studying the records and the archeology of Britain's early imperial fleets for decades. The Restoration Warship is the result. The book give a reader a lot more than the simple story of a ship. It really is a window into the British monarch Charles II's Thirty Ship Programme which was one of the first modern naval building efforts where standards of key parts were regulated and organized. In addition inventories of large -arts and key portions of the logistical structure which was to support a century of War with France were put in place. The political background is sketched and the trail through the UK's national archives are both painted in carefully. The author also uses his remarkable artistic talent to illustrate the life and times of HMS Lennox which was a 70 gun third rate line of battle ship. The constellation of national talent around this fleet, which included Samuel Pepyss, among others as well was extraordinary. The book is richly illustrated and beautifully produced. Its drawbacks are the relatively small print--the readers here are one suspects a bit more myopic than they used to be as baby boomers--and the presentation and arrangement of the superb drawings from which a model builder of serious student of the ship might attempt a model. These are both sepia colored which makes details a bit harder to extract and placed inside the book's text as foldouts--an end-pocket might have been a better solution. That said this is a wonderful book which could well be at the carpenter's elbow should the English ever decide to match the Dutch and build a replica of these ancestor's of the Victory. It is laden with dozens of data wells for everything from Boats to Ordnance, and is already a well traveled source for details large and small on the Royal Navy of the era from 1660 to 1690. My copy was found on Amazon at a price which matched the publisher's institutional discount. It was certainly worth the price Tobias R. Philbin.
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Superbly researched and expertly illustrated, this study offers one of the most detailed building and career histories of a ship ever written, the third rate of Charles II's Restoration Navy. The author focuses on HMS Lenox, a 44-gun two-decker third rate built in 1677 during the Anglo-Dutch Wars and also in response to Louis XIV's massive naval expansion program. After twelve years of research and writing, the author provides a comprehensive history of seventeenth-century ship design and construction techniques and the armament and fitting of the vessel. He offers a broad picture of the day-to-day workings of the Deptford dockyard where the Lenox was built and details of the techniques, trade, and tools of the shipwrights along with a keen insight into the workings of a naval administration under Samuel Pepys. 200 color & b/w illustrations.
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