The Book of Old Ships

Sixty ships from four thousand years — Egyptian galleys, Viking dragons, carracks, xebecs and clippers — each with its original full-page pen-and-ink plate and the story of how it sailed.

Late Fifteenth Century Ship

2 pages in this part of The Book of Old Ships.

Late Fifteenth Century Ship

LIKE nearly all other branches of archaeological research, the branch dealing with the ship has, within the last fifteen years, made very…

Late Fifteenth Century Ship: Santa

It is highly improbable that the original Santa Maria had a square tuck such as has been given her by her modern Spanish reproducer, or…

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