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Book: Ship Models

This is a fascinating history of ship models and of how and why they were built.
It is also enhanced by several fine verses as chapter starters.
The original was published by Country Life but the poems are taken from the reprint by Conway Maritime Press

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  • A Ship In A Bottle
    In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,
    Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,
    62 lines, 2 comments
  • Coasting Brigantine - Unnamed
    I rather think they built her in some good old-fashioned yard
    That smelt of pitch and sawdust and of hemp rope newly tarred,
    43 lines, 2 comments
  • The Fighting Téméraire - Bone Prisoner Model
    No tusk from trackless jungle brought,
    No bone of slaughtered whale
    43 lines
  • Ex-Voto Breton Church Model
    Once on a day a Paimpol man
    Promised a ship to the good St. Anne . . .
    39 lines
  • Sailor's Picture Model
    Yonder she sails on her paper sea —
    Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —
    49 lines
  • Royal Yacht
    Samuel Pepys, as all men know,
    Loved ladies and ships in the long ago;
    51 lines
  • The First Ship
    This is the ship the Man built . . .
    In time's grey dawn, by the unsailed sea,
    46 lines
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