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Table of Contents of
Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850: supremacy of sail

by
David R. MacGregor


© 1984 Naval Institute Press

Reproduced 2001 with permission of the publisher

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CHAPTER 1: THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY
1815-1850

Protection of trade and shipping 			  9
Protection of shipbuilding				 13	
Lloyd's Register of shipping				 16
Appraisal of early iron shipbuilding			 18
Alterations in tonnage measurement			 19



CHAPTER 2: SQUARE RIG AND
FORE-AND-AFT 1815-1835
					
Preservation of records					 21
Books on naval architecture by Hedderwick and		
Richardson						 22
Sails and rigging					 26
Topsails on the doublings: a Dutch three-masted
galliot							 30
Hilhouse, Hill & Co of Bristol				 35
Adams of Buckler's Hard					 35
Bayley of Ipswich					 40
Annesley's laminated construction			 41
Alexander Hall of Aberdeen				 41
Robert Steele & Co of Greenock				 45
Deck arrangements					 46
Colliers and other brigs				 49
Hedderwick's schooner Glasgow and her rig		 55	
Adoption of schooner rig				 62
One and two-masted rigs					 63
Alexander Hall's sloops and smacks			 72
Three-masted schooners					 74
T & J Brocklebank and the barquentine Bonanza		 74
The Baffin and other whalers				 80



CHAPTER 3: SQUARE RIG AND
FORE-AND-AFT 1835-1850	

Introduction						 88
James Geddie and the Arab				 90
Alexander Hallo's ships					 93
Alexander Stephen of Arbroath and Dundee		 96
T & J Brocklebank and other shipbuilders of
northwest England					100
Wooden shipbuillding in southern and
south-western England					105
Shipbuilders in Canada					111
Some brigs compared					112
Barquentines						122
The Violet and other brigantines			123
Polacres						130
The schooner Victoria					134
Other schooners						139
Ketch, galleas, cloop and barge				142
Iron ships and the John Garrow				147
Wire rigging						150
John Grantham						153
Iron construction in small vessels			153
American ship design					159
Conclusions						160




CHAPTER 4: PASSENGER FRIGATES AND
PACKET SHIPS 1815-1850

Successors to the East Indiamen				161
North Atlantic packets					163
The Seringapatam and other early passenger frigates 	170
Frigates of the forties					176
The Marlborough and Blenheim				178


APPENDICES						182
REFERENCES						184
SOURCES					        187
INDEX							189

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