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Table of Contents of
Merchant sailing ships, 1775-1815; sovereignty of sail

by
David R. MacGregor


© 1985 Naval Institute Press

Reproduced 2001 with permission of the publisher

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CONTENTS


PREFACES						  7


CHAPTER I: INVENTION AND TRADE


Introduction						 11												 
Shipbuilding						 12
The engineer						 15
The British Navigation Laws				 17
Various ocean trades					 19
Trade to India and the East				 23	



CHAPTER 2: SQUARE RIG AND FORE AND
AFT 1775-1793


Classification of hull-form				 29
Masts, sails and rigging in three-masted vessels	 44
The Earl of Pembroke and shipbuilding at Whitby
and on the north-east coast				 57
Contemporary appraisal of ship design			 64
Design and construction of three-masted vessels		 69
Two-masted square-rigged vessels			 81
Schooners						 92
Vessels with one or two masts				 99



CHAPTER 3: SQUARE RIG AND FORE AND AFT	REFERENCES
1793-1815	


West Indiaman of 330 tons				109
Hilhouse of Bristol					115
Brocklebank of Whitehaven				119
Shipbuilders in the north of England			127
Steele & Carswell of Greenock				134
Brigs and brigantines					136
Colliers						139
Some brigs compared					146
Appraisal of American design				149
Two-masted schooners					151
Three-masted schooners					157
Ketch or galleas and galliot				160
Single-masted craft					167
Sliding-keels and centreboards				170



CHAPTER 4: EAST INDIAMEN


Ships of the Honourable East India Company		173
Design appraisal of East Indiamen			186
The regular ship Farquharson				195
Passages in the Farquharson				202
Extra ships and the Coromandel				205
Later life of an Indiaman				206

APPENDICES						209
REFERENCES						212
SOURCES				                216
INDEX							218

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