American-Built Packets and Freighters of the 1850s: An Illustrated Study of Their Characteristics and Construction (Paperback)

from LMHTWB

American-built packets and freighters of the 1850s is a stunning book. The author William L. Crothers has gathered detailed information and drawing on these ships in one very information-dense volume. The amount of details is amazing. Care to know the overall size, composition, and dimensions of ...

from ZechariahStover

Wow! A very detailed book delving into minute details of American made wooden Packets and Freighters. Hundreds(168 according to the publisher) of ink illustrations showing and comparing details of different ships. The book specifically focuses on 67 ships for which considerable detailed informati...

from icadams

William Crothers has written an extraordinarily detailed analysis of how Packets and Freighters were being built in the Americas. While this isn't easy reading, Mr. Crothers writing style makes the technical easy, and it doesn't read like a manual. For anyone doing historical analysis, research f...

from worcester

This is an exhaustive reference work on the working sailing vessels of the mid-19th Century American merchant fleet. It features stunningly detailed illustrations, tables and narrative descriptions of the building materials and designs of the freighters and packets of the period. Specific chapter...

from elenchus

Impressive scholarship and presentation: reading Crothers' Illustrated Study amounts to peeking in on a masters class on shipbuilding, not as student but auditor. In two hours' selected reading, a sense of what was overall possible can be had circa 1850 (Crothers positing it as the peak of wooden...