methods and constraints however, and for thi s reason the method taken from the standard shipbuilding manuals, and repeated here, probably does not really show how these brigs and schooners were usually built in Maryland and Virginia. Contemporary accou nts and recovered ev idence from the period indicate a simpler way that was in common use, especially among the shipbuilders in smalI or makes hift yards who were not trained in (or did not have the time for) the intricate lofting and building process as it is presented by the author. I would differ with his applying the highly refined techniques of lofting great ships to the simpler processes involved in transferring designs to flitches of ship timber in the early days of the American Republic. Recent archaeological evidence on the brig Niagara of this period, among others, has tended, I believe, to bear out my point of view that only a few frame stations were set up, and thereafter futtocks were simply shaped to fit planking (or ribands) set up along those frames. Of course, different people remember the same scenes differently, as the law courts constantly show us, and I remember some incidents in the building of the first Pride in an improvised shipyard in the Inner Harbor differently from my colleague Mr. Gi llmer. Much useful construction and sailing experience has been gathered in the building of the two Prides and in the nearly 200,000 sea miles sailed by these two Baltimore clippers - handsome ships, forw hichMr. Gillmer may well be proud and well remembered. More can and wi ll be written on the wealth of experi ence now avai lable from their extensive sailing, and knowledgeable critics w ill catch a few glitches that slipped pas t the editor's eye in this pioneering account. But Mr. Gi llmer's authoritative and richly illustrated work deserves a place o n every maritime bookshelf.
sonAZ85751 , 1991 , 133pp, maps,plans, illus; $15pb plus $1.75 s&h, USA) This useful volume contain s a selection of thirty-seven papers relating to underwater archaeo logy, each presented at the Society fo r Historical Archaeology's 1991 Confere nce in Richmond, Virginia. Topics cover a wide range of subjects, including submerged terrestrial sites, wharves, canals, shipwrecks, cultural resources management (including legal perspectives), education, survey and excavation, as well as research and analysis. The geographical range of the papers reaches from the origins of the American shallop to the burial grounds of the Russian galley fleet of 1714. Printed on an annual basis, Unde1water Archaeological Proceedings offers regular reporting of work at new and existing archaeological sites in a handy volume valuable to scholars and laymen alike. KH Up Periscope! and Other Stories, by Alec Hudson (Naval Institute Press, 1992 repr, 248pp; $ 19.95) A reprint of six yarns that appeared in the old Saturday Evening Post in the years immediately before World War II, these tales of derring-do reflect a loyal Navy man 's view of how our ships, men and weapons would work "just before the war that we'd been unknowingly prepari ng for throughout our naval history," as Captain Edward L. Beach says in an appreciative fo reword. Captain Beach came to know Captai n Jasper Ward, the former naval officer behind the Hudson pen-name, who was retired early from the Navy for reasons of health, but who stayed in touch and arranged fo r bottles of fine whiskey to be delivered to skippers returning from successful war patrols. That tells yo u a good deal about the man and thi s fine book set in another age. PS
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