Recommended Reading
Certainly not an exhaustive list. (Last updated 17 September 2007)
Hms Beagle: The Story of Darwin’s Ship
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War: 1650-1850 by Peter Goodwin
The Anatomy of Nelson’s Ships by C. Nepean Longridge
The 74-Gun Ship Bellona by Brian Lavery
The 24-Gun Frigate Pandora 1779 by John McKay, Ron coleman
British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-Line by Angus Konstam, Tony Bryan
Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars by Robert Gardiner
The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History by Rif Winfield
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture by Fredrik Henrk af Chapman
Feeding Nelson’s Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era by Janet MacDonald
Patrick O’Brian’s Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey’s World
