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Sails in red, yellow and blue stripes, with trees behind. Gouache by Francesca, 1973.
Francesca, active approximately 1974.Date: 17.11.73 [17 November 1973]Reference: 2928362iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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An universal dictionary of the marine: or, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a ship. Illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping, in different Situations: Together with separate Views of their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases, collected from the works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. By William Falconer, Author of the Shipwreck.
Falconer, William, 1732-1769.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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An universal dictionary of the marine: or, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a ship. Illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping in different Situations; Together with separate Views of their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases collected from the works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. By William Falconer, Author of the Shipwreck.
Falconer, William, 1732-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An universal dictionary of the marine: or, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction, equipment, furniture, machinery, movements, and military operations of a ship. Illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping, in different Situations; Together with separate Views of their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases, collected from the works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. By William Falconer, author of the shipwreck.
Falconer, William, 1732-1769.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A treatise on the theory and practice of seamanship: containing general rules for manœuvring vessels, with a moveable figure of a ship, So planned that the Sails, Rudder, and Hull may be made to perform the Manoeuvres according to the Rule laid down. To the above is added A Miscellaneous Chapter on the various Contrivances against Accidents, and a system of naval signals, The whole forming A useful Compendium to the Officer, to Instruct him when Young, and to Remind him when Old. the second edition, corrected and enlarged. By Richard Hall Gower, in the service of the Honourable East India Company.
Gower, R. H. (Richard Hall), 1767-1833.Date: 1796- Books
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The art of sail-making, as practised in the Royal Navy, and according to the most approved methods in the merchant service, accompanied with the parliamentary regulations relative to sails and sail cloth. Illustrated by numerous figures, with full and accurate tables.
Steel, David.Date: 1796- Pictures
A three-master boat with sails furled. Drawing by W. Hine, 1967.
Hine, W., active approximately 1967.Date: 27.2.67 [27 February 1967]Reference: 2982879iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Cleopatra setting fire to the sails of a ship . Etching by F. Chauveau., 1648.
Chauveau, François, 1613-1676.Date: 1648Reference: 42964i- Books
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Trimming the sails : the comparative political economy of expansionary fiscal consolidations : a Hungarian perspective / István Benczés.
Benczes, István Zsolt, 1974-Date: 2008- Pictures
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A balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36407i- Pictures
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A large flying machine with sails and propellers is travelling over a town. Colour lithograph by W.L. Walton.
Date: March 28th 1843Reference: 36678i- Pictures
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A boat sails towards a floating vision of Ganesh as a child. Engraving by an Indian artist, 1800s.
Reference: 583005i- Pictures
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The Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, with the sails of a ship in the distance. Coloured engraving by Angus after Tomkins, 1801.
Tomkins, Thomas, 1792-1808.Date: 1 January 1801Reference: 25348i- Books
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An Act for the more effectual securing the duties now payable on foreign-made sail cloth imported into this kingdom; and for charging all foreign-made sails with a duty; and for explaining a doubt concerning ships being obliged at their first setting out to sea, to be furnished with one complete set of sails made of British sail cloth.
Great Britain.Date: 1746]- Pictures
A red sailing boat with white triangular sails fore and aft, and a red spinnaker in the middle. Watercolour by S. Lawrence, 1966.
Lawrence, Stephen A., active approximately 1966.Date: July 66 [July 1966]Reference: 2992710iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The melancholy narrative of the distressful voyage and miraculous deliverance of Captain David Harrison, of the sloop, Peggy, of New York, on his voyage from Fyal, one of the western islands, to New-York, who Having lost all his Sails in a long Series of hard Weather, and entirely exhausted his Provisions, lived two and forty Days without receiving the least Food, till he was happily relieved by the Humanity of Capt. Evers of the Susanna, in the Virginia Trade. - In this Narrative the Expedients which Capt. Harrison and his Men made Use of for their Subsistence are particularly set forth, who twice cast Lots for their Lives, and were to have killed the second Man on the very Morning they were providentially taken up. - The Whole being authenticated in the strongest Manner, by repeated Depositions, Before the Right Hon. George Nelson, Esq. Lord-Mayor of the City of London, and Mr. Robert Shank, Notary Public. Written by himself.
Harrison, David, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Pictures
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A flying boat devised by Franciscus Lana, with sails and balloons attached to it, and with three men as passengers. Engraving after J.C. Sturm, 1789.
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: 1st. March 1789Reference: 36652i- Books
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The ship-Builder's assistant; or, marine architecture. Containing I. Decimals, the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, also Geometry and Mensuration: With Rules for finding the Content of Plank and Timber, also the Tunnage of Ships, illustrated by proper Examples. II. Observations on the nature and value of timber, and how to procure it in the necessary Forms for Shipbuilding. III. The methods of drawing plans of ships, and moulding their Timbers; with the practical Rules to be observed in building the Hulls of different Ships: To which is added, the Scantling or Dimension of Ships Timbers. IV. Directions for making masts and yards in just proportion to the ship, and to each other. Also Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to the New Establishment. V. The boatswains art: Shewing the Method of finding the Length and Thickness of every Rope. Also Cable and Cordage Tables, shewing by Inspection the Weight of any Rope. With Directions for Cutting out Sails. The whole revised, corrected, and illustrated with many copper-plates. By William Sutherland, Shipwright and Mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 671401i- Books
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An excellent garland, containing I Additional songs in Inkle and Yarico. 2. The revolution and gun powder plot. 3 God save the King. 4 The top-sails sliver in the wind
Date: [1790?]- Books
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Marine architecture: or, the ship-builder's assistant: containing directions for carrying on a ship, from the first laying of the keel, to her actual going to sea. Shewing, I. The Proportions used by Experienced Ship-Wrights in Building, both Geometrically and Arithmetically performed. Also the Making, Marking, and Ordering a Bend of Moulds: With a large Table of the Square Root, and Directions concerning the Measuring of Ships. II. Directions for Masting and Yarding of any Ship, or making both in a just Proportion to the Ship, and to one another; both as to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to a new Establishment. III. The Boatswain's Art; or an Essay upon Rigging: Shewing how to Rigg a Ship, or to know the Length and Thickness of every Rope exactly; with Cable and Cordage Tables, to know, by Inspection, the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness is given, and the Construction or Making of the said Tables; with some Directions for cutting out Sails. The whole illustrated with schemes and draughts, to render it intelligible to all capacities.
Date: M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]- Pictures
To the left by a tree Daphnis stands and plays a flute whilst Chloe sits holding a robin; behind them are green fields, apple trees and a green sea with two galleons with red sails. Gouache by Brenda Marshall, 1956.
Marshall, Brenda, active approximately 1956-1958.Date: 11/12/56 [11 December 1956]Reference: 3001940iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The ship-Builder's assistant; or, marine architecture. Containing I. The method of extracting the square and cube roots, geometry and mensuration: Wherein all the Rules necessary for measuring Plank, Timber, and finding the Tunnage of Ships, are laid down in a very plain and conspicuous Manner; and illustrated by proper Examples. II. Observations on the nature and value of timber; with a New Method of procuring it in the necessary Forms for Ship-Building. III. The method of drawing the plans of ships, and moulding their Timbers; together with all the practical Rules necessary to be observed in Building the Hulls of all Sorts of Ships. To which is added the Scantling or Mensuration of Ships Timbers. IV. Direction for making the masts and yards of a just proportion to the ship, and also to one another, both with regard to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to the New Establishment. V. The boatswains art: Shewing the Method of finding exactly the Length and Thickness of every Rope; Also Cable and Cordage Tables, shewing by Inspection the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness are given. With some Directions for Cutting out Sails. The Whole illustrated with Figures and Draughts, Engraven on Copper Plates. By William Sutherland, Shipwright and Mariner.
Sutherland, William, active 1878.Date: 1766- Pictures
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A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.
Reference: 38999i- Books
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To the Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament. The humble proposals of John Legg, engineer, relating to his new invention of fire-shot and fire-arrows, which being shot out of a piece of ordinance, paterrero, or musket, infallibly sets the enemies ships sides, sails, and rigging, &c. in a flame.
Legg, John, engineer.Date: 1705?]