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Table of Contents of
The Mayflower and other colonial vessels

by
Willliam A. Baker


Reproduced 2001 with permission of the publisher, Naval Institute Press

© 1983

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Author's Note and Acknowledgements                       vii
Introduction                                              ix
1. Seventeenth-Century Naval Architecture                  1
   A. General                                              1
   B. Rig                                                  5
   C. Form and Construction                                7
2. Early Colonists - The Mayflower                        25
   A. Introduction                                        25
   B. History                                             27
   C. Dimensions and Lines                                31
   D. Arrangement and Construction                        37
   E. Masting and Rigging                                 44
   F. Building and Trials                                 54
3. Small Craft - The Pilgrims' Shallop                    65
4. On Pinnaces                                            75
5. A Coastal Trader - A Colonial Bark c1640               95
6. The Colonial Ketch                                    119
Summary                                                  145
Plans for Model Builders                                 147
Appendix A - The Mayflower's Boat                        150
Appendix B - Rigging Specification; drawings of blocks,
deadeyes and parrels; plans for 1/8in scale model
of Mayflower II                                          152
Notes                                                    170
Glossary                                                 174
Bibliography                                             179

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