Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623
EAN num: 9780851778945
ISBN number: 0851778941
Label: Conway Maritime Press
Manufacturer: Conway Maritime Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 120
Printing Date: 2003-08
Publishing house: Conway Maritime Press
Sale Popularity Level: 809106
Studio: Conway Maritime Press
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The Pandora was a 24gun Sixth Rate built at Deptford in 1779. The 20 and 24gun classes were the smallest regularly commanded by a Post Captain and they were consequently known as post ships; they were also the smallest frigate--built ships on the Navy List. The Pandora is best known for her voyage to Tahiti which was undertaken to bring back the Bounty mutineers. Fourteen of them were captured at Tahiti but four of them were drowned when Pandora ran aground on 29 August 1791 on the Great Barrier Reef on her return journey. The surviving ten were eventually brought back to Portsmouth and court-martialed. Three of them were hung. The site of the wreck was discovered and has been extensively excavated by a team led by Ron Coleman.
The 'Anatomy of the Ship' series aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published. What makes the series unique is a complete set of superbly executed line drawings, both the conventional type of plan as well as explanatory views, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history.
John McKay is an architectural draughtsman who lives in Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada. He is also a ship enthusiast and model-maker who has turned his professional skill to good use in the service of his hobby. Ron Coleman is Curator of Maritime History and Archaeology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. He oversaw several seasons' excavation on the wreck site of the Pandora.
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Of the seven books in the Anatomy of the Ship that I own I think the 24-Gun Frigate Pandora is the best. The drawings seem more complete and are of a higher quality than the draughts in the other books I have. Especially nice were the cross section drawings in 1/144 scale and the isometric drawings of the hull (no scale). A real plus for the model builder is the 8 pages of rigging schedule that give cable/rope dimensions along with the size and number of blocks/hearts/deadeyes etc. associated with them for both the standing and running rigging. Very nice! I only wish all of the books in this series were as well done as this one.
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I currently own eight books of the Anatomy of the Ship series and have looked at several others. John McKay's HMS Pandora is the best of the lot. The drawings are beautifully drawn and reproduced and the book is composed in a very intellegent manner. The same comments con be made for Mckay's The Armed Transport Bounty but the Bounty in a less interesting ship.
I found the HMS Pandora an interesting subject because much is known about her and she represents the most minimal ship that could be an at all effective frigate in her era.
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