Scott Bradner’s pages on ship modeling

 

member: USS Constitution Model Shipwright Guild

 

 

Flying Cloud – information relating to the American clipper ship Flying Cloud built by Donald McKay

 

Articles on Ship research and ship modeling tools and techniques by Scott Bradner

 

Rigging related material (articles, rigging lists, rope color & types, etc.)

 

Useful Documents:

Booklet on the Donald McKay clipper ship Great Republic with detailed plans of the ship

Description of the Largest Ship in the World, The New Clipper Great Republic of Boston, Designed, Built and Owned by Donald McKay by Duncan McLean - 1853

Comprehensive tables of rigging for Naval and merchant ships about 1800

Rigging tables from David Steel’s 1794 book Elements of Mastmaking, Sailmaking and Rigging

Comprehensive tables of masting and rigging for early 1800s U.S. Navy ships

Tables Showing the Masts and Spars, Rigging and Stores, etc. of Every Description, Allowed to Different Classes of Vessels Belonging to the Navy of the United States – Peter Force 1826 (PDF)

            Boston Daily Atlas

Duncan McLean published many articles in the Boston Daily Atlas between 1850 and 1857 about ships launched in Boston or elsewhere in New England.