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Charles I`s authoritative and intolerant rule as monarch, and the unpopular Ship Money tax which he initiated, were instrumental in creating the most splendid and controversial warship in English history. She was the grandest venture hitherto created, remarkable for her size, beauty and heavy armament. Even her name, the Sovereign of the Seas, suggested pride and pomp. Designed and built by Phineas Pett, and ably assisted by his son Peter as Master Builder, her keel was laid in December 1635 at Woolwich Royal Dockyard. She was safely launched in October 1637.
Her graceful lines are a delight to any ship modeler. Her description and history are intriguing. Very little is known about her. Many authors have praised and applauded her. She remains an enigma – a puzzle for subsequent historians. Each successive researcher quotes the facts previously published.
The author, James H. Sephton, has been engrossed for many years in the self appointed task of researching and compiling a definitive history. Original paintings, drawings and models are elucidated. Her size in term of tonnage, a description of her decorative carvings and rigging is described. Her history in the various actions during the Dutch Wars is discussed. There are accompanying plates, drawings, maps, lists and tables. This present study, therefore, contains much hitherto unpublished material. It is preserved as a record for posterity. It is also a dedication to the efforts of naval historians past, present and future.
- Sales Rank: #3008169 in Books
- Published on: 2011-05-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .95" h x 7.09" w x 9.81" l, 1.48 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
An unreadable book - too many trees and no wood.
By Squirr-El
I have been interested in the ships and naval wars of the seventeenth century for forty years, and so I bought this book hoping for an interesting read. Unfortunately, I didn't find one. Despite having been reading on the subject for so long, I found this book to be written in jargon. There is no Glossary of the nautical terms used - for example
P38: "She was steered, not with a whipstaff, as was the Vasa, but with relieving tackles. Such takles rove from either side of the tiller to convenient eye bolts to port and starboard. By hauling away on one fall, and slackening off on another, the rudder could be controlled. The relieving tackles may have been similar to gun tackles. Each relieving tackle was probably a simple two-block three-fold purchase, viz. a luff or a jigger tackle". Now, I can understand what he is trying to convey here, even if I have no idea what a luff, jigger or a fall is, though I can guess what is meant by rove.
P48 "A sailor stands on the stock hooking a single sheave block cat-tackle rove from the single sheave in the cat-head above, to the bow of the anchor." And P135: "The bunt was farthelled against the mast, the bottom of the bundle was brought down to the top and the clues lifted up horn-wise to the yard". This is now heading towards gibberish for the uninitiated.
P48: "The crossjack yard is rigged with a square sail, which would of course, have fouled the projecting forward end of the mizzen yard and sail, and so cause its ineffectuality..." Is `ineffectuality a proper word? There are several more instances of the author using words that sound good, but are likely to be either inappropriate or downright wrong.
P145: "Blake took to the sea in the Sovereign in the lead, followed by his flagship, the Resolution of eighty-eight guns, and several other warships". Which ship is Blake in? Did anyone proof-read this book?
P37: "She was paid, or served, with a homogenous mixture of linseed oil, turpentine and Stockholm tar. Rosin and brimstone was added to the mixture to prevent fouling." These sentences are in amongst paragraphs describing the gilding of the ship - was this stuff used to `paint' the ship around the gilded areas? A hundred pages further in, there is mention of the hull below the waterline being `paid' with a similar substance
The author's descriptive powers leave a lot to be desired also, for example, on page 53, describing a portrait - "Peter Pett's countenance depicted as calm and dignified. The deep forehead and grave eyes are characteristic of the intellectual. The long, supple, well-groomed hands are rather effeminate. Except for the thick wrists and pronounced veins in the back of each hand, they could be mistaken for a woman's. The plain black velvet coat suggests the folly of assuming that Peter Pett may have been a priest or a clerk. The long, natural uncurled hair, and the crushed, semi-stiff collar, suggests that he has just left the dockyard and donned the black velvet to conceal his soiled garments. Perhaps this painting was done at the dock side, when Peter Pett could afford respite from his work." That's not how painters worked in the 17th century, and it shouldn't be how writers work in the 21st.
P157: "On 25th July 1666 (St. James' day), both fleets were thirty-six miles off Orfordness, with the wind at N.N.E. Then followed the action of the St. James Day Fight. This is also known as the Battle of the Gunfleet, North Foreland and also Orfordness. Thus we have some indication that the action was fought off the Thames estuary. This was a justifiable threat to London". This is ridiculous, in more ways than one. The biggest threat to London between the Civil War and the Blitz was Bonnie Prince Charlie. The Dutch, French and Spanish never considered a naval attack on London, as they could never have got there. The Thames is not easily navigable to hostile fleets; the Dutch only reached the Medway because of allegedly disaffected English pilots helping them, and they didn't even venture into the Thames proper.
On pages85 and 86 the Author describes the figurehead of the Sovereign as being of King Edgar with his vassal Saxon kings, including those of "Scotland, Anglesey with the Isle of Man and Hebrides, Galloway, North, South and Middle Wales". Do I need to comment?
The author has gathered together a mass of information relating to the Sovereign of the Seas, sorted it into relevant chapters and appendices, and failed to analyse it. There are no references to sources for any fact or claim, so no-one can use this as a reference work. There is no mention of the relationship between the Prince, the Sovereign, and the Naseby, for instance, in the development of what came to be the line-of-battle ship. His descriptions of the naval wars in the narrative chapters read as if he has picked out a number of facts from various histories and pasted them together. There is no credible narrative. Many of his early chapters consist of short statements of fact. There is no sense of understanding the relevance or relationship of facts, as could be demonstrated by putting those shorter sentences together in a larger one that links those facts and shows their relationship and draws conclusions from them.
The chapters are
P017: Phineas Pett's Early Career
P027: A Great Ship is Born
P045: Some Original Drawings, Paintings and Models
P071: Her Size Calculated in Tonnage
P085: A Description of her Decorative Carving
P098: The Nature and Disposition of her Armament
P118: Her Masting and Rigging
P139: The English Civil War 1642-49
P143: The First Anglo-Dutch War 1652-54
P152: The Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665-67
P164: The Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672-74
P176: The War of the English Succession 1689-97
P187: Appendices
P245: Bibliography
P252: Index
The book does contain an excellent selection of illustrations, and if you are a modeller looking for detailed information, then this book will be perfect for you. However, if you really want to understand the `meaning' of the Sovereign of the Seas in relation to the Royal Navy and shipbuilding of the time, then read Frank Fox's `Great Ships', available from all good libraries. For an understanding of the Anglo-Dutch naval wars, see his `The Four Days' Battle'.
Further reading:
Great Ships: The Battle Fleet of King Charles II
The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail
A Distant Storm: The Four Days' Battle of 1666 - the first edition of this book, profusely illustrated in colour.
The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century (Modern Wars In Perspective)
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Three Stars
By G. SLOCK
Nice in time & good quality
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A subject I've been looking for, for ages.
By robert lewis
Well written of the naval architecture of the 17th century. It also cover a good deal, and in detail, of the art of ship building of that period.
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