THE MASTER SHIPWRIGHT’S SECRETS
£65
Richard Endsor, Osprey
This outstanding book won a special Mountbatten award for the best illustrated book of the year. Its focus is the re-building of the fourth-rate ship , under the guise of a repair – a deception hatched between Charles II and master shipwright John Shish at Deptford. The central ‘secret’ is an extremely rare document where Shish sets out precise numerical values for the rising and narrowing
