Reply To: A treatise on shipbuilding: and a treatise on rigging, written about 1620-1625.

[Wayne Tripp]

Sam –

While there is not a large body of published material concerning shipbuilding from the early 17th century, there is some. For example, Richard Barker published A Manuscript on Shipbuilding, Circa 1600, Copied by Newton in the Mariner’s Mirror, 80(1), 16–29 (1994). In addition, there is also Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrighty from the Pepysian Library, apparently written by two men (Mathew Baker and then it is believed to have been added to by John Wells of Deptford Dockyard) in the period 1570 – 1630, and bound in its present form by Pepys some 30 or more years later.