Images of Shipbuilding

Shipwrights drafting plans.

From Fragments of Ancient Shipwrighting, Matthew Baker (16thC)

Original is in the Pepys Collection, BPC Picture Library.

The construction of a ship (the fish picture).

From Fragments of Ancient Shipwrighting, Matthew Baker (16thC)

Original is in the Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.

Drawing of a Spanish Frigate designed to carry treasure from the West Indies to Spain.

By Pero Menendez Marquez (16thC)

Original is in the Public Record Office, England.

Illustrations of ships from The Anthony roll of Henry VIII's navy. (click ship for more.)