Figureheads of the Royal Navy /
The first figureheads that were carved to represent the names of British warships appeared during the reign of Henry VIII. The last ones were carved in the early years of the twentieth century. During the intervening three hundred and fifty years, it is estimated that some 5000 ships of the Royal Na...
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
Seaforth Publishing,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Ship names and the figurehead carvers' task
- Figurehead carvers
- Figurehead and associated collections
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figureheads
- Eighteenth-century figureheads
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : beasts
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : birds
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : famous people
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : geographic
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : miscellaneous
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : from mythology
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : occupations
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : prize and commemorative names
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : qualities
- Nineteenth-century figureheads : royalty
- Bow decorations and twentieth-century figureheads
- Conclusions.