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Reading & Study Material

 

2009 Renaissance Symposium - The Renaissance Sailor Class Presentation By Tom Riggins

 

The Renaissance Sailor Class Notes & Timeline handout

Required Reading:

Privateers of the Dauntless - Orientation And Reference Manual
This links will download a compressed zip file  with all the chapters, look at the table of Contents .doc fisrt.

Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Angus Konstam

Training Pack - From Golden Hind Site: 
with permission from the Golden Hind Site in Brixham Harbor, Brixham, Devon,UK
Download .pdf files
Download .doc files
Download Complete Student pack with cover sheet.  (single word file)
All of these links will download a compressed zip file  

Recommended Videos:

The Maritime History Virtual Archives

Gun Drill Video  (from the US Navy USS Constitution site)

Suggested Reading

Seamanship in the Age of Sail

Complete Riggers Apprentice by Bryon Toss.

History of ships and other Research  by Capt. Elias Gedney

Medicine and the Navy,1200-1900. Vol.1, 1200-1649 by Keevil, John Joyce

Encyclopedia Britannica volume III printed in 1771
has entries for "medicine" from page 58  to 169.  Reproduction copies of the three volume set
are not that hard to find.  Other entries of medical interest, i.e. midwifery (205 to 245) and
surgery (641 to 879) for example are also included in that volume.

The Renaissance  Compendium - Money Basics

Scottish Captains - Admiral Sir Andrew Barton - Perhaps this inspiration for all this!

Nautical Dictionary

Selections from The Arte of Shooting in Great Ordnaunce by William Bourne (1587)


Sailing Ship Armament
 

Information Links for Training -

How to take Soundings - A Lesson by the Ships Master Mr. Smee

Cannons and Gunpowder

Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French Warfare, 1337-1360
By Timothy J. Runyan
American Neptune v.46 (1986)

Faire Names for English Folk

History of Piracy

Sea Grammar

History of Sugar

History of Chocolate

History of Ships

Ye Old Book of Seas Dogs

Scurvy Dogs - The Golden Age of Piracy!

Great Ships and their Origins

History of Warrant Officers in the US Navy

16th Century Military History Books

The Ship of the Line - Mid 17th Century Ships

HMS Dauntless - History

National Parks Service - Piracy, Privateering & Elizabethan Maritime Expansion

Gráinne O'Malley - Famous Female Irish Pirate of the 1500's

Piracy, Privateering & Elizabethan Maritime Expansion

Pirate Links!

Pirates Life - Dead men tell no tails - Some interesting info and links!

Pirate Ships - A site with more Pirate information and links!

Pirates - Historical Perspective

Pirates of the Caribbean

Heritage Film Services

Terminology

Find your Pirate Name

Spanish Gold - Coin Value

18th Century Currency and Exchange Rates

Spice Trade and Value

Nautical sounding lead