Introduction                                                                                6

Ship Models                                                                               9

Shipbuilding models                                                                     9

Navy Board models                                                                  10

Block and half-block models                                                     14

Display models                                                                          15

Votive models                                                                           26

Sailor-made models                                                                  26

Prisoner-of-war models                                                             29

Dieppe ivory models                                                                 31

Modern models made by amateurs                                            35

Navigational Instruments                                                            37

Direction finding and recording instruments                                37

Calculating longitude through astronomy                                    42

Instruments for the determination of latitude                                49

Fixtures and Fittings                                                                  65

Figureheads                                                                              65

Gear, furniture and fittings                                                          70

Naval weapons                                                                         84

Marine Arts and Crafts                                                              89

Scrimshaw                                                                                89

Shell-work                                                                                95

Sailors' wool-work pictures and embroidery                              95

Prisoner-of-war work, 1795-1815                                            95

Marine decorative arts                                                             102

Ship Portrait Painting                                                               113

Techniques                                                                              113

France and the Roux family of ship painters                              114

The Mediterranean painters                                                     118

British ports                                                                            119

Belgium                                                                                   123

The Netherlands                                                                      125

Germany                                                                                 126

Scandinavia                                                                             126

America                                                                                  126

The Far East                                                                           127

The ships                                                                                127

Ocean Liner Artefacts and Ephemera                                      133

Caring for Marine Collectables                                                139

Ivory and bone                                                                        139

Ship models                                                                            139

Instruments                                                                             140

Mercury barometers                                                                141

Globes                                                                                    141

Wool-work pi cture s                                                              142

Oil paintings, watercolours and drawings                                  142

Marine Collections open to the Public                                      143

Australia                                                                                 143

Canada                                                                                   143

Denmark                                                                                 143

Finland                                                                                    144

France                                                                                    144

Germany                                                                                 144

Great Britain                                                                           145

Italy                                                                                        150

The Netherlands                                                                      151

Norway                                                                                  151

Portugal                                                                                  151

Spain                                                                                      151

Sweden                                                                                  152

United States of America                                                         152

Bibliography                                                                            155

Photographie Acknowledgements                                            156

Index                                                                                      157

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