Forty-five magnificent ready-to-color illustrations depict vessels ranging from small, shallow-draft topsail schooners of Colonial times and early sail-and-steam powered ships to modern reconstructions of classic 17th-century vessels. Includes the privateer frigate Bethel (1748), a colonial sloop (1760), the U.S.S. Constitution, the paddle steamer Savannah (1819), the clipper ship Helena (1849), a Nantucket whaler (1850), and more.