English Merchant Vessel at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century

From the model of an "English Merchantman of the size and date of the Mayflower", built by R. C. Anderson for the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Mass. Courtesy of the Marine Research Society

Plate 2

An English Merchantman of 1655

Showing the Rigging Plan. From Miller's Complete Modellist. Courtesy of the Marine Research Society

Plate 3

A Dutch Ship of about 1620

From Furttenbach's Architectura Navalis, 1629. Courtesy of the Marine Research Society