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Black-and-white photographs and engravings, including of ship models for older types, round out the description. Since 1998, each volume has carried a large-scale plan on the reverse of the fold-off dust jacket. According to its producers, the series ‘aims to provide the finest documentation of individual ships and ship types ever published.
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool , then moved to the Menai Strait during World War II .
The 44-Gun Frigate, USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides”: Anatomy of the Ship, Conway (2005) ISBN 1-84486-010-8; The Global Schooner: Origins, Development, Design and Construction 1695-1845, Conway Maritime Press (2003) ISBN 0-85177-930-1; HMS Beagle, Survey Ship Extraordinary: Anatomy of the Ship, Conway Maritime Press (1999) ISBN 0-85177-703-1
Conway has also produced the books to accompany James May's Toy Stories and the Dan Snow-presented Empire of the Seas, both aired on the BBC. The latter book, written by Brian Lavery, would become a No. 2 Sunday Times Bestseller. In April 2010, Conway attained the book rights to Bruce Parry's Arctic adventure, broadcast on BBC2 later in the ...
HMS Conway (school ship) was a training establishment set up in 1859 aboard the second HMS Conway. This vessel was replaced by two others: HMS Winchester was HMS Conway from 1861 until 1876, when she was renamed HMS Mount Edgecombe. HMS Nile was HMS Conway from 1876 until 1953 when she ran aground and broke her back. The wreck burned to the ...
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Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. fore-and-aft) and its shape, (e.g. (a)symmetrical, triangular, quadrilateral, etc.).
HMS Conway was a Conway-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy, built by Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 February 1832. [1] She was lent to the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool in February 1859 to act as a training ship for boys, and gave her name to HMS Conway, ultimately a series of three ships and then from 1964 to 1974 a shore-based school.