Publications

National Historic Ships’ publications on conserving, recording and deconstructing vessels.

These downloadable documents have been commissioned by National Historic Ships to help historic vessel owners deal with a number of technical and sustainability issues.  You are free to copy them, but please quote the source if you reproduce them.

Copyright for all documents remains with National Historic Ships.

 Understanding Historic Vessels

 Recording Historic Vessels  Deconstructing Historic Vessels  
Recording Historic Vessels  Deconstructing Historic Vessels  

 Annual Reports and Forward Plans

 Annual Report, April 2007 - March 2008  Annual Report 2006-07  Forward Plan, 2008-2011
 Annual Report, April 2007 - March 2008
 Annual Report 2006-07  Forward Plan, 2008-2011

half frame:

an assembly of half floor, futtock(s) and/or top timber which extends from roughly the centreline to the sheer