A Practical Treatise... | The Seventy-four Gun Ship:

It required 2,800 hundred-year-old oak trees and 600 tons of iron and wood bolts.

– Describes how the crew lived, how the ship was maneuvered, and how it was fought in battle. ✨ Essential Statistics The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise...

"I believe that the art of naval architecture in France reached its pinnacle at the time of the American War of Independence... thus I have chosen as my subject a 74, such as were to be found in the French fleet around 1780." — Jean Boudriot It required 2,800 hundred-year-old oak trees and 600

The work is famed for its and detailed sketches of human figures, which provide a clear sense of scale for how a gun crew or seaman's mess functioned. It required 2