The rigging of ships in the days of the spritsail topmast 1600-1720,

by Roger Charles Anderson

blue hardcover with green dust jacket

Genres: Maritime

278 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1982

About the author

Roger Charles Anderson, FSA, was an independently-wealthy English maritime historian, collector, and a leading figure in the early years of the Society for Nautical Research and of the Navy Records Society. Four times editor of the Mariner's Mirror, Anderson was also a founder trustee, and later chairman of the board of trustees, of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and held the higher Doctor of Letters degree.