Title: Figureheads of the Royal Navy /
Authors: Pulvertaft, David.
Date: 2011
Publisher: Seaforth Pub.,
Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Contents: Ship names and the figurehead carvers' task -- Figurehead carvers -- Figurehead and associated collections -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figureheads -- Eighteenth-century figureheads -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : beasts -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : birds -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : famous people -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : geographic -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : miscellaneous -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : from mythology -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : occupations -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : prize and commemorative names -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : qualities -- Nineteenth-century figureheads : royalty -- Bow decorations and twentieth-century figureheads -- Conclusions.
Subject headings (LCSH): Figureheads of ships--Great Britain--History.; Figureheads of ships--History.; Great Britain. Royal Navy--Lists of vessels.; Ship decoration--Great Britain--History.; Ship decoration--History.; Warships--Great Britain--Registers.