About the Author

Karl Heinz Marquardt is an internationally known modeller and marine artist who has models in some eleven European museums as well as in Australia where he has lived since the 1960s. He is an exceptional draughtsman and is a regular contributor to the Conway journal Model Shipwright. He has also written a number of titles including his earlier German work on the schooner Schoner in Nord und Sud together with a number of books on the Conway list including Captain Cook's Endeavour and HMS Beagle in the 'Anatomy of the Ship' series and the highly-successful Eighteenth Century Rigs and Rigging.