Description
Book SynopsisIn 1625, Martin de Arana built six Atlantic warships for the Spanish crown. The author traces the ships from their construction through a decade of service, incorporating a history of Spain's Golden Age. This book was awarded the Spain and America in Quincentennial Year of Discovery prize.
Trade Review"Sea buffs will love it. This book will interest specialists in Spanish and maritime history and general readers who are interested in the sea. The illustrations and maps are excellent... A systematic exposition of the techniques of Spanish shipbuilding and the costs and problems associated with it, made vivid and immediate by the author's description of the construction, equipping, and financing of the six galleons of the title. History "Handsomely produced and illustrated... The six galleons built for the king by Martin de Arana in the royal shipyards at Zorozza in the Bilbao estuary were the products of a long and distinguished tradition of Spanish shipbuilding, well summarized by Phillips. Isis
Table of ContentsMaps and Illustrations
Tables
Preface
Chapter 1: Challenge and Response
Chapter 2: Spanish Shipbuilding and the Contract of Martin de Arana
Chapter 3: The Construction of Arana's Sex Galleons
Chapter 4: Reckoniing the Cost
Chapter 5: Preparations fo rthe Indies Fleet of 1629
Chapter 6: Officers and Men
Chaper 7: Shipboard Life
Chapter 8: The Struggle for the Indies, 1629-1635
Chapter 9: The Struggle of Survival, 1635-1640
Appendix A: Inventories of the Six Galleons Built by Martin de Arana
Appendix B: Some Weights, Measures, and Coinage in Use in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Appendix C: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index
