Acquisitions - Pirate Project - A book!

The acquisition of reference material could well be one of my favorite aspects of any project and quite possibly the reason I never seem to finish anything. However, for this project I'm going to try and stop at two books of which the first one arrived over the weekend:

"The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution" by Karl Heinz Marquardt. 

Its really on obliquely related to the Pirate Ship project since the Sophie's Revenge comes from a much earlier sailing era. They both, however, use sails! Close enough! This is really a bit of a fun reference the Black Seas project but that's another tale to be told.