Where can I learn more about the duties and life on a ship during the 1600s?

by thevideoclown

Just watched The New World and was wondering how life was aboard those ships that charted for new lands. I want to do extensive research for a project

Yawarpoma

You need to pick up a copy of Pablo E Perez-Mallaina's Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century. Granted, its a bit earlier than you want, but it has the most well researched material on naval life for the Early Modern period.

jschooltiger

For the specific period you're asking about, this is a good resource: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13786

Also, N.A.M. Rodger's "The Safeguard of the Sea" is a good general overview, though its coverage of the 16th century only amounts to ~100 or so pages of the book: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Safeguard_of_the_Sea.html?id=bYO2hAe1Db8C