Brown, Anthony Gary (2006). The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels. McFarland & Company. ISBN0-7864-2482-6.
Steel, David (1794). "The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship". San Francisco Maritime National Park Association. Diakses tanggal October 31, 2014. Detailed manual of seamanship which is especially useful for its descriptions and illustrations, pp.236–42, of the varied and obscurely-named types of sailing ships encountered in the novels.