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Me, just now:

Just got the notice, that it's on the way! I'll never finish Vasa II in time ...

Were Harpy's carronades 32-pounders or 24-pounders? Wiki says 32's, but that's a lot of metal for a brig of a fifth less tonnage than a Cruiser to carry.

Volume II just arrived! Huzzah!

You need them. Now.

Cottage Industry Models makes several in 1/8" scale: http://cottageindustrymodels.com/?page_id=141

You gotta listen to something proper while you build her ... "Roll Alabama Roll!"

Brian Lavery redrew a simplified model plan "profile" for the Centurion in Volume 1 of his The Ship of the Line series from the 1980's.

Thanks Mike. I just ordered my copy of Vol 2! The beloved Admiral will not be amused .... I should add that I just checked Abe Books, and used copies of Volume 1 range from about $1.6K to $2.6K ...

I heard that the Ukrainian Navy wants to hire the ship ...

Very interesting, me thinks ...

Sarasota, Florida to Searsport, Maine .... according to Google ... a 1,604 mile commute, taking 24 hours. Do you reimburse for gasoline? I ask because I have a V8 Mustang.

Why would anyone chose 1/86 as a scale these days?

Apple-wood carves very well and is cheap and plentiful. August Crabtree carved almost exclusively in apple.

The HMS Shannon is indeed part of the collection, and is a fifth-rate 38, built in 1806. Asked any modeler to name a ship in the Rogers collection, and 95% will say, if they can, the Fair American, thanks to Modelshipways. As for the Shannon, please ship to 54:20 of this Naval Academy video. That's the HMS Shannon model standing in for HMS Guerriere: Note that he mentions the Minerva. That is in reference to another model shown earlier. He calls her "unidentified", but the catalog says "Shannon", and she was allegedly purchased from the estate of Shannon's captain, Phillip Broke. Hopefully, she is covered as an "unidentified frigate", circa 1812. I think she is the fir-built sister-class of the Shannon, the Eurotas Class of 1812, modified with a victory figurehead. The model has a square tuck stern.

Mike, will the Frigate Shannon and the Brig Fair American be covered in this final volume?

The release has been delayed a few times already since last summer, but on each occasion, I received a notification from the third party called Purple Dot. But just before the date expired I would get a new notice, advising me of the new later shipping date. But January 21-31 has come and gone, and no new notification. So hopefully they are close! Or they gave up ... [joke] ... and moved to Uruguay, which I hear is quite nice. Here's the last: PRE-ORDER REFERENCE: #PD565894 New estimated shipping date Hi stephen, SeaWatch Books has just let us know that the estimated shipping date for your pre-order has changed: Original estimated shipping date: Jan 5 – 7 New estimated shipping date: Jan 21 – 31 Thank you for trusting Purple Dot with your pre-order. You can always change your mind and cancel for free anytime before your pre-order ships here. Thanks, Team Purple Dot

I second Herr Jaager-meister on the US Corvette Jamestown, or her antebellum stable-mates , the Portsmouth, or the Albany, especially in 3/16" scale.

I read that the battery of twenty-eight new French 18-pounders, cast specifically for the Bon Homme Richard, were instead mounted later on the Alliance, and she used them against HMS Sybille in 1783. P.C.F. Smith, in his book The Essex Papers, stated his belief that the Essex was built to a modified plan of the Alliance.

Yet most of the kits and the POF plans are for the American Revolution, or earlier ... 🤔 Can you imagine if Harold Hahn had drawn POF plans for the President, Essex or Hornet, instead?

Was this the same 14-gun brig Boxer that fought the USS Enterprise in 1813?

From the French site Drouot.com. The 28-gun "La Tourterelle", or "The Turtledove" - a wonderful name for a man of war - was captured in 1795 by the 32-gun frigate HMS Lively. While the two ships seem to have been a close match for each other, Tourterelle mounted only 8-pounders on her lower deck, while Lively mounted 18-pounders on hers. But the stubborn frenchman just didn't want to give up, and only struck after heavy casualties. Historian William James reported 18 dead and 25 seriously wounded. Tourterelle reportedly even used an oven to heat hot-shot in the action, but to no avail. The painting, a watercolor wash on paper, ("lavis sur papier") shows her at the conclusion of the action, greatly damaged, have lost much of her top-hamper. Tourterelle was a sister ship to L'Unite' - later HMS Surprise. Her draught survives in the NMM and is, IMHO, the prettiest sloop there, and she and the painting closely agree on all the details! She was broken up in 1816. https://drouot.com/fr/l/10996015 To see a full screen, click the black bar marked, "Voir les Resultats" ("See the results"), then click the four-arrow tab on the left.

Thanks. I had not heard of the Model Shipyard kit. I do hope Ancre comes out with a Corvette L'Unite/La Tourterelle (later HMS Surprise) monograph. It would sell rather well.

I was just wondering, which kit or commercial plans is ZHL pirating with their 1/48 HMS Surprise kit? That stern doesn't look anything like AL's offering... not that I would buy from a pirate company. https://www.ebay.com/itm/255287475365?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110013%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIMRXI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D258801%2C257689%26meid%3D2aefa5a7f1c04873a4e97957198a1c14%26pid%3D101196%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D395047281386%26itm%3D255287475365%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D4429486%26algv%3DPromotedRVIPbooster&_trksid=p4429486.c101196.m2219&amdata=cksum%3A2552874753652aefa5a7f1c04873a4e97957198a1c14|enc%3AAQAIAAAA8JsbtOKd5uIU0OgsJNCgXCNi9myTAUM6pp1nmm4btdf5dERa5LwsuAyzqy1g%2FLfFz7rodarwgPl8iPfFNjhm%2B4y0UGJYL1Y4IT1zRL6fV1YOCDvZ61H6Pwl7us7XBHYnQdUEleRzFwo76MQAf3kQVFCZzptxghdEAJcSQD0Nr0QcpW5QrYH5a8AMuKmkftgcLsg8hnPu4edMHozjF9Dlxwl93QELBDhum8Zz%2BFQFhLCd%2Fghe7T3z1j07FtwDxbHXPVx7DqKnkWak5iKudT9os9bxMMCN4XP5VTx6N8OuCdeMVuGfqTaPmMinubxrWUNwWg%3D%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A4429486

Delayed another month, alas ... 😥