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Oars for boats
st george replied to Maury S's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
Hi Maury, You might find this web page helpful: https://sites.google.com/site/shipwrightsfaq/smf-qoars -
USS Midnight?
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1715 - Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida. 1775 - Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England. 1865 - The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time. 1871 - The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. 1941 - Japanese aircraft bomb USS Tutuila (PR-4) at Chungking, China; First Navy ship damaged by Axis during World War II. 1944 - Naval Task Force lands Army troops near Cape Opmarai, New Guinea. 1945 - Japanese submarine, I-58, sinks USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in Philippine Sea; 316 out of 1199 crew survived. 1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff. 1964 - US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam.
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1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane 1945 - U.S. warships bombard Hamamatsu, Japan. 1967 - Fire on board USS Forrestal killed 134 members of the crew.
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Darryl, Great looking model in both scales.
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That's Her, Well done Spyglass. I didn't think it would be that hard. Your turn
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1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I. 1854 - USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, is commissioned. 1915 - Sailors and Marines land in Haiti to restore order. 1945 - USS Callaghan (DD-792) is last ship sunk by a Japanese kamikaze attack, off Okinawa.
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Not the Minnedosa. Second name began with the letter L
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1549 - The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan. 1714 - Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet. 1720 - The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy. 1862 - Sailing from San Francisco, California to Panama City, Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231. 1987 - RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
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Todays clue: She was built by Barclay Curle & Company.
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Not Arabis class.
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Next clue: She had two names First began with M
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There were another five builders in Whiteinch, as well as Ritchie Graham & Milne.
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1758 - British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg. 1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo. 1912 - First airborne radio communications from naval aircraft to ship (LT John Rodgers to USS Stringham). 1945 - HMS Vestal (J215) is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War. 1945 - The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb. 1954 - 3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.
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Not Begonia or HMS Sir Bevis.
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Not BD 21 or BD 22.
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Next clue. She was built in Whiteinch,Glasgow.
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1609 - The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. 1779 - Amphibious expedition against British in Penobscot Bay, ME 1898 - Landing party from armed yacht Gloucester occupies Guanica, Puerto Rico. 1934 - First President to visit Hawaii, Franklin D. Roosevelt, reaches Hilo on board USS Houston 1943 - Launching of USS Harmon (DE-72), first ship named for African-American. 1956 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collide in a heavy Atlantic fog off the island of Nantucket on the New England coast. Fifty-one passengers and crew were killed in the collision, which ripped a great hole in the broad side of the Italian vessel Andrea Doria all 1,660 survivors were rescued from the ship before it sunk late the next morning. 1959 - SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours. 1990 - USS Cimarron rescues 25 refugees adrift southeast of Subic Bay, Philippines.
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Time for a clue I think. She was launched in 1917.
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Very nice figurehead Bob
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1813- Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia. 1915 - The steamer Eastland overturns in the Chicago River, drowning between 800 and 850 of its passengers who were heading to a picnic. 1944 - Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian. 1963 - The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol. 2009 - The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
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Hi Jan, I got my information from here: http://www.shipscribe.com/marvap/211b.pdf
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1759 - Keel of HMS Victory (100) laid down at Chatham Dockyard 1805 - HMS Champion (24), Cptn. Robert Howe Bromley, and consorts engaged a French flotilla off Fecamp. 1810 - Boats of HMS Belvidera (36), Cptn. Richard Byron, and HMS Nemesis (28), Cptn. Ferris, took Bolder (8) and Thor (8) and destroyed a sloop near Studtland, Norway. 1947 - First Navy all jet squadron (VF-17A) receives its first aircraft (FH). 1948 - USS Putnum (DD-757) evacuates U.N. team from Haifa, Israel and becomes first U.S. Navy ship to fly the U.N. flag. 1950 - USS Boxer sets record crossing of Pacific to bring aircraft, troops, and supplies to Korea at start of the Conflict 1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571) departs Pearl Harbor for first submerged transit of North Pole.
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Not without the clues you gave. Next up. Good luck
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Between the post and the windlass looks to be the windlass pawl.
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