st george

Hi Maury,

You might find this web page helpful:

https://sites.google.com/site/shipwrightsfaq/smf-qoars

USS Midnight?

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.
 

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.

Darryl,

Great looking model in both scales.

That's Her,

Well done Spyglass. I didn't think it would be that hard.

Your turn

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.
 

Not the Minnedosa.

Second name began with the letter L

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.

Todays clue:

She was built by Barclay Curle & Company.

Not Arabis class.

Next clue:

She had two names First began with M

There were another five builders in Whiteinch, as well as Ritchie Graham & Milne.

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.

Not Begonia or HMS Sir Bevis.

Not BD 21 or BD 22.

Next clue.

She was built in Whiteinch,Glasgow.

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.

Time for a clue I think.

She was launched in 1917.

Very nice figurehead Bob

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.

Hi Jan,

I got my information from here:

http://www.shipscribe.com/marvap/211b.pdf

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.

Not without the clues you gave.

Next up.

Good luck

Between the post and the windlass looks to be the windlass pawl.