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Morgan

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  • Birthday 10/03/1961

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    Hartlepool, UK
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    Maritime History, Model Ship Building, Photography & Astrophotography

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  1. At €1,299.99 AL need to push this through their local stockists outside the EU to keep the cost down. Here in the UK if we import from AL we will pay an extra 20% in customs duty (essentially VAT), plus customs fees from the courier. Could make it prohibitive for some who may otherwise be interested. Gary
  2. Looks the same as the pump configuration for L’Unite, see photo, upper or gun deck and lower or berth deck. Perhaps for expediency they just kept the same pumps. But if this is the fictional Surprise then I’m sure Chain Pumps are mentioned, or perhaps I’m just thinking of the film! Gary
  3. Chris, I’d start a separate thread for this, you’re going to get inundated as all Aubrey fabs start dusting off their books and sift them for clues as to what she looked like according to O’Brian 😁 Gary
  4. We have had a similar enquiry previously, several Trafalgar artists depict Victory with proto-fairleads at the break of the Poop. Unfortunately we arrived at no answer then, but what we can now perhaps say is that their function was military if the above was fitted when a cadet ship and not later as a merchantman. I’d love to see this solved. Below is an extract from Turners Trafalgar from the Victory’s Mizzenmast. Gary
  5. My assumption would be that the ropes from the Capstan would run through the Top Tackle Scuttles up to the Main Yards for performing the heavy lifting operations. Not only boats, but serving the Main and Fore hatches moving loads such as guns, ships stores, as well as upper masting and yards. Gary
  6. Welcome aboard Peter, just down the coast from you at Hartlepool. Has anyone in your group checked for the existence of ships records or logs that may still exist? The Carpenters logs and returns would be the most appropriate as they should record details of painting and consumables used. Probably a long shot but The National Archives and the National Maritime Museum are the best sources. Gary
  7. There is circumstantial evidence that Victory carried crows feet at Trafalgar. The painter Clarkson Stanfield when preparing his ‘Trafalgar’ painting produced a first draft for comment. The commentators in question were Trafalgar veterans including Victory’s captain Hardy. This initial draught showed no crows feet, but the final version included them. This obvious change suggests that this was a correction made on input from those veterans and points to a strong possibility of Victory having them fitted at Trafalgar. Gary
  8. Any chance of adding 1:72 to the boat line-up to compliment some of your legacy kits from your earlier career 😁 Gary
  9. To add to Chris’s point, ships carrying less than 20 guns were ‘un-rated’ and not impacted by the guns -v- carronades -v- total ordnance argument that muddied the rated ship system delineations prior to a total ordnance rating system adopted in 1817. Gary
  10. I’ll follow along, I’ve got this to start at some point and it’s useful to have more than just the YouTube videos to reference. Gary
  11. Dimension ‘A’ in Post #2 or ‘step’ between the Wales and the planking above and below were not that great, they would only be one to two inches (25 - 50mm). On Victory the Black Strakes, those planks above the Main Wale were two inches thinner, as were the Diminishing Strakes, those below the Main Wale, and so on. The higher up the ship the less noticeable the change in thickness with the subsequent strakes and Wales. At a maximum of 50mm difference step change in planking in the scales we generally work at we are talking only 0.5 - 1mm difference, or Dimension ‘A’ in post #2 above. Gary
  12. Incredible Orkney Shipwreck https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg447y13nzo
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