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Nautical Research Guild
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If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.
HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 by Chuck - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - kit prototype
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
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From The Navy and Army Illustrated, Volume 7, Issue 119 (April 22, 1899), "April 24, 1810.--The 10-gun cutter "Surly," and "Firm," gun brig, chased ashore the French privateer "Alcide," at the mouth of a river on the coast of France, sent in their boats and brought the ship out a prize." The action, which actually occurred on 20 April, was apparently recorded in Boat Service Actions Roll ADM 171/3 and took place in Granville Bay, Grenada. There was a letter included in the Gazette from Lt. Welsh, commanding Surly, to Rear-admiral D'Auvergne, describing the action, but Welsh does not describe Surly's armament. The 1899 report must therefore have taken Surly's armament from a different source. Given that some 89 years had passed since the 1899 recital, perhaps the source material drawn on was misquoted or incorrect, or perhaps the long guns were omitted in the count. Winfield, in British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817, cites 2x4-Pounders and 10x12-Pound Carronades, although I don't happen to know the source. Winfield further states that Surly was reduced to 8 guns after 1818(?). Perhaps of value...