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  1. Hi. There is also the below fishing tool which is called "Tie-fast knot tiyer" You can see its uses for ship modeling in the link. My way of seizing Thx
  2. Hi Cristiano. I just visited your build log, and I find your work amazing. Congratulation for your search and certainly for your beutiful model. Thanasis
  3. Hello and happy New year.

    See whether you can find something new-useful in the link (pdf file).

    There is some sources about the ship's base in Samos in page 67 and drawings and  a photo in pages 148-149.

    http://ikee.lib.auth.gr/record/128802/files/GRI-2012-8293.pdf

    Take care

    Thanasis

     

    1. woodrat

      woodrat

      Thanks, Thanasis. The pictures are very useful .

      Dick

  4. Congratulations George. I just show your progect, having stay away from Pcs for the summer and I'm amazed by your scratch building method and the excellent and beautiful result. I'm looking forward to see your work on "Karteria". Thx
  5. Hi. According to my library, Those blind chain plates, seem like additional suport (beneath) for the channels themself. The eyebolts could be fitted for general use...(?). Thx
  6. Many thanks Liste. You are as always much analytic in your explanations. However I must say you set new elements in this discussion for which there are no (I don't have) any information from hystorical Gr texts I've read nor for the total Carron's products to rely on. These are the comertial for merchant use (special or by order I guess) carronade and the gunnade. And although I accept any simple description for the weapon from a ordinary sailor of that time, or from an with less knowledge historian, I don't know how to see this description from an English naval officer, who, I point out again, writes about gunnery results without ful information about the gun or its nationality. In any case, I really thank you all for this discussion which was much enlightening, at least to conclude that I can make only guesses. Thanasis
  7. Thank you all for your participation. I must say that, like in some other threads in this forum, I'm trying to exam infos that are revealed in texts from here and there, about a weapon on a schooner. What was written, is that on the schooner was a "big cannon" or "a heavy gun" or "a 48pdr gun" or "a gun with big caliber" or "a carronade" or "an obusier (howitzer)" and so on. The weapon was set in the prow as chase gun and nothing more. So examing the case of a carronade and as far I know, between 1800-1822 there was not 48pdr carronade but as I recently found, a Spanish 48pdr obusier (howitzer) that was used in Trafalgar naval battle (1805). According to what is written the French answer to a " carronade" was a 36pdr obusier (howitzer) and I don't know I should say, that in this naval battle, the English were refering to French captured "obusier de vaisseau" (naval howitzer), as carronade. Next I'm coming to the use of that weapon. If was a carronad, could be used as chase gun? As I' ve read it was used as unti-personel weapon. Couldn't its small range be a problem as chaser? I also have read that there were many type of carriages for a carronade to be placed on but despite the way, I want also to exam how the Spanish vertion obusier (howitzer) could be operatted. And finaly about the shot (ball) of a 48pdr cannon. No matter what the weapon (48pdr carronade of the text) was loaded with , why on the schooner were shots (balls) of a 48pdr cannon? Many thanks
  8. Thank you Wefalck. So, if I understand well, you also assume that. a. He refers to a carriage that was giving the ability to move the barrel also left or right. b. There should be a deck fitted pivot for securing the carriage and safe fire from the weapon. c.Yes, there was not traversing carriages at that time (1821) and especialy in a schooner, so that carronade coudn't be in a gun port possition. As about the shot, I gather that a 48pdr carronade could fire a 48pdr cannon ball under conditions. Thank you
  9. Hi all again. Sorry, I was waiting the resurrection of my pc to get back... So I pretty please for your help to my following queries about the writing of the text in the first post. a.The writer describing the carronade, specifies that is on a swiver and what we assume, is that he reffers to a mounted pivot-carriage. If I'm not wrong, the carronades were produced mainly on a pivot-carriage and had the ability to move up and down by a screw. So, can we assume that by using the term "swivel", determines that it was placed on a carriage by which had also the ability to move left and right? And if is so, can we consider that this carronade was not placed in a gun port (which it would set limitations) but maybe amidship or in the prow? b. Why the writer again specifies that the carronade was loaded by "a shot (ball) from a 48pdr gun (cannon)"? I'm not familiar but this seems to me that the carronade was loaded with a non proper ammunition, something for its own. Am I right? I would like to have your opinions. Ps: My English can't help me to see the defference between pivot and swivel. Many thanks Thanasis
  10. Thank you all. My last finding might explains everything.... I would appreciate if someone can confirm what I read somewhere that "the French supplied the Spanish with their own French made obusiers". http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHistorica/ArtilleriadeMarina/8-obuseros.htm
  11. Many thanks wefalck. The text it's from a translation since from the hardcover appeare that the book was published in London. The rest of your information are much convinient with what I also tent to belive in my research. However, it seems to me rather inaccurate for a Naval officer and in his "Memoir on the use of..." to reffer to his conclutions leaving ambiguities.!? I would be much obliged if you can direct me to a source, for placing big guns on slides. Thank you Thanasis
  12. Thank you all again. So to get back in the text, this is a part from the "Memoir on the use of shells , hot shot and carcass shells from ship artillery", by Frank Abney Hastings, captain of the Greek steam vessel of war, karteria. London 1828. So, we have an experianced naval officer and also inventer of a 68pdr carronade form for "Karteria", who is exposed (for his knowledge) by publishing his memoir and sets queries.? Why he uses the term "swivel" instead of "pivot".? Why he describes a gun as 48pdr carronade, although there was not such a caliber for carronades at that time.? Wasn't he able to recognise a gun from a carronade.? What should I guess. Thx
  13. Thank you all for the quick response. You confirmed also my doubts about the 32pdr "carronade" in the photo. The photo is from Osprey Publishing "Napoleonic naval armaments 1792-1815" and there is another photo on page 7, for which I would like to read your coments...How a long barrel gun, can defined as "caronade"? Thank you
  14. Hello all. I have found a text and and an image on which I would like to have your comments please. The below text says about a 48pdr carronade on a swivel! Is that posible or it means something else? The below photo is described as a 32pdr carronade and is shown on a swivel. How come this gun is defined as "carronade" and could be a 48pdr carronade attached on a same-similar swivel. Many thanks in advance. Thanasis
  15. All the above that Phil said and just another tip that should also be considered. The storage and the treatment of the tape, every time after the use of it. If you thowing it away (as I used to do), or keep the tape on the bench being hit by other stuf while you are working, the edges of it get curves.Then the dust gets in and you might have weak glued points on the surface of the hull. I use an ordinary masking tape on my models, but to eliminate any misfunction or misstreaement, I create a new strip-edges on an initial strip of it, by using a ruller and a sharp cutter on a plate of glass. Thx
  16. This is my tip, as an example of what you can do following: "My way of seizing" Thx
  17. Many thanks Lieste. I much apreciate your info. I checked the pdf file with "Caruana" (Ctrl+F) but it seems I missed it... Thx
  18. Hi all and Happy New year. Thanks for the file Lieste. Since it's been a previous discussion from which you know I'm interested about 48lib (gun or carronade) could you please give me a source where I can find more about what is written in the pdf file. Professor Robison....“cast over the core”. This meant that hollow shot for the 68-pdr carronade weighed about 48lbs... (Caruana 1997, 168). I couldn't find something about "Caruana" (Captain ?) Many thanks
  19. @Dave. There'll always be a new-better idea. Thx
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