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Are those early war Nashorns, oder Panzerhaubitzen?
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Essex had two 12's on the forecastle, two on the quarterdeck (the aft-most port?) and two on the main deck, probably at port number seven (amidships), as implied by the gunner's and carpenter's post-action damage report. Essex's "long guns" were actually rather small, they being only about six feet long (Columbiads? This I read a long time ago in an English sea ordinance treatise from circa 1850), so they wouldn't have been too much of an encumbrance on the quarterdeck. So I'm guessing that they ran the main-deck gun pair No. 7 all the way aft out the cabin windows, and ran one of the quarterdeck guns out a taffrail port.
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Sultana first. Planking over that solid hull will be fun.
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M3 Lee Tank by CDW - Miniart - 1:35 Scale - FINISHED
uss frolick replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Great job! Are those Thompson submachine gun drum-mags on top of the 75mm ammo rack? -
Anyone wishing to prepare for an Indy project might wish to purchase this excellent new biography of her most famous captain, Sir Edward Pellew, "Commander" https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Stephen-Taylor/dp/0571277128/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TI3L8HC1BLJH&keywords=Edward+pellew&qid=1651878285&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sprefix=edward+pellew%2Caps%2C70&sr=1-1 Or this new study of all the midshipmen on board the Indefatigable at the time of her famous battle against the 74-gun Droits de L' Homme, "Hornblower's Historical Shipmates: The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable" : https://www.amazon.com/Hornblowers-Historical-Shipmates-Gentlemen-Indefatigable/dp/1783270993
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Paper on the carronades from US Navy schooner Shark 1821
uss frolick replied to bruce d's topic in Nautical/Naval History
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That is beautiful! I especially like the crane irons and sweep storage. Clearly it would not have been easily possible to mount an extra pair of cannon on the quarterdeck with them in place. I think your model answers that mystery. Well done! Huzzah!
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Treasure Galleon La Nuestra Señora de Atocha, 1620
uss frolick replied to davos522's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Here's a very lengthy archeological pdf paper on the wreck site from the Fisher Museum. Very technical. But there is a model shown on page 104 and it looks completely different. Several interesting drawings of the guns, midship section, etc, follow that. https://www.melfisher.com/Research_Archives/AtochaMargarita2016-2018PermitRenewalReportv2019-01-14_Redacted.pdf -
When the author says a swivel, I think he mean a single, large, centrally-mounted pivot-carriage. Chances are too, that the unusual-weight 48-pounder is not of a true carronade pattern, but a short-barreled siege howitzer. Where is that picture from? It is so misidentified! And why is such an important historical piece outside in the elements?
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Here's an interesting article with pictures about the restoration of the Indefatigable's bust figurehead at the Liverpool Museum. It's a later Indy, a boys maritime training schoolship circa 1848, from our historical one above, but it shows, perhaps, what decor might have been used to describe "one who never tires" ... In this case, King William IV, or "King Billy". https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/indefatigable-figurehead-restoration
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If they removed them, then why bother to carefully draw them on the draught? I believe that they were left in place until the next major refit. They loved to taunt the enemy as well. So many “as fitted” plans show that the sometimes heavy French carvings have been retained, like the Frigate L’ Immortalite. When the RN refitted the damaged American Frigate Chesapeake in 1814, the were so proud of their capture that they actually replaced the Undamaged billet head with a full length figurehead of a woman representing America, wearing a Stars and Stripes cape!
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Lost voices from HMS Guerriere: Court Martial testimony.
uss frolick replied to uss frolick's topic in Nautical/Naval History
FYI Update, Connie fans. I just received my copy of the epic, coffee-table catalog book, "Glasgow Museum: The Ship Models", and there are several color photographs of a French prisoner of war bone-model of the Frigate "La Guerriere". It was reportedly made by the crew members whilst in a British prison. It seems correct, with enough main deck gun-ports for thirty long eighteen pounders - a unique feature of Gurrierre - a full figurehead, a five windowed stern with detailed, period-appropriate carvings and the name under her windows.
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