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Ooo ooo! Let me guess! Grecian? -
Fascinating analysis of the perfectly preserved USS Johnston shipwreck, showing multiple Japanese shell hits, and a missing stern section.
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I had heard about this privateer and wondered what she looked like. I was thinking perhaps the "four masted ship" was like the Continental Frigate Hancock, which had a small lateen steering sail on her taffrail mounted ensign staff! But nope. This is a true four master! Lovely. And wow. I think the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era ships were amongst the most beautiful men of war ever built.
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I ask only because Hurricane Ian took down several large such trees in our neighborhood!
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So by frigate of the first order, you mean a small two-decker like the British Frigate Serapis, et al? I do love French ships!
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There is a massive postal strike ongoing in England right now, apparently. I wondered why my two books, shipped from the UK, are already two weeks overdue. Any insight from our English brethren as to when this might end? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62730169
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It’s been almost a year since we last heard from you Cookster. Hoping all is well.
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It was an armed East-Indiaman that he was trying to identify in The Mauritius Command.
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Or as Dr. Stephen Maturin once called it, "that auxiliary posterior platform" ...
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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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The Walker book, volume three, sounds exciting. Will it be just fourth rate small two deckers, or will we at last see the Frigate Shannon, Brig Fair American and the Swan Class sloop up close? I'll start saving my milk money.
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Sultana first. Planking over that solid hull will be fun.
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What? No spoons and forks? Love it!
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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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Chris, will the forecastle bulwarks be open, as was in the original plan, or planked over, after the change to a nearly all carronade upper deck armament?
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Just got my Grant Walker books! Great timing. Thanks!
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Finally picked up both of the Rogers Collection volumes! Was long overdue ...
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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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Looks like something good is happening! Their site now reads: New store coming soon! We are excited to relaunch SeaWatch books and are currently building a new shopping experience. Please sign up to our mailing list to receive a special discount code for your first order.
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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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