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HMS Surprise would be fantastic, but Lord Cochrane's ex-Spanish prize frigate, HMS Imperieuse, is beautiful, well documented and chock full of history, too! A flush decked sloop-of-war, like the Hermes, 20, of 1810, of any of her fir-built sisters like HMS Levant, would be unique in the kit world. Hermes was based on the captured French Bonne Citoyenne, one of the Royal Navy's fastest sloops. EDIT: The frigate-turned-sloop USS Cumberland would be beautiful in her 1862 version, showing her as she gallantly fought the ironclad CSS Virginia. 3/16" scale would be perfect! -
Hey Mark, I don't know if you had seen this already, but there is a custom builder in France that makes complete sets of naval cannon for some of the Boudroit Monographs, of which one is the 1/48 Belle Poule! The set is 100 or 120 Euros, depending on whether you want the 1758 or the 1766 pattern and the barrels are metal. They look pretty good! Link: http://www.lahoche.fr Go to the "L'Artillery" page. Good thing you remember your high school French ...
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USS Constitution - alignment and rake of masts
uss frolick replied to Usgecko's topic in Nautical/Naval History
The experimental French 24-pounder frigates La Resistance and La Vengeance had huge jackscrews on either side of their fore and main mast steps, (but not the mizen), so that the rake could be altered while at sea. The experiment does not seem to have been successful, as it was not repeated. -
I keep hoping that one day the Publisher Ancre puts out a monograph of the real-life HMS Surprise, as she was originally the French Corvette L'Unite. I believe it would be as popular for them as the Bonnie Richard was.
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Brig USS Enterprise 1799 info gathering
uss frolick replied to CharlieZardoz's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Just ordered Ms. Spencer's book! I was privy to the early manuscript, and she has done a great job. -
Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops of the Royal Navy
uss frolick replied to molasses's topic in Nautical/Naval History
There was a two part series of nicely written articles in the NRJ a while back on the history of the Epervier, viz., Vol. 41, No's 2 and 3, June and September, 1996. It was called "Lost By Two Navies: HMS Epervier, A Most Unfortunate Ship", written by J.R. Mc Cleary. I posted transcripts of the British Court of Enquiry for her loss a while back, which is fun to read: -
Ooo ooo! Let me guess! Grecian?
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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
Thank you. That looks very interesting! -
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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