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  1. uss frolick
    What? No spoons and forks? Love it!
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    Great job! Are those Thompson submachine gun drum-mags on top of the 75mm ammo rack?
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    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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    Thank you. That looks very interesting!
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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.
  10. uss frolick
    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
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    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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    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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    I saw those too, Bob, but the description warns that they are missing both the CDs.
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    Whisky Tango Foxtrot? https://www.amazon.com/Naiad-Frigate-1797-Drafting-Framing/dp/0983753229/ref=pd_ybh_a_12?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Q6F2JWD94SM0C9VT7NEC
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    ... to the end of the line? I couldn't resist ... 😇
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    I only had the logbooks for those narrow dates that I suspected the interactions with the Wasp. Sorry ...
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    What was the Saranac, other than a River? I’ve drawn a total blank here ...
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    I always thought that O'Brien was looking at the Fair American Model - another old-fashioned quarter-decked brig - when he wrote his first Aubrey novel.
  21. uss frolick
    Did you know that the following phrase, describing president Theodore Roosevelt , “a man a plan a canal Panama”, reads the same frontwards and backwards?
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    Huzzah! Indefatigable! Huzzah!
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    Looks like the site is secure again😎
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    There was a bad storm in the Baltic in 1810, in which many RN vessel were lost with all hands, including Defence, 74, and St. George, 98.
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    That book is old and dated. Since Volume 2 offers little, I long ago gave it away. Have you seen the NMM plan of Spartiate? Her stern is lovely, as she is French! But Lavery's book deals mostly with British ships, not to mention his taking up valuable space with otherwise interesting British history. If I see a picture of that dang Bellona model again ... !

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