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Kevin

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  1. lol - i dont want the build - what i want is my photos to show it looking as good
  2. of course the actual dimensions of the real thing could be slightly out as well, the structure would have possibly been altered on the real thing to give any clearances, lol they wouldn't have taken of the pressure hull to fit it
  3. AUGUST 9 1778 Engagement between British squadron under Lord Howe and French squadron under Comte d'Estaing off Rhode Island. 1781 HMS Isis (50) took Trumbull. 1799 HMS Speedy (14) and boats captured Spanish armed vessel. 1810 HMS Caroline (36), Cptn. Christopher Cole, HMS Piedmontaise (38), Cptn. Charles Foote, and HMSBarracouta (18), Cdr.Richard Kenah, took Banda Neira. 1815 Cptn. Stephen Decatur concludes treaty for U.S. with Tripoli 1842 Signing of Webster-Ashburton Treaty under which U.S. and Great Britain agreed to cooperate in suppressing the slave trade.
  4. i wonder why it has taken me so many years to realise the bowspit was off centred to stbd fantastic work
  5. lovely work, one of the nicest builds that there can be, but so few ever attempt her all the best
  6. yippppeeeeeee a Royal William for me to follow
  7. AUGUST 8 1745 George Byng promoted to Rear-Admiral of the Blue. 1796 HMS Mermaid (32) engaged Vengeance and batteries. 1808 Boats of HMS Porcupine (22), Cptn. Hon. Henry Duncan, cut out Conception. 1809 HMS Lark (16) Robert Nicholas, upset in a gale and foundered off Cape Causada, San Domingo 1811 French settlement of Batavia capitulated to the British under Sir Samuel Auchrmity and Rear-Admiral Stopford 1813 Schooners USS Hamilton and USS Scourge founder in storm on Lake Ontario
  8. AUGUST 7 1761 Lord Anson in HMS Royal Charlotte yacht hoisted the Union flag. 1778 HMS Cerberus (28), Cptn. John Symons, HMS Juno (32), HMS Kingfisher (14) and HMS Lark (32) abandoned and burnt at Rhode Island to avoid capture. 1781 HMS Medea (28), H Duncun, took American Belisarius (24) 1798 HMS Espoir, L. O. Bland, captured Genoese Liguria (26). HMS Indefatigable (44) Cptn. Sir Edward Pellew, captured Vaillante. 1815 Napoleon Buonaparte and his suite boarded HMS Northumberland (74), Cptn. Charles B. Ross, for his voyage to exile on St. Helena.
  9. Sorry Dan, i have not visited yr build in a little while, yr work is just so neat and nice -brilliant - well done
  10. Sjors that looks very neat and tidy, hope putting the ones in-between does not cause you too much trouble
  11. 98 pages to go, come on im sure we can drag this out
  12. AUGUST 6 1805 HMS Blenheim (90), Capt. Austen Bissell, Flagship of Vice Ad. Sir Thomas Troubridge engaged Marengo andBelie Poule. 1806 HMS Dover (44) was lying alongside the dockyard wharf at Woolwich, being used as a temporary marine barracks, when she caught fire and was burnt to the water's edge. 1807 HMS Hydra (38), Cptn. George Mundy, engaged a battery protecting Principe Eugenio (16), Della Carolina(10), and Carmen Del Rosario (4) in the harbour of Begu in Catalan. The battery and the 3 polacres were taken by the ships boats. 1811 Four Danish gun-boats taken near Heligoland, but by the accidental explosion of some gunpowder, 30 English seamen and several prisoners were severely burnt or wounded. 1862 CSS Arkansas destroyed by her commanding officer Isaac N. Brown when her engine broke down to prevent capture by USS Essex off Baton Rouge.
  13. the wabbits are being groomed as i speak (well not actually) to wave goodbye to you
  14. i will remove this post if i receive any objections, i personally have worked with this person, although a very long time ago - late 1970's http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23575534
  15. http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1594-serving-machine-20-not-just-serves-ropes/
  16. good evening everyone not much to report from the weekend, i have turned the build around now and making all the gun port lids fit, and this time fitting the fenders to the hull before putting on the decorative strips less room for mistakes as i have distant thoughts towards the dark side i bought my self a couple of presents tonight, the serving machine and the rope maker from Alexey
  17. she turned out very nice - well done - sorry i missed the progress through you build time all the best
  18. love the finished result, and the red is just right
  19. i am at present house training my spiders - i bought them off the web (lol) laughing at my own joke should be ready to work for me by this time next year all the best i love the ratlines
  20. thats the best i can do at present http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/240-titanic-by-ricky-mantua/?hl=titanic
  21. AUGUST 5 1766 HMS Pitt cutter foundered in the Atlantic. 1781 The Battle of Dogger Bank. A British squadron under Vice-admiral Sir Hyde Parker engaged a Dutch squadron under Vice-admiral Zoutman. 1813 HMS Dominica (14), Lt. George Wilmot Barrete (Killed in Action), taken by the American privateer Decatur off Charleston 1832 Frigate USS Potomac (42), Cptn. John Downes, is first U.S. Navy ship to entertain royalty, King and Queen of Sandwich Islands, Honolulu 1864 R.Adm. David Farragut wins Battle of Mobile Bay, sealing off last Confederate port on Gulf Coast
  22. lol - i fail to remember who you are referring too
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