Kevin
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i taught myself a little tip today with regards to touching up the spray painted areas, as the attempt to touch up from the pots seamed well - naff, i have been spraying a 1 second burst into a little pot, - and providing you use it with 10 - 20 seconds- whilst still in liquid form, and a decent brush with some thinners hanging around, i have managed to cover up a load of stratches, knocks etc, and cut ends of the etched parts- 1,319 replies
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Grant - it is to remind me that the stern is not finished
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JULY 26 1798 HMS Brilliant (28), Cptn. Hon. C. Paget, engaged Vertu and Regenre. HMS Garland (28), Cptn. James Athol Wood, wrecked on the coast of Madagascar. 1806 HMS Greyhound (32), Cptn. Charles Elphinstone, and HMS Harrier (18), Edward Thomas Troubridge, took Dutch frigate Pallas (36), Cptn. N. S. Aalbers (mortally wounded), and armed ships Vittoria, and Balavia near the Straits of Salayer. Corvette William (20) escaped. 1812 USS Essex (32), Cptn. David Porter, captures British brig Leander off Newfoundland
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welcome back
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and yes i checked to see what you wrote was right
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lol - you learn something new everyday, i honestly believed that the butt system was the amount of boards before a repeat on the same frame, Explains why i have always gone wrong
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isnt that a 3 butt system?
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pictures look great - nice work my friend, sorry they are picking on you, lol - but whilst they are - they are leaving me alone
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gun port lids progress, however, i went by the plans, but having the lids shut i have given myself to much hinge on the hull and getting in the way of the rigols, so slowly unglueing, trimming and replacing, not so bright out side today so not so much glare on the photos all the best
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i took months to do mine, but opened them all up at the same time - had no problems so far one year or so down the line wrt to ageing
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JULY 25 1666 The "St. James's Fight." English fleet under Prince Rupert of the Rhine and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and a Dutch fleet under Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. 1744 Augustus Keppel passed and confirmed as Lieutenant 1757 HMS Southampton (32), Cptn. James Gilchrist, engaged five French privateers off the Isle of Wight 1779 US Amphibious expedition against British in Penobscot Bay, ME 1800 HMS Nemesis (28), Cptn. Thomas Baker, and HMS Arrow (28), William Bolton, captured Danish frigate Freya(40), Cptn. Krabbe. 1803 HMS Vanguard (74), Cptn. James Walker, and HMS Tartar (32), Cptn. Perkins, captured Duquesne off San Domingo 1809 HMS Princess Caroline (74), Cptn. Charles Dudley Pater, and consorts captured four Russian vessels. Boats of HMS Fawn (18) captured Guadaloupe. 1810 HMS Thames (32), Cptn. Granville George Waldegrave, HMS Pilot (18), John Toup Nicholas, and HMS Weazle(18), Henry Prescott, at Amanthe. Six gunboats, two scampavias and 28 transports were taken and the rest of a convoy destroyed. 1863 U.S. Squadron bombards Fort Wagner, NC 1866 In the US Rank of Admiral created and David G. Farragut is appointed the first Admiral in the US Navy
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well done - coming along very nice
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JULY 24 1762 HMS Chesterfield (44), Cptn. John Scaife, and four of a convoy, wrecked on Cayo Comsite. 1797 Horatio Nelson loses right arm during failed attack on Santa Cruz, Tenerife. 1798 HMS Resistance (44), Cptn. Edward Pakenham, struck by lightening while anchored in the Straits of Banca, caught fire and violently exploded. 1801 HMS Jason (36), Cptn. Hon. John Murray, wrecked on an uncharted rock in the entrance of St. Malocs. 1813 USS President (44), John Rodgers, captures British ship Eliza Swan. 1815 Reduction of Gaeta by HMS Malta (84), Cptn. William Fahie, and HMS Berwick (74), Cptn. Edward Brace
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the size of that thing could live where it likes - a deserted coal mine for example
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was there ever depth marking on the stern? say around the stern post
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i bet the system leaked like a sieve, HP air and HP hydraulics on a fixed platform used to - never mind on a system that could be swiveled
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lovely Paul, we have our warm temperatures here as well, not quite as high, but been around the 30's, and being British - we are not used to it, even so - my new insulated workshop is too warm - absolutely no point in buying much to cool it down as this time next year might be back to normal, cold and wet
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JULY 23 1704 British fleet under Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar. 1759 Keel of HMS Victory (100) laid down at Chatham Dockyard 1805 HMS Champion (24), Cptn. Robert Howe Bromley, and consorts engaged a French flotilla off Fecamp. 1810 Boats of HMS Belvidera (36), Cptn. Richard Byron, and HMS Nemesis (28), Cptn. Ferris, took Bolder (8) andThor (8) and destroyed a sloop near Studtland, Norway. The construction of HMS Victory begins JUL 23rd, 1759 - Richard Cavendish recounts the birth of a great warship The keel of the most famous ship in the history of the Royal Navy was laid down in the Old Single Dock (now the Victory Dock) at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Present with Admiralty officials at the occasion was William Pitt the Elder, whose government had announced a major ship-building programme of first-rate ships of the line and frigates the year before. The new first-rate was designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Thomas Slade. Her keel was to be 259 ft long, she would have a displacement of 2,162 tons, carry a crew of about 850 and be armed with more than 100 guns. Some 6,000 trees would be used to build her, the great bulk of which were oaks, mainly from Kent, the New Forest and Germany. She was the Navy’s sixth Victory. One of them, under Sir John Hawkins, had fought the Spanish Armada in 1588. Another, of 80 guns, had been launched in 1666 and the fifth, launched in 1737, had sunk with all hands in 1744.
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lol - it may be a months work - but it is something less to still do
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JULY 22 1796 HMS Aimable (32), Cptn. Jemmet Mainwaring, engaged French frigate Pensee (44), Cptn. Valto, which escaped off Guadeloupe. 1802 USS Constellation (38) defeats 9 Corsair gunboats off Tripoli. 1805 Battle of Cape Finisterre. Inconclusive action between British fleet under Admiral Sir Robert Calder and French fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
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love yr build, but the pictures that struck me the most, was the work involved in the stern galleries/windows , lovely work
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