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Kevin
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good work my friend - i look forward to the dark side after this build - now that i have a project to go for -
the pictue is shown here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Duke_of_Wellington_(1852)
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what are the three funnel type objects on the upper deck
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Todays link to RMS Lancastria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria
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June 17 1755 British fleet under Admiral Boscawen took Alcide (64), Captain Hocquart, andLys (64) off Newfoundland. 1775 Cuthbert Collingwood promoted to Lieutenant 1778 HMS Milford (28) took Licorne. HMS Arethusa (32), Samuel Marshall, engages French frigate Belle Poule (32) in the Channel 1794 HMS Romney (50) captured Sybille (44) 1813 Garrison defeated at island of Zupano, protecting Ragusa (Dubrovnik), by party from HMS Saracen (18), John Harper. Boats of HMS Narcissus (32), Cptn. John Richard Lumley, took the American revenue schooner Surveyor in the York River in the Chesapeake. 1815 HMS Pilot (18) John Toup Nicholas, engaged French frigate Legere off Cape Corse. 1833 USS Delaware enters drydock at Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, VA, the first warship to enter a public drydock in the United States
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wow at last - i have found my first scratch build -
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June 16 1798 Boats of HMS Aurora (28) Capt. Thomas Gordon Caulfield, destroyed two vessels. 1812 HMS Swallow (18), Cptn. Edward Reynolds Sibly, engaged Renard (16), Lt. Charles Baudin des Ardennes, and Goéland (14) Ens.Belin, near the island of Sainte-Marguerite. 1813 HMS Persian (18), Cdr. Charles Bertram, wrecked on the Silver Keys shoal just north of the island of Hispaniola 1897 HMS Foudroyant (80) driven on shore at Blackpool in a gale.
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without beating around the bush, i got a big surprise tonight, Facebook - i have been an anti social git most of my life - and never kept in contact with people i knew, but i seam to have mellowed in the last few years and been socialising with friends who had basicly disappeared off the face of the earth Through MSW i liked an article by Canadian-Nautical-Research-Society https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Nautical-Research-Society/150946001632212?ref=stream Tonight i have found they have linked a like to my build and now have about 20 progress photos within their site - it has got the wife quite excited
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HMS Shannon She has quite a bit of history behind her - i hope you go for it Chris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shannon_(1806)
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Leda Class HMS Melampus - well i have a start in respect i have the rigging book based on her http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/rigging-period-ship-models/8653
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http://www.frigateunicorn.org/hms-unicorn i had forgotten all about her
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June 15 1744 Commodore George Anson, HMS Centurion (60, returned to Spithead after circumnavigation voyage 1775 Cptn. Abraham Whipple, Commodore of the Rhode Island Navy, in sloop Katy, captures the armed sloop Diana, tender to HMS Rose. 1783 HMS Shrewsbury (74) scuttled off Jamaica. 1797 HMS Fortune (14) wrecked near Oporto
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i feel for you my friend, hope you are both well, im another weekend from getting on with my build, yippppeeee nearly finished this years big DIY job
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you are such a clever person and craftsman, brilliant work
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HMS Anson (1781) in 1/64 scale opened up so we can see inside
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looks fantastic - well done lol - took me 150 hours
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June 14 1777 John Paul Jones takes command of Ranger 1789 William Bligh and loyal crew of HMS Bounty arrive at Timor, off the coast of Java. 1803 HMS Immortalite (42), Cptn. Edward William Campbell Owen, HMS Jalouse (18), Christopher Strachey, and HMS Cruizer (18), John Hancock, cut out Inabordable(4) and Commode (4) from Cap Blanc Nez. 1809 Boats of HMS Scout (18), William Raitt, stormed and captured the battery, spiked the guns and carried off 7 vessels at Cape Croisette, south of Marseilles. Start of 5 day engagement in which HMS Latona (38), Cptn. Hugh Pigot, tookFelicite (14) 1814 HMS Superb (74), Cptn. Charles Paget, and HMS Nimrod (18), Nathaniel Mitchell, attacked Wareham at the head of Buzzard's Bay, and destroyed American ships Fair Trader (18), Independent (14), Fancy, Elizabeth and Nancy,together with a valuable cotton mill belonging to Boston merchants.
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A highly dangerous virus called "Weekly Overload Recreational Killer" (WORK) is currently going around. If you come in contact with this WORK VIRUS, you should immediately go to the nearest "Biological Anxiety Relief" (BAR) centre to take antidotes known as "WORK Isolating Neutralizer Extract" (WINE), "Radioactive UnWORK Medicine"(RUM), "Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter" (BEER) or "Vaccine Of Depression Killing Antigen"(VODKA)
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June 13 1796 HMS Dryad (36), Cptn. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, captured Proserpine (42). 1805 Boats of HMS Cambrian (40), Cptn. John Poo Beresford, captured Spanish privateer schooner Maria (14) to the east of Bermuda. 1829 HMS Mermaid survey ship, Samuel Nol, lost on Franklands Reef off Australia.
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lol maybe they will find a secret panel - behind they will find a few water wheel and lots of hungry mice waiting it raise or lower it - depends who they are trying to confuse at the time
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do you have a picture of what it should look like maybe from their web site
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tell the truth i did not realise until now that some thing i have taken for granted- keel depth marking were used on these period vessels
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we appreciate all the hard work - such a shame that most of it will be hidden
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can we see a photo of this please - Effie M. Morrissey
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