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- Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:12 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Omani Navy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18013
Re: Omani Navy
When the Omani fleet was divided in 1856 between the new Sultans of Masqat and Zanzibar three large ships remained at Masqat, as Andreas has said above, including the frigate Caroline and corvette Rahmani . The third ship was the brig Curlew . See John Barrett Kelly, Britain and the Persian Gulf: 17...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Omani Navy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18013
Re: Omani Navy
Not strictly on the topic, but Sayyid Sa’id (Sultan of Oman from 1806 to 1856) made his pilgrimage to Mecca aboard his purchased frigate Liverpool in 1824. Hence the significance of perpetuating its name in his ship of the line launched soon afterwards at Bombay on 10 November 1826. The original Liv...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:39 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Omani Navy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18013
Re: Omani Navy
The Sultan of Zanzibar acquired the following ships on succession: frigates Shah Alam , Victoria and Piedmontese , corvettes Artemise and Nasiri , brigs Taji and Gazelle , and trading ships Nadir Shah and Salihi . He paid his father's estate for them. He himself then built the corvette Iskander Shah...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Prince Royal (1610)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10790
Re: Prince Royal (1610)
Dear Hudson Bay, Information on the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, website indicates that the model was made by a private model maker which would explain why the museum does not have a plan. To locate a plan or others with your interest the website 'Model Ship World' might be a good place to s...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:37 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Portuguese Navy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9587
Re: Portuguese Navy
One comment on the plan of Peleng-i Bahri in Emir Yener’s article. The ship’s keel is shown as arched. The same feature appears in the original plan made after the ship’s capture by the Russians. As the actual ship cannot have had an arched keel (for structural reasons) this seems to have been a dev...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:03 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Portuguese Navy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9587
Re: Portuguese Navy
An additional source on the Portuguese Navy is João Brás de Oliveira, Modelos de Navios existentes na Escola Naval (Lisbon 1896). It does not include plans but has full-page photographs of models from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Many of these were unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1916. Arch...
- Sat May 25, 2019 12:41 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: frigate KOLA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11890
Re: frigate KOLA
Russian author Ted Sozaev has checked G. H. Bogoslavskii O Kupecheskom Sudostroenii v Rossii, Rechnom i Pribrezhnom (St. Petersburg 1859). It is stated on p. 19 that in 1828 a 66-gun ship was launched at the Bykovskaya yard of a merchant called Amosov and was then sold to the English. No mention of ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:31 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: frigate KOLA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11890
Re: frigate KOLA
Yes, Kola was renamed in Egyptian service. A modern transliteration of its Egyptian name into Arabic is Kafr al-Shaykh (a city of Lower Egypt). The Ottoman elite in Egypt spoke Ottoman Turkish which included many words of Arabic and Persian origin. Written Ottoman Turkish used the Arabic alphabet so...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:00 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: frigate KOLA
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11890
Re: frigate KOLA
I have found a little more information in a French-language source which published despatches of the period from Russian archives in Egypt: René Cattaui Le règne de Mohammed Aly d'après les archives russes en Égypte , 3 vols (la Société royale de géographie d'Égypte, 1931-1936). Sorry about the conv...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 3:57 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Slop Ships
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4178
Re: Slop Ships
Your suggestion that slop ships were store ships for sailors' clothing (and similar supplies such as bedding) is correct. You can search this website for a list of (British) ships defined as 'slop ships'.