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by Grammont
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Byng's 1755 Channel force
Replies: 6
Views: 588

Re: Byng's 1755 Channel force

I know its the wrong part of the globe but here's the beginning of the monthly lists for ships in the East Indies for 1755-1756 - shows you the type of information you should find when looking at the volume covering the Channel fleet. The Australians microfilmed vast numbers of TNA documents as part...
by Grammont
Mon May 30, 2022 9:54 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Armed Ship 1779/80
Replies: 4
Views: 3814

Re: Armed Ship 1779/80

From the London Gazette of 4 April 1789 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/13083/page/223 Whereas a Commission of Bankrupt is awarded and issued forth against Mark Pye and Thomas Haw, both of Stockton, in the County of Durham, Ship-builders, Dealers, Chapmen and Copartners, and they being dec...
by Grammont
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:26 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Private George Hopkins in the Royal Marines 124th Company & Third Division, 1808-1811
Replies: 3
Views: 3656

Re: Private George Hopkins in the Royal Marines 124th Company & Third Division, 1808-1811

royalmarineshistory.com has details of the Java expedition including that the marine detachment of HMS Minden was involved in some fighting.
https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/pos ... on-of-java
by Grammont
Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:06 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Private George Hopkins in the Royal Marines 124th Company & Third Division, 1808-1811
Replies: 3
Views: 3656

Re: Private George Hopkins in the Royal Marines 124th Company & Third Division, 1808-1811

George Hopkins clearly took part in the expedition to capture the island of Java in 1811. As Historical record of the Royal marine forces, Volume 2 states: The preparations for the expedition destined for the conquest of the dutch island of Java having been completed, the first division of the troop...
by Grammont
Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:41 am
Forum: Wargaming
Topic: Gunnery Ranges in the Age of Sail
Replies: 3
Views: 5560

Re: Gunnery Ranges in the Age of Sail

Table of ranges from The Sea-gunner's Vade-mecum: Being a New Introduction to Practical Gunnery https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=azt ... &q&f=false
by Grammont
Tue Jan 25, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: Ship Builders & Designers
Topic: Leith Dockyard Personnel
Replies: 3
Views: 6511

Re: Leith Dockyard Personnel

They are father and son

Stainer Halford Canham
Principal
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977

Birth 2 February 1787
Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Father Stainer Canham
Mother Rebecca Canham
by Grammont
Thu Dec 23, 2021 1:44 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Composition of Royal Navy Boarding Parties
Replies: 0
Views: 10146

Composition of Royal Navy Boarding Parties

Royal Navy boarding parties consisted of three elements, boarders (B), sail-trimmers (S) and fire-men (F), the numbers of each primarily being determined by the number of guns the vessel carried. 1st (100 guns) (B) Four men from each gun the lower deck, three from each gun on the middle deck, and tw...
by Grammont
Tue Oct 12, 2021 10:06 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: british Transporportship of Napolenic wars
Replies: 4
Views: 8002

Re: british Transporportship of Napolenic wars

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) has microfilmed a vast number of TNA documents including a number from ADM 108 concerning the Transport Department and they are all available online. Subseries (Pieces 148-183). Miscellaneous, 1793 - 1832 Ships' ledger, 1793 - 1803 (File 148. AJCP Reel No:...
by Grammont
Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:57 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Service record for Lieutenant Rollings Edward Crouch
Replies: 8
Views: 6670

Re: Service record for Lieutenant Rollings Edward Crouch

As she was a famous singer Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) (trapped behind a paywall) However in the 1st edition (published in 1888) her entry includes https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati13stepuoft/page/232/mode/2up In the s...
by Grammont
Fri Jul 30, 2021 10:26 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Service record for Lieutenant Rollings Edward Crouch
Replies: 8
Views: 6670

Re: Service record for Lieutenant Rollings Edward Crouch

His purchase of a commission as a cornet in the 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons is listed in the London Gazette of 28 October 1794 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/13718/page/1076 War-Office, November 1 12th ditto [Regiment of (Light) Dragoons] Rollings Edward Crouch, Gent. to be Cornet, by...