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I had the following request for information via email, can anyone help? " My name is John Burrowes and I live in Canberra, Australia. I have some documentation, that was in my mother’s possession, which provides some “hearsay information” which came to her from one of her cousins, many years ag...

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No Fleet pages as yet, one day though and vessels on a station was one of the reasons for introducing them in the first place.

But as threedecks is a site interested only in naval warfare prior to 1850, modern US military bases are of no relevance what so ever. I would also argue that only Americans (and possibly Isis and Russia) have a vested interest in that knowledge.

There are some references to the Spanish fleet, links to sources on Archive,org, at Palermo on Voy at http://www.voy.com/39735/7689.html Bit after Stromboli but might give some hints. Links are https://archive.org/stream/HistoireDeLaMarineFrancaise51920/Histoire_de_la_marine_francaise_5_1920#page/n6...

Not a list, but Serge Gauthard posted the following on Voy in Nov. 2016, might help a little escadre espagnole pour la campagne de Messine de 1674 à 1676: Armée et réunie à partir d’août à septembre 1674 à Barcelone: 19 vaisseaux et galions dont 5 de l'escadre de Flandres et 2 de la division de Napl...

Syrett & DiNardo have Frank Hastings as Lieutenant RN Mar 1814, Commander RN in April 1819, Struck off in Aug 1819 and also dead in 1819, they are also missing his middle name. It is of course possible that there are two Frank Hastings and they have been concatenated/confused. This thought is st...

Looking at the first picture the background suggests to me that it's in the Solent outside Portsmouth and as it's also a 3-decker may well be the same ship.

Looks to me as if the ships has been hulked, had it's masts removed, and is in use as a store. The 'diagonal yards' are probably a form of hoist for handling cargo.