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by Navclio
Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:25 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
Replies: 11
Views: 13514

Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls

I spent time writing a long reply and it was wiped out by the Web site when I tried to post it. Sorry. Good luck.
by Navclio
Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:21 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
Replies: 11
Views: 13514

Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls

My understanding is that everybody had to be in the muster book—you weren't legally a crew member, and you could not be paid, if you weren't. Whether you were a volunteer or pressed made no difference. Men on the books often deserted because the merchant marine paid higher wages; a man not on the bo...
by Navclio
Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:50 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: linking ships to stations (royal navy)
Replies: 8
Views: 8697

Re: linking ships to stations (royal navy)

This is a vague request: a comprehensive reply would be quite long. What do you mean by "linking"? Do you want to know the stations to which a particular ship was assigned during her operational career, or do you want a list of all of the ships assigned to a specific station at a particula...
by Navclio
Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:15 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Turkish Navy, 1740s
Replies: 20
Views: 18919

Re: Turkish Navy, 1740s

As the title indicates, this is a translation from English; the title page says it was published in London in 1754. I could not find the author or title of the work being translated in the "Prefazione" to Istoria degli stati . The WorldCat listing for the copies in two German libraries, in...
by Navclio
Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:47 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: The Navy List & The Naval Chronicle
Replies: 3
Views: 6355

Re: The Navy List & The Naval Chronicle

Some of the links to the Naval Chronicle volumes that I did not already were to www.archive.org. They had a variety of formats that I've never heard of, some that I can't use (deja vu) as well as PDFs. However, the PDF downloads did not work for all volumes. I was able to download vols. 1, 2, 17, 22...
by Navclio
Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:28 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: diagonal yards
Replies: 8
Views: 7464

Re: diagonal yards

I don't have Winfield's third volume, which might have more detail, but David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, 106, says that Trafalgar/Camperdown was hulked in 1860, became a coal depot at Plymouth, was renamed Pitt in 1882, and was sold in 1906. Coal had to be hoisted on board the ship, and then hoist...
by Navclio
Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:07 pm
Forum: Merchant Mariners
Topic: Captains of Brazilian civilian ships
Replies: 1
Views: 6051

Re: Captains of Brazilian civilian ships

Portuguese has the word capitão , but whether that was used for the manager of the crew of a merchant vessel is something you would have to look up in an English-Portuguese dictionary, preferably a large one that would specify the term used in the merchant marine. The Collins Portuguese Pocket Dicti...
by Navclio
Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:36 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: The Navy List & The Naval Chronicle
Replies: 3
Views: 6355

Re: The Navy List & The Naval Chronicle

That's great. I had downloaded most of them years ago but I was missing vols. 1–2, 17, 22–23, and 28–29. Now I can complete my collection. Thanks for the links.
by Navclio
Mon Jan 22, 2018 2:09 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Duelling and the Articles of War
Replies: 2
Views: 5732

Re: Duelling and the Articles of War

That's §II, ¶23 of "An Act for amending, explaining and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Ships, Vessels and Forces by Sea, 22 Geo. II c. 33, also known as the 1749 Naval Act. There is a less definite provision in "An Act for the Esta...
by Navclio
Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:27 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Dutch Naval loss in 1704
Replies: 3
Views: 4834

Re: Dutch Naval loss in 1704

The logical place to find it if it really was a Dutch navy warship, would be

James Bender, Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail, 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates (Barnsley, S. Yorks.: Seaforth Publishing, 2014).

I don't have a copy, so I can't look it up myself.