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by Navclio
Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:08 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Italian Navy Sources
Replies: 1
Views: 4708

Re: Italian Navy Sources

I listed a number of other sources in a reply to the "Portuguese Navy" thread before I saw this thread title.
by Navclio
Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:06 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Portuguese Navy
Replies: 7
Views: 9418

Re: Portuguese Navy

OTTOMAN NAVY: A few years ago (or perhaps several years ago by now), there was a project under way to compile a directory of Ottoman sailing warships comparable to the volumes already issued by Seaforth Publishing under the general title <Nationality> Warships in the Age of Sail , including three vo...
by Navclio
Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:35 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Portuguese Navy
Replies: 7
Views: 9418

Re: Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese navy maintained a high “operational tempo” for the time, with half of its dozen or so ships of the line in service even in peacetime. The Portuguese were especially active in patrolling outside the Strait of Gibraltar to keep North African raiders penned inside the Mediterranean and t...
by Navclio
Sun May 05, 2019 9:25 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Prince Royal (1610)
Replies: 7
Views: 10576

Re: Prince Royal (1610)

@byronvaw

This isn't a modeling site and has very few correspondents, so you are not likely to get any other response. You would be better served by looking for dedicated ship modeling sites and asking there.
by Navclio
Sat Mar 16, 2019 5:09 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: Names of English cannons
Replies: 7
Views: 11133

Re: Names of English cannons

Frank L. Fox, A Distant Storm: The Four Days' Battle of 1666 (Rotherfield, East Sussex: Press of Sail Publications, 1996), has a table of "ordnance and manning" for each fleet. For English ordnance, the following mixture of names and shot weight designations is used (with Fox's conversion ...
by Navclio
Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:25 am
Forum: Ships
Topic: French ships of the Nine Years War / War of the Grand Alliance
Replies: 2
Views: 7515

Re: French ships of the Nine Years War / War of the Grand Alliance

Answering this question would require a comprehensive knowledge of the ships, navies, and naval battles of the period and a lack of nationalistic bias on the part of the analyst. I have the latter—I'm not British, Dutch, or French—but not the former. N.A.M. Rodger discusses enemy navies in The Comma...
by Navclio
Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:25 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Captain of HMS Victory in 1818
Replies: 5
Views: 9987

Re: Captain of HMS Victory in 1818

The fact that there two glasses with the letters ML indicates that each attendee on July 1, 1818 did not get one with his initials. ML = 1050 doesn't make any sense. I did not see a captain of Victory in Winfield with the initials "M.L.", either. However, when Victory was a flagship, Winfi...
by Navclio
Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:08 am
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Captain of HMS Victory in 1818
Replies: 5
Views: 9987

Re: Captain of HMS Victory in 1818

According to Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (London: Chatham Publishing, 2005), p. 3, which includes operational careers of ships after 1817 if they were in the navy in 1817, Victory was in ordinary from 1813 to 1823, undergoing ...
by Navclio
Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:12 pm
Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
Topic: Thomas Lynn
Replies: 3
Views: 8075

Re: Thomas Lynn

He made post on November 10, 1756 (John Charnock, Biographia Navalis [1798 ed.], VI, 187). John Hardy, A Chronological List of the Captains of His Majesty's Royal Navy (1784) says he was reduced in rank by a court-martial in the East Indies but was reinstated in 1763 and was retired as a superannuat...
by Navclio
Thu Jan 17, 2019 7:51 pm
Forum: Ships
Topic: Provincial Navy ships in American Colonies
Replies: 1
Views: 4095

Re: Provincial Navy ships in American Colonies

I am currently completing a book on naval operations in the Wars of Jenkins's Ear and the Austrian Succession. I can't get into anti-privateering operations (I do cover a few actions between British ships and French navy warships fitted out for commerce raiding at the expense of private groups, in p...