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Ah, so the "commodore" was not aboard Fougueux as I inferred from your original post. You seem to have found the whole convoy, and you don't need to determine the seniority of three captains (whose names are familiar to me from their service in the 1739–48 war) because you know whom the Ad...

Some other thoughts: There is sometimes complete congruence between the lieutenants' journals and the captain's journal; they were obviously completed together, and perhaps not by the officers themselves but by the captain's clerk, one of the master's mates, or perhaps some hapless midshipman. A lie...

Masters kept logs ; they are archived in document series ADM52. Captains kept journals , which are archived in series ADM51; but they are often also referred to as "logs." Whichever you have, you could request a copy of the other one. Captains sometimes recorded "ships in company"...

Captain Douglas's brief entry by William Charnock, Biographia Navalis (6 vols.: London: R. Faulder, 1796), vol. IV, p. 207, doesn't add anything to the site bio except that he was in the West Indies when he died, "one of those unfortunate commanders who fell a victim to the insalubrity of that ...

The information on the various files seems to be too vague for it to be practical to look there for information on a specific ship or incident. I have occasionally found helpful info in the existing index at the The National Archives site about ships captured by British warships, such as the name of...

I could not look at the plans after I started writing my reply, but was able to do so after I posted it. The plans are for a two-decker that appears to have 26 gunports on each gun deck. Therefore, they cannot be for the Svyatoi Georgii Pobedonosets of 1829. The Russian navy had two earlier ships na...

"Pobedonosets" means "victor," from "pobeda," "victory." The Russian navy had ships named "Pobedonosets" and "Svyatai Georgii Pobedonosets" (St. George the Victor). The Svyatoi Georgii Pobedonosets of 1829 was a 110-118-gun three-decker of ...

Tredrea and Sozaev, Russian Warships in the Age of Sail , have 4 Aziya s. It would help to know which one you understand to be a class namesake. I don't think I've ever seen the details you are asking for in a ship directory or list. They look like the sort of information that would be found only on...

In the 1740s, besides meeting the requirements that Cy has described, an aspiring officer had to be appointed to an actual vacancy on a ship in service. Small warships were entitled to only one lieutenant; the largest ships were entitled to five. Even if he had "passed" the lieutenants' ex...

As usual, the English source garbled some of the Russian names, and the scanner garbled some of the English printing. Using the transliteration system of Tredrea and Sozaev, Russian Warshps in the Age of Sail , these were: Drezden, 74 Nord-Adler, 74 Neptunus, 74 Trekh Sviatitelei, 74 ["Tryokh&q...