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Hi Andreas,

I hope there is not a misunderstanding here. I sometimes use the present tense when I discuss sources that I use. I first made contact with Daniel Panzac in 2012 not long before he died. His death therefore came as a shock to me.

John

An article by Daniel Panzac, ‘Armed Peace in the Mediterranean 1736-1739’, Mariner’s Mirror , vol 84, no. 1 (1998) pp. 41-55 has details on the fleet for 1737-8. This is not exactly your period but might be a starting point. Daniel’s source is an anonymous report in the French Archives Nationales, A...

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I have just discovered the usenet.nl website which gives access to many electronic resources. The pdf of my book Navies of the World 1835-1840 (2nd edition 2011) is listed but without my authorisation. Does anyone on this forum have experience with this website?

John

The two frigates landing troops can be found on Cy Harrison's wonderful website Three Decks! One was Galgo de Andalucia (ex HMS Greyhound ) and the other was San Francisco y San Antonio de Padua . According to the Todo a Babor website at https://www.todoababor.es the naval commander of the expeditio...

Demerliac's volumes appear to be still in print and all available from ANCRE Editions at https://ancre.fr/en/ (for the English language version of the site). They are mostly 80 to 84 euros per book or about 92 to 96 US dollars plus postage. The first volume (1610-1661) is 50 euros.

Storia della Marina da Guerra dei Borbone di Napoli vols 1 and 2 contain little ship data of the type you are looking for. The 4th volume is expected to include this kind of detail in appendices. I do not know, however, when vols 3 and 4 might appear.