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- Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:15 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Ship Rates
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8892
Re: Ship Rates
I don't understand what you mean by "tally up." Ship rating systems varied from one country to another, and not all countries had them. Apart from the Venetian system, where a 1st rate had 70 guns, a 2nd rate had 60, and a 3rd rate had 50 (at least in the late 18th century), the rating sys...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7272
Re: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
Cy, unicorns rampant are the supporters for the Scottish royal arms, one on each side as holding up the shield, as lions rampant are for England; with the union of the two kingdoms, the supporters now consist of one lion and one unicorn (as with the location of the quartered arms of England and Scot...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7272
Re: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
"Nomann" has posted several times but I wonder if he ever comes back and reads the answers to his questions, or if the rest of us are just wasting our time.
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:27 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7272
Re: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
I'm not surprised that the Scottish navy didn't have (never had?) a 64. I doubt that the ship was a merchantman because, whatever the dangers of trading to the West Indies in the second half of the 17th century, filling up the main deck with armed gunports would severely limit the cargo capacity of ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:55 am
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7272
Re: Royal Scots Navy Ship mystery # 1
The label for the graphic at Wikimedia dates the painting to 1650–74, a better clue than "before 1707." I don't have any lists of Scottish warships, although I would be surprised if there are none on the Internet anywhere. The Scottish navy was not large and might have had only one 64-gun ...
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Mystery vessel # 3
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5097
Re: Mystery vessel # 3
I misread the date in the original post as 1716, but my previous responses still apply. There is a list of Nova Scotia shipwrecks at https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/ but searching on year brings up only one in 1761, Auguste , wrecked in November. A list of Canadian shipwrecks organized by...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:07 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Mystery vessel # 3
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5097
Re: Mystery vessel # 3
You can order Lyall Campbell, Sable Island Shipwrecks for $17.95 (I don’t know whose dollars; Canadian, I suppose) from https://www.nimbus.ca/store/nautical-reference/sable-island-shipwrecks.html or look for it in a library (publisher: Nimbus Publishing Ltd. & Vagrant Press, 2001) Also, someone ...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:26 pm
- Forum: Ships
- Topic: Mystery vessel # 3
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5097
Re: Mystery vessel # 3
Have you checked older histories of Acadia or Nova Scotia? They often have details for such incidents that “modern” histories disdain. I have for other purposes downloaded the following from the Internet, probably from Google Books but possibly from www.archive.com: Richard Brown, A History of the I...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: 18th Century
- Topic: French Brest Fleet 1744
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9675
Re: French Brest Fleet 1744
To complement Roquefeuil’s order of battle, here is my best information about the ships in the fleet of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Norris at the time of his encounter with Roquefeuil off Dungeness on February 24, 1744 in Norris’ calendar and March 6, 1744, in Roquefeuil’s. When he was asked by th...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:39 pm
- Forum: 18th Century
- Topic: French Brest Fleet 1744
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9675
Re: French Brest Fleet 1744
HMXMS Content was part of Chef d'escadre Barraihl's squadron that was detached from Roquefeuil's main body on February 19 in the British calendar, March 1 in the French calendar, as indicated in my original listing of Roquefeuil's fleet. Fourteen French ships were seen off Brighton, Sussex, on Febru...