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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-04-2024, 06:40
    We woke up this morning to 2-3°C, but it is sunny. The mast is freestanding and breaks down into to sections when not in use. I believe that the...
    5 replies | 1912 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    11-04-2024, 02:52
    That's an interesting design, lots of freeboard. I don't think I've seen a sail plan like that before, presumably the mast is free standing like a...
    5 replies | 1912 view(s)
  • Bligh's Avatar
    11-04-2024, 02:25
    Bligh replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    A few of my ships have been used as sources for parts and the hulls used as wrecks, ships on fire as well. Rob.
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 17:17
    Amusingly, Grace is one of the older boats in attendance, at 58. Agility is a hard dinghy of my own design. Here's a picture from a few years...
    5 replies | 1912 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 14:42
    The ship on the right looks to be 200 years old, although I suppose she's not. Do You have a hard bottom dinghy on Grace? or are you back home?
    5 replies | 1912 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 10:29
    This might be what Chestertown looked like 200 years ago. I took this during my frosty morning dinghy sail.
    5 replies | 1912 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 01:48
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Thanks Dave, I've got these on my radar. :thumbsup: for me the difference between ships and planes is that with the planes it's the pilots that had...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-02-2024, 18:54
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Has there been any motion on the 3d printing in color for ships like Wings of Glory?
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    11-02-2024, 16:57
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    A little manufacturing-side background here: Printing new paper and applying new paint is cheap, new tool-and-die steel for sculpt rework is...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-28-2024, 06:26
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    That was what caught my interest, I've a notion to repaint and possibly re-rig my ships and thought that as I did it I'd rename them as a new ship...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:27
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    The nickel summary on Stretching is "what can these models reasonably pass for, even if it means reworking the stats?" :) Goal was an early start at...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:22
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    I found 3 of your stretched threads yesterday, I didn't really understand them but I only gave them a cursory glance before copying, pasting into...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 21:28
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's a great deal that will never be official from Ares... the closest thin you'll see to it is my "Stretching Sculpts" series of threads once we...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:30
    :drinks: I've had that sinking feeling twice too! The first was on our shakedown cruise after selling everything we owned. The evening was coming...
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:17
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's nothing official from Ares about Phoebe class frigates. I'd say our admiral was just giving us more 18 pounder frigates to choose from. Just...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 16:26
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    When we were first doing initial research before I had my copies of BWAS, there wasn't anything about the Phoebes on Wikipedia to start from. :(
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:12
    Well it's not a happy thought :surrender: As an ex sailor of a small ship I've had 2 occasions where she was sinking and on both of them I was far...
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:01
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    https://www.sailsofglory.org/entry.php?43-HMS-Doris-(-Frigate) This is the Admirals original post, it's in a series that as far as I can tell is...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 20:41
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Pity we're gonna lose this thread. Perseverance is fairly close to an Amazon, so that "slower but better turning" would be an excellent note for a...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 19:47
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Doris_(1808) Here's another one. The Perseverance class was noted as being slower but more agile than other 18...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 16:47
    Dobbs replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    Eric, I'll track down this Alexander Clay series at your recommendation upon conclusion of our current voyage.
    10 replies | 7237 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 16:45
    Dobbs replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    I have started rereading Ramage again and am enjoying the series. I like that you can hear Pope's love of sailing in his writing. I am reading...
    10 replies | 7237 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 09:29
    I shall then take one last capture of the Medals List, unless there are more coming. Congratulations to all these last honorees.
    1287 replies | 1511058 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 09:06
    Cochrane replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    Many thanks Dobbs - I shall keep that in mind. I'm managing so far but not taking in many of the foreign terms yet*. Good to know they are there,...
    10 replies | 7237 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 17:20
    Cheers John - Agree with all of those sentiments. Here's to you and the eventual return of Capitaine Jean le Vagabond :drinks:
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 17:16
    Cochrane replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    I have never heard of an HMS Doris. Shall have to look into it further!
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 17:07
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Perhaps the admiral was using a tactic that I have embraced, and was just using the mini to represent an 18 pdr frigate? Now that you have drawn...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:19
    Vagabond started a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    In my efforts to read everything on the site is a couple of days I came across a blog by a certain Bligh and some of his posts revolved around the...
    19 replies | 24022 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:08
    Vagabond replied to a thread The Blockade in 2016 Solo Campaign
    Gentlemen you are very kind to an old sailor and your comments are most appreciated. I've spent the last 2 days going through the posts on here...
    6 replies | 3515 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:00
    Capn Duff, the 98 is a famous vintage brandy from the Charente region of France served at a very high price, in Martine's Bar, up a steep hill...
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Capn Duff's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 11:34
    I thank you for the glass of very weak port..... the 98 is a type of French Port is it not ?
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 06:31
    Well done Dave. Mines a pint of grog if you please :beer: And hello Pete - Another ship just hove in sight then - good to see you again :rum:
    14 replies | 14235 view(s)
  • Bligh's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 03:59
    Bligh replied to a thread The Blockade in 2016 Solo Campaign
    An exquisite and typical Vagabond tall story. even taller than the Eiffel Tower. :hmmm: :girlie: Hermione was a lucky girl to escape this one!...
    6 replies | 3515 view(s)
  • James Wilmore's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 01:02
    Looking forward to seing you all in our future home! :salute:
    13 replies | 16940 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-21-2024, 17:10
    Dobbs replied to a thread The Blockade in 2016 Solo Campaign
    Another delightful tale! You are an inspiration in yarn spinning.
    6 replies | 3515 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-21-2024, 09:05
    Cochrane replied to a thread The Blockade in 2016 Solo Campaign
    Mon Dieu, Mon Capitaine a vous! Quelle excellente bataille. Et aussi quel dommage que l'Anchorage soit en train de couler. Peut-être ferons-nous...
    6 replies | 3515 view(s)
  • TwoSheets's Avatar
    10-21-2024, 08:49
    Well done James! :hatsoff:
    1287 replies | 1511058 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-21-2024, 08:19
    Cochrane replied to a thread 21st of October. in Wardroom
    :salute::sad::salute: R.I.P
    3 replies | 6418 view(s)
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The structure of the Royal Navy.

by Bligh on 01-23-2017 at 04:25
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I hope this helps to answer some of the oft asked questions about the organization of the Royal Navy shipmates.


Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries.

These were the original effort of the Royal Navy to create standardized rank and insignia system for use both at shore and at sea. The uniforms and insignia first created in the mid-1700s, lasting until the mid-1850s, have since become immortalized in such classic naval literature works

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Fireships.

by Bligh on 01-17-2017 at 05:29
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List of fireships of the Royal Navy.





Fireships served in the Royal Navy over a period of several centuries. The earliest fireships – ships filled with combustible and flammable materials and explosives and sent into lines of enemy ships to attempt to set them on fire – were small merchant vessels deployed in large fleet actions, such as by Sir Francis Drake against the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines in 1588.

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Bomb Ketches.

by Bligh on 01-17-2017 at 05:26
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Bomb Ketches.



Development.

The first recorded deployment of bomb vessels by the English was for the Siege of Calais in 1347 when Edward III deployed single deck ships with bombardes and other artillery. The first specialised bomb vessels were built towards the end of the 17th century, based on the designs of Bernard Renau d'Eliçagaray, and used by the French Navy. They were first called galiote à bombe (a word derived

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Depictions of the ships behind the SoG-miniatures

by Bligh on 06-23-2016 at 15:02
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Océan / Montagne.







Océan was a 118-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Bourgogne.




She was ordered as États de Bourgogne and was launched at
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HMS Berwick/Le Berwick (1775)

by Bligh on 06-21-2016 at 10:16
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HMS Berwick/Le Berwick (1775)




Battle of Ushant (1778)

HMS Berwick was a 74-gun Elizabeth-classthird rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 18 April 1775, to a design by Sir Thomas Slade. She fought the French at the Battle of Ushant (1778) and the Dutch at the Battle of Dogger Bank (1781). The French captured her in the Action of 8 March 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars and she served with them

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