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    Yesterday, 12:19
    Bligh started a thread The Other Partizan. in UK Fleet
    Shipmates, don't forget that "The Other Partizan" is this coming Sunday. I hope to see quite a few of you there. Rob.
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    Yesterday, 01:25
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    How dissapointing for you both Dobbs. After all that hard work to be pipped at the post just because you could not point up as well as the others....
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-01-2023, 16:15
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    I told Suzanne that the Admiral had commanded an extra tot of rum and she said, "I like Bligh." Race day came with strong current and light winds....
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-01-2023, 14:24
    A hearty cheer for this month's medal recipients! Well done, gentlemen!
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    10-01-2023, 03:32
    :hatsoff: Daniel is also awarded the monthly top thread starter medal. Congratulations on your double for this month Daniel. Bligh. :salute:
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    10-01-2023, 03:27
    :hatsoff: The second recipient is Daniel, Alpenjon, who is awarded his first monthly top poster medal. Congratulations Daniel. Bligh. :salute:
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    10-01-2023, 03:21
    :hatsoff: This month we have a dead heat for top monthly poster. The first recipient, who now achieves his Bronze award is Mike, MWBell. ...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-30-2023, 02:00
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    That was some hard graft Dobbs. I can well understand that you made the last eight miles a little easier. Hope your crew got an extra tot at the end...
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    09-29-2023, 16:28
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Yesterday's adventure had us once again battling an ebb tide and small craft advisory. The wind was again on the nose. We sailed 40 miles to go 20,...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-29-2023, 13:17
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Thanks Dobbs. I will have a look at that too. Rob.
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    09-28-2023, 06:05
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Suzanne is still writing. Here's the link: https://suzanneanddobbs.blogspot.com/?m=1 Yesterday we needed to cover 23 miles as the seagull...
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    09-27-2023, 12:48
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    This is starting to get really exciting Dobbs. I am really looking forward to your exploits. Is Suzanne going to run her blog again? She should have...
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    09-27-2023, 05:32
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Yep, that's the drawbridge. We had a ball right across the Center. We dinghied under the bridge to a public dinghy dock which happened to be right...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-27-2023, 02:00
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Thanks Dobbs, I'm going to get a larger chart of that area if I can. Found the Spar Creek Drawbridge. Anywhere near the Annapolis Yacht Club Activity...
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    09-26-2023, 13:19
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    If you head up the Severn River, then turn to port into Spa Creek, there's a mooring ball field off the west bank just past the drawbridge. That's...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-26-2023, 12:54
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Good! I am following your voyage on my map. Which part of Annapolis are you docking at? Rob.
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    09-26-2023, 06:09
    Dobbs replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Here Suzanne takes us south in the lingering effects of Ophelia while I do the dishes. Sunday morning the weather cleared enough (and enough...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-25-2023, 01:02
    Bligh replied to a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Well done that man. To quote Forrest Gump,"when God gives you lemons make lemonade" Rob.
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-24-2023, 06:15
    Dobbs started a thread Fall Cruise in Wardroom
    Hampered in our departure by tropical storm Ophelia, Suzanne and I buttoned ourselves down below and hosted a yacht race on our cabin table. Here...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-23-2023, 09:39
    Congratulations on your win! :clap: Have a great time Dobbs, and don't forget to keep us up to date with pictures of your progress around the bay....
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-23-2023, 05:47
    Aargh! I added a bit more shrubbery after all, then ran out the door to prepare for our Fall cruise on Grace, so it's going to be a bit before I...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    09-22-2023, 18:20
    Ditto what Rob and Jonas said. Sometimes the hardest part of detailing is knowing when it's time to stop. :)
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  • TexaS's Avatar
    09-22-2023, 09:42
    I think they look great the way they are!
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-21-2023, 13:21
    I think they look just fine Dobbs. Less is more in this case. Rob.
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-21-2023, 10:00
    Coming down the home stretch. I've either got enough shrubs or need just a little bit more. I'm in the 'staring at it' phase. I'm inclined toward...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-20-2023, 00:57
    Dobbs,what you say took me back to when we took our lads up to the lake district when they were about eight and nine. All the photos I took seemed...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-19-2023, 16:09
    Thanks, Pete (Stumptonian) for the rep! You guys are making me blush.:embarass: Ever since Bligh introduced me to making terrain, every time...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-18-2023, 16:48
    Thanks, Paul! And thanks for the double rep!
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    09-18-2023, 07:03
    More progress is being made. I'm trying to find a not too sparse/not too lush middle ground. Shrubs to come later.
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    09-17-2023, 01:28
    Bligh replied to a thread New members signing on. in Wardroom
    Today we are joined by a new shipmate from the USA. He is Caedmon, aka Caedmon the Bold from Texas. Rob.
    446 replies | 383027 view(s)
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The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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The structure of the Royal Navy.

by Bligh on 01-23-2017 at 03:25
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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 04:29
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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 04:26
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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 14:02
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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
Brest in 1790. Like many French ships of the line during the Revolutionary period, she was renamed

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HMS Berwick/Le Berwick (1775)

by Bligh on 06-21-2016 at 09:16
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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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