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Cutty Sark painting. Note: -furled mizzen -upper and lower topsails in fore, main and mizzen -topgallants and royals in fore, main and mizzen -skysail on main https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/45A5/production/_109792871_mediaitem109792870.jpg.webp Also worthy of note are the port & st...

“Driver” or “Mizzen Driver” IIRC.

Byron

Hello All,
I recently posted/hosted a lengthy discussion on tacking and wearing of 18thC men of war.

If interested, go here - http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=571506

Byron

Thank you very much for sharing this, Sr Rico and Jabeque!
I have a couple of friends who will DEFINITELY be interested to view this film.

Byron

Some information on USN armor from the post-ACW period through the Spanish American War that might be interesting Amphitrite - Double-turreted monitor, 3,990 tons displacement. Nickel-steel, not face-hardened. Miantonomoh - Double-turreted monitor, 3,990 tons displacement. Compound, not face-hardene...

If the RN or the British Government simply ''wanted rid of the ships'' it would have been far more lucrative to have them broken up in shipyards and the scrap steel sold off - countless thousands of tons of it! The German ships salvaged from Scapa Flow did ultimately find their way to the scrapyard...

Double post; see following.

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Hi Byron! Sorry for the late response! Yes, I share your concern about the challenge in the complexity. It will be a balance act to make it enjoyable while maintaining a high level of complexity. So far I have made so that everything can be AI controlled, so that you can choose to just set waypoint...

The sails got wet during weather at sea. They got wet when it rained in port. Either way "hanging them out to dry" was just that. Properly made and treated canvas wouldn't rot just because it got wet. An interesting sidelight- There were occasions when sails would be purposely wetted down...

The HUNLEY was found about 1000 feet to seaward of HOUSITONIC. It was believed that Dixon put it on the bottom to wait for things to die down after the attack and for the tide to turn. They miscalculated the air they had and they died of anoxia. Over time it filled with water & sediment which h...

None of the ACW ironclads were seagoing ships. They were all coastal and riverine monitors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863) Also see Onandaga and Canonicus. Not saying that it would have represented a comfortable cruise, but several sea voyages of respectable distance were acco...

Hi, all. Now, I know that novels need to be taken for what they are and they're not always 100% accurate, as how can they be, but I have a question. I was reading the third Richard Bolitho novella, Band of Brothers and in this Bolitho and his mate Dancer are standing on the quarterdeck of a three-d...

There are claims making the rounds that Biden insisted upon a delay in release of the event to the press for “political reasons” related to the timing of the DOJ announcement of his son’s plea deal.

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Some sources I have read, who are familiar with deep sea submersible technology, theorize that the failure point was most likely the wound carbon fiber + adhesive central cylinder. Their opinion is that a succession of dives over time would produce a series of truly immense pressure loads followed b...

Reading through Peter Elphick's book, Far Eastern File, I came across the details of Radio Finger Printing (RFP), on pages 156-157. I have copied the piece because I would like to know if anyone else is familiar with this, or could add more. "Positive identification of ship call-signs were mad...