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- Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Question on Marines
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1308
Re: Question on Marines
This book has a chapter dealing with a discussion in the British Parliament about the origins of the Marines. Obviously they were intended of amphibious operations, and as such they needed both land warfare and sea training, the question was how much of each. It was argued that if they received full...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:03 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: The Hold
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5861
Re: The Hold
I know how this is going to sound, but I can't picture it in me noggin'. If you need a crane to lift the cargo and place it into the hold of a merchantship (it travels down through the hatches and come to rest in the hold) once in the hold how do you position it? The hatches don't open up to the en...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Strangest ship misidentification
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20329
Re: Strangest ship misidentification
According to Wikipedia's article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Sirte, Italian aircraft identified the merchant ship Breconshire as a battleship. The two reports from RAAF Hudsons of Mikawa's force before Savo Island were slightly misleading. The first had 'three cruisers, three dest...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Mess on an Upper Gundeck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1684
Re: Mess on an Upper Gundeck
Really? That's interesting, with reference to 64 and 74s I've always read upper gundeck, lower gundeck, orlop, hold https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AEECGM/agamemnon-64-gun-ship-of-1794-nelsons-favourite-ship-of-the-line-AEECGM.jpg This link here, shows the 64 Agamemnon, this I would call the "waist&...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: What was in the Forecastle?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1595
Re: What was in the Forecastle?
Thanks, all. Thank you for advising, I was half-aware about its history as a raised "castle" for missile men and for boarding actions, but with regards to 18th Century I was wondering to its purpose. The upper gundeck runs under the forecastle, or I guess is part of it - I get so confused...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:12 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and European battleships vs.US battleships - hull shape and seakeeping qualities.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 99036
Re: Bismarck and European battleships vs.US battleships - hull shape and seakeeping qualities.
See "Operational Experience of Fast Battleships: World War II, Korea, Vietnam". US battleships were not deficient in seaworthiness, but they were considered "wet" ships due to the fine bow entry mentioned by the OP. This extended through the IOWA Class and it was recommended tha...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: What was in the Forecastle?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1595
Re: What was in the Forecastle?
On a 74, or thereabouts, ship of the line, what was actually in the forecastle? I know that you could walk through this to get to the Heads, and indeed, I assume that inside the forecastle was simply a continuation of the upper gundeck, but were there any cabins or stores etc in there? What was its...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Mess on an Upper Gundeck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1684
Re: Mess on an Upper Gundeck
Hi, all. Random musing; on say a standard 74 gun ship of the line, would sailors mess and sleep on the upper gundeck? (tables in between each gun, and sling hammocks, etc) All I'm thinking is that; on a 74, as indeed, most ships of the line, the upper gundeck is basically open to the elements. You ...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and European battleships vs.US battleships - hull shape and seakeeping qualities.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 99036
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:20 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck and European battleships vs.US battleships - hull shape and seakeeping qualities.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 99036
Re: Bismarck and European battleships vs.US battleships - hull shape and seakeeping qualities.
The Iowa class seems to have a very long and thin entrance, that would make the bow less buoyant, and for sure is the culprit of her bad seakeeping. This, as commented, was surely to give her more speed. The fullness of the stern is a little more difficult to explain, may be it is related to the nee...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 2:31 am
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Size of French Naval Artillery
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20435
Re: Size of French Naval Artillery
Hi Marcelo, I hope your absence from home is due to a vacation and not a business trip :dance: Great Britain did employ a 68-pdr carronade in limited numbers from the late 1770s, but TTBOMK the 42-pdr was the heaviest long gun in RN service as the lower deck battery of certain large 1st Rate three-...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Size of French Naval Artillery
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20435
Re: Size of French Naval Artillery
I've been reading a book by Chris Durbin called "The Colonial Post-Captain" wherein he states that some French Ships of the Line had 52 lb guns. That seems frankly ridiculous to me and I thought it might have been an editing mistake but it's repeated later in the book. It's fiction, but l...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:55 pm
- Forum: Books and Reference
- Topic: New Book: Armor of the Iowa-Class Battleships
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1420
Re: New Book: Armor of the Iowa-Class Battleships
Thanks for the recomendation!
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 3:21 am
- Forum: The Age of Sail (1571-1860)
- Topic: Tacking & Wearing
- Replies: 14
- Views: 32896
Re: Tacking & Wearing
Hi Marcelo, Clipper ships are indeed things of beauty. I was fortunate enough to have seen "Cutty Sark" in Greenwich, England back in 1976 (pre-fire). Pictures just don't do them justice sSimilar feeling for "USS Constitution"). Speaking of such vessels, I was fortunate enough t...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Radar Development
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2213
Re: Radar Development
I finally got a copy of this. GEMA: birthplace of German radar and sonar Creator: Kroge, Harry von. This book tells the fascinating story of how German radar and sonar was developed in the years leading up to and through World War II. Harry von Kroge has devoted decades to collecting a mass of stat...