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BTW, I didn't know block and tackle was used to raise that screw, it just seemed to be the best way to do it for that class of warship.

Hi OpanaPointer, Since Churchill re-used his turn of phrase from a speech of 1912 in his very popular books written after the First World War it seems likely to me Holger Herwig consciously or unconsciously quoted him when he wrote his own book in 1980. If you're referring to Herwig's title, "...

The long forgotten source is most probably Holger Herwig's Luxury Fleet. T/Y to my lurker friends at Purdue.

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the world." Mechanical advantage via blocks allowed mere mortals to lift heavy objects. The more loops in a block the more advantage. https://constructionmanuals.tpub.com/14043/img/14043_116_3.jpg Further info if you want it.

Given the massive amount of buck fever at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese I would have to suggest that we don't have anything close to what actually happened in this fight.

Steve Crandell wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 2:51 am A compass "repeater" would require 20th century electrical systems.

I used the term loosely. A second compass, however situated, would be in that theoretical location.

The "head" on those ships was located there because the bow routinely dove in the waves, washing the ... poop away. One did not poop on a poop deck. At least not twice.

I vaguely remember a secondary helm in the deck below the weather deck on some ships. I never found out if they had a compass repeater in that compartment.

Thanks, I thought I was very lubber there for a while.

marcelo_malara wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:25 pm

OpanaPointer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:17 pm Exactly what are we calling the "binnacle" ?

That box in front of the capstan that contains the compass.

Thanks. I meant in that picture. My Mk. 1 eyeballs need a good field day.

Exactly what are we calling the "binnacle" ?

Where did they put the "loo"?

Ah, I see where we diverged. As I understand it the Armada had a great number of field guns ready to deploy against the English troops when landed. These guns didn't have the ship-friendly carriages, low and without trails where the horses would be hitched. They had ground or field artillery in grea...

Sorry, I don't follow you at this point "nobody would think of modifying the blocks during action".

If the ship was engaged on both sides they could fire one side then the other.