The Dear Surprise. July 2007. Magnificent Club-Hauling Tacking, or staying, is to change tack by putting the helm down (to leeward, to direct the ship’s bow into the wind); if all goes well, her bow passes the eye of the wind and the tacks, braces and sheets are changed – she is now on the other tack. The alternative is to wear ship - put her on the other tack by turning the ship's head downwind, and continue turning until she is on the other tack. Hutchinson (Naval Architecture And Practical Seamanship, 1794) says: There is a saying amongst seamen, if a ship will not stay, you must ware her; and if she will not ware, you must box-haul her: and if you cannot box-haul her, you must club-haul her; that is, let go the anchor to get her about on the other tack.
Sometimes, for instance when there is a heavy sea from windward which pushes her head away from the wind, she is said to have missed stays – her bow will not pass across the wind to put her on the other tack in one manoeuvre. The Art of Age of Sail - Fine ship models from the Age of Sail. HMS Acasta. Naval History and Heritage Command. A sailing ship on a stormy day ambiance. Entertainment | Modern sailors battle Cook's high seas. Chris Terrill, the documentary-maker behind The Cruise and Jailbirds, spent six weeks retracing a journey undertaken by 18th-Century adventurer Captain James Cook for his latest series - The Ship.
He was joined by a 55-strong crew on board a replica model of the captain's ship, Endeavour, for a 3,500 mile journey across the South Seas. Mr Terrill filmed their every move as they battled with 18th-Century living conditions, the forces of nature and a modern tragedy - the 11 September terror attacks. The result - a six-part documentary series - is being screened on BBC Two from Tuesday, 20 August. Where did the idea come from? The initial idea came from BBC Two controller Jane Root. I think she wanted a rattling good maritime story. How do you feel about The Ship being called reality TV? I don't want people to think it is "Big Brother at sea". Were you looking to recreate the 18th Century? I didn't want us to dress up and attempt to be 18th-Century people. What did you learn from the voyage?
Search results for ship. Navy Documents. 001-ShipOf110-100Guns. PDF Search Engine.org - Search Results. George Coggeshall. The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship. IN Great Britain the naval arts are indigenous, and flourish with a superiority, which is the result of a vast demand for their various labours. But, singular though it is, the British Nation cannot boast of having taught or considerably improved them by the efforts of her press.
Whatever may have been the cause of this does not at present much import; although curiosity would excite us to investigate, why these subjects have more engaged the attention of French authors: perhaps it might be ultimately traced to the consciousness of practical superiority, or to the different national characteristic; for the reserve of an Englishman is almost proverbial. The germe of this work was a small and incomplete treatise on sail making, which some years ago came into the possession of the publisher. When thus far advanced, a seaman rebuked the deficiency, by asking if a ship, completely rigged, was to remain an inert body. Navy Documents. History Bibliography: 1787-1801. Michael J. Crawford Christine F. Hughes ContentsForewordHistorical Overview of the Federalist Navy, 1787-1801 First Naval Legislation Under the Constitution Construction of the First Six Frigates Quasi-War with France Federalist Legacy Needs and Opportunities for Research and WritingBicentennial Award CompetitionSelect Bibliography of Published Works General Studies and Monographs Politics, Policies, and Establishment of the Navy Naval Administration Shipbuilding and Ordnance Naval Operations Relations with Barbary Powers Quasi-War with France Impressment and Relations with Great Britain The Officer Corps Enlisted Personnel Uniforms Naval Discipline, Education, and Medicine Naval Art Marines Privateering Foreword The purpose of this publication is to encourage understanding and further study of events associated with the rebirth of the American Navy in the 1790s.
America's founding fathers included provisions for a navy in the new federal constitution of 1789. Michael J. Dean C. The Navy Board project. Tracing ancestors in Nelson's Navy. Royal Naval medals: an introduction. The Admiralty. 1775 to 1783 The Admiralty The British Government's decisions on naval strategy and policy were made by the Cabinet and carried out by the Admiralty. Nominally the Admiralty was headed by the Lord High Admiral, but the last man to fill this post was Prince George of Denmark in 1709, and afterwards it was headed by the seven "Lords Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral" - the Admiralty Board, whose senior member was the First Lord. He was usually a civilian, or occasionally an admiral, and a member of the Cabinet.
The Admiralty was a Government department. The Admiralty Office was in Whitehall, London. Pay and conditions were very good. It had one main board, the Navy Board, and was also responsible for the Marines, the Impress Service, and the Fencibles, as well for many different and often mutually hostile intelligence networks. The Admiralty commissioned the navy's ships with the money voted to it each year by Parliament. The Navy Board The Royal Navy's Dockyards. Merchant Navy operational records. Sailors, storms and science: how Royal Navy logbooks help us understand climate change. Journeys of discovery: Surgeons at sea - ADM 101 Research Symposium. Naval medical officers' journals and the history of medicine. Dissecting and cataloguing medical officers' journals in ADM 101.
MHSNJ%20newsletter%20v17n1%20May%201997%20OCR. Joyful Molly. UNDER CONSTRUCTION (status: September 2010) Until this part has been updated, please see the original list here. Thanks a lot for your patience. “How on earth can I write about something I don’t know anything about?!” This question started the “useful list”; a helpful link-collection for myself and my fellow authors of Age of Sail fiction. There are books, my preferred method of research, but not everybody has the time or the financial means to fill the halls with piles of paper. Therefore, my main focus was a list of easily accessible online-links. This list doesn’t cover every single aspect concerning the Age of Sail or the daily life in 18th century Britain. If you know of a great link or feel a link is filed under the wrong category, please let me know!
The list is very “Britain focused”. I’ve tried to check every link – not only to see if it works, but also to have a look at the content of the rest of the site. AUTHORS (Age of Sail) LIVING HISTORY (Museums, Re-enactment Groups)
Georgian Military History. Cast of Characters. Shipboard Life. General Stuff.