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38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Class & type: Leda-class frigate Tons burthen: 1,065 62⁄94 (bm) Length: 150 ft 2 in (45.77 m) (gundeck) 125 ft 6 1⁄2 in (38.265 m) (keel) Beam: 39 ft 11 3⁄8 in (12.176 m) Depth of hold: 12 ft 11 in (3.94 m) Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Complement: 330 Armament: Upper deck: 28 x 18-pounder guns QD: 8 x 9-pounder guns + 14 x 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 x 9-pounder guns + 2 x 32-pounder carronades http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shannon_%281806%29

Plans (from the Danish National Archives/ Orlogsbasen) Sheer Head and Stern Sailplan Inboard Profile Cross section Dimensions Length 128' (danish) Breadth 33' 10'' Depth in Hold 13' Draught Foreward 13' 3'' Draught Aft 14' 6'' Height of middle gunport above the water 5' 9'' L/B ratio 3,79 Armament 24* danish 12-pounders Designed by M. Krabbe, launched 1758, broken up 1786. Krabbe submitted this plan after returning from the obligatory european study trip (1752 - 1756, visiting british, french, italian and dutch shipyards) and a certain french influence is clearly visible.

Plans: Sheer and Body Plan for Kiel Stern and Head Sailplan (1801) Cross Section Dimensions: Length: 127' (danish) / 130' 10'' (imperial) Breadth: 36' (danish) / 37' 1'' (imperial) Depth in Hold: 17' 2'' (danish) / 17' 8'' (imperial) Draught Foreward 14' 2'' (imperial) Draught Aft 15' 2'' (imperial) Height of middle gunport above the water 6' 2'' (imperial) L/B Ratio 3,53 Armament: 26* danish 12-pounders 10* danish 4-pounders (later replaced by 12-pounder carronades) Designed by H. Gerner, probably Denmarks most eminent shipwright in the 18th century, Friderichsværn was one of seven ships of the Bornholm-class. Launched 1784 and captured by HMS Comus before the 2nd Battle of Copenhagen. Sold 1814. Other ships in class: Bornholm (1774) Kiel (1775) Moen (1777) St. Thomas (1779) Cronborg (1781) Det Store Belt (1782)

I found the drawing of a allegedly dutch frigate, with the year 1803 mentioned, and supposudly carried 46 guns. The writing is in dutch, so therefore i assume she is of dutch origin. Since the name is hard to read, i am at a dead-end. Anyone who has a clue which ship we are looking at here, any help is much appreciated! Also, the drawings seem to be part of a larger set of drawings, which would be my final goal for this ship

I started this for POTBS a long time ago and got to this point before user content came to an end. Plan She was a demi-batterie of 38 guns. French demi-batterie ships were designed specifically for commerce raiding and were larger than their British counterparts. Info from the treedecks.org website Nominal Guns 38 W033 Nationality France W033 Operator Marine Nationale W033 Keel Laid Down 1707/01 W033 Acquired 1707/04/18 W033 Shipyard Lorient W033 Designed by Laurent Helie W033 Category Fifth Rate W033 National Rate Quatrième Rang W033 Ship Type Demi-Batterie W033 Captured 1709/05/14 W033 Becomes British fifth rate frigate 'Sweepstakes' (1709) W033 Dimensions Dimension Measurement Type Metric Equivalent W033 Length of Gundeck 120' 0" French Feet (Pied du Roi) 38.976 Breadth 32' 0" French Feet (Pied du Roi) 10.3936 Depth in Hold 13' 6" French Feet (Pied du Roi) 4.3848 Armament 1707 Broadside Weight = 164 French Livre (176.956 lbs 80.278 kg) W033 Lower Gun Deck 10 French 12-Pounder Upper Gun Deck 24 French 8-Pounder Quarterdeck 4 French 4-Pounder Service History Date Event Source 1707/10/10 Battle of the Lizard 1709/04/24 Taken by Chester 1709/05/14 Taken by Chester BWAS-1603  Sources ID Description Author Type W033 Vaisseaux de Ligne Francais de 1682 a 1767 Ronald Deschenes Web Site BWAS-1603 British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603 - 1714 Rif Winfield Book 

The Aurora was a 32 gun frigate built in Vlissingen by P. Schuijt Jr, which was sold in 1818. Not much is known about this ship except that it was eventually renamed Vriesland. Dimensions 145 X 40 ft (unspecified type; probably Rijnland feet, but could also be Amsterdam feet) Plans Source: Rotterdam Maritime Museum Edit: Fixed source's link

I really like to see the HMS Minerva in this game. That was always the ship that I liked. It would be great to see him in this game. Wiki: HMS Minerva HMS Minerva was a 38-gun fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate. The first of four Minerva-class frigates, she was launched on 3 June 1780, and commissioned soon thereafter. In 1798 she was renamed Pallas and employed as a troopship. She was broken up in 1803. Details Model Ship Plan Head plan of the 'Minerva' Deck, quarter & forecastle of 'Minerva' Upper deck plan of 'Minerva' Lines & profile plan of 'Minerva' THAT'S A AWESOME SHIP *---* Model and details credits: G.W. French G.W. link: http://prints.rmg.co.uk/artist/27896/gw-french

Something to keep me occupied until we get an official statement regarding user created content: And to keep you occupied as well, we´ll play a little 'guess the ship´s name` As there´s not much to see at the moment, a small hint: she carried 12-pounders during her rather long carreer.

'Unknown' Spanish 50-gun 4th rate 1797 (With Plans)

Hercules Possible Names = *Pommern/Ilderim 1719 Danish. The Hercules was modeled after the Danish Pommern/Ilderim. It is one of the most powerful frigates and was even back then unusually heavy armed. It’s got a nice long hull and elegant lines making it a real beauty.

Saint Nicholas / Святой Николай was a russian heavy frigate built in Nikolaev and launched in 1790. She participated in Russo-Turkish War (1787–92) and the War of the Second Coalition (against french forces in the Mediterranean, 1798-1800) General characteristics Class: 44-gun frigate Length of Gundeck: 45.72 metres Length of Keel: 13 metres Breadth: 4.572 metres Displacement: 1,840 tons Armament (1790): 50 guns Upper Gun Deck: 22 Russian 24-Pounder Upper Gun Deck: 4 Russian 1-Pood Edinorog Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 20 Russian 18-Pounder Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 4 Russian 8-Pounder

OK so I am going to attempt to start modeling this ship, I won't lie I don't know much about naval history or much about the ship itself, I have some HD plans and Ragnar hairy trousers to help me with his knowledge of ships of this time and will try my best to make a model to this games high standards. I was wondering if anyone had or knows of reference pictures of this ship, there is a model that has had loads of pictures uploaded to Google, but it seems to be the 1790 model and not the one I have plans for, again I am a naval history noob, if there is any websites that have pictures of loads of ships could you link them? Many thanks Harry Edit: I have just found the La Sirene in the List of ships presented so far thread, not that ship, this is a much smaller Frigate here are the Plans, the top is La Sirene, the bottom is the HMS Unicorn. The main reference pictures I have are these, http://www.modelships.de/La_Sirene/La_Sirene_eng.htm which are all nice, and it seems to be the same ship, however, the model only has 12 gun ports the plans I have for the La Sirene has 13 gun ports, it seems the model is missing the last gun on each row.

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'Orel' Ships of founded in November 1667 in the village of Dedinovo on the Oka, near Kolomna, to protect merchant shipping from Persia in the Caspian Sea. Construction finished in 1669. This is the first Russian warship. Is a type of double-decker three-masted ship Maritime length of 25 meters, a width of 6.5 and a draft of 1.5 meters, armed with 22 guns and hand grenades. In the summer of 1669 "Eagle" with a small flotilla passed first in Nizhny Novgorod, and thence down the Volga to Astrakhan. In 1670, he was captured by the rebellious peasants, led by Stepan Razin. After the uprising tsarist troops play any useful role the ship and failed. According to surviving documents of those years have reason to believe that he was for many years, stood idle in the channel Kutum, near one of the Astrakhan settlements came into complete disrepair. Plans http://forum.modelsworld.ru/download/file.php?id=184367

'Petr and Pavel' 24-gun frigate rank "Peter and Paul" - was built in Holland at the Amsterdam shipyard of the East India Company under the direction of the ship's master class Harry Fields. Peter I participated in the construction of the frigate "Peter and Paul" from his bookmarks and almost to the end of the work. Body wooden frigate, odnodechny (one lower deck), with closed bow and aft ends, and the middle part of the upper deck was open. The double bottom is extended to its full length from stem to stern frame. Bowsprit with a jib-boom carried by the Dutch system, with upward jib-boom and sail straight. Nasal vessel There is decorated with figures in the form of Aphrodite. Forkastele posed on the foremast and the ship's bell was placed (bell) and fore-hatch, and on the sides fastened kramboly to hold the anchors. At the waist, that is, between foremast and mainmast, placed the input ladder, skylights, which were located on a rowing boat and a 6-rowing yawl. On both sides of the waist were berthed grid, where the team was cleaning day beds, served during the melee protection from enemy bullets and buckshot. For the mainmast were located quarterdeck, which housed the entrance ramp and skylight. Mizzen-mast, was oblique and Latin sail straight kryuysel. Mizzen mast for the executed command bridge, which ended with a stern balcony. Main propulsion sailing, three masts carrying 9 lines (foremast, fore-topsail, fore-bramsails, mainsail, main-topsail, main-bramsails, kryuysel, direct and straight jib boom-jib) and 3 sails oblique (fore-staysail, fore-topmast staysail and mizzen), total sail area - 490 m2. Frigate had one wheel of the bog oak. Armament consisted of the frigate: 22 Single-6-pounder (96 mm) guns with a barrel length of 20 calibres, which were located at the board on the upper deck, as closed in the bow and stern, and the open in the middle of the frigate. Loading the manual through the barrel of the nuclei. Ammunition located in the cellars fed manually. Calculation tools included 4 people. Instrument of iron, smooth place on the wooden wheeled machine. The cannon's angle reached 10 °. The firing range is about 1.3 km. Weight gun was about 838.2 kg. 4 Single-3-pounders (76 mm) with a barrel length of 19 calibers. Two retiradnye aft on the lower deck under the commander's balcony and two Dogon in the bow of the frigate. Instrument of iron, smooth on the pin could rotate around its axis. Loading the manual nuclei. Mass gun was 368.3 kg. 24-gun frigate rank "Peter and Paul" is known that in its construction as a shipwright participated Peter I, received a certificate upon completion of construction of the ship's master. Frigate was built on the Amsterdam shipyard in Holland. Navy frigate commissioned in 1698 Plans Drop box link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f1dida2gb2f9xdx/AABq32qxlfYYRY7hwo2Spwnta?dl=0 Direct link: http://www.and-kin2008.narod.ru/drawingfpip.html 3d Model example found online

'Birger Jarl' Source: https://www.abc.se/~pa/uwa/birg_jarl.htm It could be noted at first that there was no entry in the journal in 1813 for a vessel known as the Billard. However, the entries for May and the early summer contain a great deal of information on a sunken frigate known as the Birger Jarl. Furthermore, this naval frigate had sunk in the Bay of Fakse close to Danish waters, which suggested further research to determine whether the names had been confused. It could be seen that so many of the circumstances concerning the frigate Birger Jarl corresponded to the data on the loss of the ship as supplied by Danish researchers that this confusion of names appeared almost certain. The only incorrect information was the name of the frigate and those of the second-in-command and the major of the Naval Survey Corps who had been on board. These are given in the Danish documents as Billard, Nyeberg and Hagelström instead of Birger Jarl, Nyström and Hagelstam. The date of the incident, the name of the commander and the site all corresponded, and the mistakes were easily corrected with reference to information from the Swedish War Records Office. On 6 November 1974 Danish researchers had found on the bottom of the Bay of Fakse a large wreck of the same dimensions and armament as the sunken Swedish frigate (Schou-Hansen 1976, pp. 6 & 60). When the frigate sank it was armed with twenty-two 36-pound cannons and ten 24-pound carronades, as also indicated in the plans of the vessel in the Swedish War Records Office. In this connection it was also possible to solve the problem of the vessel's draught, which appeared to be too small in relation to the length of the sternpost. The Birger Jarl was an artillery-bearing vessel of shallow draught of the hemmema type, a construction which had originally been designed by F. H. af Chapman but which had been rebuilt and modernized after his death. An archipelago frigate of this kind had to have the least possible draught in order to manoeuvre with ease in shallow waters. The problem of the short sternpost originally discovered by the trawler, the shallow draught, appeared to find its solution. The vessel belonged to a series of four types of naval vessels, each named after a Finnish province: Hämeenmaa (Hemmema), Turunniaa (Turuma), Pohjanmaa (Pojama) and Uusirnaa (Udema). In daily parlance (and also in writing) these types were referred to with corruptions of the names of the landscapes, given here in parentheses. The hemmema Birger Jarl was one of these archipelago frigates. They were all equipped with heavy artillery and they were also oared, which was thought to be of military significance when becalmed. It appears that the hemmema-vessels were, however, too large and heavy to be manoeuvred even slowly with oars, and the type gradually went out of use (Each oar was worked by 4-5 men. When becalmed, rowing was intended to provide a speed of 2-3 knots, corresponding to 3-5 km/h. Oral communication by Professor Christoffer H. Ericsson of Helsinki). A study of the reports in Swedish archives (covering the period 1758-1824 in the archives of the Stockholm squadron, Archival register no. 529 b, FSÄ, War Records Office) the following facts could be established: The correct name of the Swedish frigate was Birger Jarl, not Billard. The commanding officer was, as assumed by the Danish researchers, Hjelmstierna. The second-in-command was Lieutenant Nyberg. The third officer who was saved in the dinghy was Major Hagelstam (not Hagelström as given in the Danish documents).

Freia's sistership "Havfruen" Drawings: http://www.orlogsbasen.dk/visskib.asp?skib=Freia&la=1 (The ship designed by A. Schifter) Information: http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=16742 More Information(In Danish): http://www.navalhistory.dk/danish/skibene/f/freja(1824).htm

HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before the British sold her to the Dutch navy in 1815. With the Dutch she participated in a major action at Algiers, and then in a number of colonial punitive expeditions in the Dutch East Indies. The HMS Melampus is part of the Leda-class frigates, were a successful class of 47 BritishRoyal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. All Ships of the class. Class and type: 36-gun fifth-rate frigate Tons burthen: 94724/94 (bm) Length: 141 ft (43.0 m) Beam: 38 ft 10 in (11.8 m) Draught: 13 ft 11 in (4.2 m) Sail plan: Full rigged ship Complement: 270 Armament: Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 8 x 9-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades (replaced by 32-pounder carronades in June 1793) Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades (planned but never fitted) Plans of HMS Melampus & of its class sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda-class_frigate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Melampus_%281785%29 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81782.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81798.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81769.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/83818.html http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66276.html Search and browse "british" ship plans - Royal Museum Greenwich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trincomalee

Dutch 30 gun Frigate, 1746 Need sail plan suggestions.

Names unknown. This ship could be a great reward or premium ship. HMS Lizard 1679 Other tiny ships

Taken from this source: http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?2132-Stretching-Sculpts-SGN103-1773-Amazon-12-pounder-32-s&s=f4808e20dc04947a29174d42cd13b0f9 As always, starting with the drawings of the parent sculpt. (In this case, specifically 1779 Cleopatra.) Slade's Southampton family: Top = 1757 Southampton 32, middle = 1758 Niger 32, bottom = 1757 Venus 36 Southampton drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82860.html when available Venus drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82414.html when available Bately's Richmond/Thames design: (top = 1762 Boston of Richmond-cl., bottom = 1804 Thames Richmond (Boston) plan at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82730.html when available Thames drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82774.html when available Building from French Tygre up to a 32... 1747-capt FR privateer Tygre - no drawing found 1748 Lyme 28: 1756 Lowestoffe 28 (Slade; 9#) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/83135.html when available 1756 Coventry 28 (Slade; 9#) 1759 Tweed 32 (Slade; stretch and upgun) - no drawing found capt FR Abenakise - no drawing found 1761 one-off Lowestoffe 32 (Slade) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...ts/386177.html when available 1773 Mod Lowestoffe 32 (Slade) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82957.html when available Uncertain origins... 1779 Active 32 (Hunt) - plan at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82833.html when available 1782 Hermione 32 (Hunt) - plan is specifically 1784 Andromeda 1783 one-off Heroine 32 (Adams) - plans at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82809.html when available 1795 Maidstone 32 (Henslow) 1796 one-off Triton 32 (Gambier) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82867.html when available --------------------------- So, I've been comparing some stats... Hunt's 1779 Active is statistically near identical, and the only other Williams frigates I've found are the 1771 Enterprise 28's and 1778 Flora 36's. Could these three form a progressive series of growth in the same basic line? (Going by dates, doesn't look like it--the middle size came first--but maybe a possible fork both up and down?) Top to bottom: Enterprise (sorry, this interior view is only elevation presently available), Amazon (again, Cleopatra), Flora, Hermione (again, Andromeda)

A razee will always have a disadvantage compared to the Constitution, because it will have a hull designed for SOL, and you know that the SOLs are heavier than frigates, and then will have a bigger hull and squat, and then a razee will inevitably be less maneuverable than a Constitution. USS Constitution http://www.stephens-kenau.com/userfiles/product/Constitution/Constitution_Stern_View.jpg HMS Indefatigable razee http://www.pellew.com/Exmouth/Exmouth%20007/images/23b.jpg I put Indefatigable as photos just to let you see the type of the hull of a razee is more stocky.