Historical informations

[verseaux]

Hi guys,

 

Here is a link to a nice web plugging where you can learn a lot about ship parts, sails, equipments, and live of the crew, with animed pictures too.

 

its from the French Marine Museum, and you can have it in French, English, and Spanish.

 

Enjoy !

 

http://www.musee-marine.fr/programmes_multimedia/vieabord/

[_Alucard_]

Very interesting. Thank you

[Surcouf]

It is based on the work of J. Boudriot. I had already posted but I do not know where. Thank you for having reposted.

[Kpt Beowulf aka Kpt Ahab]

The Frigate "l´Hermione" - the ship on which the Marquis de Lafayette returned to Boston in 1780 to declare the support for the american Independence War by the French, was rebuilt and finished in 2012) and is now sailing around the Atlantic on a history tour? It took 30Mil$, 3000 oaks and 17 years to accomplish that. The original l´Hermione was built in 11 month!!!! The original plans were destroyed by fire but the Brits caught a sister ship and still have the plans which they made to know how the french have designed such a fast and nimble ship in their archives. The l´Hermione had 3 sister ships the la Courageuse, la Concorde and the la Fée. 

[Surcouf]

The l´Hermione had 3 sister ships the la Courageuse, la Concorde and the la Fée.

 

There are not three but six frigates of the same plan.

La charmante, la Concorde, la Courageuse, la Fée, l'Hermione et la Junon.