Captain Jean-Luc Picard

I am currently reading the biography of peter the great by robert k massie, which is notable for having a lot of context. In it massie explains among others how and why russia had no navy before peter the great, and how he came to learn shipbuilding, first by building some tiny ships on a russian lake with dutch friends, how it was his passion and how he loved this place, later on he stayed for a while in holland and in england to learn shipbuilding there. It really explains everything about the creation of a navy, with all the challenges, anectodes, adventures, fails, battles, surprises etc i recommend the book for anyone interested in navies, and here is a link with a bit of info on the Tsar shipbuilding lessons in holland ( a whole lot missing here but if you want more read a book ) http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=synge&book=awakening&story=peter

So happy to see culture and art being thus promoted, beside history. And no tallow ( no animal fat in the new notes ) neither. Now we just need to recover from the brexit value loss ( brexit not having even happened yet XD ) I ll remind those that like the painting that you can get a reproduction on canvas for cheap online, the cheapest being amazon if you stretch it yourself ( i had posted some details in the paintings thread )

Escadre de Richard Howe en vue de Gibraltar 1782 HMS Victory, the blue flag of Admiral Howe at her mainmast, leads a fleet of 65 warships and transports to lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar, 11 October 1782, in this oil painting by Richard Paton. To the right, flying white ensigns, is the van under Vice-Admiral Samuel Barrington onboard HMS Britannia, and to the left the rear under Vice-Admiral Mark Millbanke onboard HMS Ocean. In the background is the Franco-Spanish fleet moored in Algeciras Bay.

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For a second i tough you were talking about the encrypted text and calls Signal app.. https://whispersystems.org/ i'll go hang myself.

Naval Action player spotted on a windy day

The French frigate "Poursuivante" RAKES the HMS "Hercule" during the Action of 28th June 1803 The French heavy frigate "Belle Poule", painted in funeral black, transfers the coffin of Napoleon I Bonaparte to the steamer "Normandie" at Cherbourg during the "return of the ashes", December 8th 1840

HMS Duke of Wellington. Albumen silver print from a waxed paper negative. 1854 Source: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/33718/capt-linnaeus-tripe-hms-duke-of-wellington-english-march-4-5-1854/

The photograph depicts a fleet of French naval ships in the harbor of Cherbourg in Normandy, France. The occasion is the inauguration of the harbor as well as a new railway line linking the town to Paris. Between August 3 and 21, 1858, Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie visited Brittany and Normandy, anchoring at Cherbourg between August 4 and 8. ZOOMABLE: https://openseadragon.github.io/openseadragonizer/?img=https://i.redditmedia.com/fAWUiEGixZeu8DJ8LKXr5yKlelIWDTLKPl0NzeNE2hQ.jpg?s=7c96988ced714849186f6b761feee5c8 Source: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/267216/gustave-le-gray-the-french-fleet-cherbourg-french-august-4-6-1858/

Spanish ensign captured at the Battle of Trafalgar, belonging to the San Ildefonso. The flag had been hung in the crossing of St Paul's Cathedral during Admiral Nelson's funeral service on 9 January 1806. San Ildefonso was captured after only an hour of action in the battle. The ship came under heavy fire from the Revenge and Defence, together shooting away her mizzen and main masts. With 34 dead and 126 wounded, she surrendered to the Defence. San Ildefonso was one of only four prizes captured by the British at the Battle of Trafalgar, along with the Bahama, Swiftsure and San Juan Nepomuceno, surviving the storm that followed the battle. She was used as a store ship and broken up in 1816.\ Source: http://www.rmg.co.uk/content/identifying-san-ildefonso-flag

Navy Bandsman blowing colors for USS Constitution(IX-21) at Washington, D.C. Photograph released November 11, 1931. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/10/18). Zoomable version: https://openseadragon.github.io/openseadragonizer/?img=https://i.redditmedia.com/N18Rjv4HeTAQuG-Q_lqJYVDdSAETjiSN9QF6dPcwaaI.jpg?s=5ce9be6e0b4fee2e1efcfed3846a3356

Reminds me of a history teacher that said "i can't teach history, it changes all the time" Fun game: compare different history school books from different countries over time to see what is taught to our kids.

"Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, later to become an admiral and Nelson's second in command at Trafalgar [...] loved to walk over the hills with his dog Bounce. He always started off with a handful of acorns in his pockets, and as he walked he would press an acorn into the soil whenever he saw a good place for an oak tree to grow. [...] Because Collingwood's purpose was to make sure that the Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country's safety depended." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Collingwood,_1st_Baron_Collingwood#Evaluation

Female captains were usually pirates at the time indeed since men were even more misogynistic than today, among other stupid reasons. wikipedia list. Considering that famous chinese pirate woman, i suppose you refer to madame ching, if have been unable to find any good book about her, but if anyone has any interest in piracy in the china sea this is another good book: Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty The lack of books on pirate women is actually annoying given that there is plenty of books about the men.

Notice the sails: Those are by Antoine Roux. And that's Simon de Vlieger: By Aivazovsky Aagaard: Aiguier: Birch: Keppel: Buttersworth Corne: Courdouan: Drew: Brager: Fischer: Garneray Garneray again: Van Bree You can get yourself a reproduction on canvas of any painting for cheap i have gotten myself before a reproduction on canvas of Cossacks in the Mountain River by Franz Roubaud, 36x25 inches, for £50/$65/€58 in total by buying the reproduction on canvas offf amazon ( i contacted the seller to have the size custom and the colors custom as the one displayed on amazon was too pale ), and then buying the wooden frame and a canvas stretcher separately. There are specialized websites but they are much more expensive, the quote for what i wanted was anywhere between 2 to 4 times more, sometimes for smaller sizes, ready made. I am now looking towards buying a maritime art reproduction in canvas the same way and thought some of you might be interested in doing the same without spending lavish sums. Just make sure that the quality and color are good enough beforehand, don't hesitate to ask the seller any questions. Larger reproductions require larger resolution copies, if the seller does not have a good enough picture you may try to find one yourself and send it to them.

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Do note that althought small civilian vessels regularly had colored sails, it was still expensive to color them, especially on a large military vessel, and that large military vessels were more likely yo have their sails damaged by the rough weather or hostiles than by rot. So as a genrality in-game that would be a yes on small trading vessels but rather ahistorical on this era large military ships. "[As opposed to small fishing vessels], The tanning of sails in the [british] Royal Navy has been tried but is not approved of" Source for that quote: The Elements and Practice of Rigging, Seamanship, and Naval Tactics, 1794 ( with later reprints under different names ) A pirate could probably do whatever he wants with his sails thought as long as he is not busy pillaging, but i'd like a source on it.

I was buying a survival knife for a hardcore survival journey back in the days ( it's a knife that is designed to work with wood and has a hollow handle for necessary items ), and the fench seller asked me if it was a knife with a corkscrew. Gotta love the french.

To be fair thought... the french navy flag is white before the revolution and mostly white at its start... All the more ironic when, like in this painting, the British surrender to the french white flag ( and to the 'muricans ) ( the french army had a white flag as well during the american revolution ) Long live Louis XVII, down with the traitorous revolution !! Ok, ok, j'la ferme et j'dégage...

Speaking of subs, If you haven't seen it already, watch Das Boot. Bonus pic: the sumarine-cruiser-aircraft-carrier. It actually existed. We might be getting a bit sidetracked.

99% of da vinci demons is purely theatrical XD Well, there's the names that are there, and it takes place in the approximate correct locations... nah scratch that last part XD He did some sketches of a submarine, and so have many other people. The first operational submarine was not the hunley, but a submarine by Cornelis Drebel, some 200 years before the Hunley, and some 100 years after da vinci sketches.

Glad to have the news beforehand rather than after. Thank you.