Cuthbert Collingwood

If you want to see boat building done in a traditional manner go to Roskilde in Denamark. They brought up the remains of several traditional viking boats from the bottom of the fjord, and researched the tools and techniques used in building them. They have built fully accurate working copies of the boats and take them out on the fjord as well as to other cities. http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/

Ah yes, Nelson's patent boarding ladder

And that Dado Rail in the captains cabin... So last season

Compared to building the real thing CGI = Dirt Cheap. If I remember correctly they spent over £10 Million restoring The Trincomalee at Hartlepool. Watched the first one last night online. Ok you can pick holes in it but if you disengage the brain cells and just sit back to enjoy a good romp it is fun. I've seen a lot worse including Laurence Olivier playing Nelson whilst wearing a bloody eye patch...

Ok just found a trailer online and I'm afraid it isn't a proper Pirate show. Can't be because they not be talking in the present tense with mummerset accents. Everybody be knowing Pirates always talks in the present tense. 1 pet allowed, parrot preferred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKv5ulewTO4

Similar issue I don't have a Tv. Which channel is it on as we may be able to catch it online ?

Forming a family squadron are we ? Has he got his steam key yet or is it still wait rill Fridays batch issue ?

Ah the origional Pearl Harbour movie and the best. If we are going to WW2 I have to mention Das Boot. Also Conspiracy not an action movie but a movie about a meeting about a final solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_money The link above to Wikipedia tallies with my understanding of the Prize Money breakdown. The captain would only receive Three Eighths if operating directly under orders from the Admiralty otherwise one eighth went to the Admiral/Commander who issued his orders. Captains would employ prize agents ashore whose job it was to ,make sure that the ships prize money was paid and indeed records of letters from Nelson survive where he was complaining about not receiving Prize money he believed he was due. It was expected that a captain took responsibility for seeing all the ships crew received Prize Money due to them, If a captain was out for Prize Money his potential earnings were very much dependant on the station he was sent to. The Carribean was probably the richest pickings followed by the Mediteranian. If you were assigned to the Home station guarding against a French break out and possible invasion it was going to be slim pickings. There are occasions where captains got lucky and captured exceptional prizes. A lot of country houses aroumd Britain were built on Prize Money. I find it quite interesting that although you were expected to serve for King and Country these institutions had no problem with holding out the prospect of "A nice little earner" to help inspire your patriotic fervour It is not uncommon for the idea of Prize money to have been used on recruiting posters put up by captains looking to attract crew for their ship.

Following a Snow in my Brig and got the Red Mist cconcentrating too much on aiming at the enemy and not where I was going and that I was under full sail. Ended up clipping the stern quarter of the Snow although he didn't sink and we did end up winning the fight. I suspect it's a typical beginners cock up

Ineresting, the impression I always got of Arma, and I haven't played it myself, was that it tried to introduce reality. No bullet sponges, etc... Can they manage to do that or do we end up with another loads of bangs and BS bliockbuster. for 13 year olds. Oh dear I'm afraid I'm being cynical again.... sigh.....

Glad to meet you Sir. I've just graduated to a Brig so you are not the only one on a learning curve I assure you. Nice to see another Silent Hunter player I've sunk an awful lot of time into SH4 myself.

Came across that courtesy of Jingles on You Tube. Had me chewing the carpet laughing when I was watching somer of the episodes. Only the Japanese could come up with that. :D

32 Cannon And Proud To Be Loud !!

If I'm up for a good fight and the French are getting stroppy this usually fits the mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgmjLHy7gmQ

Fuses are easier and quicker to insert than filling the hole with black powder., Naval cannons are very heavily built, more so than army field cannons, and the vent holes can be quite a few inches long.. Also if there is a strong wind blowing the pile of powder you have just created at the top of the hole has a habbit of disappearing making it harder to light the powder with your slow match. You have to remember that you are standing at arms length to one side of the breech so you don't get flattened by the cannon recoiling.. If the powder gets damp and fails to burn properly you are going to have real fun in an action clearing out and refilling where as with a fuse you can remove and replace it easily if there is a misfire. Ideally you want as little loose gunpowder around the cannon as possible, indeed the use of powder monkeys on large ships meant that the powder cartridges arrived as and when needed and you did not need a stock of them near the gun. A load of pre pepared fuses safely contained in a leather fuse bag strikes me as safer than powder horns filled with loose powder. The thing to remember about black powder is it is not really an explosive in the modern sense of high explosives that dertonate. It is really an accelerant that burns very vigorously producing a great deal of flame, expanding gas and smoke. It is also in many ways a lot more dangerous to use than a modern explosive as a small spark can ignite it. This is why the prickers used to pierce the cartridge through the touch hole were made of brass. Being a far softer metal than iron or steel it is not going to cause sparks when it comes in contact with the metal of the barrel.

Agreed although to be honest the one thing about the fuses is you probably got less misfires as especially in damp weather and or when the flint starts to flake flintlocks can be tempremental.

Just do not mention SH5 or I shall cry. A great example of what happens when you dumb something down and try to give it more 'popular appeal'. NA Devs please take note. You potentially have something really special here because it is different and feels real. If you try to broaden the appeal to too wide a market you risk wrecking it.

Myself and a few friends sat down and did some back of a beer mat maths in the pub one night and came to the same conclusion. A 32 pounder cannon weighs around 2.5 tons and if they all came up against the breech ropes at exactly the same time it would risk damage to the hull. Another thing to remember is that the gun captains were lighting black powder fuses and so these would have a variable delay before the gun went off. Later they moved to flint locks but these still have a variable delay on thhem, as somebody who has played with flintlock muskets I can vouch for that. Also each gun captain was probably given autonomy in exactly when the gun was fired as they would have to be allowing for the pitch and roll of the ship. I suspect they probably looked to do a rolling broadside from front to back but as I am not aware of any instruction manuals on gun drill from the period that is really educated gues woork.

Not a novel but a great read. I have a copy of Dudley Pope's 'The Black Ship'. It looks back at the mutiny on board the frigate HMS Hermoine in 1797, She was commanded by Captain Hugh Pigot. For me this is the worst case of mutiny in the Royal Navy's history and also a study in what can happen when a captain goes off the rails and the powers that be do not pick up on the fact.

Welcome to combat under sail. Although I still enjoy a bit of SH4 sneaky sub combat as well

I have over 20 years of being a re-enactor under my belt both army and naval using black powder cannons. Through doing this I have done a lot of extra/cast work for documentarys especially with regards to the Nelson era Royal Navy. Funny enough the vast majority of this was done on board the Trincomalee down at Hartlepool. My reason for stating this is that I have found time and again that the team making the documentary will turn up and they will ask you how things were done at the time and will listen ernestly. They will then film exactly what they had decided to film before they walked out of the office. This will usually include all the old garbage that they think the public want to hear and is at best factually dubious and quite often just plain wrong. The problem is that the direction and message of the documentary have been decided before the camera starts turning. It is this version of reality that was pitched to the money men to get the funding for the documentary and it's not going to change. Also in my experience directors do not want to challenge the widely believed myths as doing that does not make 'good TV'. The sad thing is when you look at the reality of what actually happened it is far more exciting and interesting than the TV/Hollywood version.

A sailor from North East England born just off the Quayside in Newcastle. Felt obliged to sign up with the Royal Navy as Pirates and Privateers have no class and smaller ships. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKv5ulewTO4

All right for him to say that he wasn't the one having his hair pparted by French shot ... sniff.......

I wouldnt' want to add anything in for the roll of the ship but I can see the attraction of the first idea of an elevation reading. It would also possibly help you get a better idea of exactly how much you had raised or lowered the elevation when you moved the elevation line with the mouse..