Ned Loe Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 'Blanford' H.M.S. Blandford was a 20 gun ship, launched on 13th February 1719. Please share gun specs and history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Six-pounders, naturally. http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=7498 The launch date is off, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niagara_1812 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Wow, that's a good looking ship! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeBoiteux Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 (edited) +1. Very nice little ship. There's a book about her : Peter Goodwin, The 20-gun Ship Blandford, Anatony of a ship (AoS) I guess she can be called a 'galley-light frigate' with her 20 x 6-pdr and oars (but I am not good at British classification : sloop...). For a comparison, in France, at the time of the building of HMS Blandford (1719): Corvettes carried 4-pdr guns such as L'Agathe (1708-1718) with 8 x 4-pdr or La Méduse (1727) with 16 x 4-pdr Light frigates carried 6-pdr guns, such as La Thétis (1722) with 20 x 6-pdr(GD) + 6 x 6-pdr (Fc/Qd) Similar shipmodel as HMS Blandford : here or here : PS : a 'd' is missing in the titles of this thread ('Blanford'), right ? Edited November 4, 2018 by LeBoiteux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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