Frigate Galley Charles with a deck of Sweeps (oars) and cannon launched 1776

[Destraex]

A very special ship. Can hardly find any info on it though.

How cool would it be to have oars on gunboats in game.

 

[akd]

Pretty sure this is the British ship Charles Galley (1676), rebuilt in 1693 and again in 1710, at which point she attained a 40-gun rating.

Pretty bad source you have there.

[Vernon Merrill]

yeah, pretty bad typo of 100 years... lol

[Sire Trinkof]

just finished reading the Anatomy of the Ship about the Blanford (20 gun 6th rate frigate / +oars) and a paragraph is dedicated to "British oared frigate", and talks about the Charles Galley
1. those ships were not battle successful : too large for the few amount of gun they carried  (the oar deck would have been used for guns in 17th century). For example 30% of the ship from this class were defeated and captured by french during Great alliance war and Spain succession war ...  (quoting Anantomy of the ship : Blanford )

2. Oar were not manned by "slaves" or prisoner, but by crew ... and so were were almost unusable in battle, because oars required most of the crew, leaving guns unmanned

3. To be noted, they had very good sailing qualities, both with sails and oars, despite their bad reputation as warships .... 

-> Could be an awesome ship in Naval action, as the game seem to favor speed and maneuvrability over gun poundage and crew number (which were the historical key factors of a battle)

Edited August 19, 2016 by Sire Trinkof

[Tomas Tomarack]

There are sweeps(oars),but but how they looked, what was their shape and length ... is there i a similarity between sweeps on galleys?

Tom