Beautiful Sailing Ships

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by CaptainRamius

Not sure if this is a digital image or an actual photo, but I'm putting it here anyway

HEY NUTHIN GOOD GOES OUTTA STYLE-AS DISCUSSED 8/3/15 IN THE BILGE

Originally Posted by ARMISTEAD

We will have no weapons, so I want some ram installed on the front. Our guns don't work so I got us all slingshots. When i call battle stations, we will all go topside, sling shots firing and ram the enemy.

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Well I've got it all covered- I ain't COB fer nuthin': we go Trireme style And mount an Archimedean catapault (Huge slingshot ArmiBBY) on the deck I got dibs on the Thranites rowing position otherwise known as a "stool-rower" on the upper deck in 'honor' of my so-called 'named offspring'

@ CaptainRamius: Naturally as a new volunteer aboard the bilge's U-REEKHA U R assigned thalamitai — lower bank duties alongside Eichhörnchen! However, if U have a tambourine, we'll let you keep time (1 auletes — a musician supplying the oar timing with his flute)...critical when hitting 9 knots with 170 rowers! and doing 180's in 2.5 lengths Naturally Bertieck, AVGWarhawk and I will be assigned sail-handling duty....occasionally manning a 'stool' rowing position for ramming; C'mon at my age I need a decent chair! We of the Bilge remember Salamis, Actium & Lepanto ;all hard rowing turning points of history: and ramming allowed; Catapults, cannon, and archers if you must! <ATHLIT PROW
Of course I'll serve a good Cabernet with stew for all hands...It wasn't called the Wine Dark Sea fer nuthin! Where Rams are concerned-Rule 1: 'Tis' better to give than receive' lest you get yer 'ath-lit up"!!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Whoa, nice!

Would you call this a schooner-brig?

That Sir is a Square-rigged Ketch: shorter mast to the rear

Ketch was a "catch" or fishing boat (ketch from Middle English cache, from cacchen, "to catch"). The mizzen is bigger than seen on a yawl in order to hold the bow (front) of a boat toward the wind and oncoming waves. The mainsail at the front of the boat would have been dropped and the mizzen trimmed tight on the centreline. Set up this way most boats will point directly into the wind in a reliable way. It is also possible to ease the mizzen slightly to allow the boat to move slowly forward.
In a fishing boat this attitude allows the nets to be handled without the boat becoming "broadsides" to the waves allowing them to break over the sides of the boat. Fishnets can then be handled without putting the boat at risk.
For enough sail area to propel a fishing boat the mizzen mast has to move forward toward the middle of the boat which allows its sail to be bigger without upsetting the sail balance or distribution.

Note the gaff rig mizzen with the National color properly displayed on vessel's 'point of honor' Looks just like the Hawaiian Chieftan

[Rhodes]

Cod fishing ship Stª. Maria Manuela!

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

HEY NUTHIN GOOD GOES OUTTA STYLE-AS DISCUSSED 8/3/15 IN THE BILGE @ CaptainRamius: Naturally as a new volunteer aboard the bilge's U-REEKHA U R assigned thalamitai — lower bank duties alongside Eichhörnchen! However, if U have a tambourine, we'll let you keep time (1 auletes — a musician supplying the oar timing with his flute)...critical when hitting 9 knots with 170 rowers! and doing 180's in 2.5 lengths Naturally Bertieck, AVGWarhawk and I will be assigned sail-handling duty....occasionally manning a 'stool' rowing position for ramming; C'mon at my age I need a decent chair! We of the Bilge remember Salamis, Actium & Lepanto ;all hard rowing turning points of history: and ramming allowed; Catapults, cannon, and archers if you must! [/I][/URL] <ATHLIT PROW
Of course I'll serve a good Cabernet with stew for all hands...It wasn't called the Wine Dark Sea fer nuthin! Where Rams are concerned-Rule 1: 'Tis' better to give than receive' lest you get yer 'ath-lit up"!!

Hey Aktung, keep in mind that this is a Beautiful Sailing Ships thread. The Bilge is that a way ---->

[Jimbuna]

L’Hermione, a replica of the 145-foot long Concorde class frigate that brought General Lafayette to the aid of the fledgling United States during the Revolutionary War.

[Aktungbby]

^Under full sail and showing some 'attitude'! https://www.facebook.com/hermione.voyage/photos/pb.215526518637067.-2207520000.1458656418./392421887614195/?type=3&theater And a very proper display of the colors!

[AVGWarhawk]

Royal Clipper:

[Jimbuna]

The Barque Eagle

[Mr Quatro]

USS Constitution is shown in a 1931 photograph

[Jimbuna]

Pelican of London

[Eichhörnchen]

Click on this and listen whilst enjoying these pictures...

[Mr Quatro]

What sailing ship is this one? All I have is that it is a photograph taken in Balaklava harbor, 1855, photographed by Roger Fenton

[Jimbuna]

I believe her to be HMS Hecla berthed at the cattle pier and as you say, at Balaklava Harbour circa 1855.

[Aktungbby]

Another perspective distant view (right) view Cossack Bay, cattle and horse dock-showing penned mounts. The HMS Hecla (#3 of that name) of the Crimean War did serve in the Baltic in action in 1854; Sir William Hutcheon Hall commanding, but was a Hydra class paddle-wheel sloop 6 gun vessel. MR Quatro's pic is definitely not a paddle wheel steam sloop. There is no stack at all; so not a steam frigate either. At some point a hurricane hit, sinking 30 transports in Balaklava and the horses suffered horribly from feed shortages and logistic nightmares. The Crimean war ranks as a study in how not to supply an army. This has been an engrossing hunt for the vessel name. It's driving me nuts....I'm clueless

[Mr Quatro]

The scene depicts a harsh hard life doesn't it? I would've rather ship out and have been at sea in those old days.

I was more interested in what kind of ship she was more than the name.

Three mast with what looks like 11 gun ports ... one clue is that this is now a Russian submarine base. Must have important defense capabilites, uh?