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  Topic: Aft Cabins on Cruizer-class sloops?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:19 pm   Subject: More on aft cabins
Adding to the confusion, the Jotika model of HMS Cruizer does not have an aft cabin showing. On the other hand, the much later wreck of the HMS Pelorus does show one. Also, I came across a model havin ...
  Topic: Aft Cabins on Cruizer-class sloops?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:25 am   Subject: Aft Cabins on Cruizer-class sloops?
Does anyone know if MOST of the many Cruizer-class sloops (18-gun, brig rigged, with two masts) had aft cabins? - Or very few. I am trying to firm up the look of Saracen 18, built 1812. - Any thoughts ...
  Topic: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:00 pm   Subject: Abel Helps and Thomas Helps have no known relationship
Hello -

Thanks for bringing to my attention Thomas Helps - but had already checked. To the best of my knowledge there is no connection to Abel Helps who emigrated to Ontario (Canada) when he was 51 ...
  Topic: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:48 pm   Subject: Link to Home Port for Royal Marines
The Royal Marines Museum has a one-page doc with the home port of each of their companies:

http://www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk/museumresearch/PDFs/Royal%20Marine%20Division%20Companies%201776%20-%2 ...
  Topic: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:39 pm   Subject: Home Port System
The Home Port System was simple - each of the ships in the Royal Navy that could at some point be in Britain was designated to have a Home Port - Plymouth, Portsmouth and Chatham - and later Woolwich ...
  Topic: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:18 am   Subject: Home Port - Portsmouth
I believe the Home Port system was very much in place by 1805. I live in Canada, but I am having a researcher at Kew looking at the embarkation book (1803-1814) for the Portsmouth Div. of Royal Marine ...
  Topic: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
tmoffatt

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PostForum: Age of Nelson   Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:21 am   Subject: Ships associated with Portsmouth 1805?
Does anyone have the 1805 list of ships (or year near that) broken out by the associated home port? I am looking for the list for PORTSMOUTH, as it would assist in research on a Royal Marine in the P ...
 
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