Link to the related website that has useful info: the Age of Nelson.

This forum is devoted to the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793 - 1815).
And why not the other navies of the period?
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Post Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:15 pm    Post subject: How to find a RN ship Reply with quote

If you are looking for a ship of the Royal Navy of the period, there are three places to start:

"Ships of the Royal Navy" by J. J. Colledge and Ben Barlow, new edition, Chatham Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978 1861762818.
This revised edition of the classic of Colledge contains more than 15,000 ships info including the hired vessels which are often difficult to find.

"The Sailing Navy List", the classic by David Lyon, 2nd edition, Conway Maritime Press, 1997, ISBN 978 0851778648.

The website of Michael Phillips at http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM.

There is also an (incomplete) list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names

Two things to keep in mind:
    there was (normally) only one ship with a given name at a time. That's the reason why they changed often their name during their live, specially when they where put out of commission.

    the principal provider of the RN of the period was... the French navy! Many captured ships (French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, American) where bought from the captors and incorporated in the RN, often with the same name.
    There was three "Neptune" at the battle of Trafalgar, French, Spanish and British.
    Ships were sometimes taken, re-taken and taken again, changing their name each time.
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Post Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"The website of Michael Phillips at http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM. "

This link seems to have been unavailable for at least a week or so.

Does anyone know what has happened?
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Post Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The website of Michael Phillips at http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM
has been offline for sometimes now.

A great loss.

I hope to see it again one day.
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Post Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Michael Phillips website Ships of the Old Navy at cronab.demon.uk/INTRO.HTM was very popular for many years but suddenly disappeared in March.
By chance I had a copy from 2002 somewhere so I have resurrected it at http://www.ageofnelson.org
It's still experimental: still a lot of work to do to correct the lay-out of the various notices.
I am adding a useful search engine.

Change your bookmarks!

Please feel free to comment.

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Post Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is now a new site which aims to list all sailing vessels of all nations.

This is very much a work in progress and will probably always be so but already has nearly 2000 seperate pages and lists.

http://3decks.pbwiki.com

Cheers

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Post Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting indeed.
The web is great.

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A database of 19th century RN ships:
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/A/A.html
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