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Naval Battle Between H.M.S. Defiant and French Man O’ War
This is a really great battle scene between H.M.S. Defiant and a French Man O’War…
Belem Completed
I completely finished this ship today along with making the Shelf for it that is above my desk in the living room. It’s a perfect place for it.
Anyway, I made this video for it.
Damn the Defiant!
I’ve been working on the Ratlines since yesterday. It is pretty tedious process and requires a lot of patience I’m telling you! And I’m only still like about 1/2 done!
But while working on it, it made me think about all these guys who were pressed into service, basically kidnapped into involuntary servitude is what happened. And then they were made to learn how to climb the Mast and go out on the Yards. Nowadays they use safety equipment for all that. But back in those days they climbed up the Ratlines and go out on the Yards in bare feet!
A pretty good example of this is in that movie Damn the Defiant! Captain Crawford, Alec Guinness ends up having to press a bunch of men into service around the taverns,… I believe they were either in Liverpool or Portsmouth I can’t remember. well one of the guys they pressed with a guy who claimed that he was a gentleman. So they made him learn how to climb up the Mast and yard like the rest of the Seaman. LOL!!! 🙂
From the TCM Article…
“…The insurrection presented in Damn the Defiant! (originally released in England as H.M.S. Defiant) is depicted less as a just fight against systemic corruption than as a reaction to an evil, aberrant officer in stark opposition to a benevolent commander with his crew’s best interests at heart. The brutal treatment inflicted on the crew by sadistic Lt. Scott-Padget goes unnoticed by Capt. Crawford until the captain’s own midshipman son is viciously punished by the second in command. The resolution comes not from Crawford’s intervention or the official administration of justice on behalf of the men below deck but through the actions of a “bad” mutineer, and at the end, the singular threat to their well-being removed, the men patriotically unite in the service of defeating the French Navy. “It no more challenges constituted authority than those public school stories about a good house-master and brutal prefects,” Durgnat notes.”
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HMS Hotspur – Horatio Hornblower Series
“You know that Hotspur is under my command?“―Horatio Hornblower
HMS Hotspur was an 20-gun, quarter-deck, ship-rigged sloop-of-war of the British Royal Navy. She was armed with 20 9-pounder long guns.
The Earl of Pembroke was used for the HMS Hotspur
History
In May of 1803, with war with France under Napoleon Bonaparteimminent, Horatio Hornblower was promoted from Lieutenant to Commander and appointed to command the Hotspur. He chose Lieutenant William Bush to serve under him as First Lieutenant. The ship gave formal salute to the French frigate Loire before war is declared.
Hotspur reconnoitred the approaches to the French naval base of Brest as part of the Inshore Squadron, and narrowly avoided capture when war was declared. While in command of the Hotspur, Admiral William Cornwallisinstructed Hornblower to capture a convoy of ships carrying Spanish gold. Instead, Hornblower engaged an enemy frigate sent to warn the convoy and keeps it from accomplishing its mission. Eventually, through superior seamanship and skill, he drove it away.
In the Hornblower TV series, Hotspur was originally a British ship. She was eventually captured by the French. Hornblower found the Hotspur on patrol, and felt something was not right. After Hornblower and the crew discovers that the ship has been captured, they succeed in retaking it by boarding.
Crew
- Horatio Hornblower, Captain
- William Bush, First Lieutenant
- Prowse, Acting- Master
- Wise, Boatswain
- Bailey, Gunroom Steward
- Black, Captain of the Forecastle
- Alexander Cargill, Master’s Mate
- Cheeseman, Midshipman
- Foreman, Midshipman
- Orrock, Midshipman
- Firth, Seaman
- Cummings, Midshipman
- James Doughty, Captain’s Steward
- Downes, Seaman
- John Grimes, Captain’s Steward
- Gurney, Gunner
- Hewitt, Captain’s Coxswain
- Huffnell, Purser
- Jenkins, Seaman
- James Johnson, Seaman
- Martin, Captain’s Clerk
- Mayne, Boatswain’s Mate
- Sanderson, Seaman
- Simmonds, Ship’s Cook
- Dr. Wallis, Surgeon
- Young, Midshipman
Boom and Gaff
I’m starting the Boom and Gaff for the Spanker. As well as sewing it all in. I had to skip ahead because they really didn’t provide good instruction on the exact height of the Masts, so I have to guesstimate by making the Spanker first before gluing in the Pin Ring around the Mast and the Base.
I made those holes to be able to paint different sized spars.