I am slowly working my way thru' "Before the Mast" (ISBN 0-9544029-4-4), which has most of the wood, cloth & wicker items from the Mary Rose included in it....
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James W. Pratt, Jr.
cunning@...
May 1, 2006 1:59 pm
I am making the bobbin not the axel! The axel will be 5/16 drill rod. James Cunningham...
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Geffrei Maudeleyne
geffrei
May 2, 2006 1:01 am
This is from a lady in Atlantia. Someone here should be able to help or point in the right direction. Geffrei ... From: atlantia-bounces@... ...
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zyqissilent
May 2, 2006 11:33 pm
Just a reminder. 2006 Colorado Medieval Festival. Ft Collins Colorado, 2-4June2006. Come one - Come all. http://www.medievalworld.us/coloradocastle/...
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chris roberts
croberts85us
May 2, 2006 11:35 pm
Thanks but we have found no evidence of hammocksfor our time period. We do have a few guys that string hammocks between the shrouds but it is for comfort ...
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chris roberts
croberts85us
May 2, 2006 11:37 pm
Thanks, I will check that out. Chris ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 2, 2006 11:51 pm
Chris... Shipboard life is something that gets my interest rising... but isn't something I"ve really studied much. You've mentiond that there isn't extant...
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Avery Austringer
avery1415
May 3, 2006 9:34 pm
Now Charles - you you would have come to Elizabeth's Kingdom with me (rather than the Magic Kingdom) you'd know all about this. :) Oh the HMS Victory, some of...
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Conal O'hAirt Jim...
baronconal
May 3, 2006 9:43 pm
everytime I have heard any details about the number of crew it took for a 'ship of the line' and the numbers of crew and passengers that were crammed onto the ...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 3, 2006 10:01 pm
... much beds would leave? Given what a full crew looked like and as cramped as the Victory was, giving everyone a bed would have left little room for things...
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Geffrei Maudeleyne
geffrei
May 3, 2006 10:15 pm
<<I seem to recall that on a ship that did use hammocks, that they were on the gun decks, in between the guns and taken down and stashed during battle. I do...
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Barbara Dodge
awench2000
May 3, 2006 10:27 pm
Hmmmm, bed doubling as your coffin. Is this maybe where the phrase about Davey Jones's locker comes from? As far as everyone having a bed, couldn't they have...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 3, 2006 10:39 pm
Ah... *hot bunking*... still practiced in fine submarine fleets almost everywhere... Chas. (Who once discovered that the sail locker was a *very* comfy place...
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Ralph Lindberg
n7bsn
May 3, 2006 11:33 pm
... about Davey Jones's locker comes from? ... Actually the hammocks were used as coffins also. You were wrapped in your hammock, it was weighted and "over the...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 4, 2006 12:23 am
... which reduces the crew of a Destroyer from 200 to 300 to (about) 95. First US warship, where the plan is each crewmen will have a (private) room! << Oh...
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Ralph Lindberg
n7bsn
May 4, 2006 2:04 am
... years after he got OUT of the Navy... , huh... go figure...) ... Almost sounds like my ol' man-at-arms, he spent 6 years in and the only time he was on a...
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C N Schwartz
kjworzie
May 4, 2006 3:01 am
And hammocks are a Caribbean island invention that predates Columbus, so you have to figure... Columbus or his colleagues brings back to the Old World a novel...
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Bruce Green
diegodepalos
May 5, 2006 2:51 am
I believe M'lord Avery has made some rather large assumptions. First, HMS Victory was the flagship of King George's Navy--about 200 years out of period....
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Arthur Kathan
areka1
May 8, 2006 2:05 am
Greetings All, (Hi Charles) I am currently reading an excellent book on the British Navy, "To Rule The Waves" by Arthur Herman, which goes back to before the...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 8, 2006 4:16 am
Hey Corin!!! This is interestin'... Yea... I've been digging to see what I could find with regard to 'crew accomodations'... best I've been able to determine...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 8, 2006 4:42 am
In 1492 the two 'Caravels' (the Ninña and the Pinta) were faster than the 150 ton Santa Maria, a 'Carrack' (the merchant ships of their day), with a crew of...
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Chuck Phillips
chuckp1066
May 9, 2006 6:15 am
Wondering what to do with that wad of cash? You too can own a piece of history, if the price is right... ...
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James W. Pratt, Jr.
cunning@...
May 10, 2006 2:03 am
That is not a wood working lathe!though it could be used of wood) Though I have one that was made when that one was put in storage. Jame Cunningham ... From:...
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rmhowe
mmagnusm
May 10, 2006 5:59 am
... Subject: [SCA-AS] Stefan's Florilegium files for May Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:25:13 -0500 From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous@...> Reply-To: Arts...
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msgilliandurham
May 11, 2006 12:25 am
Greetings to the list! Does anyone here know of any documentation for wooden drinking vessels, shaped like modern glass tumblers (tall and narrow, same ...
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James Winkler
rivendalehall
May 11, 2006 12:43 am
Not sure what you mean with "the bottom is a separate piece"... I don't think you'll find any wooden drinking vessels with straight sides though... there are...
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Arthur Slaughter
dairmot
May 11, 2006 1:35 am
Can't say I have ever run across anything of that type in my research. Untill fairly late in period, mazers seem to have been quite common. What amounts to a...
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Ralph Lindberg
n7bsn
May 11, 2006 3:27 am
... Gillian, I do a far amount of turning, I also have several nice books the touch or cover period turning(the York book already listed, the book on the Mary...
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rmhowe
mmagnusm
May 11, 2006 10:23 am
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/woodworking/>...
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msgilliandurham
May 11, 2006 2:14 pm
... Aha! Thank you! I did a search for the word "Stave" on this list, and found a discussion of stave build mugs around March 24 of last year. In msg 4068...
