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Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« on: December 12, 2012, 03:03:20 PM »
Does anyone have a good source for ship statistics for the time from of roughly 1650-1750 or so?
Specifically I am looking for: Ship Type, Tonnage (hopefully in a consistent form), Length, Width, and Armament.
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2012, 03:05:48 PM »
Sea Law has some...
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2012, 03:31:41 PM »
 I am just taking a guess as I do not know but is there a book like Janes Defense for sail ships? Here is the link from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Fighting_Ships  for Janes Fighting Ships.
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2012, 03:37:22 PM »
This is also a link I found of an author when trying to do some searching http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/251264.Robert_Gardiner
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2012, 03:42:23 PM »
Quote from: markc on December 12, 2012, 03:31:41 PM
I am just taking a guess as I do not know but is there a book like Janes Defense for sail ships? Here is the link from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Fighting_Ships  for Janes Fighting Ships.
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Not so much, actually. Jane's was an outgrowth of a wargame system. There may be sourcebooks and the like for other systems, but I'm not aware of a unified book of similar quality that deals with sailing ships in particular. There's some for the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars, but sadly not in the Jane's format.

Table 4-6 in Sea Law will give you most of what you need, at least for smaller warships. You'll find displacement instead of tonnage, but it does have armament.
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2012, 03:59:29 PM »
Run out the Guns is a decent source.  Amazon has some books that include deck plans, but it's one book per famous ship and they might be Napleonic War or more modern.
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2012, 04:31:01 PM »
I've got Run Out the Guns, I'm just trying to add to the selections.  I've done a LOT of digging around on the internet already, so I figured I'd try here to see if anyone already had a good core resource.  The books look promising, I'll just have to try and get some details on them to see if they'd be useful enough to buy.  Thanks all for the info so far...
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2013, 11:05:52 PM »
Just an FYI... anyone looking for relatively cheap and close to scale ship models I've discovered a small selection of 3D Puzzle Ships that look like they are going to work pretty well.  You can scan ebay to find most of them, but some will show up on Amazon or other places.  Best prices I've seen is on ebay however.  They run about $15-$20 each.

I've ordered five ships from four different models all made from a company called "CubicFun".  There are more, but I picked up a "Xebec" type ship by the name of "Mystic", a "Black Pearl", the "Santa Maria" and a "Yacht Mary".  I'm probably going to take a sharp knife and some superglue to them and modify the bottoms so they sits close to what the water-line would be.
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2013, 09:44:02 AM »
 They look neat, and like you said from the picture I saw that they were on some base in the pictures.


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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2013, 11:09:59 PM »
Link to a post I put up with the four ship types I picked up....
http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=13112.msg168999#msg168999
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Re: Age of Sail/Ship Statistics
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