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- Jack Aubrey …reviation for John at the time. See also, O'Brian, Patrick. ''The Thirteen-Gun Salute''. ©1989 William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., Glasgow: p. 88</ref><re… …drowned in the Bay of Biscay off Cape Ortegal while a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate ''Latona''.<ref>O'Brian, Patrick. ''Blue at the Mizzen''. ©1999 W…21 KB (3045 words) - 15:57, 30 December 2013
- US frigate Chesapeake …|right|US frigate Chesapeake]]The '''US frigate ''Chesapeake''''' was a 36-gun [[frigate]] of the [[United States Navy]] during the [[Quasi-War]] with [[… …''Constitution'', and ''President'') and seven percent smaller than her 38-gun sisters (''Constellation'' and ''Congress''). Although nominally designed …9 KB (1427 words) - 15:48, 28 February 2012
- Carronade …dard gun and consequently lighter. The overall weight of a 32-pound long gun was about 55 hundredweight (2.75 imperial tons or 2.8 metric tonnes) and i… … from side to side); the outer end was pivoted on a bolt screwed into the deck.5 KB (788 words) - 10:04, 24 November 2010
- HMS Surprise (ship) …wo and six, all these being of smaller [[calibre]]. The guns on the main deck were either nine-pounder long guns or 32-pounder [[carronade]]s. …y of the Marine'' (1815: article 'Mast') gives the lower mainmast of a 28-gun ship as 81ft tall as against 89ft for a 36 and 71ft for a 20. [[Geoff Hun…11 KB (1769 words) - 19:21, 30 May 2011
- HMS Acasta …arronades on her forecastle. She measured 154 feet in length at the lower deck, 40'9 1/2" in beam, weighed 1,143 tons, with a compliment of 320 officers … … described by Aubrey to his friend [[Stephen Maturin|Maturin]] as a "forty-gun frigate, pretty well the heaviest in the service … And the finest sailer…5 KB (699 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2010
- Book Covers …ntilation and pumping out water. Jack's cabin is a bit lower than the main deck, too close to the water line to allow for any gunports. …s rightly entitled to just one as a junior post captain in 1804). A small gun crew on the forecastle has just fired the bow chaser using a linstock rath…7 KB (1220 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2010
- HMS Raisonable …1815. Her armaments consisted principally of 24-pounder guns on the lower deck, 18-poounders on the upper and 9-pounders on the [[quarterdeck]].2 KB (290 words) - 13:44, 19 March 2010
- The Ships of Jack Aubrey …ment sometimes did substantially alter over years and decades of service. Gun types and quantities especially shifted around the beginning of the 19th C… …viest guns were placed; for frigates it was the deck immediately below the deck holding the main battery of cannons). This is the rough equivalent of "le…43 KB (6674 words) - 00:31, 2 January 2014
