snowleopard
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My daughter is reading the Hornblower books for the first time and struggling to understand the terminology. Can anyone suggest a website to clarify things?
Nautical terminology & the Hornblower books
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KenMcCulloch
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sarabande
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there's a manual for a modern square rigger:-
http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/0870212516.
She's a lucky lady with many hours, nay years of enjoyment ahead.
If you can find a copy of Sea Life in Nelson's Time by ?R Hattersley , then that gives a very good description of what life is like in the British Navy of Hornblower. If you can't find a copy, PM me and I'll lend you mine.
The other book which I have been seeking for years is one I saw in Camden Library in 1970. It's an atlas of all Hornblower's journeys, book by book. It really helped to link the literary work to the real world. In Flying Colours, for instance, I followed H's escape down the Loire River. Sudden thought - you could do that on Google Earth nowadays ! It would be such fun playing geographical detectives !
http://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/0870212516.
She's a lucky lady with many hours, nay years of enjoyment ahead.
If you can find a copy of Sea Life in Nelson's Time by ?R Hattersley , then that gives a very good description of what life is like in the British Navy of Hornblower. If you can't find a copy, PM me and I'll lend you mine.
The other book which I have been seeking for years is one I saw in Camden Library in 1970. It's an atlas of all Hornblower's journeys, book by book. It really helped to link the literary work to the real world. In Flying Colours, for instance, I followed H's escape down the Loire River. Sudden thought - you could do that on Google Earth nowadays ! It would be such fun playing geographical detectives !
OGITD
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shmoo
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The Sailor's Word-Book
An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865
You can still buy it as an actual book (Amazon?) but as it is way out of copyright you can download a copy from gutenberg for free at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26000
The download copy has the advantage of being searchable.
An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
Smyth, W. H. (William Henry), 1788-1865
You can still buy it as an actual book (Amazon?) but as it is way out of copyright you can download a copy from gutenberg for free at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26000
The download copy has the advantage of being searchable.
snowleopard
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Thanks guys. Some really good stuff there.
(I've always wondered what 'Group Up' meant in Douglas Reeman books).
(I've always wondered what 'Group Up' meant in Douglas Reeman books).
Andrew_Fanner
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Electrically drive on submarines, switching ther batteries from series to parallel ISTR.
I'll ask SWMBO later if there is a tome they recommend, the Naval Museum gets ths sort of thing quite often.
