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Re: French Navy Ranks
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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:11:31 GMT
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It's not French but Steve Beisty's(Sp?) Cross-Section of A Man-of-War has an
excellent break down of the crew.
Try also watching some Horatio Hornblower movies, in some they had some
references to the French navy.
Hope your fleet comes out nice--can't wait!
Kai
In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> I'm building up a small French fleet (Napoleonic/Pirate era), and would like
> to have authentic(ish) crew and ranks.
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> The fleet will be commanded by a Capitain de Corvette sailing in a 12 gun
> brig, and the other two ships are a bomb ketch and a sloop-of-war. The three
> 'big' ships will be accompanied by a couple of gunboats.
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> IIRC, the British Navy would have had the ketch and the sloop under the
> command of Lieutenants, and the gunboats under the command of Midshipmen.
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> Did the French Navy have the equivalent of Lieutenants-in-Command? Did they
> have Midshipmen or equivalents?
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> And what enlisted ranks were there in the French Navy?
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> Or am I just being way too obsessive?
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> Answers, corrections, or directions to either would be appreciated.
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> Cheers
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> Richie Dulin
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| (...) An excellent series, and the basis for most of my ship knowledge of the era ;-) (...) I'm very pleased with the Brig (which owes a lot of the design inspiration to the larger ships out of Port Block), and have it displayed on top of the TV at (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| I'm building up a small French fleet (Napoleonic/Pirate era), and would like to have authentic(ish) crew and ranks. The fleet will be commanded by a Capitain de Corvette sailing in a 12 gun brig, and the other two ships are a bomb ketch and a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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