tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5775800995365814576..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Somerset Repaired for “Considerable Service”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-62361632873590339612020-08-23T14:33:14.512-05:002020-08-23T14:33:14.512-05:00For the last ten years this posting has included t...For the last ten years this posting has included the note at the end identifying the ship in the photograph as H.M.S. <i>Victory</i>. <br /><br />Since this series of postings discusses how H.M.S. <i>Somerset</i> was wrecked decades before the invention of photography, I don’t believe attentive readers will be misled into believing that’s a photo of the <i>Somerset</i>.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-17277658221946779362020-08-23T11:04:25.270-05:002020-08-23T11:04:25.270-05:00The ship in the photo is the HMS Victory, I might ...The ship in the photo is the HMS Victory, I might suggest that you label the photo as such to not mislead those who wish to find an accurate visual reference of the Somerset:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_the_lineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-17663795589947917792011-07-17T17:07:03.729-05:002011-07-17T17:07:03.729-05:00Sounds very interesting! Those photos could be the...Sounds very interesting! Those photos could be the basis of a “guest blogger” entry. Please email me if you’re interested. (I can’t contact you directly through Blogger.)J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-63616117368271291122011-07-17T16:52:08.549-05:002011-07-17T16:52:08.549-05:00Regarding images of Third Rate warships:
I could ...Regarding images of Third Rate warships: <br />I could be wrong, but I believe an accurate depiction of the HMS Somerset can be found by searching Google for: H.M.S. Agamemnon. She was also a 64 Gun Third Rate, Ship of the Line. Additionally, she was also built at the Chatham Shipyard, starting in 1781. <br />On a personal note, I was lucky enough to see the Somerset first hand in Sept. 2010 while at the Cape. I've always found it to be amazing that we have so much vital history all around us here in New England which many people don't begin to recognize. We spent about an hour exploring the intimate details of the remaining hull timbers, dowel holes, carved Roman Numerals, to photographing the hull timbers 'head on' so as to count the number of growth rings... <br />It was simply amazing to experience a piece of the American Revolution in this manner. <br />Tons of pictures if you're interested. Let me know.J.M. Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11644029659881439189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90232988572785762372010-04-30T14:35:53.676-05:002010-04-30T14:35:53.676-05:00Thanks! I actually found this photo Googling “thir...Thanks! I actually found this photo Googling “third rate,” but I don’t think it was labeled one way or the other. It appeared similar to an eighteenth-century third-rate ship in a battle painting, but then they may well have been all built along similar lines. <br /><br />Are there clear images of third-rate warships from the late 1700s? The only way I could see finding one is searching under individual ships’ names, which meant searching for those names to begin with, and I thought that whole process would take too much time.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-85262682075185703682010-04-30T14:20:02.630-05:002010-04-30T14:20:02.630-05:00The Somerset (a "Third Rate")would have ...The Somerset (a "Third Rate")would have been much smaller than the ship in the photo, the Victory (a "First Rate").<br /><br />First Rate=100 guns; Second Rate=84 guns; Third Rate=74 guns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com