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To follow up on this question, it seems fairly clear that the Admiralty usually kept the name of a French or Spanish prize, unless it duplicated (or was very similar to) a name already in use. This wa ...

I agree that this three-volume series is a basic source for naval history of the period, but I have found that it is to be less useful (and less interesting) than Schomberg's Naval Chronology, which i ...

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Topic: Ship renaming policies in the RN of the 18th and 19th c.
Charnock Replies: 2 Views: 175905	Forum: Age of Nelson Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:28 pm Subject: Naming of ships
Charnock Replies: 2 Views: 175905	To follow up on this question, it seems fairly clear that the Admiralty usually kept the name of a French or Spanish prize, unless it duplicated (or was very similar to) a name already in use. This wa ...
Topic: James Ralfe's Naval Chronology of Great Britain
Charnock Replies: 4 Views: 65575	Forum: Age of Nelson Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:01 pm Subject: Ralfe's Naval Chronology
Charnock Replies: 4 Views: 65575	I agree that this three-volume series is a basic source for naval history of the period, but I have found that it is to be less useful (and less interesting) than Schomberg's Naval Chronology, which i ...