cannonball Archive

  • Historical Shipwrecks: <i>HMS Cerberus</i> & <i>HMS Orpheus</i> Gallery

    Historical Shipwrecks: HMS Cerberus & HMS Orpheus Gallery

    The Historical Shipwrecks album is dedicated to pictures of artifacts from shipwrecks relevant to our period. The first addition is this gallery of images relating to the HMS Cerberus and HMS Orpheus. On 29 July 1778, a French fleet under Admiral Comte d’Estaing arrived in Narragansett Bay as allies of the Americans in their war [...]

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  • Hey There, Hot Shot: A Guide to Ammunition in Aubrey’s Royal Navy

    Hey There, Hot Shot: A Guide to Ammunition in Aubrey’s Royal Navy

    While many readers of our beloved series are already experts in Napoleonic Era naval warfare by the time they discover the novels (seriously, many more than you’d expect!), others like myself stumbled upon the world of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin with only Hollywood as our guide. Perhaps due to the Pirates of the Carribean [...]

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