A classic video... letting us go with you on a lark. For those of us who are housebound, the wind and mud is great to experience vicariously. Thank you.
the HMS Merlin sank at the battle of Fort Mifflin in the Delaware River just below Philadelphia Pa. as the continentals were trying to keep the British Navy from entering the port of Philly to supply the British army who was then in control of the city. The two ships lost were the HMS Augusta and the HMS Merlin
Hi Nicola. HKF H is hours K is knots and F is fathoms. So K and F is the distance run in that hour. The ships log was towed behind in the water and measured the distance run. so 3 and 5 in the K and F columns would be 3 nautical miles and there are 8 fathoms in a knot so 5 would be 5/8 of a nm (3.625nm).
Thank you for the good wishes you impart on us in each video. It’s very kind of you. You will never know how much pleasure you bring to an old American woman with ties to London from the 1600’s. I also enjoy seeing you with Si, he’s a very entertaining guy.
Hello Nicola…..Ahoy!….”a hoi”….was used to call small boats moving up and down the Netherlands coast fetching and carrying goods…”hoi” is the Dutch word for “hello”
🔔 Always brightens the day when an alert from everyone's favorite mudlarker pops up! You really are rockin' it when it comes to your programming, much appreciated!
Ah! Nicola,this was brimful of fun finds. HMS Merlin,wow. I am fascinated by the fact that the ship was intentionally burned down in North America,yet this slate managed to end up in England. It wouldn’t seem to be of enough importance to bring back. Fascinating. Here’s a maritime saying,if it hasn’t been mentioned already: “I don’t like the cut of his jib”. The Jib is the tiny flag on the very top of the tallest mast,indicating the country of origin. If you were on a British ship,and you saw a French ship,with a French Jib,that was bad news,hence the phrase,meaning that it was a hostile ship. And lastly,for Pete’s sake,I’m dying to know why you are wearing a ‘The Specials” t shirt!!! I am,amongst other musical genres,a big Specials fan,proper mid-era Ska. I neeed to know the backstory to this garment!!!!! 🤣🤣😅
Hi, Nicola. Nice to have a new video! I do love this one in particular, as I have a maritime connection through my GGGrandfather, who ran away to sea as a young boy and joined the US Merchant Marine. One of my most cherished family treasures are the buttons from his uniform. As far as interesting naval terms, my favourites are Scuttlebutt - the butt (barrel) of water on deck, through which a hole had been cut (scuttled), where the sailors often stood around exchanging gossip, and Pipe Down -used to tell people to be quiet, but originating from the Boatswain's whistle denoting time to go below deck and ready for bed.
How excited you must have been finding so much to research! I envy you being able to literally touch history when you go mudlarking. As far as ship related sayings go, my grandmother would tell me, regarding loud or overly talkative people, "Empty vessels make the most sound".
Terrific finds and LOVE the history of the slate!! We have a long history of Navy men in my family and it makes me proud to hear histories of naval finds and the heroic men and women who have served. Happy belated birthday, sweet lady!!❤❤❤
Watching (and appreciating) so many of your videos has had an unexpected side effet : I have become addicted to the tinkly, glassy, sound of boots walking on shingle, and the metallic sound of a trowel scraping among beach stones. Who knew? Thanks for constantly meaningful content, and gorgeous wildlife and urban landscape shots.
Maritime saying. Not enough room to swing a cat being not enough room to swing a cat of 9 tails., which was punishment for sailors.They would get a flogging with a “cat of 9 tails “. Usually on their backs. Thanks for the video& belated happy birthday!
The research and reading of the history about the Merlin was fascinating. Now that I am older I can appreciate history! It was very boring to me when I was younger. I loved listening to my grandpa tell his stories of WWl and being able to entertain the men on the ship. He was a bandmaster who took his work serious. I really don’t know if he actually used any weapons. He never said anything about it. That you Nicola for all of your history lessons throughout your videos. You are a remarkable woman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
The ship’s slate log is truly an incredible find. I know you’ll treasure it. I can hardly wait to see your video of the time you spent with Ellie on the island.
Thank you so much for all you do to enlighten us. Your fans. Such a great way to learn of history from a country that most of us will not be. Able to visit. I do believe a great teacher loves to find the history of a strange piece of treasure and then shares that knowledge with others . You make my Sundays so enjoyable. Always be safe.
Señora Nicola,me encantan todos sus videos!!Uno de los primeros que ví, fue el del perrito de madera,(era extraño,con esos clavos por todos lados) y desde entonces la sigo! Increíble que sus videos los hace sin importar el clima! Cuidese mucho, y gracias por esos lindos momentos que nos hacen regresar en el tiempo!👍🙂🙋🏻♀️🇦🇷
I can't imagine how you feel when you find something that was last held or touched centuries ago & you hold it for the first time. My imagination would go into overdrive, trying to understand who lost it, how they lost it etc etc.
Wonderful video. I love watching you find all of these treasures. I'm guessing that all of the things on the wall behind you are things you have found. What a collection!
To the "Bitter end", referred to the end of a rope. Some animals were taken live onto a ship and were kept within a manger, cows, goats and chickens lived in wooden cages for eggs. Cheese was part of a sailors diet because it could be stored for long periods as were dried peas. Meat was steeped and when cooked the scum ( called Mush) that floated to the top was spread on ships biscuits and also used as a grease which was applied to the mast to allow sails to be hoisted more easily.
A fantastic video, Nicola. The Thames Gods were kind to you that day! As far as I know (from a shipping family) HKF stands for course, knots and force - basically, direction or heading, wind speed and sea conditions.
Mystery solving is your passion; not like Jane Marple, but real, everyday history. And plenty to be found on the foreshore! I feel quite fortunate to be a witness to your adventures; and occasionally add a small piece of knowledge.
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." "Learning the ropes". "The sun is over the yard arm". "Skylarking". These are the first few naval expressions that I think of.
Hi Nicola, the choice was endless , With a single Sixpence you could buy a shave and dressing one's wig, a pound of local cheese, or you could have your chimney swept. 😂
Hi Nicola 🙂❤️ !!! WOW, that was so cool finding the Merlin Slate. I wanted to hear about that beautiful nail you found at the River Thames, it looked gold or copper & had a weird arrow on it !!! I really was interested in the story of the button with the name of F.T. Prewett !!!! That's my maiden name but we spell it "PRUETT" & my baby sister had insisted that Pruett is French & I told her no it's not !!! I wonder if it's ENGLISH !!!!! I've always wanted to find out where our ancestors come from & the stories about all of them from my dad's side & my mom's but I don't know how to go about it !!! Great video Nicola & I enjoyed it very much !!! Much love to you from the USA !!! ❤️❤️❤️🙂
HMS Merlin was launched in 1666 and sold in 1698. 350 year old relics are amazing. Ones with documented history ….. unreal. Great work saving that history!
Wiping the slate clean, starting with a clean slate are a few sayings that come to mind. The Merlin slate was a fantastic find and it was so interesting hearing the ships history. Happy week ahead Nicola ❤😊
Hello Nicola! Cheer's to another year!❤️ Happy to see you back and really look forward to more of these wonderful mud larking adventures!!! Such a joy!!!❤️
Nicola, I can't watch it yet in Utah, USA, but by reading some of the comments I wish the time would go by quicker (101 minutes to go). By what I'm seeing you've found something great. I can't wait!!! So looking for to your video. Have a blessed week Nicola 😊
Love your videos Nicola and this one was exceptional - maritime sayings: clear the decks/shipshape and Bristol fashion/fair weather sailor/above board perhaps. Greetings from Australia.
Hauled over the coals.Over the yardarm. Four sheets to the wind.Hoist by his own petard.Plain sailing. Also so many seafaring term passed into aviation. Captains ( often referred to as ‘skippers’) Port and starboard, bulkheads ,galleys, stewards,First Officers.,Ships papers.Flight deck ,cabin,rudder and keel etc,etc.
The slate was truly an amazing thing! The research you did on that was fascinating! To think you can find a broken object in the mud that tells a whole story is amazing! Loved every minute of that, also Happy Belated Birthday to You Nicola!
Not maratine but river related. Author Samuel Clemens whose pseudonym was Mark Twain was a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi river in the 1860's. Best known for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He would hear from the man slinging the sounding weight "Mark Twain" which meant the depth was 2 fathoms.
My great grandfather was a sailor. He went to Palestine to help build houses. On his way back to the US, Samuel was on board the ship. He wrote about his journey in Innocents Abroad, pub. in 1869. In the book was a list of passengers and he mentioned my great grandfather.
Always enjoy your larking in the mud and appreciate your wishes for viewer’s well being. The video of the bird swallowing the fish was mesmerizing. Good luck on your future expeditions!
The lead tag was an interesting find . It reminded me of being youngster and writing a note or letter on a piece of writing paper and folding it to just the shape of an envelope and sending it off to a friend or relative. I so enjoy watching your videos and discovered today I been watching for months and only today did I finally subscribe. So new subscriber here .
Sayings (over a barrel) (three sheets to the wind) As the Merlin ended its life in in 1777 America, I wonder how the slates ended up in the Thames. Probably lost overboard whilst being refitted perhaps.How fantastic to find it and be able to trace the ship. Thank you x
H hours, K knots? , F ?. Such an awesome find! Also, I don't remember a fluted pipe bowl, ever...very pretty! Another wonderfully interesting video! ❤❤
the ships log was basically a wooden wighted wedge on a long line with knots tied at regular intervals and an hour glass. it was thrown of the back and the numbers of knots that ran through the fingers until the sand ran out was the number of knots (speed) 1 knot is 1 NM/h
So interesting love the history keep going Nicola. Fourteen ships and one shore establishment has borne that name dating from 1579 - 1901 thee bagasse was commissioned in 1939 o could be any number of the ships First one 1579a a ten gunner pinnance an latter till 1601 1652 was a fourteen yacht captured by Dutch off Cadiz in 1665 1666 was a eight gun yacht sold off in 1698 1699 was a two gun sloop 1744 was a ten gun sloop 1753 was a ten gun sloop 1756 was a ten gun sloop was captured by French privateer in 1757 but recaptured later the same year renamed HMS Zephyr it was the captured by French in 1778 was recaptured and burnt 26 August 1780 1757 was a sixteen gun sloop abandoned in 1777 1780 was a eighteen gun sloop 1796 was a sixteen gun sloop broken up in 1803 1803 was a sixteen gun sloop formerly Hercules 1838 was a four gun wood paddle packet launch 1871 was gun gunboat 1901 the last boat was a sloop
"Cooper" = Naval bronze, excellent resistance to corrosion, 60% copper 40% zinc with 1% tin alloy (expensive to make). It will not shatter as easy as brass and is harder that copper. Yes very nice nail!
It was a deck log used to record navigational information such as compass headings, celestial navigation details, speed, etc, in chalk as it happened. Usually kept by junior officers and young midshipmen, the info would be later recorded in the permanent log maintained by the Sailing Master if it was a warship or the 1st Mate if it was a commercial vessel. It was slate because it was more resistant than paper
I have another book by Ivor Noel Hume called Martin’s Hundred, about a dig he conducted near Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia that was of a site dating back to the 1630s. He was a very good writer, I agree!
A classic video... letting us go with you on a lark. For those of us who are housebound, the wind and mud is great to experience vicariously. Thank you.
the HMS Merlin sank at the battle of Fort Mifflin in the Delaware River just below Philadelphia Pa. as the continentals were trying to keep the British Navy from entering the port of Philly to supply the British army who was then in control of the city. The two ships lost were the HMS Augusta and the HMS Merlin
Hi Nicola. HKF H is hours K is knots and F is fathoms. So K and F is the distance run in that hour. The ships log was towed behind in the water and measured the distance run. so 3 and 5 in the K and F columns would be 3 nautical miles and there are 8 fathoms in a knot so 5 would be 5/8 of a nm (3.625nm).
Wonderful episode ! Great history lesson - especially The Merlin. Thank you again
Don't know why this channel doesn't have two-hundred-fifty thousand subscriber's but the videos never get old.
Never been to those silly isles, sounds funny.
I love that nail!
I was impressed too. Piqued this ol' guy's curiosity... 🤔.
Thank you for the good wishes you impart on us in each video. It’s very kind of you. You will never know how much pleasure you bring to an old American woman with ties to London from the 1600’s. I also enjoy seeing you with Si, he’s a very entertaining guy.
What wonderful finds tied to history and people. Thank you Nicola I loved it. And happy belated birthday! ❤❤❤
All the better for seeing you back in your element and letting us join💜💜💜💜💜💜Thanks.❤❤❤
🎂A very Happy Belated Birthday to you from across the pond!!!🙏🏻
Hello Nicola…..Ahoy!….”a hoi”….was used to call small boats moving up and down the Netherlands coast fetching and carrying goods…”hoi” is the Dutch word for “hello”
🔔 Always brightens the day when an alert from everyone's favorite mudlarker pops up! You really are rockin' it when it comes to your programming, much appreciated!
Ah!
Nicola,this was brimful of fun finds.
HMS Merlin,wow.
I am fascinated by the fact that the ship was intentionally burned down in North America,yet this slate managed to end up in England.
It wouldn’t seem to be of enough importance to bring back.
Fascinating.
Here’s a maritime saying,if it hasn’t been mentioned already:
“I don’t like the cut of his jib”.
The Jib is the tiny flag on the very top of the tallest mast,indicating the country of origin.
If you were on a British ship,and you saw a French ship,with a French Jib,that was bad news,hence the phrase,meaning that it was a hostile ship.
And lastly,for Pete’s sake,I’m dying to know why you are wearing a ‘The Specials” t shirt!!!
I am,amongst other musical genres,a big Specials fan,proper mid-era Ska.
I neeed to know the backstory to this garment!!!!!
🤣🤣😅
Hi, Nicola. Nice to have a new video! I do love this one in particular, as I have a maritime connection through my GGGrandfather, who ran away to sea as a young boy and joined the US Merchant Marine. One of my most cherished family treasures are the buttons from his uniform.
As far as interesting naval terms, my favourites are Scuttlebutt - the butt (barrel) of water on deck, through which a hole had been cut (scuttled), where the sailors often stood around exchanging gossip, and Pipe Down -used to tell people to be quiet, but originating from the Boatswain's whistle denoting time to go below deck and ready for bed.
So lovely to travel with you into the past and bring it to today . such joy and happy 1st Advent.
Thank you for another hunt on the River Thames! I just LOVE how you research the history behind your finds. ♥
How excited you must have been finding so much to research! I envy you being able to literally touch history when you go mudlarking. As far as ship related sayings go, my grandmother would tell me, regarding loud or overly talkative people, "Empty vessels make the most sound".
Terrific finds and LOVE the history of the slate!! We have a long history of Navy men in my family and it makes me proud to hear histories of naval finds and the heroic men and women who have served. Happy belated birthday, sweet lady!!❤❤❤
Watching (and appreciating) so many of your videos has had an unexpected side effet : I have become addicted to the tinkly, glassy, sound of boots walking on shingle, and the metallic sound of a trowel scraping among beach stones. Who knew? Thanks for constantly meaningful content, and gorgeous wildlife and urban landscape shots.
it's a unique variety of ASMR! sometimes when I play these of a Sunday afternoon I drift off and have to watch again when I wake!
Maritime saying. Not enough room to swing a cat being not enough room to swing a cat of 9 tails., which was punishment for sailors.They would get a flogging with a “cat of 9 tails “. Usually on their backs. Thanks for the video& belated happy birthday!
The slate is a fantastic find and amazing history. Thank you for sharing!
The research and reading of the history about the Merlin was fascinating. Now that I am older I can appreciate history!
It was very boring to me when I was younger. I loved listening to my grandpa tell his stories of WWl and being able to entertain the men on the ship. He was a bandmaster who took his work serious. I really don’t know if he actually used any weapons. He never said anything about it.
That you Nicola for all of your history lessons throughout your videos. You are a remarkable woman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
The ship’s slate log is truly an incredible find. I know you’ll treasure it. I can hardly wait to see your video of the time you spent with Ellie on the island.
Three sheets to the wind. Loved seeing your treasures!
Thank you so much for all you do to enlighten us. Your fans. Such a great way to learn of history from a country that most of us will not be. Able to visit. I do believe a great teacher loves to find the history of a strange piece of treasure and then shares that knowledge with others . You make my Sundays so enjoyable. Always be safe.
Señora Nicola,me encantan todos sus videos!!Uno de los primeros que ví, fue el del perrito de madera,(era extraño,con esos clavos por todos lados) y desde entonces la sigo! Increíble que sus videos los hace sin importar el clima! Cuidese mucho, y gracias por esos lindos momentos que nos hacen regresar en el tiempo!👍🙂🙋🏻♀️🇦🇷
I can't imagine how you feel when you find something that was last held or touched centuries ago & you hold it for the first time. My imagination would go into overdrive, trying to understand who lost it, how they lost it etc etc.
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Wonderful video. I love watching you find all of these treasures. I'm guessing that all of the things on the wall behind you are things you have found. What a collection!
To the "Bitter end", referred to the end of a rope. Some animals were taken live onto a ship and were kept within a manger, cows, goats and chickens lived in wooden cages for eggs. Cheese was part of a sailors diet because it could be stored for long periods as were dried peas. Meat was steeped and when cooked the scum ( called Mush) that floated to the top was spread on ships biscuits and also used as a grease which was applied to the mast to allow sails to be hoisted more easily.
A fantastic video, Nicola. The Thames Gods were kind to you that day!
As far as I know (from a shipping family) HKF stands for course, knots and force - basically, direction or heading, wind speed and sea conditions.
Always great stuff Nicola 💥💥💥💥 the best 👍👍👍
Mystery solving is your passion; not like Jane Marple, but real, everyday history. And plenty to be found on the foreshore! I feel quite fortunate to be a witness to your adventures; and occasionally add a small piece of knowledge.
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." "Learning the ropes". "The sun is over the yard arm". "Skylarking". These are the first few naval expressions that I think of.
Or as my dad said, "...;to freeze the brass off a bald monkey."
That's genuinely amazing, congratulations!
Hi Nicola, the choice was endless , With a single Sixpence you could buy a shave and dressing one's wig, a pound of local cheese, or you could have your chimney swept. 😂
Fantastic, love watching and love the research you put into your finds. Great. Thanks for sharing as always.
Thank you for sharing! Such cool stuff
Brilliant Nicola.Thats what Quasimodo said."Let's see my HUNCH is right."😊
Wow, Wow, Wow, what a day of interesting finds, it makes you want to dance on the River Thames
Thank you so much for this video Nicola.
Belated birthday wishes to you❤
That was so much fun! What a lovely lark.
What wonderful interesting finds thank you for telling us about them..glad you had a lovely birthday 🎉
HKF Hours Knots Fathoms
Oh my thank goodness for Nicola ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Many HAPPY Returns, Nicola! May the coming year be smooth sailing! ;-)
Hi Nicola 🙂❤️ !!! WOW, that was so cool finding the Merlin Slate. I wanted to hear about that beautiful nail you found at the River Thames, it looked gold or copper & had a weird arrow on it !!! I really was interested in the story of the button with the name of F.T. Prewett !!!! That's my maiden name but we spell it "PRUETT" & my baby sister had insisted that Pruett is French & I told her no it's not !!! I wonder if it's ENGLISH !!!!! I've always wanted to find out where our ancestors come from & the stories about all of them from my dad's side & my mom's but I don't know how to go about it !!! Great video Nicola & I enjoyed it very much !!! Much love to you from the USA !!! ❤️❤️❤️🙂
Awesome finds on the Thames and the small history lesson Nicola. Thank you for sharing.
Belated happy birthday from America. Enjoy your videos very much
HMS Merlin was launched in 1666 and sold in 1698. 350 year old relics are amazing. Ones with documented history ….. unreal. Great work saving that history!
Wiping the slate clean, starting with a clean slate are a few sayings that come to mind. The Merlin slate was a fantastic find and it was so interesting hearing the ships history. Happy week ahead Nicola ❤😊
You should ask the Museum if they would be interested in the slate. It would be a good match with the ship’s log book
Absolutely fascinating Nicola ! Many thanks indeed !
I just love your stories, Nicola! Thank you. :-)
Hello Nicola! Cheer's to another year!❤️ Happy to see you back and really look forward to more of these wonderful mud larking adventures!!! Such a joy!!!❤️
Thank you for 37 minutes and 31 seconds of not thinking about the crazy news here in the states. Thank you so very much.
What is crazy? I live in the states.
@@Late_to_the_party probably someone suffering, still, from TDS. It's a great time in the States - and going to be even greater as time will tell.
Looks to me like you're going to be digging around in mud in the USA for a while.
@@tilliemaekirk9444 Time will indeed tell. Hold that thought. Time depth, and what it brings, is rather a challenge for Americans.
@@souloftheteacher9427 not at all difficult for most of us- a majority of us , in fact. Stay tuned, Teacher.
Wonderful piece of history saved. Congrats on the find!
We have library in town that was chartered by King George II in 1757! Now I know why I was guided to your video 😊
Happy Belated Birthday
WOW, what great find in the Merlin slate! Amazing!
Brilliant finds allround. Well done 😊 ❤ UK.
'all round'
Nicola, I can't watch it yet in Utah, USA, but by reading some of the comments I wish the time would go by quicker (101 minutes to go). By what I'm seeing you've found something great. I can't wait!!! So looking for to your video. Have a blessed week Nicola 😊
Love your videos Nicola and this one was exceptional - maritime sayings: clear the decks/shipshape and Bristol fashion/fair weather sailor/above board perhaps. Greetings from Australia.
Hauled over the coals.Over the yardarm. Four sheets to the wind.Hoist by his own petard.Plain sailing. Also so many seafaring term passed into aviation. Captains ( often referred to as ‘skippers’) Port and starboard, bulkheads ,galleys, stewards,First Officers.,Ships papers.Flight deck ,cabin,rudder and keel etc,etc.
The slate was truly an amazing thing! The research you did on that was fascinating! To think you can find a broken object in the mud that tells a whole story is amazing! Loved every minute of that, also Happy Belated Birthday to You Nicola!
What a find the slate, what a days larking
Not maratine but river related. Author Samuel Clemens whose pseudonym was Mark Twain was a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi river in the 1860's. Best known for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He would hear from the man slinging the sounding weight "Mark Twain" which meant the depth was 2 fathoms.
My great grandfather was a sailor. He went to Palestine to help build houses. On his way back to the US, Samuel was on board the ship. He wrote about his journey in Innocents Abroad, pub. in 1869. In the book was a list of passengers and he mentioned my great grandfather.
Always enjoy your larking in the mud and appreciate your wishes for viewer’s well being. The video of the bird swallowing the fish was mesmerizing. Good luck on your future expeditions!
How nice they still have so much data from so long ago.
That slate is awesome. My great grandfather and grandfather were both sailors and I can't repeat the sayings they had lol
The lead tag was an interesting find . It reminded me of being youngster and writing a note or letter on a piece of writing paper and folding it to just the shape of an envelope and sending it off to a friend or relative.
I so enjoy watching your videos and discovered today I been watching for months and only today did I finally subscribe. So new subscriber here .
thank you that was great merry Christmas from Toronto ont Canada
9:39 and that's called keeping your food down.
Sayings (over a barrel) (three sheets to the wind)
As the Merlin ended its life in in 1777 America, I wonder how the slates ended up in the Thames. Probably lost overboard whilst being refitted perhaps.How fantastic to find it and be able to trace the ship. Thank you x
Was wondering the same thing 🤔
Fantastic stories
Hello from Brazil gosto muito dos seus videos e quando a senhora resgata os brinquedos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fascinating stuff. Love it.
That is the oldest & best slate with writing I've seen found by a mudlarker. Hope u frame it for display. Maybe use old map as a mat. Thanx!
Cool video! Ahoy matey chum!
H hours, K knots? , F ?. Such an awesome find! Also, I don't remember a fluted pipe bowl, ever...very pretty! Another wonderfully interesting video! ❤❤
Fathoms!?. Possibly?
Nicola, you should get yourself a USB hand warmer!! Another lovely video, thank you, but stay safe.
On the ship log, H equals hour and K equals knots. F is fathoms. Happy belated birthday. I'm a November baby too.
I believe the crows feet symbol on the nail is a stamp used by the navy, signifying that it is naval property. Rather than crow’s feet it is an arrow.
Love these videos! I wish I could adopt an orphan from the Thames.
The sound was great to me!
Hi! Happy Belated Birthday (I have you on my calendar but I have been very busy as well)! Love your Merlin slate find. You are great!
Excited!
See you there xx
Great finds
Thank you! This is fascinating. 🤔😊
Love the ships slate, big fan of American Revolution history. Used at The Battle of Red Banks 1777.
the ships log was basically a wooden wighted wedge on a long line with knots tied at regular intervals and an hour glass. it was thrown of the back and the numbers of knots that ran through the fingers until the sand ran out was the number of knots (speed) 1 knot is 1 NM/h
So interesting love the history keep going Nicola. Fourteen ships and one shore establishment has borne that name dating from 1579 - 1901 thee bagasse was commissioned in 1939 o could be any number of the ships
First one 1579a a ten gunner pinnance an latter till 1601
1652 was a fourteen yacht captured by Dutch off Cadiz in 1665
1666 was a eight gun yacht sold off in 1698
1699 was a two gun sloop
1744 was a ten gun sloop
1753 was a ten gun sloop
1756 was a ten gun sloop was captured by French privateer in 1757 but recaptured later the same year renamed HMS Zephyr it was the captured by French in 1778 was recaptured and burnt 26 August 1780
1757 was a sixteen gun sloop abandoned in 1777
1780 was a eighteen gun sloop
1796 was a sixteen gun sloop broken up in 1803
1803 was a sixteen gun sloop formerly Hercules
1838 was a four gun wood paddle packet launch
1871 was gun gunboat
1901 the last boat was a sloop
"Cooper" = Naval bronze, excellent resistance to corrosion, 60% copper 40% zinc with 1% tin alloy (expensive to make). It will not shatter as easy as brass and is harder that copper. Yes very nice nail!
Lovely finds ❤️
Looking forwards to your videos as mentioned
Beutiful adventure, and great info. Cheers 🍻.
Happy belated b-day! Love watching your uploads and appreciate your always upbeat positive attitude. All the best from Canada!
Wonderful!
It was a deck log used to record navigational information such as compass headings, celestial navigation details, speed, etc, in chalk as it happened. Usually kept by junior officers and young midshipmen, the info would be later recorded in the permanent log maintained by the Sailing Master if it was a warship or the 1st Mate if it was a commercial vessel. It was slate because it was more resistant than paper
I have another book by Ivor Noel Hume called Martin’s Hundred, about a dig he conducted near Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia that was of a site dating back to the 1630s. He was a very good writer, I agree!
I have that book as well. My Bagby ancestors hailed from Jamestown, and then King and Queen County. Probably indentured servants.
I'm also always interested in how the everyman lived their life - keep your Caesars, I want to know how a 16th century sailor ate!