MOC Ships and Maritime
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Every vessel that sailed, fought, and shaped history — and everything that built and sailed them.
Subdomains
- Individual_Ships_Index — specific named ships organized by navy and rate
- Warship_Classes_Index — ship class overviews (First Rate, frigate, sloop, brig, etc.)
- Naval_Architecture_Index — hull design, draught, stability, tonnage, design evolution
- Shipbuilding_Materials_Index — timber species, copper sheathing, nails, rope, caulking
- Navigation_Seamanship_Index — celestial navigation, piloting, knots, sailing techniques
- Ports_Infrastructure_Index — dockyards, harbors, dry docks, victualling yards
- Prize_Capture_Index — captured vessels, condemnation, prize money, privateering
Key Notes
Naval Architecture — Age of Sail
- Slade Thomas — Naval Architect — first filled naval-architecture note
Shipbuilding Materials — Age of Sail
- Copper Sheathing — Hull Protection — first filled materials note; Victory 1780 refit only
- Teredo Worm — Hull Degradation — 1780 pest only; overflow
- Royal Sovereign Coppering — Plymouth 1805 — 1805 Plymouth coppering only; overflow
Individual Ships — Age of Sail
- HMS Victory — Overview
- HMS Victory — Never Fired in Anger After Trafalgar — end of fighting service only; overflow
- HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview — Collingwood’s flagship at Trafalgar 1805
- Bucentaure — Overview
- Redoutable — French 74-gun Ship — French 74 at Trafalgar, alongside Victory
- First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview — first filled warship-class note
- HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate — Nelson’s 74 at Cape St Vincent
- Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate — Spanish four-decker
- L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship — Nile flagship, exploded 1 August 1798
- HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate — Nelson’s inshore flag at Copenhagen
- HMS Agamemnon — Overview — 64-gun; aground at Copenhagen
- Agamemnon Appointment — 30 January 1793 — 30 January 1793 appointment only; overflow
- Agamemnon 345 Men — Sardinia Chase — 345 men / three-hour chase only; overflow
- HMS Bellona — 74-gun Third Rate — Copenhagen grounding, 2 April 1801; overflow
- HMS Russell — 74-gun Third Rate — Copenhagen grounding, 2 April 1801; overflow
- HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate — Foley inside passage, Nile
- HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship — Nile flagship
- Vanguard Foremast — Gulf of Lyons — Lyons gale / foremast only; overflow
- Syracuse Supply — Vanguard Pursuit — timely supply only; overflow
- Vanguard Four-Day Refit — St Pietro — four-day refit only; overflow
- Albemarle Masts Too Long — overset masts only; overflow
- Albemarle at Elsinore — Elsinore gun-count reply only; overflow
- Raisonnable — Nelson Entry 1771 — 64 guns / 1771 entry only; overflow
- Glasgow Fire — Montego Bay — 20 guns / rum-hold fire only; overflow
- Lowestoffe Waterlogged Prize — water-logged boarding only; overflow
- HMS Culloden — 74-gun Third Rate — Troubridge; aground entering Aboukir
- HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate — Collingwood’s 74 at Cape St Vincent
- HMS Majestic — 74-gun Third Rate — Westcott; Nile
- San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — Patent Bridge prize
- San Nicolás — Spanish 84-gun Third Rate — stern-gallery boarding
- Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — struck to Excellent
- San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate — struck to Excellent
- San Rafael — Spanish 80 — Finisterre prize
- Firme — Spanish 74 — Finisterre prize
- Guillaume Tell — French 80-gun Ship — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- Franklin — French 80-gun Ship — Nile line
- Tonnant — French 80-gun Ship — Nile line
- Spartiate — French Ship of the Line — langridge, Nile
- HMS Leander — 50-gun Fourth Rate — Nile 50-gun
- Príncipe de Asturias — Spanish First Rate — Gravina’s reported flag
- Généreux — French Ship of the Line — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- Diane — French Frigate — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- Justice — French Frigate — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- HMS Mutine — Captured French Brig — Hardy; Nile brig
- HMS Theseus — Overview — Tenerife amputation, 24 July 1797
- Téméraire-Class Two-Deckers — French Naval Doctrine — French 80-gun two-decker class
- Toulon Arsenal — French Naval Construction Centre — Bucentaure launched July 1803
- HMS Foudroyant — 80-gun Third Rate — Hardy flag-captain posting
- HMS St George — 98-gun Second Rate — Hardy; King’s Deep, 1 April 1801
- HMS Minerve — Frigate — Hardy, 1796–97
- Boreas Nore Slop Ship — Nore slop / receiving months only; overflow
- HMS Euryalus — Frigate — Collingwood flag-shift and Royal Sovereign tow
- HMS Conqueror — Overview — boarding party took Villeneuve’s surrender
- Plymouth Dockyard — Royal Sovereign laid down 1774; launched 4 September 1786
- Chatham Dockyard — Victory laid down 1759; launched 7 May 1765
- HMS Triumph — Guard-Ship after Falklands — 74 / Thames guard-ship only; overflow
- Albemarle Fishing Schooner — Boston Bay — Boston Bay restoration only; overflow
- HMS Lion — Cornwallis Passage — passage / Bath only; no rate
- HMS Dolphin — Invalided from India — invaliding only; no rate
- HMS Téméraire — Trafalgar 98-gun Second Rate — British 98-gun namesake of Turner’s painting
- West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname — sluggish-sailer nickname before 1805 coppering
- Royal Sovereign Construction — American War Delay — 1774 / 4 September 1786; American War delay only
- Santa Ana — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — 112-gun; Trafalgar duel with Royal Sovereign
- HMS Helena — Brig — Hardy captain’s servant, November 1781; brig only
- Holsteen — Danish 60 — named Copenhagen prize; 60 only
- Holstein — Later Name of Holsteen — later name only; overflow
- Muiron — French Frigate — August 1799 passage
- HMS Ville de Paris — Collingwood Death Ship — death ship only; no rate
- HMS Amphion — Hardy Flag-Captain — flag-captain posting only; no rate
- HMS London — Parker Distant Flagship — posting / distance only; no rate
- HMS Ramillies — Hardy War of 1812 — posting / war only; no rate
- Royal Sovereign 1701 Predecessor — 1701 namesake and 1841 breaking-up only
Navigation and Seamanship
- King’s Deep Soundings — Copenhagen 1 April 1801 — first filled seamanship note
- Chatham to the Tower — Swin Channel Pilotage — two pilotage legs only; overflow
- St George’s Bank — Albemarle Shoals — shoal escape only; overflow
- Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies — first West Indies merchant voyage only; overflow
- Deal Boatmen Fifteen Guineas — Downs Gale — Downs gale passage only; overflow
Open Questions
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Sources of Record
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