"The End of Fighting Sail – Sidon, Beirut and Acre 1840" Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Jan 2016 3:09 p.m. PST |
"Though steam propulsion was first applied to warships, on a small scale, in the late 1830s, it was to take another half-century before sail was finally abandoned by the world's navies. The process was paralleled with the replacement of wood by metal – initially iron and later steel – for construction. 1840 was however to see the last major action by the Royal Navy in which a sailing wooden line-of-battle ship, of a type almost identical to those which fought under Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805, was to play the leading role. It was however supported by small steamers. The scene was to be the coast of Lebanon, then regarded as part of the Ottoman province of Syria, in 1840. Present conflicts in the Middle East are only the latest in a long series of struggles for power which go back to the dawn of history. In the last two centuries however these clashes have arisen from the weakening and eventual demise of the Ottoman Empire – a development which still has massive influence on events today. In the early nineteenth century the Ottoman Sultan ruled from Istanbul, in theory at least, a vast empire that stretched from Libya in the west to the Arabian Gulf in the east, and from what is now Rumania and Serbia in the north to the Sudan in the south. A weak central government, all too often bedevilled by corruption and by difficulties in communication over such a vast area, made it easy for local governors to set themselves up as semi-independent rulers…" Full page here link Amicalement Armand |
SBminisguy | 26 Jan 2016 8:15 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the article. The last Age of Sail battle, the end of the Wooden Ship as a primary warship, was in 1853 at the battle of Sinop when a Russian naval squadron firing explosive shells annihilated an Ottoman naval squadron almost to the last ship.
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Tango01 | 26 Jan 2016 10:52 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. And many thanks for the link!. Amicalement Armand |
SBminisguy | 26 Jan 2016 11:57 a.m. PST |
I once gamed out the Battle of Sinop using 1/1200 scale ships -- pretty brutal once exploding shells start hitting a wooden ship. |
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