Black Seas Royal Navy
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Black Seas: Fire Ship SquadronFilled with gunpowder and other combustible materials, Fire Ships were deliberately set ablaze and sent towards the enemy battleline where they would explode or set opposing ships alight. Warships during the Age of Sail were highly susceptible to fire. With wooden construction seamed with...
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Black Seas: 2nd RateWithin the Royal Navy system of rating the ships of a fleet were designated based on the number of guns they carried. A 2nd rate ship-of-the-line was something of a hybrid; carrying between 90 and 98 guns, sitting in between the larger statures of...
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Black Seas: Galleon squadronGalleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships that fell out of favour as naval-war vessels as that role was supplanted by purpose-built ships-of-the-line during the latter period of the Age of Sail. Regardless, they remained a mainstay of maritime commerce well into the 19th century....
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Black Seas: Small 3rd Rates SquadronA 3rd rate ship, as defined by the British rating system, was a ship of the line which mounted between 64-80 guns. Usually, this would mean two gun decks. Despite their relative size and power compared to larger 1st and 2nd rates, it was...
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Black Seas: Sloops SquadronSloops are tiny vessels (although larger sloops existed) usually with only one mast and a gaff rigged aft (behind the mast) sail rigged fore and aft (from the front to the rear). Along with similarly sized unrated vessels, sloops filled the supporting roles of...
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Black Seas: HMS SurpriseA 5th rate ship launched as the Unité, sailing for the French Navy before being captured in 1796 by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Surprise. Perhaps most famously the Surprise served as the main ship for author Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey and also...
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Black Seas: HMS AgamemnonKnown to be Lord Nelson’s favourite ship, HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line with a sleek hull. She saw plenty of active service during the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars, most notably at Trafalgar as part of...
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Black Seas: HMS SpeedyA 14-gun brig with a very colourful history. She was captured by France in 1794, then re-taken by the British in 1795, captured again by France in 1801 and finally donated to the Papal States in 1802. Furthermore, HMS Speedy was one of the...
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Black Seas: IndiamenEast Indiamen or, more commonly, just 'Indiamen' is a broad name for a category of ships that sailed under the licence or charter of the various European trading companies such as those from England, France, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands. Capable of...
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Black Seas: 4th Rates squadronUnder the structure set out by the Royal Navy rating system which was largely adopted worldwide any ship-of-the-line with fewer than a 160-man crew was considered a 'small ship'. The largest of these ‘small ships’ were the 4th Rates as they had a complement...
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Black Seas: 6th Rates squadron (Battened Down)6th Rates were the smallest of the warships in the Royal Navy rating system, which would have been generally adopted worldwide. This category covered ships with between 20 and 28 guns on a single deck. Although not considered to be powerful enough to take...
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Black Seas: Razeed 3rd Rate & 4th RateAs the smaller ships-of-the-line became less useful in fleet actions due the increasing size and armaments of the larger ships many of them were 'razeed'. This was the process of either removing the quarterdeck and forecastle or otherwise cutting them down to have just...
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Black Seas: Royal Navy Famous Ships BundleThis bundle conveniently collects all the named famous vessels for the Royal Navy available in Black Seas (excepting for those that can be found in the Royal Navy Starter Fleet). As an added bonus, you’ll get a digital version of the Black Seas Hold...
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Black Seas: 6th Rates Squadron6th Rates were the smallest of the warships in the Royal Navy rating system, which would have been generally adopted worldwide. This category covered ships with between 20 and 28 guns on a single deck. Although not considered to be powerful enough to take...
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Black Seas: 1st RateThe largest of the ships-of-the-line under the Royal Navy's rating system, the 1st Rate would generally have over 850 crew and more than 100 guns across three decks. Extremely expensive build and maintain, 1st Rates tended to be reserved for flagship duty with admirals....
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Royal Navy Small 3rd Rates Named ships Pack 1Upgrade your Royal Navy Small Third Rates with this pack of finely detailed metal figureheads and backplates, allowing you to field HMS Africa, Poliphemus, and Lion. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Royal Navy Frigates Named ships Pack 2Upgrade your Royal Navy Frigates with this pack of finely detailed metal figureheads and backplates, allowing you to field HMS Phoebe, Sirius, and Unicorn. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Royal Navy 3rd Rates Named ships Pack 1Upgrade your Royal Navy Third Rates with this pack of finely detailed metal figureheads and backplates, allowing you to field HMS Bellerophon, Tonnant, and Revenge. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Royal Navy 3rd Rates Named ships Pack 2Upgrade your Royal Navy Third Rates with this pack of finely detailed metal figureheads and backplates, allowing you to field HMS Ajax, Colossus, and Mars. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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Royal Navy Frigates Named ships Pack 1Upgrade your Royal Navy Frigates with this pack of finely detailed metal figureheads and backplates, allowing you to field HMS Indefatigable, Euralys, and Naiad. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted
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