I was thinking of putting together a list, sorted by general category, of various links and websites that might prove to be useful, such as the Seaman's Grammar and the information about tinsmithing. I've already added the sites that have been mentioned in posts here, but if you know of or come across anything else that might be of interest, ( Read more... )

Having visited the delights of plymouth and discovered a wall musket 1.5" bore with 62" barrel, I am setting out to construct a historically plausable (vaguely portable) obscenely big calibre weapon. However I cant decide what features to go for ( Read more... )

I thought this might be of interest - it's a copy of selected pages from Artis Magne Artilleriae by the 17th century Polish inventor Kazimir Siemenowic.

Greetings my most Honourable friends.

as you all know i have recently acquired various items of ordinance and i find my self at a loss to name some of them, so i thought it could make an interesting little game for us.

( weaponry here )

Do you think the Honourable Company should have an outing here at some point?


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I've had a go at making up the insignia for the Honourable Company, as shown below; this version has various minor problems with it, but I should be able to remedy them fairly easily.


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