#74-gun ship of the line

[ltwilliammowett]

Stern of HMS Bellona (74), by Amarynceus 2016

[captain-price-unofficially]

A powder monkey on USS New Hampshire (a ship with an interesting history), 1864

USS New Hampshire was originally laid down in 1819 as the 74 gun ship of the line Alabama. Construction was halted before she was launched and she remained incomplete on the stocks for forty years. She was finally completed as a store ship not long before this photo was taken. After the Civil War she kicked around as a receiving and training ship for a few decades. She was decommissioned and loaned to the then new New York Naval Militia (still a thing) as a training ship in 1892. In 1905 she was renamed Granite State (to give her name to USS New Hampshire BB-25). Not long after WW1 she caught fire and sunk at her pier on the Hudson River. Raised and refloated over a year later, she was sold for breaking up. However, while being towed to her destination she caught fire again and sank on the 29th of July, 1922. Apparently her wreck makes for good, albeit cold, scuba diving.

[yyh4ever]

Toguro Muscle Manipulation T-shirt

Yu Yu Hakusho 30 Anniversary Project

According to Bandai, on January 8, 1994 (29 years ago), Younger Toguro 100% first appeared in the anime. To celebrate this moment, they are releasing 10 types of Toguro's muscle manipulation T-shirts. Younger Toguro is characterized by being able to freely control the amount of his muscle mass by 20%, 30%, and so on.

■ Pre-orders: PREMIUM BANDAI, from January 8 to February 5, 2023.

The pre-orders last until February 5, because that's when episode 66 of Toguro departing to Hell aired in 1994.

■ Shipping: scheduled to April 2023

■ Price: 4,400 yen each

■ Material: 100% Polyester

■ Lineup

The T-shirts are available in 10 different designs, each featuring a different percentage of Younger Toguro, and a famous quote.

The lineup includes: the regular Toguro available in L size; 20% Toguro in 2L size; 30% Toguro in 3L size; 45% Toguro in 4L size; 60% Toguro in 5L size; 80% Toguro in 6L size; 100% Toguro in 7L size; 100% of 100% Toguro in 7L size; L size of strain beyond 100%; and L size of his departure to the underworld.

The sizes are funny. As the percentage goes up, the size of the T-shirt also goes up.

That's the famous Japanese professional wrestler Yusuke Okada (height 170 cm) wearing a 7L size.

And no, there's no Toguro 120% T-shirt. As I explained in this post, many fans mistranslated or misinterpreted his line. It was Urameshi Team, specially Yusuke, who gave 120% of themselves to protect their friends.

Let's have a look at the T-shirts:

Normal Toguro

L size: Length approx. 71, Width approx. 53, Shoulder width approx. 48, Sleeve length approx. 22 cm

Quote: "I don't drink alcohol, an orange juice please."

「酒はダメなんで オレンジジュース下さい」

A memorable quote. When Sakyo offered Toguro a drink, so they could have a toast, he refused the alcoholic beverage and asked for an orange juice. In the anime, he says he prefers an orange juice or oolong tea.

Toguro 20%

2L size: Length approx. 74, Width approx. 56, Shoulder width approx. 50, Sleeve length approx. 23 cm

Quote: "He received his friend's spirit gun with his whole body to gain acceleration … well done."

「ヤツの霊丸を全身で受け加速をつけてくるとは・・・やるねェ」

Toguro pretending he lost to Kuwabara and Yusuke. I almost believed it!

Toguro 30%

3L size: Length approx 77, Width approx 60, Shoulder width approx 53, Sleeve length approx 25 cm

Quote: "I'm a youkai with no special ability. The only thing I can do is this muscle manipulation."

「わたしゃ��のない妖怪でね 唯一できるのがこの筋肉操作なんですよ」

Contrary to Genkai who could use her reiki in many ways, or other youkai who have special techniques, Toguro could only use his demon energy to manipulate his physical strength.

Toguro 45%

4L size: Length approx. 80, Width approx. 64, Shoulder width approx. 56, Sleeve length approx. 26 cm

Quote: "Today is a bad day for big guys."

「今日はデカいヤツの厄日だねェ」

Toguro defeated Team Makai Kyosenshi alone.

Toguro 60%

5L size: Length approx. 82, Width approx. 68, Shoulder width approx. 59, Sleeve length approx. 27 cm

Quote: "Were you too scared to even run away?"

「怖くて逃げることもできなかったか？」

Toguro reveals 60% of his power, entirely destroying a building. Yusuke was so scared, his body was shaking, and he couldn't even move.

Toguro 80%

6L size: Length approx. 84, Width approx. 73, Shoulder width approx. 62, Sleeve length approx. 28 cm

Quote: "First, let's have a dry run, to see whether or not that attack of yours the other day was merely a lucky shot in the heat of anger."

「まずはおさらいだ こないだの攻撃 怒り任せのまぐれかどうか」

That was the beginning of the final match between Yusuke and Toguro in the Dark Tournament. The day before, Genkai was killed by Toguro. Yusuke was so angry, he punched him with all his strength.

Toguro 100%

7L size: Length approx. 86, Width approx. 78, Shoulder width approx. 65, Sleeve length approx. 29 cm

Quote: "I met an enemy for the first time, let's have a good match...100%"

「初めて敵に会えた、いい試合をしよう...100%」

I think Toguro was happy to manifest 100% of his power for the first time.

Toguro 100% of 100%

7L size: Length approx. 86, Width approx. 78, Shoulder width approx. 65, Sleeve length approx. 29 cm

Quote: "To set your heart on something is to abandon everything else."

「何か1つを極めるということは、ほかの全てを捨てること」

I'm glad, in the end Yusuke listened to Master Genkai's teachings and didn't follow Toguro's steps.

Toguro Over 100% Strain

L size: Length approx. 71, Width approx. 53, Shoulder width approx. 48, Sleeve length approx. 22 cm

Quote: "Putting out 120% of power for the sake of someone else, that's your strength..."

「 ほかの誰かのために120％の力が出せる、それがお前たちの強さ… 」

Toguro praising Yusuke and the others, who were capable of going beyond their limits in order to protect their friends.

His strained dead body, which went beyond its limit to block Yusuke's spirit gun, is not a nice view >_<

Toguro Departure to the Underworld

L size: Length approx. 71, Width approx. 53, Shoulder width approx. 48, Sleeve length approx. 22 cm

Quote: "Sorry for being nothing but trouble to you…"

「あんたには、世話ばかりかけちまったな...」

Toguro saying goodbye to Genkai, before going to hell. That was a very sad moment.

Younger Toguro Muscle Manipulation T-Shirt Perfect Set + Elder Toguro T-shirt

Price: 44,000 yen

This set includes all 10 types of Younger Toguro tees, plus a M-size Elder Toguro T-shirt.

Elder Toguro T-shirt

Quote: "I often break my promises."

「俺はよく約束を破る」

LOL, that's when Elder Toguro killed three members of Team Gorenja. He said that unlike his brother, he enjoys breaking promises. Later, Kurama gave him what he deserved ;)

[footnotelovenote]

Baby You're First-Rate

Rated Navy ships in the 17th to 19th centuries [from the Royal Museums Greenwich]

The rating system of the British Royal Navy was used to categorise warships between the 17th and 19th centuries. There were six rates of warship.

A ship’s rate was basically decided by the number of guns she carried, from the largest 120-gun First Rate, down to the Sixth Rate 20-gun ships. Captains commanded rated ships, which were always ship rigged – meaning they had three square-rigged masts.

First Rate

First Rate ships were the biggest of the fleet with their gun batteries carried on three decks. They were generally used as flagships and fought in the centre of the line-of-battle. They were armed with a minimum of 100 heavy cannon, carried a crew of about 850 and were over 2000 tons Builder’s Measure (a formula for calculating the capacity of the ship, not the displacement of the ship as is the practice today).

Second Rate

The Second Rate ships of the line were also three-deckers, but smaller and cheaper. They mounted between 90 and 98 guns, and like the First Rates fought in the centre of the line-of-battle. Generally around the 2000 ton mark, they had a crew of about 750. Unlike the First Rates, which were too valuable to risk in distant stations, the Second Rates often served overseas as flagships. They had a reputation for poor handling and slow sailing.

Third Rate

The most numerous line-of-battle ships were the two-decker Third Rates with 64–80 guns. The most effective and numerous of these was the 74-gun ship, in many ways the ideal compromise of economy, fighting power and sailing performance, which formed the core of the battle fleet. They carried a crew of about 650 men.

Fourth Rate

Two decker ships of 50–60 guns were no longer ‘fit to stand in the line of battle’ by the end of the 18th century. With two decks, their extra accommodation made them suitable flagships for minor overseas stations, while their relatively shallow draught made them useful as headquarter ships for anti-invasion operations in the North Sea and the English Channel. They were also useful as convoy escorts, troopships and even on occasion, as convict transports. In normal service they had a crew of 350 and measured around 1000 tons.

Fifth Rate

These were the frigates, the Navy’s ‘glamour ships’. With their main armament on a single gundeck, they were the fast scouts of the battle fleet, when not operating in an independent cruising role, searching out enemy merchant ships, privateers or enemy fleets. Developed from early-18th century prototypes, the Fifth Rates of Admiral Lord Nelson’s time had a variety of armaments and gun arrangements, from 32–40 guns. Captured enemy frigates were also used in service, and many of the best British-built ships were copied or adapted from French designs. Their tonnage ranged from 700 to 1450 tons, with crews of about 300 men.

Sixth Rate

The Sixth Rates were smaller and more lightly armed frigates, with between 22 and 28 guns, a crew of about 150, and measured 450 to 550 tons.

Find out about ‘unrated’ Royal Navy vessels in the 17th to 19th centuries

[semi-imaginary-place]

reading through trimax part 2

ch56. Uh what the whole razlo thing is pretty clever but the 3rd arm and triple wielding cross guns?? Wild. With razlo and livio each is portrayed with the left or right eye shaded out and razlo explains the cat killed earlier.

ch 57: another excellent chapter. I feel like im only grasping like 20%, the very surface layers of this chapter. Wolfwood as he's faced with death thinks about vash, how vash is special and their relationships with death, vash never had to make excuses (for killing?). I had to check several translations for the final page but uh wolfwood is going to do something that he knows he shouldn't do? Like this sense of dread? Going to have to reread this chapter later.

Saw the ch titles for vol 10 and wow he might actually die here.

61. This is what i mean when i say maximum is infinitely gayer than stampede. In stampede wolfwood and vash have no chemistry they're just dudes who happen to be in the same room, and the people shipping them are delusional like shippers usually are with their shipping goggles on. Maximum there's definitely something going on between them, not necessarily romantic of sexual but these two are intense about each other. Also what would have happened if wolfwood only drank 1 vial?

64. Time isn't real. Its been 6 years since wolfwood left the orphanage which lines up with all the information. Except that one extra with the young woman which i've decided in non canon with it and only it doesnt fit in with the timeline.

71: who is jasmine???? Huh she's that kid from the orphanage? ...i give up on the timeline. Time isnt real.

72: and here i thought the vagina imagery was a stampede thing. Knives hive mind out here growing breasts and vulva

74: Daaammmn knives assimilates domina turning the destroyer ship into a threat for uh i forgot their name. Then fires up its most powerful attack while taking down the shields which means the only way for the main ship to save itself is my destroying their own ship and people.

80: lot of things happened at once, domina gets a hit in, legato is gere, and so is elendira. Guess shooting the city isnt a concern for the earth fleet anymore.

84: why does the earth fleet know vash well enough to give a personality profile?

87: livio and razlo going to die taking down elendira?

[petec9099]

HMS Ajax

This is the magnificent figurehead from HMS Ajax, which can be found in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. HMS Ajax was launched in May 1809 and was a 74 gun, ship of the Line built at Blackwall on the Thames. It saw action during the Napoleonic Wars in the Atlantic. In 1846 she was converted to a Blockship with screw propulsion. These ships served as coastal defence vessels and Ajax…

[ratshag]

Originally built as a 74-gun ship-of-the-line in 1819, but she wasn't launched until 1864. She'd been kept on the stocks on dry land, a cheap and low-maintenance way of holding a ship in reserve until you need it. By 1864 though she was thoroughly obsolete, and was used as a floating warehouse for nearly 60 years.

USS GRANITE STATE (1864) (ex-USS NEW HAMPSHIRE, ex-USS ALABAMA) being towed away to be broken up in the Bay of Fundy. However, her towline broke during a storm, and later caught fire and sank near Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts.

Photographed sometime between July 22 and 26, 1922.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 73972

[nebris]

The action of 13 January 1797 (known by the French as the Naufrage du Droits de l'Homme; "shipwreck [or sinking] of the Droits de l'Homme") was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the action the frigates outmanoeuvred the much larger French vessel and drove it onto shore in heavy seas, resulting in the deaths of between 400 and 1,000 of the 1,300 persons aboard. One of the British frigates was also lost in the engagement with six sailors drowned after running onto a sandbank while failing to escape a lee shore.

The French 74-gun ship Droits de l'Homme had been part of the Expédition d'Irlande, an unsuccessful attempt by a French expeditionary force to invade Ireland. During the operation, the French fleet was beset by poor coordination and violent weather, eventually being compelled to return to France without landing a single soldier. Two British frigates, the 44-gun HMS Indefatigable and the 36-gun HMS Amazon, had been ordered to patrol the seas off Ushant in an attempt to intercept the returning French force and sighted the Droits de l'Homme on the afternoon of 13 January.

The engagement lasted for more than 15 hours, in an increasing gale and the constant presence of the rocky Breton coast. The seas were so rough that the French ship was unable to open the lower gun ports during the action and as a result could only fire the upper deck guns, significantly reducing the advantage that a ship of the line would normally have over the smaller frigates. The damage the more manoeuvrable British vessels inflicted on the French ship was so severe that as the winds increased, the French crew lost control and the Droits de l'Homme was swept onto a sandbar and destroyed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_13_January_1797

[ltwilliammowett]

A 74-gun ship of the line, about 1794, by William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914)

[alineuponthewind]

The French '74' Mont Blanc and other vessels off Marseilles - Antoine Roux

[clove-pinks]

I have assumed that it was really L'Orion of the French Navy? I found another webpage (in French) that shows a similar vessel to represent her:

She's a 74-gun ship of the line (a type of large and powerful battleship), and confirmed to be a ship of the line in my translation of Les Misérables (Donougher). You can look up seventy-fours to find pictures and to get an idea of what she looked like!

YOOO do any Les Mis fans know what kind of ship the Orion would be? I want to do an illustration of it, but I'm not quite sure what a "military ship used by 19th century France in the Spanish war" would've looked like. Does anyone know the name/general model of the type of ship that it was? (and if anyone has a link to a 3d model especially that'd be so helpful!)

[amarynceus]

Daily Doodle #624/1000.

Quick'n'rough digital pen doodle of a ship of the line in action.

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[noelcollection]

From 1708 to 1711, Woodes Rogers led a South Pacific privateering voyage to raid French and Spanish ships for England. The crew included Captain Edward Cooke, who wrote about their experiences. On January 31, 1709, the crew saw a fire on Juan Fernandez Island, near Chile. The next day, they anchored at the island and met Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway living alone since 1704 after abandoning a British expedition. Selkirk lit the fire to alert the ship, which he assumed was British and therefore, an ally. Previously, Selkirk had only encountered Spanish ships and decided to hide from them.

During Selkirk’s first several months on the island, he built two huts with Pimento trees and lined them with goatskin after using his gun to kill goats. He was able to create fire by rubbing two sticks of Pimento wood. It was hard for Selkirk to digest fish without salt as a preservative, but he could eat crawfish, goats, turnips, cabbage, and season his food with allspice from the pimento trees. Selkirk had befriended cats who escaped ships that visited the island. One of his amusements was to teach his cats and goats how to dance, as pictured here. Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s fictional character, Robinson Crusoe.

Images from:

Henry, David. An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators… Vol. 2. London: printed for F. Newberry ..., 1773-74.

Call Number: G240 .H52 Vol. 2

Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/3tySX6x

[bantarleton]

The battle of Aboukir Bay, August 1 1798.

The plate depicts the Leander at around 10 pm, raking the battered Aquilon in the foreground. Following the battle, the Leander was sent home with despatches, but on 18 August she was captured after a protracted fight with the French Le Genereux (74 guns), one of the few French ships to escape the debacle at Aboukir. She was recaptured the following year, and was hulked in 1806. Artwork by Tony Bryan from NVG 42: British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-Line, written by Angus Konstam.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Most of Hornblower's ships were fictional, but the HMS Indefatigable actually existed (as did her captain Sir Edward Pellew, later Lord Exmouth).

Each of the ships that we get a novel about -- some are his commands, two are not:

HMS Indefatigable - razee frigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indefatigable_(1784)

HMS Renown - 74-gun ship-of-the-line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventy-four_(ship)

H.M. Sloop Hotspur - ship-sloop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloop-of-war

HMS Lydia - frigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate#Classic_design

HMS Sutherland, HMS Nonsuch - seventy-fours again, see Renown above.

There are of course many other ships that are mentioned along the way. There were several brief commands in prize-ships before the Hotspur (at least one of which he sunk!), plus his first command, the Retribution, which he only had for a couple of months. And by the time we get to the Nonsuch he was commanding entire squadrons, which were composed of a variety of different kinds of ships. (Two of my favorites are the bomb-ketches in Commodore Hornblower, the Moth and Harvey.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_vessel

Geoff Hunt, who cadmus mentioned, painted several of Hornblower's ships. Last I checked, they were pretty easy to find on his website.

I also recommend @lucybellwood's primer for drawing tall ships: https://lucybellwood.tumblr.com/post/721845143320379392/flags-in-the-wind

Hopefully that's enough to get your kid started! I wish them much joy, and I hope I get to see their art someday!

Hi! Since you feel like an authority on Napoleonic era naval warfare, I have a question for you: do you have any good recs for paintings of British Navy ships from that era? My kid is obsessed with Hornblower and wants to learn to draw every type of ship he's commanded in the books, and since I know exactly 0 about British 19th century ships my googlings end up a little… lacking. So… any tips? :)

Hey! I’m very flattered but in no way am I an authority, that would be @ltwilliammowett who is an absolutely invaluable resource on the Age of Sail - but I can give you some recs!

First of all, this Wikipedia section on this page has a list of the various rates/types of ship during the Napoleonic Wars! I’ve only read the first few Hornblower book stuff, so I don’t know exactly which ships he’s associated with, but you can’t go wrong looking for references of sloops and frigates.

Then for paintings - historical artists, there’s Nicolas Pocock and Thomas Luny, you got J M W Turner, and for more modern artists, Geoff Hunt’s stuff is fantastic, Derek Gardner’s got cool stuff oo

Ooh nearly forgot Montague Dawson

I’ll throw this post into the Hornblower tag (and the Aubreyad tag as a fellow ship fandom) and see if anyone has any suggestions, but yeah, you and your kid sound awesome and I wish your kid the very best for his mission to catch all the prizes!

[honorarycassowary]

I finished Chainsaw Man a couple weeks ago and this post has been languishing in my drafts ever since. Anyway I reread the back half of the story and got it into shape

the aesthetics and tone of this manga continued to be pitch-perfect. The surrealism of the fucked-up parts really adds to their unsettlingness

the depiction of hell was really excellent. The sky full of doors reminded me a bit of hell in the Deepgate Codex series, where your soul takes the form of a room, making the entire thing a labyrinth of minds.

basically my hopes for part 2 =  more hell, please

I was sad when Violence died. Really shipped him and Kobeni. :(

jumping ahead all the way to the end, but I’m glad Kobeni is finally escaping from her family. You go, girl!

the Gun Devil storyline really made me feel my Americaness in a way I haven’t felt since ... probably Discworld’s Men at Arms? The way of relating to guns and gun violence is so totally foreign to me - the idea that there’s any kind of limit to the amount of violence and fear that would make (people believe that) access to guns is truly limited. idk.

I’m also very curious about how they’ll animate the Gun Devil attack sequence. Overlaying each panel with a list of victims was incredibly impactful, but I’m not sure how that would translate to animation.

I love Makima. She is so terrible and it is wonderful.

(I cannot believe that there were people in the comments on the manga site I was reading on who did not realize Makima was Bad News until like chapter 74. It is manifestly obvious from her first appearance??)

I’m not totally sure how I feel about Pochita’s statements in the last chapter about the Control Devil really wanting equal relationships. The charm of Makima IMO was her absolute belief that her way was correct and everyone else would have to fall in line for the greater good. However 1) it’s clear from her form that she genuinely doesn’t harbor hostility towards humanity 2) we also know that devils reincarnate into new forms continuously. So I’ve been thinking of Pochita’s words as partly him making sense of her behavior through the lens of his own desire to be loved and partly that previous iterations of the Control Devil manifested their interest in humanity differently. Makima, after all, was raised by humans; a former Control Devil living in hell likely wouldn’t have the context to believe that bad movies should be erased in her ideal world. You can’t imagine controlling something you don’t know exists, right? Not knowing might be better in that way.

The reveal about the Chainsaw Devil’s reality-warping powers was so cool. Kishibe’s visible confusion about concepts that the readers are familiar with and then dropping in made-up references so readers also feel that confusion was a real “oh shit” moment. The four fates that humans could experience other than death has been living in my head rent-free ever since I read it. What a good concept.

@robotlesbianjavert​ was correct that Denji would grow on me. Him comforting Power after their return from hell & his reaction to Aki’s death were really the biggest moments of realization that he’d changed and grown a lot :’)

I think the moment my attitude towards him started to change was in the chapter when they all go out drinking and he can’t read the menu, because he’s never been to school. Then his cheerfulness with Reze when he says he’s glad to be a Devil Hunter because he gets three meals a day ... he’s so desperate for scraps. Out of context, his rant to Kishibe near the end about wanting all the girls is a raunchy shitpost - and lbr it still in in context - but Denji’s realization that thousands of people love him is deeply meaningful for someone who only a few chapters before agreed that he didn’t deserve a normal or happy life. I hope he has a good high school experience. And learns to read.