"Practice Makes Perfect: Nassau 1776" (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

Fifteen year old Continental Marines Drummer Boy, Nathaniel Ayres, practices below decks on the schooner Wasp, part of the expedition of Marines under the leadership of Captain Samuel Nicholas sent to Nassau to capture gunpowder and ammunition from the British forts there.

 

[1879fanatic]

Re: "Practice Makes Perfect: Nassau 1775"

Alright Randy, where did you get THAT background?
Is that young lad in, or in front of, the ship?
Lovely as always!
Mike

 

[Lewey Gun Vick]

Re: "Practice Makes Perfect: Nassau 1775"

WOW!!! Randy this is incredible! Gotta agree with Mike, is the figure in or in front of the background!

Vick

 

[PolarBear]

Re: "Practice Makes Perfect: Nassau 1775"

Thanks Mike and Vick

It was just a lucky camera angle. I took a series of him from different angles and didn't realize what I had until I downloaded them to the MAC. The other shots are not as illusionistic. I think the perspective created by the row of columns pulls you eye into the picture.

 

[beating retreat]

Excellent Shot Randy really effective

 

[UKReb]

Very, very impressive Randy

Those Continental boys sure kept everything ship-shape not sure you could find- even today- that standard of cleanliness below decks of any Royal Navy ship of the line

Bob

 

[PolarBear]

Very, very impressive Randy

Those Continental boys sure kept everything ship-shape not sure you could find- even today- that standard of cleanliness below decks of any Royal Navy ship of the line

Bob

Thanks Bob

Ship photo is from a series showing the restoration of the USS Constitution

http://www.techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/pix/ussc/tour1.html

Here is a photo of the restored berth deck with hammocks:

 

[Scott]

Hi Polar Bear,

Can you call it another ship? The schooner USS Wasp would have to have been Doctor Who's "Tardis" to have a below decks area that large!

Nice photo and figure!

 

[1879fanatic]

Randy,
Maybe one of his buddies on the dog watch could plug his amp in!
Mike

 

[mikemiller1955]

I love it Randy.......

 

[PolarBear]

Hi Polar Bear,

Can you call it another ship? The schooner USS Wasp would have to have been Doctor Who's "Tardis" to have a below decks area that large!

Nice photo and figure!

The vessels were:

The flagship Alfred, the ship Columbus, the brigs Andrew Doria and Cabot, the sloops Hornet and Providence and the schooners Fly and Wasp. I probably should have used the Alfred--Capt Nicholas and 62 Marines were on it. There were Marines on all except the Fly. The Hornet and Fly collided on the way and did not make it to Nassau with the others. The only restoration photos I found were of Old Ironsides. Don't believe any of the actual vessels are still extant. I'm not surprised a Gloucester man noticed this

It could be on the holodeck of the Enterprise

 

[PolarBear]

Randy,
Maybe one of his buddies on the dog watch could plug his amp in!
Mike

That is why it is cropped from my scene. However, Ben Franklin had been playing with electricity since 1752 and he did make a battery but not a boom box. The dog watch were Three Dog Night fans I hear.

 

[Scott]

The vessels were:

The flagship Alfred, the ship Columbus, the brigs Andrew Doria and Cabot, the sloops Hornet and Providence and the schooners Fly and Wasp. I probably should have used the Alfred--Capt Nicholas and 62 Marines were on it. There were Marines on all except the Fly. The Hornet and Fly collided on the way and did not make it to Nassau with the others. The only restoration photos I found were of Old Ironsides. Don't believe any of the actual vessels are still extant. I'm not surprised a Gloucester man noticed this

It could be on the holodeck of the Enterprise

Polar Bear, Yep it's The USS Constitution. My daughter and I were there back in the spring. Good tour by female USN sailors. (impressed my teenage daughter) Back in the 90s guys from my old CW unit, the 5th New Hampshire, the "USS Kearsage After Guard", and others did a Civil War days event on the Constitution. I was invited to dine in the captain's stateroom as the "Boston Harbor Pilot" with other men in period Marine and naval Officer kits. We were very respectful of the setting.

I've been on a few schooners as well. Keep up the good work.

 

[PolarBear]

Per Scott's helpful nautical knowledge about 18th C ship size here is a revised version this time using the flagship USS Alfred which would be the right size below decks compared to the smaller schooner Wasp.

A print showing the Alfred is included:

 

[Scott]

Don't we all feel better now?

Nice Polarbear! I have to try the back drop method you're doing.


I forgot to mention that I've been on the recreated sloop Providence during a reenacted raid on Gloucester back in 1981.

 

[PolarBear]

Don't we all feel better now?

Nice Polarbear! I have to try the back drop method you're doing.


I forgot to mention that I've been on the recreated sloop Providence during a reenacted raid on Gloucester back in 1981.

Replica of sloop USS Providence of the Continental Navy

 

[Scott]

I wish I had a photo showing it from our reenactment.

It was the worst reenactment I have ever been in and I helped organize it! It nearly broke out in a fist fight on the beach. Never doing THAT again. We did have a drummer on the Providence though as I remember. Also any Brits that showed up including a General. Only good part were the four wemen who came as Americans in break-away dresses for the British to pillage.

Some where I have a 1979 photo of myself in the ratlines of the Providence wearing my British Marine uniform. That was in New Port at the wharf.

 

[Scott]

No Providence in the photo but that was the reenactment from Hell.

 

[PolarBear]

No Providence in the photo but that was the reenactment from Hell.

Scott

A great photo. As they say "war is Hell".