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Shaffer's Maritime Museum
HMS Royal William
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·        1719 English Ship-of-the-line. The ancestor of modern day battleship

·        100 Guns; Crew of  730

·        Red Gun Ports - Lower Gun Decks were painted red to hide the blood in combat.

·        Some women lived on board with husbands - worked as cooks, nurses, and “powder monkeys” earned some moneys by doing laundry, mending and making clothes - among other things

·        A son who was born on the gun deck of a warship was a “son of a gun”

·        Note the “Seat of Ease” or Head was at the bow (front) of the ship - downwind.

·        The ornate carving and decoration disappeared from ships built after about 1760

·        She was the pride of the Royal Navy during the Seven Year’s War against the French.

·        She served as General Wolfe’s flagship in the battle for Quebec in 1760 and the subsequent domination of Canada.

·        The Royal William was originally the H.M.S. Prince, refitted in 1692.

·        She was finally broken up in 1813 – a VERY long life for a wooden ship


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