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Over the last few years Three Decks has grown to become the premier web resource for researching naval history during the Age of Sail. Three Decks features detailed information on vessels, crew, shipyards, dockyards, naval actions, geographical locations and much, much more including background details on the ranks, appointments and the nations involved. Even the National Maritime Museum links to us (VERY proud of that one).
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There are currently 28,889 ships, 47,045 seamen, 1,062 actions/battles and countless other items listed on this site.
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Our first book : Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War is now available.
Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War provides detailed reference information on over 2,000 commissioned officers of the Royal Navy: all of those whose career as a commissioned officer included the Seven Years War (1756-1763). In addition, those officers commissioned during and after 1748 and who died before 1756 are included.
Sourced primarily from some 15,000 original source documents held in the National Archives, the individual entries include the officers pre-commission postings and commissions to ships as well as other naval and civil appointments. Genealogical information such as dates of birth, death, and marriage, and the names and dates of the officer’s immediate family are also included for most of the entries. As the first published reference work since 1849 to include this level of detail for all the Royal Navy officers of the period Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years provides unparalleled access to information previously unpublished.
You can buy a copy by clicking here.
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Look for a ship by name, nation, type, year etc.
Look for people by role, nation name etc.
Overview of ships, people and location.
Ports, Shipyards, Dock yards and other places.
The reason there are so many warships.
All the places we get info from, with links.
Info on the Honourable East India Company.