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Originally Posted by Bligh

HMS Bellerophon.




74-gun third-rateship of the line



Launched in 1786, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties. Known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", she fought in three fleet actions, the Glorious First of June, the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar, and was the ship aboard

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Originally Posted by Bligh

HMS SUPERB 1798.







The fourth ship to bear the name HMS Superb was a 74-gun third-rate launched on 17th March 1798 from Northfleet. In 1801 she captured the Nancy and the Audacieux (both with HMS Venerable and HMS Cambrian). In 1813 she captured the American schooner Young Holkar and brig the Starr as well as the schooner Viper and Magdalea.
She was broken up in 1826.
Superb is mostly associated with

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Originally Posted by Bligh

HMS Fairy (1778 - 1811)










HMS Fairy was a 14 gun ship-sloop of the Swan Class and was built at the Royal Dockyard, Sheerness.

The Swan Class was a group of 25 ship-sloops designed by John Williams, Surveyor of the Navy, of which 11 were built in Kent shipyards. HMS Fairy was the last of three ships of the class to be built at Sheerness. The Swan Class were noted for the lavish scale

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Originally Posted by Bligh

Two for the price of one today.

Proserpine/HMS Amelia.








Proserpine was a 38-gun Hébé-classfrigate of the French Navy launched in 1785 and captured by HMS Dryad on 13 June 1796. The Admiralty commissioned Proserpine into the Royal Navy as the fifth rate, HMS Amelia. She spent 20 years in the Royal Navy, participating in numerous actions in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing

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Originally Posted by The Royal Hajj

After much back and forth on the best design to hold rigged ships and finding a manufacture that could produce these trays on a continual basis, I'm happy to announce that the Dry Dock trays are not ready for pre-order on the Aerodrome Accessories site.

Below is the layout of the tray. The three ships are stored across the top, the maneuver decks are stored to the right and the ship logs are stored below the ships.

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