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Tim Marlow

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Hi Jon
I have them as Zastrow Cuirassier, based on the shabraque colour and the lack of plume (they are all painted in full dress as far as I can see), as well as the horse colour, but I’ll take GdC as they were very similar and in the same brigade. Captured the Raevski redoubt at Borodino I believe....but this picture is like an early version of Kursk....a clash of German and Russian heavy armour....
Your up then...
 

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Thankee Tim.
i've had an interesting trawl through Russian and Saxon heavy cavalry.
here's a little fellow.What's his role and where and when?
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Too recent to be a Powder Monkey and not recent enough to be Jack Cornwall, the 3rd youngest VC; and that is pretty much the sum of my naval knowledge.

I have to pass on this one.
 

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He's a powder monkey if the civil war on board USS New Hampshire, 1864 - 1865. Charleston South Carolina

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Well done Lee, I thought he was French, I blame the cap angle....interesting that there are many pictures of sailors using the same canon as a backdrop....once you got this I saw at least half a dozen others in the same setting...probably you pays yer money and gets yer picture....
 

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I think the gun may be a 32 pounder banded and rifled naval gun. The carriage is quite interesting. Its a Marsilly carriage and lacks the rear trucks.
he's a powder monkey of the Union navy.Lee has supplied all the other details too.
the USS New Hampshire was laid down in 1819 as a 74 gun ship of the line but lay on the stocks for 40 odd years until being brought into service.I'd guess this is a quarter- deck gun.
Cheers Lee and over to you.
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Thank you Jon, it did take a bit of tracking but got there in the end! :tired::smiling4:

Ok, on with the Naval fashion... of course!

What ship are these fine bunch of men on?

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Looks Second World War and British (cup of cocoa anyone) but has a high ceiling, so I’ll go for a fleet carrier....HMS Ark Royal?
 

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I’m having trouble working out what the machinery on the right is for, which I suspect might be a clue to the ship.
 

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Looks Second World War and British (cup of cocoa anyone) but has a high ceiling, so I’ll go for a fleet carrier....HMS Ark Royal?

Not the Ark... and not cocoa, it's tea :tongue-out3:

I’m having trouble working out what the machinery on the right is for, which I suspect might be a clue to the ship.

It is mechanical :smiling4:

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So it’s British, Second war and a fleet carrier then? Clutching for a few straws here mate :cool:
 

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Hang on, it’s not Fearless is it, with the mechanism being the pumps for emptying out the well deck?
 

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That photo is on Flickr, captioned "Tea time in one of HMS Rodney's 16 inch turrets"

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Dang and I thought it was the SS Burgundy ferry between Calais and Dover...
 

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It might be Allen, you can't always believe the captions on Flickr!
Lee?

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That photo is on Flickr, captioned "Tea time in one of HMS Rodney's 16 inch turrets"

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Well done Pete... it is tea time in the 16" turret on the Rodney.

Pete over to you mate

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OK, another easy one - what kind of boat is this?
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That's a Japanese suicide demolition boat

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