French Ships of the Line 1793-1815
A list of French ships active or under construction during this period. Includes the battles/campaigns in which they served and other historical details for each vessel.
fighting-sail.napoleonicwars.com/Frenchship... Admiral Lord Duncan
Biography of Adam Duncan, victor of Camperdown in 1797.
taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/bglink3.htm List of Ships of War, which were lying in the Tagus, 1806.
The Portuguese fleet, as observed by Lord St Vincent.
pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Naval_Hi... HMS Victory
Pictures, history and virtual tour of Nelson's famous flagship.
victorian.fortunecity.com/lion/480/victory/... The Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Era
Describes the ships and men of the Royal Navy 1793-1815.
home.gci.net/~stall/ship1.html Wargaming the Age of Fighting Sail
Not exclusively a wargaming site, but a comprehensive selection of naval, wargaming and modelling links.
users.erols.com/brant/FIGHTINGSAIL/ Napoleons's Lost Fleet
Account of the campaign and battle of the Nile, and of the modern-day archaeology happening at the site. Accompanies the Discovery Channel TV documentary.
discovery.com/stories/history/napoleon/... Broadside
Describes life in Royal Navy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
broadside.napoleonicwars.com/ Morrells of the Napoleonic Era
Part of a site dealing with the genealogy of the Morell family. Three members of the family served as officers in the Royal Navy during this period, and the site contains details of them, their ships and their battles.
tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~wzombie/napoleon.htm Nelson and the Nile
Article describing the Battle of the Nile and the events that led up to it.
thehistorynet.com/MilitaryHistory/artic... The Trafalgar Roll
Part of a genealogy site, this page lists British ships and seamen some 1,640 of them who fought at Trafalgar. There's also lists of killed and wounded and brief descriptions of some other naval actions.
genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Trafalgar/ Battle of Cape St. Vincent
Site created to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle. Account of the action and details of the British commanders.
stvincent.ac.uk/1797/index.html The Battle of the Saintes
Not strictly a Napoleonic battle, but one that set the style of naval warfare for Nelson and others to follow.
fortogden.com/saintes.html Naval History: Great Britain.
Collection of on-line documents written between 1801 and 1820.
pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Naval_Hi... The Russian Navy in the Coalition Wars
Page that describes Russian naval activity during the period, part of an on-line history of the Russian navy.
neva.ru/EXPO96/book/chap7-1.html Navies in the Age of Nelson
Collection of documents and eye witness accounts of the war at sea, in both the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.
hillsdale.edu/academics/history/Documen...
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