Shem1805 en This user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. ru-2 Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. uk-1 Користувач може робити внесок українською мовою на початковому рівні. This user is a member of WikiProject Ships. This user is from the United Kingdom. This user lives in England. This user is a serving member of the Royal Navy. BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree. PgD This user has a Postgraduate diploma UK This user uses British English. This user wears a Poppy to Remember ⚓ This user is a professional mariner. 96 This user has visited 96 of the 208 countries in the world. I support the English language Wikipedia with my contributions.

Interests[edit]

Naval history, especially the smaller ships of the nineteenth-century Royal Navy.

Things to do[edit]

• Alecto-class sloop
• Driver-class sloop
• Review HMS Hyacinth (1829), HMS Hazard (1837), HMS Elk (1847), HMS Philomel (1842), HMS Acheron (1838), HMS Hydra (1838), HMS Hecate (1839), HMS Salamander (1832), HMS Ardent (1841), HMS Philomel (1842) & HMS Trident (1845)
• Work on John Davis (English explorer) using DNB
• New Pages
• Vampire Fleet - Vampire Fleet workbox
• Expand HMS Zebra (1860) - (Zebra workbox)
• List of torpedo boat classes of the Royal Navy
• HMS Algerine (1857)
• RN Arctic expeditions (RN Arctic Expeds workbox)
• Referencing of Denys Rayner
• Expand HMS Reindeer (1866)

Empty workboxes[edit]

• Workbox10
• Workbox6
• user:Shem1805/Workbox2

Resources[edit]

• Proofs page
• Benea's list of shiplist pages
• Image summary text
• WPShips and WPMilHist talk page code
• Ship infobox code
• battleships-cruisers.co.uk
• ageofnelson.org
• Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
• WikiProject Ships Guidelines
• NavyPhotos
• WP:REFNEST
• Wikipedia:Specialist style fallacy
• Tool for automatically producing cite book wiki mark up from Google Books url
• DAB solver
• <ref group=Note>A total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|10624|1855|r=-2}}}} in today's money.</ref>

Languages[edit]

Since it's been a long time since I used any of my foreign languages to do much more than order a couple of beers, I understand and read much better than I talk or write. With a dictionary and plenty of time I can understand pretty much anything in any Romance or Slavic language, but I'm not about to start writing Czech articles just yet.

Print sources[edit]

To easy hand I have, inter alia:

• Preston, Antony; Major, John (2007). Send a Gunboat: The Victorian Navy and Supremacy at Sea, 1854–1904 (2nd ed.). London: Conway. ISBN 978-0-85177-923-2.
• Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
• Peter Calvocoressi (13 September 2013). World Politics Since 1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-86360-1.
• Ian Marshall (1993). Armored Ships. Howell Press. ISBN 978-0-943231-63-1.
• Spencer Tucker (October 2000). Handbook of 19th Century Naval Warfare. Naval Institute Press.
• John Roberts (2009). Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy. Pen & Sword Books Limited. ISBN 978-1-84832-043-7.
• Warren Tute (1983). The True Glory: the Story of the Royal Navy over a Thousand Years. Macdonald.
• E. C. Coleman (2006). The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration: From Frobisher to Ross. Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-3660-9.
• David Lyon (1 January 2005). The First Destroyers. Mercury Books Limited. ISBN 978-1-84560-010-5.
• Kenneth J. Hagan (21 August 1992). This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-02-913471-9.